Senior Advocate Rakesh Gupta elected as Chairman of Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana
This is his second term as the chairman, having previously held the position from the year 2014 to 2015.
Continue reading
‘Not common for rustic persons to be aware of mental illness’; SC converts mother’s conviction from under S. 302 to S. 304 Part II IPC for killing two minor daughters
“It was inexplicable and incomprehensible how a mother who loved her children and who had a cordial relation with her husband could resort to such a violent act and be attributed with the “intention to cause death” of her beloved children, except for coming under some influence or forces beyond her control as claimed by her.”
Continue reading
Supreme Court stays Bombay HC’s decision sentencing woman to one week imprisonment for ‘dog mafia’ remark against Judges
The contemnor circulated a circular in the residential colony making serious insinuations against the High Court and the Supreme Court Judges.
Continue reading
Supreme Court Roundup April 2025 | Stories on Manual Scavenging; Modification of Arbitral Award; Child Trafficking; and Appointment of Justice B.R. Gavai as 52nd CJI
This comprehensive roundup brings together the Court’s most impactful rulings and judicial developments from the month.
Continue reading
Meghalaya HC closes suo motu PIL to protect wetlands, considering none of the sites qualified as Ramsar site
The Supreme Court had directed the High Court to pass suitable orders for the State for the identification, preservation, and maintenance of these waterbodies in accordance with the resolution taken in the Ramsar Convention.
Continue reading
Services provided to individual by advocate or firm are exempted from levy of service tax; Orissa HC quashes Rs. 2 Lakhs service tax notice
Services provided by an advocate or a Partnership firm of advocates providing legal services to any person other than a business entity and a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten lakhs in the preceding financial year are exempted from the levy of service tax.
Continue reading
Supreme Court stays Delhi HC’s direction to Consortium of NLUs to revise CLAT 2025 result
The High Court had directed that all the candidates who participated in CLAT UG 2025 with respect to the Sets ‘B’, ‘C’ & ‘D’ of question papers shall, as a consequence, be granted the marks indicated against the said question.
Continue reading
SC refuses to entertain fresh pleas challenging Waqf (Amendment) Act
The Court granted liberty to the petitioners to withdraw the pleas and raise additional grounds as impleaders/intervenors in the ongoing hearing of the main case listed next week.
Continue reading
Can promotion be denied based on adverse confidential reports which were never conveyed to the employee, depriving of opportunity to representation? SC answers
The Commandant with Border Security Force (BSF) was denied promotion to the post of Deputy Inspector General from the date his juniors were promoted.
Continue reading
Section 197(1) CrPC available only to public servants whose appointing authority is Central or State Government; Deputation does not dissolve public servant status: SC reiterates
In the matter at hand, the accused was an Executive Engineer, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, and caused wrongful loss in excess of Rs. 13.66 crore to the Government exchequer by changing the terms and conditions of the Detailed Notice Inviting Tender.
Continue reading
SC directs release of YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia’s passport, considering the completion of investigation in India’s Got Latent controversy
Earlier, the Court stayed his arrest in two FIRs registered in Maharashtra and Assam, subject to his cooperation in the investigation, while barring him from doing any further shows.
Continue reading
‘Power to enact and to repeal is sole prerogative of legislature’; Meghalaya HC dismisses plea challenging vires of Rajitlal University (Repealing) Act 2023
RITHS Trust, described as the sponsor in the Rajitlal University Act, 2011, filed the present plea. However, even after three years of the Act, the sponsors of the University had not shown any interest in approaching the State Government with an application to establish the University.
Continue reading
2025 Admissions Open at Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science, Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science (UPSIFS), Lucknow
Continue reading
‘Unnecessarily created controversy & demeaned the prestige of award’; Orissa HC imposes 10k cost on doctor and Odia litterateur, claiming his entitlement to Padma Shri
The Doctor alleged that the respondent and he have the same name- Antaryami Mishra, and following the same, the respondent impersonated him and fraudulently secured the Padma Shri Award in 2023.
Continue reading
Nepal Student’s Death at KIIT | Orissa HC grants interim relief, stays NHRC proceedings
On 16-02-2025, the deceased victim was found dead in her room on the premises of KIIT.
Continue reading
‘Necessary permissions were taken’; NGT dismisses plea against illegal tree cutting in Adani’s Chhattisgarh Coal mining project
National Green Tribunal directed for necessary plantation to maintain the ecology in the area.
Continue reading
‘Allegations are not against IPS officer but against person impersonating as IPS officer’; SC sets aside HC’s order transferring investigation to CBI
The High Courts should direct for CBI investigation only in cases where material prima facie discloses something calling for an investigation by CBI and it should not be done in a routine manner or on the basis of some vague allegations. The “ifs” and “buts” without any definite conclusion are not sufficient to put an agency like CBI into motion.
Continue reading
Read why Supreme Court upheld DHFL’s resolution plan by Piramal Capital and set aside NCLAT’s order
“There is a clear distinction between the Avoidance Applications that may be filed by the Resolution Professional in view of Section 25(2)(j), for avoidance of transactions in accordance with Chapter III of the IBC, and the applications that may be filed in respect of the fraudulent trading or wrongful trading under Section 66, which falls under Chapter VI of the IBC.”
Continue reading
S. 14(1) HMA | Court’s discretion to allow divorce plea in 1 year of marriage, only if substantiated with separate application seeking permission to file for divorce
The statutory mandate under Section 14 of the HMA serves a crucial purpose in discouraging hasty dissolution of marriages and ensuring due deliberation before seeking divorce.
Continue reading
‘Not enough material to upset Trial Court’s acquittal order, especially when there was no evidence regarding death being result of homicide’; SC sets aside husband’s conviction under S. 302 IPC
The High Court unfortunately reversed the acquittal without anything other than a finding on alibi having not been proved and the accused not having offered any explanation regarding the death of the deceased, which occurred while they were living together.
Continue reading