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Delhi HC: Copyright strike notices on digital platforms, without follow-up legal action, attract groundless threats remedy

“As per the YouTube Policy, Strike Notices are not capable of affording resolution of the disputes between the parties on the aspect of the infringement of the copyright.”

disclosure of Photocopies of other candidates' answer sheets

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Allahabad High Court: Marks in Recruitment Exams disclosable under RTI, not Photocopies of other candidates’ answer sheets

The High Court clarifies what constitutes “public activity” in exam-related disclosures while drawing limits on access to confidential material like answer sheets.

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Banks must issue notice before making fraud declaration and entering Directors’ names in Central Fraud Registry: Bombay HC

“Banks are required to issue prior notice and provide a hearing to affected parties before proceeding with classifying an account as fraud and entering the names of the Directors of a company in the Central Fraud Registry.”

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Execution of discharge voucher acknowledging full and final settlement bars further claims unless obtained by fraud, coercion, or undue influence: Delhi High Court

When to step in and when to not, “the line is thin, but Courts are expected to possess the intellectual wherewithal to discern it and walk the right side.”

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Consistent records outweigh technicalities: Allahabad High Court orders payment of ₹4 lakh ex gratia for snake-bite death

“Failure to consider contemporaneous evidence and giving undue weightage to hyper technical reasons is against the principles law.”

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Cut-off date cannot bar Covid-19 ex-gratia relief; Bombay HC directs Rs 50 lakh relief to Junior Clerk’s family

“In spite of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, various government employees including the District Administration, Police, Home guard, Anganwadi Karmachari, etc., were performing their duties carrying risk to their lives.”

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Supplementary agreements can extend public tenders; Non-participants cannot challenge concluded contract: Telangana High Court

“The petitioner approached the Court only after the declaration of the financial results and the contract was already executed and it was opined that any interference at this juncture would not only unsettle a concluded contract but also cause administrative chaos and financial loss to the public exchequer.”

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Read why Madhya Pradesh HC quashed anticipatory bail of brand counterfeiting case

The Madhya Pradesh High Court examined whether anticipatory bail could stand when additional, more serious offences had already been taken cognizance of by the Magistrate.

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Rajasthan HC stays CBSE’s affiliation withdrawal order; Jaipur’s Neerja Modi School gets 1 month to cure deficiencies

CBSE had withdrawn the school’s Senior Secondary affiliation citing violations of affiliation byelaws and deficiencies flagged after the November 2025 incident involving the death of a 9 yearold student.

Territorial jurisdiction in child custody matters

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Where should child custody matters be filed? Rajasthan HC’s answer pauses a father’s plea

“Section 9, Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 in no uncertain terms envisages that the petition should be filed where the minor ordinarily resides.”

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Inside Punjab and Haryana High Court order denying bail to YouTuber accused of sharing sensitive information with Pakistan

“There had been an effort on the part of the petitioner to delete information with regard to conversations and transmission of information to the operatives of Pakistan Intelligence Agency.”

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Bombay HC affirms RBI’s revival plan of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank —Unity Small Finance Bank amalgamation scheme

The Bombay High Court noted that RBI framed the PMC Bank—Unity Bank amalgamation scheme during a period of severe financial stress for PMC Bank, and held that the measures, including depositor classification and reduced interest, were valid steps taken in public interest.

graphics on display screen protected as design

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Calcutta HC allows Registration of Graphics on Display Screens under the Designs Act; Flags Lack of Clarity in Designs Office on GUI Registrability

“There is nothing which prevents GUIs being registrable on a case to case basis after satisfying the requirements under Sections 2(a) and 2(d) of the Act when properly identified with an article and keeping in mind that the design elements are not purely function driven.”

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Kerala High Court: Wife Allowed to Extract Brain-Dead Husband’s Gametes for Assisted Reproduction Amid Consent Dilemma

“Kerala High Court allows a woman to urgently extract and cryopreserve the gametes of her brain-dead husband, despite the absence of written informed consent under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021, directing that no further ART procedures occur without its approval.”

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Can Arbitral Tribunal reject expert evidence and rely on its own expertise? Calcutta High Court answers

The Calcutta High Court Court delved into whether substituting expert analysis with opinions based on personal expertise of the arbitrator amounts to breach of fundamental policy of Indian law.

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Tiger Logo Dispute: Delhi High Court examines how Section 45 proviso of Copyright Act protects original artistic work when marks overlap

The Delhi High Court noted that the TIGER logo of Heineken Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd had been copied in totality and hence, the registration of the impugned artistic work could not be permitted to continue in the Register of Copyrights

false promise to marriage in long term relationships

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‘Unlikely that 12-year relationship was based on False Promise of Marriage’: MP High Court quashes Rape Case

The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that to show that consent was vitiated by a misconception of fact based on a promise to marry, it must be proven that the promise was false from the outset, made in bad faith, and directly influenced the woman’s decision to engage in the sexual act.

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Bombay HC sets aside 16-year-old case against lawyer, rules allegations fail to meet IPC and SC/ST Atrocities Act requirements

“To attract Section 3(1)(r), Atrocities Act, the FIR or material on record needed to show that the petitioner intentionally insulted or intimidated the respondent and that he did so with the intent to humiliate the respondent at a place within public view.”

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Expunging of remarks made by trial court doesn’t reflect on Judge’s competence, integrity, or past judicial work: Del HC

“The recording of reasons while setting aside an order cannot, by itself, be construed as a reflection on the competence, integrity, or ability of the judicial officer who passed the order, unless there are specific and express observations to that effect.”

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Vaishno Devi Shrine Board not “State” under Art. 12 Despite Statutory Status; Lacks Governmental Control: J&K and Ladakh HC

“The guiding factor is the nature of duty imposed upon the person or body against whom a writ is being sought. If the nature of duty imposed on a body is public in nature, it is amenable to writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution but if the rights sought to be enforced are purely of a private character, a writ cannot be issued against such body.”