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Del HC | Right to organ donation is personal and inalienable; Spousal consent is ultra vires the provisions of Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994

Delhi High Court: Yashwant Verma, J. disposed of the petition with a direction to the respondent hospital to process the application and

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Cal HC │ Primary Teachers Welfare Association allowed to take out a peaceful procession; Directions issued

Calcutta High Court: Shampa Sarkar, J. took up a petition which was filed with an allegation that the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata

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Ker HC| Statutory diktat for sexual offenses most often unknown to students and youths; HC directs State to include sessions regarding POCSO Act and S. 376 IPC in curriculum

“The educational machinery of the State has fallen woefully short in imparting the required awareness to the young children about the heinous crimes and its consequence.”

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Does a High Court have the jurisdiction to grant anticipatory bail in a case that has been registered beyond its local limits? J&K and Ladakh HC answers

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court: While considering an anticipatory bail application concerning an FIR registered in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh; the

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Bom HC| Vacancies in open category posts also need to be advertised under Maharashtra Employees of Private Schools (Conditions of Service) Regulation Act, 1977

Bombay High Court: The petitioners challenged the order of a School Tribunal, whereby they were directed to reinstate the respondent/employee. Quashing the

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Del HC directs fresh adjudication in a case involving mixed question of fact and law, as it found relevant submissions were not considered by AO

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Manmohan and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, JJ. disposed the petition and directed fresh adjudication as

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Bom HC │ Marrying another man at a time of extra marital affair with a person, by no stretch of imagination, is abetment to commit suicide; FIR quashed

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of Sunil B. Shukre and G.A. Sanap, JJ. allowed an application quashing an FIR registered for

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Adjudication proceedings and criminal proceedings can be launched simultaneously; Madras High Court reiterates, setting aside of assessment orders on technical grounds not enough to quash criminal proceedings

Madras High Court: G. Chandrasekharan, J. declined to quash prosecution against actor SJ Suryah as the order of the Income Tax Appellate

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No illegality found in the impugned order during revision; Del HC upholds discharge of Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia along others

Delhi High Court: Geetanjali Goel, J. upholds the discharge of Delhi CM and others in the Anshu Prakash assault case having found

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Del HC | Commercial wisdom of the parties in an agreement not to be revisited; arbitral tribunal cannot re-work the terms owing to commercial difficulties of one party

Delhi High Court: Vibhu Bakhru, J. while hearing an application against award of an arbitral tribunal has held that it would not

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Delhi HC| Refund cannot be adjusted while appeal to earlier challenge to assessment is pending

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Manmohan and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora JJ. disposed the petition and directed the respondents to

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Cal HC │ Act of disconnecting the electricity supply for non-payment of the balance dues on the disputed bill beyond authority of CESC Ltd.; Petition allowed

Calcutta High Court: Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J. allowed a petition directing the CESC Ltd. to restore the electricity supply of the petitioner unconditionally.

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Ori HC highlights need for equity in cases of deferred payments; Interest to be paid in delayed payment of arrears due to administrative laches

Orissa High Court: S. K Panigrahi, J. directed the State to pay simple interest computed at the rate of 6% per annum

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Detenue is ambivalent in her stand between her desire to be with her husband and fear of being ill-treated by the parents of her husband; Ker HC did not issue Habeas Corpus

Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of K Vinod Chandra and C Vijayachandran, JJ. dismissed the petition and rejected the relief sought

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Does DRT has power to restrain a person from travelling abroad? Does Art. 21 includes right to travel abroad? Bom HC discusses

Bombay High Court: Expressing that the right to travel abroad has been spelt out from the expression “personal liberty” in Article 21

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Kar HC | Passing an order of debarment or blacklisting without prior notice is bad in law; Affects Right to Life

Karnataka High Court: S.G Pandit, J. disposed of the petition leaving respondent-Railway authorities at liberty to take action against the catering services

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Tri HC | Employer harassing employee by not releasing gratuity and leave encashment; Appeal allowed

Tripura High Court: Arindam Lodh, J. while noting that there were no legitimate grounds to deny the employee of gratuity and other

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In matrimonial offences, quashing is welcome as it shows that parties have decided to put an end to the lis as well as to the misery they undergo: Del HC

Delhi High Court: Stating that, cases under Section 376 of Penal Code, 1860 should not be quashed and should not be taken

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Del HC | Faces cosmetics restrained from selling products under the trademark “Velvet Matte”

Delhi High Court: Prathiba M. Singh, J. granted an ad interim ex parte injunction in favour of Colorbar cosmetics Private Limited by

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Guj HC | Bail granted to a 16-year-old boy accused of having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old boy

Gujarat High Court: Samir Dave, J., granted bail to the accused while prohibiting him from accessing the society in which the claimed