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Bombay High Court | Writ Petitions against Air India by its employees cease to be maintainable after privatization

Bombay High Court: In total 4 writ petitions were filed against Air India Ltd./AIL (‘respondent’) by the AIL employees (‘petitioners’),

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Tripura High Court| 28-year-old woman to get Rs. 2.5 lakh compensation in custodial torture case

Tripura High Court: In a public interest litigation concerning custodial torture on a 28-year-old woman in the police lockup, the division bench

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Madras High Court directs State to pay compensation to the detenue who has been kept in illegal detention for 128 days

Madras High Court: In a petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a writ

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‘Spare religious trusts in the matter of distributing public largesse’; Bombay High Court directs constitution of new Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Management Committee

God is not the fiefdom of ruling party

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Himachal Pradesh High Court | Question regarding Transfer of Govt Employee is the sole discretion of Administrative Authority; Recommendation by MP held unsustainable

Himachal Pradesh High Court | A division bench comprising of Tarlok Singh Chauhan* and Virendra Singh, JJ., held that a government employee

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Drug Peddlers must be dealt firmly and sternly; Punjab and Haryana High Court cancels bail granted to the accused

Punjab and Haryana High Court: While deciding the instant appeal, preferred by the appellant against the order of Additional Sessions Judge for

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Nothing wrong with Government dissolving existing governing body and constituting caretaker governing body, in a case of gross mis-management: Manipur High Court

Manipur High Court: In writ petitions filed to quash certain orders relating to the dissolution of the governing body of Naorem Birahari

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Death due to attack by wild animal is violative of Article 21; Bombay High Court directs compensation of 10 lakhs to the wife of the deceased

Bombay High Court: In a petition filed by petitioner-wife praying for quashing and setting aside the impugned communication dated 18-03-2019

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Absence from duty without leave under CRPF is a gravest misconduct; Manipur High Court upheld order of Disciplinary Authority of dismissal from service

Manipur High Court: In a writ petition filed to quash the dismissal order dated 18.1.2005 on the ground that it

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Kerala High Court explains scope of grant of anticipatory bail in offences under SC/ST Act; true import of ‘knowing’ or ‘knowledge’ under Section 3(2)(va) of the Act

Kerala High Court: In an appeal relating to the grant of anticipatory bail for the commission of offences under Sections

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Bombay High Court| Mere repeated monetary demands by a daughter does not establish her intention to instigate the father to commit suicide

Bombay High Court: In a case filed by Lata (‘petitioner’) daughter of the deceased who committed suicide and left a

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Delhi High Court dismisses plea for mandating stipends to young advocates; Appeals to senior lawyers to pay adequately

Delhi High Court: In a PIL filed by Pankaj Kumar, a young advocate of 29 years of age, enrolled with Delhi Bar

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Evidence not adduced; Maintenance application not decided: Bombay High Court remands divorce matter to Family Court

Bombay High Court: In a case filed by a wife (‘appellant') challenging the Family Court order that granted decree of

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Meghalaya High Court | Selection processes should be transparent and not guided by Nepotism

“…that greater weightage is desirable to be given to the objective part of the assessment since the Indian psyche is such that the subjective part of the assessment, more often than not, is tainted, influenced or guided by nepotism or the usual uncle culture or even more disagreeable extraneous considerations.”

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Karnataka HC | Can Insurance Company’s liability be absolved in cases where the insured vehicle’s driver dies due to cardiac arrest while the vehicle was parked at the time of death?

Karnataka High Court: While deciding the instant appeal wherein the issue was whether the liability of the Insurance Company is

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Allahabad High Court convicts former UP MLA Mukhtar Ansari for threatening jailer

Allahabad High Court: In an appeal filed under Section 378 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) against the judgment passed by the

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Bombay High Court upholds rejection of candidature to Bhabha Atomic Research Center for suppressing criminal antecedents in declaration form

In a case filed by Swapnil Prakash Parab (‘petitioner’) challenging rejection to the representation made before Bhabha Atomic Research Centre/BARC (‘Respondent 2’) on the orders of the Supreme Court.