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Bombay HC grants injunction against Thomson Press for reprinting of Bhagwat Gita copyrighted by Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Bombay High Court: The Court recently dealt with the copyright protection of translated version of Bhagvad Gita. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust alleged that

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Allahabad HC strikes down ordinance granting 80% institutional reservation in LLM course

Allahabad High Court: The petitioner approached the Court under Article 226 challenging the validity of the Ordinance for Admission to LLM Course insofar

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IO lacking territorial jurisdiction is no ground to interfere in investigation under Section 482 CrPC

Bombay High Court: The applicant approached the Court under Section 482 CrPc to quash and set aside the FIR vide Crime No. 338

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Woman sets husband ablaze in anger: Bombay HC convicts her under Section 300 IPC

Bombay High Court: Before the Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High Court, a woman convicted by trial court for murdering her husband by setting

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A final report can be filed by police after initial report under Section 173(8) CrPC

Madras High Court: In a case before the Court, Police had registered an FIR against the petitioner on the basis of a complaint

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Cutting of Trees without following procedure and precautions, a serious concern

Bombay High Court: A writ petition was filed before the Bombay High Court pertaining to a metro line to be laid down

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Realistic costs to be imposed to curb vexatious litigation

Delhi High Court: While dismissing an appeal for being devoid of merits, the Single Bench of Hima Kohli, J. observed that to curb

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HC rejects Jindal Steel’s plea to retain coal block land for dumping fly ash

Delhi High Court: The Single Bench of Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, J. has dismissed the petition of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd seeking exclusion

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Bombay HC Judge clarifies on her controversial comment referring to victim of sexual assault by her adoptive father

Bombay High Court: Justice Sadhna Jadhav had recently granted bail to a person accused of raping his adoptive daughter. While granting the

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Transfer cannot be challenged on the grounds of personal inconvenience

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Single Bench of Sujoy Paul, J. has held that an employee does not have any indefeasible right to

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A request for change in the name of a candidate can be considered only before declaration of result of the candidate

High Court of Delhi: The Court while examining the writ petition filed by the petitioner seeking a direction to the respondents to

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Conflicting opinions on victim’s right to appeal; matter referred to a larger Bench

Allahabad High Court: Whether the victim in a criminal complaint case against the acquittal order can prefer appeal before the Sessions Judge or

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Even non-reportable judgments can be obtained and published on internet

Gujarat High Court: The Single Bench of R.M. Chhaya, J. has held that a third-party can obtain a copy of even non-reportable judgments,

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Bombay HC grants interim relief to Fair Price shopkeepers for non-collection of Adhar Data, says no document indicates that its part of their duty

Bombay High Court: In a letter dated 21st November, 2016, Tahsildar, Miraj of Sangli district had ordered all the Fair Price Shops

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Framing rules for EWS quota under RTE Act entirely a policy decision, Bombay HC refuses to interfere

Bombay High Court: The Court dealt with a Public Interest Litigation challenging the State Government Resolution of 10th January, 2017. By this resolution,

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Mitigating circumstances must be considered to ascertain the sentence of convict

Delhi High Court: The Court recently in a Criminal Appeal considered the mitigating circumstances to award an appropriate sentence to the accused-appellant. The

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Sindoor And Mangalsutra does not validate a marriage under Hindu Marriage Act

Bombay High Court: Hearing an appeal, a Division Bench comprising of BP Dharmadhikari and Swapna Joshi, JJ held that simply performing two

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No regularisation can be claimed if service-span is less than three years

Delhi High Court: In a writ petition under Article 226 before the Delhi High Court, the petitioner sought the relief of continuation as

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Uttar Pradesh PSC’s memorandum increasing reservation for OBC candidates held illegal, State Govt. directed to make reservation based on correct quantifiable data

Allahabad High Court: UP Public Service Commission had issued an advertisement dated 22.10.2013 inviting applications for 6628 vacancies of Subordinate Agriculture Services,

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Proceedings on the same matter in criminal court and departmental enquiry can continue simultaneously

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The petitioner was working as the sub-inspector and it had been alleged that he went into the house of