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Disqualification from contesting as candidate in a local authority election on ground of defection, upheld

Kerala High Court: In a writ filed by the petitioner against an order of the Kerala State Election Commission, according to which

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Polytechnic Institutions sanctioned by AICTE don’t need approval from State Government for establishment

Kerala High Court: Writ petitions filed by petitioners, who had established Polytechnic colleges in the State after obtaining approval from the All

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Court can interfere in State’s commercial decisions, if vitiated by malafides, unreasonableness and arbitrariness

High Court of Kerala: In a batch of writ petitions filed by transporting contractors challenging the notice of Kerala State Civil Supplies

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Kerala HC: Employment of a child in households held permissible to the extent that child is not kept in bondage

Kerala High Court: In a petition filed to quash the ongoing prosecution against the petitioner under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection

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Mother convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder for strangling her two children

High Court for States of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana: In a dismal case of a mother strangling her two children to death

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Medical reimbursement is an individual entitlement even for husband and wife similarly employed

High Court of Kerala: In an appeal against the judgment of a Single Judge Bench on the matter involving medical allowances to

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Merely because a person deals with high amount of cash will not entitle him to arms licence: Delhi HC

Delhi High Court: A Single Judge Bench of Sanjeev Sachdeva, J. dismissed the writ petition challenging the orders made by Additional Commissioner

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Delhi High Court discusses territorial jurisdiction in defamation cases

Delhi High Court: A Single Judge Bench of Valmiki J. Mehta, J. dismissed the appeal against a lower court order of return

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Gujarat HC sets aside the order of detention passed under the Gujarat Prevention of Anti Social Activities Act, 1985

Gujarat High Court: In a recent judgment, a Single Judge Bench of S.H. Vora, J. passed an order setting aside the detention

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Delhi HC upholds grant of tender for Remote Control Guns to Israel based System Integrator

Delhi High Court: A Bench comprising of S. Ravindra Bhatt and Yogesh Khanna, JJ. upheld the grant of tender to an Israel

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Delhi High Court awards Yahoo Inc. Rs. 5 lakh damages for trademark infringement

Delhi High Court: A Single Judge Bench of the Delhi High Court granted an ex parte order in favour of Yahoo Inc.

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Notice issued to Uttar Pradesh Govt. over news about a policeman asking for sexual favours from rape victim in Rampur

National Human Rights Commission: The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh,

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Delhi HC directs Tihar Jail authorities to ensure convict’s rehabilitation through correctional programme

Delhi High Court: In an appeal to set aside judgment and sentence order by the trial court against the appellant, Gita Mittal,

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A well-educated litigant is expected to be vigilant in pursuing a case filed by or against him in a court of law

Delhi High Court: In an application filed under the Limitation Act, 1963 for condonation of delay in filing an appeal against an

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Gujarat High Court orders retrial of a pending CBI Court’s trial

Gujarat High Court: A Single Judge Bench of J.B. Pardiwala, J. exercising the writ jurisdiction ordered a retrial of a pending CBI

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Evidence of Food Inspector can be accepted without corroboration: Madhya Pradesh HC

Madhya Pradesh High Court: A Single Judge Bench of Anjuli Palo, J. upholding the lower court conviction order noted that the evidence

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Delhi HC commutes death sentence to life imprisonment against President’s rejection of mercy petition

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of G.S. Sistani & Vinod Goel, JJ. following the Supreme Court judgment in V. Sriharan alias

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Specific relief not to be granted where evidence is doubtful

High Court for States of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh: In a recent judgment, a Single Judge Bench of T. Rajani, J. upheld

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Kerala High Court orders gazette notification is not enough

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of Navaniti Prasad Singh and Raja Vijayaraghavan, JJ, ordered the State Government that substance of the

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Delhi HC remits a lower court order because of the conduct of Additional Sessions Judge & Public Prosecutor

Delhi High Court: A Single Judge Bench of R.K. Gauba, J. set aside a trial court order on the grounds that the