Delhi High Court
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“The Court said the Family Court judge was correct in holding that divorce petition could not be rejected merely because a part of the cause of action was not viable in law if the Court otherwise had jurisdiction to entertain the action, and therefore, the application under Order 7 Rule 11 was not sustainable.”

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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It is obvious that about 150 trees, which are a century old, stand on the land allotted for the purpose of constructing a police station and a police line. The petitioner has also filed certain photographs of the area concerned which reveals that there is also a water body next to the above trees.

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Bombay High Court
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The complainant was pitted against the might of petitioners, i.e., husband, father-in-law, and three sisters-in-law, who were abusing and ill-treating her on petty issues and their sole aim was to extort money from her and her parents.

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Karnataka High Court
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Giving the Government 8 weeks’ time to frame such guidelines, the Court laid down certain steps that must be followed whenever a person is to be summoned under S. 35, BNSS.

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Delhi High Court
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The right to freedom of expression of the press in the present case must give way to the right to privacy of the plaintiff, especially when he has been exonerated of all the allegations leading to his honourable acquittal.

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Delhi High Court
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“Section 34, quite apart from its classically limited scope, is certainly not intended to be used as a tool for a litigant to desist from participating in the arbitral proceedings, despite being fully aware thereof, and, thereafter, seek a second bite at the arbitral cherry.”

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Calcutta High Court
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It was said that since all sub-sections of Section 354A of IPC start with the words ‘a man’, a female accused would not be covered under this Section.

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Madras High Court
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“If the Government School is named as “Tribal School”, then what would be the impact in the society. It is painful that even in the 21st century the Government is allowing to use such words in the Government Schools, functioning from and out of public money”

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Meghalaya High Court
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The Court clarified that the deviations from number of vacancies and appointments on them are permissible in exceptional circumstances or emergent situation, for clear and anticipated vacancies and not future vacancies.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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The Court dismissed the bail application with the liberty to the applicant to renew his bail application after the co-accused surrenders.

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Telangana High Court
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Nowhere, in the Holy Book, the Almighty prohibited women from entering prayer halls to offer their prayers and Chapter 2 Albakarah 222-223 makes it evident that except during a particular period which is given as ‘rest period’ for women by the Nature itself, there is no bar against women to offer prayers.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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The Court stated that the applicants had not acted in good faith, as they failed to take necessary steps to maintain the road or close/regulate traffic despite knowing the hazardous condition.

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Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
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This was a case where the act of defamation took place in Jaipur, where certain allegations regarding the respondent’s association with Hizbul Mujahiddin were levelled by the counsel for the petitioner.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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In consequence, the wanton disregard to the explicit directions as made by this Court, upon the trial Judge concerned, thus prima facie constitutes contempt of Court.

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Allahabad High Court
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Allahabad High Court: In a writ petition challenging the communication issued by the Regional Passport Officer, whereby he has been informed that

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Bombay High Court
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The Export Promotion Council of India is merely a facilitator in promoting exports of pharmaceutical products, and the RMCC is a facilitator for the Customs officials in the enhancement of security; the non-provision of the Notification by them was not a justification for the applicant’s non-compliance.

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Allahabad High Court
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A woman’s decision in whether or not to go ahead with the termination of her pregnancy is a decision that is to be taken by no one but herself. This is primarily based on the widely acknowledged idea of bodily autonomy. Here, her consent reigns supreme.”

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Bombay High Court
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It is reasonable to infer that petitioner has already passed on the burden of octroi duties to its consumers as it has neither pleaded nor established that it has not passed on the burden of the alleged excess octroi collected by the Bombay Municipal Corporation to its consumers.

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Delhi High Court
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The very branding and labelling of the said Tablet as Coronil appear to suggest that the drug nullifies the coronavirus, it cures the disease, which may even amount to mis-labelling and/or mis-branding of the drug, which is impermissible under the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.

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Telangana High Court
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The foundation of show cause notice itself was bad in law and the assumption that return could not have been filed in the GST portal of Telangana did not flow from Section 140 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.

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