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Jhar HC | Will non-service of one month’s notice period vitiate termination of contractual services? HC decides

Jharkhand High Court: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J., dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are such that

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | Post of Lokayukta is an independent statutory post and by no stretch of imagination, can it come under the purview of ’employment under the Government’

Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of S. Manikumar, CJ and Shaji P. Chaly, J. while dismissing a petition seeking a writ

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Guj HC | Employed woman permitted to appear for All India Bar Examination; Directions issued to the Bar Council of Gujarat

Gujarat High Court: A Division Bench of Vikram Nath, CJ and J.B. Padiwala, J., allowed a petition which was filed praying to

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HP HC | Non-joinder of proper parties cannot be said to be a formal defect to seek liberty under Or. XXIII, R. 1(3) read with S. 151 CPC rather can be cured by filing impleadment/amendment of plaint

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Sandeep Sharma J., upheld the impugned judgment and dismissed the petition. The facts, in a nutshell, are that

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Jhar HC | Pensionary Benefits granted only when served against a permanent or substantive post and salary being paid out of public exchequer irrespective of duration served; R. 58 of Jharkhand Pensions Rules applied

Jharkhand High Court: Deepak Roshan J., upheld the impugned judgment and dismissed the petition stating that the petitioner failed to show any

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Kar HC | Discussing the legal proposition in the offence committed under S.153A IPC, Court rejects the application for quashing of FIR exercising Inherent powers

Karnataka High Court: B.A. Patil, J., dismissing the present petition, observed, “Taking into consideration the peculiar facts and circumstances under which the

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J&K HC | ‘Subjective satisfaction of a detaining authority to detain a person is not open to objective assessment by a Courtʼ; Writ Petition dismissed

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Tashi Rabstan, J., while dismissing a criminal writ petition seeking to challenge the grounds preferred for detention,

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Utt HC | Fundamental rule of law is that no decision can be given without the opportunity of being heard; Court allows appeal

Uttaranchal High Court: Lok Pal Singh, J., allowed a writ petition which was filed in the nature of the certiorari, seeking quashing

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Kar HC | Whether pleadings in trial amount to ‘publication’ in a suit for defamation; Court discusses nuances to S. 500 IPC

Karnataka High Court: H.B. Prabhakara Sastry, J., while allowing the criminal revision in part, remarked that, if the accused seeks to take

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Jhar HC | Abscondence alone may not be a determinative factor to infer guilt under S. 302 IPC but when medical evidence discloses homicidal death abscondence becomes a relevant fact

Jharkhand High Court: Shree Chandrashekhar J., upheld the impugned judgment and dismissed the appeal being devoid of merits. The case at hand

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Ker HC | Court discusses legal position where special enactment overrides general enactment; petition dismissed

Kerala High Court: P. Somarajan, while dismissing a plea for quashing of FIR against parallel charges under Penal Code, 1860 and other

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

SCOTUS | Obergefell v. Hodges Ruling credited with the creation of ‘Right to Same-Sex Marriage’ in USA, heavily criticized for its “ruinous consequence for religious liberty”

Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS): While denying the issuance of the writ of certiorari as prayed by Kim Davis, a

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SCOTUS | South Carolina’s witness signature rule for absentee ballots temporarily reinstated

Supreme Court of The United States (SCOTUS): In a crucial decision before the upcoming Presidential Elections in the USA, the SCOTUS temporarily

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Know Thy Judge| Justice Fathima Beevi broke the glass ceiling to become the first female Supreme Court judge this day, 31 years ago

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Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Government cannot act in a whimsical fashion, deviating from the prescribed service rules

Karnataka High Court: Krishna S. Dixit and P.N. Desai, JJ., while allowing a writ petition by a civil servant, observes, “Government being

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

SL SC | S. 31 B (5) of Industrial Disputes Act does not debar from maintaining application to Labour Tribunal against termination of services and to file fundamental rights application to SC simultaneously

Supreme Court of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: A Full Bench of Jayantha Jayasuriya, CJ and Murdu N.B. Fernando and

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

APTEL | Norms can be relaxed in certain cases to allow appellant to recover its full fixed cost instead of normative the interest of justice and equity; Tribunal allows appeal

Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL): A Coram of Manjula Chellur, J. (Chairperson) and S.D. Dubey (Technical Member), allowed an appeal which was

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | No writ of mandamus can be issued to direct the legislature to enact any law; Court upholds validity of State Commission for SC/ST Act

Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of S. Manikumar and Shaji P. Chaly, JJ., while deciding the Constitutional validity of the Kerala