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Madras High Court
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“The Tamil Nadu Government to prevent the exploitation of women and trafficking of women, has enacted an Act, viz., the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, 1956. This Act has been enacted with an aim to prevent the commercialisation of vices and the trafficking of females. This Act does not declare sex work as illegal. However, it prohibits running of brothel centres.”

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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“The Court laments the fact that it took almost five decades for the Central Government to realise its mistake; to acknowledge that an internationally renowned organisation like RSS was wrongly placed amongst the banned organisations of the country and that its removal therefrom is quintessential.”

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Delhi High Court
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The leitmotif that “justice should not only be done but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done”, must not be limited only to court proceedings, but must also apply proprio-vigore to investigation of crime. Investigation must also be seen to be fair and just.

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Madras High Court
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There is also prima facie merit in the Sapphire Foods contention that Magnesium Silicate Synthetic far being a prohibited agent is a permitted filtration agent.

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Bombay High Court
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Due to the respondent 1’s brazen disregard for the status quo order, the Court in absence of a Section 17 remedy, had to grant an interim relief under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

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Delhi High Court
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The formation of opinion under Section 20(2) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 is in the exercise of supervisory powers of Central Information Commission and not in the exercise of the adjudicatory powers.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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The Court stated that creating a shared linguistic space for people with different language backgrounds becomes crucial to fostering a sense of unity and inclusivity. The hard-to-pronounce titles cause lingual impediment, cognitive chaos, and tedium that could prevent the legal system from operating smoothly.

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Allahabad High Court
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“The action of the Lucknow University in not only in violation of principle of nature justice but has deleterious effect on the future of the candidate and such an action is deplorable.”

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Kerala High Court
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“Marriage should be a union based on mutual respect, love, and understanding. When one spouse seeks freedom from a relationship that has become a source of distress, denying this request only perpetuates suffering and contradicts the very essence of a marital bond”

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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The Court stated that the State may recover the amount of cost after fixing the “responsibility on some erring officer who has derelicted in not complying with the order in time”.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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“There are a lot of other deprecating, fundamentalist, superstitious and ultra-conservative practices prevalent in the society that are clothed in the name of faith and belief.”

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Delhi High Court
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A forensic audit was conducted by Grant Thornton LLP at the request of the respondent-bank. The audit led to the withdrawal of the ‘red flagging’ of the company’s account.

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Bombay High Court
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The Court noted that the appellate authority formed under BPCL’s Policy remedy would have comprised of their officers, and the same could not be permitted as BPCL could not be a judge in their own cause.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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The Court reiterated that the court cannot open its own order on merits specifically in the light of the bar as contained under Section 362 of CrPC.

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Delhi High Court
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It is the bounden duty of the employer to be sensitive and responsive to the physical difficulties that a working lady would face in performing her duties at the workplace while carrying a baby or bringing up the child post birth.

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Delhi High Court
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The brand ‘Peter England’ was introduced in 1997 and later acquired by Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. in 2000.

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Jharkhand High Court
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The Court stated that admittedly, the death is homicidal, and the doctor also found that the cause of death is injury, which was inflicted upon the deceased persons. Therefore, the ocular evidence corroborates with the medical evidence.

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Bombay High Court
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No other specific overt act is attributed to petitioners to attract the offences punishable under Sections 294, 114 read with Section 34 of Penal Code, 1860 against them.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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“It was imperative on the part of the Investigating Officer that investigation of an offence such as dowry-death maintains a high level of accuracy and candidness.”

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Allahabad High Court
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“A candidate seeking an appointment in the District Court judgeship should be of impeccable character and high integrity, and his antecedents should be clean and if a person whose integrity is doubtful or his antecedents are not clean is appointed, that can damage the institution.”

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