School Children Fed Dog-Licked Food
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Providing food to the school students is not an empty formality, and the same has to be done with dignity. A person, especially an innocent child, cannot be served any food that has been licked/soiled by a dog.”

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posts mocking PM Modi
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The themes and language used in the posts indicate inclination towards the glorification of anti-national ideology, which cannot be ignored.”

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Accepting Bar’s strike resolution may be judicial misconduct
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Accepting a strike resolution may amount to misconduct on the Presiding Officer’s part inviting recommendation for disciplinary action against the concerned officer, who adjourns the case in deference to a resolution of the Bar asking members to abstain from their professional duties in Court.”

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Intellectual Property Rights July 2025
Legal RoundUpTopic-wise Roundup

Covering all the important IPR cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, links to other roundups, latest legal updates in criminal law and a few top stories of the month.

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Mere issuance of summons
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“In a complaint case involving accusation of a non-bailable offence, anticipatory bail is not maintainable upon the issuance of a summons, as there is no apprehension of arrest by the police without warrant.”

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Education Law July 2025
Legal RoundUpTopic-wise Roundup

Covering all the important Education Law cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, links to other roundups, latest legal updates in criminal law and a few top stories of the month.

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Traffic Inspector's video mocking Lawyers
Case BriefsDistrict Court

“If anyone, while in Government service, wishes to spread awareness for a social cause, proper channel and protocol must be followed. No individual official can portray himself larger than the department in an unprofessional or amateurish manner in the name of spreading awareness.”

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High Court Weekly Roundup
High Court Round UpLegal RoundUp

A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.

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private vehicles with illegal lights
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court directed the Regional Transport Officer and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) to immediately act against those vehicles who were violating the notice/circular dated 01-03-2025.

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Professor convicted for husband's murder
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court held that it was a well-planned cold-blooded murder by the woman, who for the reasons best known to her, was not keeping good terms with her husband tortured him to death firstly by serving him a seductive drug and electrocuting him.

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Sambhal Violence
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The State could not place any material on record based on which the Court could infer that the Chairman prima-facie appeared to have committed the aforesaid offences.

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Saying 'I Love You' alone not sexual assault
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“It was his solitary act of showing his “expression of love”, and a close scrutiny of her statements vis-a-vis the statements of her friends, would reveal that it was not made with an intention of his sexual desire.”

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Fake Arya Samaj Societies
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court noted that several marriages had been conducted by such societies, even of minor girls, in violation of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021.

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transfer alleging bias of Judge
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Scandalizing a Judicial Officer of District Court is bound to shake confidence of the litigating public in the system and has to be tackled strictly.”

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appointment of judges in 3 High Courts
Appointments & TransfersNews

In a press note issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice, the President appointed 19 Advocates and Judicial Officers as Judges and Additional Judges in Gauhati, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana High Court.

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appointment of judges to 6 High Courts
Appointments & TransfersNews

The Collegium led by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai held a meeting on 28-07-2025 to approve and recommend the appointment of several judges in Karnataka, Calcutta, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, and Bombay High Court.

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Alleged Assurance Of Acquittal By Trial Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The complainant is not a person aggrieved when he or she informs the High Court to act against the erring Judge for his judicial decision, and the role of the complainant comes to an end with the complaint being referred to the High Court.”

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father abused for land acquisition compensation
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Parents spend the most vital years of their lives toiling for the nourishment, education, and future of their children, often with no expectation in return. But to be repaid in the winter of their lives with cruelty, neglect, or abandonment is not only a moral disgrace but also a legal violation.”

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women-led legal transformation
Hot Off The PressNews

Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai and Supreme Court Judges emphasized on bar-bench unity and women-led legal transformation at NALSA’s North Zone Conference, Srinagar.

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MP judiciary
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Instances of the District Judges personally attending to High Court Judges (as desired by them) on railway platforms and waiting on them with refreshments, are commonplace thus perpetuating a colonial decadence with a sense of entitlement.”

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