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[S. 125 CrPC] Bom HC | Wife cannot be denied maintenance on ground of having a source of income

Bombay High Court: N.J. Jamdar, J., while addressing a revision application with regard to maintenance under Section 125 of Code of Criminal

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Bom HC | Stand-alone retail liquor shop situated in Mall, permitted to operate as it’s entrance/exit found independent of Mall’s entrance; Only permitted for home delivery of liquor

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of S.J. Kathawalla and S.P. Tavade, JJ., allowed a liquor stand-alone shop situated in mall whose entrance

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J&K HC | In the current times of Covid-19 crisis, e- connectivity to the courts ensure that the citizens are not deprived of their right to seek judicial remedies

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Taking stock of how the various departments in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir have responded

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Bom HC | Flight Operators shall allow passengers to occupy middle seat in strict compliance with DGCA circular

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of S.J. Kathawalla and Surendra P. Tavade, JJ., while passing an interim order allowed flights to keep

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Kar HC | No legal basis for Family Courts insisting on personal presence of petitioners at the time of filing cases; Presence of complainant while filing S. 138 NI Act case not necessary

Karnataka High Court: A Division Bench of Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, CJ and S Vishwajith Shetty, J., dealt with the following issues through the

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Del HC | Ministry of Civil Aviation’s order of “fixing minimum fares” is only a stop gap arrangement; PIL challenging Ministry of Civil Aviation order, not tenable

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of D.N. Patel, CJ and Prateek Jalan, J., while addressing a Public Interest Litigation, held that,

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Bom HC| Whether by a mere touch of a person carrying COVID19 virus, the virus can be transmitted to the person so touched?: HC to Expert Committee

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of S.J. Kathawalla and Surendra P. Tavade, JJ. while addressing a petition sought clarification from the expert

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Guj HC | Temporary Bail application of Asharam Bapu rejected in light of COVID19 pandemic since on his release several of his followers will congregate to meet him

Gujarat High Court: A.S. Supehia, J., rejected the bail application filed by “Asharam Bapu” in light of COVID19, since there is a strong

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Orissa HC | Alleged for subjecting a tribal boy to excessive police force; OHRC’s Order for recovering interim compensation from police officer’s salary kept on hold

Orissa High Court: Mohammad Rafiq, CJ while addressing a petition non-effectuated the Odisha Human Rights Commission’s Order of payment of an interim compensation

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Del HC | “No person in Delhi should go hungry by reason of present lockdown”; Food grains & cooked food being provided to both with ration cards or not

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of D.N. Patel, CJ and Prateek Jalan, J., addressed the concern with regard to providing ration to

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Del HC | GNCTD to file status report on implementation of directives on disposal of COVID-19 patients dead bodies

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of D.N. Patel, CJ and Prateek Jalan, J., asked GNCTD to file a status report with regard

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Pat HC | State Health Department, Bihar directed to ensure that doctors’ vacancies in the rural/remote/difficult areas are filled up to the maximum extent possible

Patna High Court: In the instant case, the Division Bench of Sanjay Karol, C.J., and S. Kumar J., taking note of the

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COVID-19 | Ker HC | Additional fees to facilitate virtual classrooms, not to be levied; Right to education is sacrosanct in Constitution of India

Kerala High Court: C.S. Dias, J., while referring the present petition to a Division Bench of the Court stated that, Right to education

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Utt HC |Quarantine Centers established at Village level are worst of the lot; Gram Sabhas be provided with proper funds

Uttaranchal High Court: A Division Bench of Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ravindra Maithani, JJ., addressed petition with regard to issues concerning the condition of

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[Migrant Workmen] Del HC | For a proper streamlined regulation of migrant workmen and their conditions of service, collection of actual data is the foremost significant measure

Delhi High Court: Pratibha M. Singh, J., addressed a petition pertaining to seeking implementation of the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions

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MP HC | A sex worker cannot be considered to be exploiting herself so as to bring her within the ambit of S. 370 IPC for the offence of trafficking

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Rajendra Kumar Srivastava, J., quashed the charge under Section 370 IPC framed against the petitioner. On receiving information

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Kar HC | Social divide is being brought in minds of people on basis of communal identification of group of persons through Social Media

Karnataka High Court: R. Devdas, J., while addressing a bail application held that, social media has created a panic situation where a social

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Telangana HC | A disaster can strike State or Nation unannounced: State Govt to evolve a comprehensive policy for migrant workers

Telangana High Court: A Division Bench of Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and B. Vijaysen Reddy, JJ., while addressing the various issues concerning the migrant

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Del HC | Central Govt. empowered to postpone payment of Dearness Allowance: Challenge to Union’s decision of postponing payment of DA rejected

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rajnish Bhatnagar, JJ. held that it is well within the domain of

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Ori HC | Of late, Cyber bullying activity has reared its ugly head and swept away so many innocent lives; India lacks specialized law to address Cyber bullying

“People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into present and run over the future.” Orissa High Court: S.K. Panigrahi, J.,