Calcutta High Court
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The interaction of patent laws and ethics is an uncomfortable relationship and has always produced difficulties. In such circumstances, section 3(b) ought not to be interpreted to deal with all subjective concerns of morality, public order or health regardless of any scientific or technical evidence or any cogent reasoning.

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National Green Tribunal
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“Construction of a religious structure is the most usual mode adopted by the land mafia for grabbing public lands/public parks by making illegal encroachments and unauthorized constructions with ulterior motives by misusing faith, playing with sentiments… for serving camouflaged personal objectives.”

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Rajasthan High Court
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“A name is the first gift most of us receive from our parents. It becomes the foundation of our legal, social and emotional identity. To name someone is to recognize their presence in the world and to be nameless, in many ways, is to be invisible. Names reflect who we are and where we came from.”

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Delhi High Court
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“When individuals, driven by financial inducement or otherwise, seek to breach this trust by serving as conduits to foreign agencies, amounts to an act not only of grave criminality but of betrayal to the nation.”

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Delhi High Court
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“Burden of proof, in any enquiry or trial, keeps on shifting and the moment the averments made in the claim petition were deposed on oath by the respondent in her evidence, it was for the Management to have rebutted and disproved the same.”

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Delhi High Court
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The victim was about 16 years old at the time of the incident; and today she is about 27 years old and is making a living as a lab technician in a hospital. Her left eye is evidently fully damaged.

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Delhi High Court
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“While Section 21(4) of MCOCA imposes stringent statutory conditions for the grant of bail under Section 439 of CrPC, these provisions cannot be construed in a manner that forecloses judicial scrutiny under Article 21 of the Constitution.”

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Chhattisgarh High Court
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“The decree obtained by the husband for divorce on proving the adulterous life of the wife cannot give a license to her to continue to live in an illicit relationship and to get her right to claim maintenance revived.”

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Bombay High Court
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“Even though every citizen is duty bound to help the police, that does not mean that refusal of the same shall be considered as an offence in all situations.”

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Allahabad High Court
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The outcome of the case will be important and have far reaching effects greatly impacting revenue collection of Municipal Bodies from Telecom Infrastructure Companies. Legally important questions of law including the power to tax Telecommunications Equipment (which falls under Entry 31 the Union List) shall be examined.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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“Not only has the petitioner failed to indicate how he has been victimized in the matter at hand, he has also made scandalous remarks concerning the integrity of the justice dispensation mechanism.”

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Telangana High Court
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“We find the conduct of HMDA not only to be in blatant disregard of the law but also evincing desperation to avoid the processes of law by pushing back their obligation to make payment to CEL by filing one vexatious proceeding after another.”

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Bombay High Court
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The Court opined that no reasons are recorded for the order dated 9-4-2025, and thus it is a cryptic order which lacks application of mind.

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Andhra Pradesh High Court
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The dispute arose from a ₹3 lakh loan allegedly given by the complainant to the accused. The cheque issued for repayment bounced due to insufficient funds.

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Bombay High Court
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The Court stated that it is not open to L&T Ltd. to interpret the tender conditions in a manner which is contrary to MMRDA’s interpretation.

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Delhi High Court
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The Court stated that the charge under Section 377 of IPC could not have been framed against the husband. A ‘consensual’ oral or anal intercourse between any two adults, in private, is not a criminal offence punishable under Section 377 of IPC.

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Kerala High Court
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The Court clarified that only in cases involving a gross lack of competence, inaction, or a wanton disregard for the patient’s safety, stemming from gross ignorance or gross negligence, can a doctor be made to face criminal charges.

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Delhi High Court
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The core dispute between OYO and Zostel arose from a Term Sheet dated 26-11-2015, which proposed OYO’s acquisition of Zostel’s business. While Zostel claimed to have fulfilled its obligations and sought specific performance, OYO argued the Term Sheet was non-binding and lacked enforceable terms.

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Chhattisgarh High Court
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“Since the assessee has shown the reasonable cause within the meaning of Section 273B of the Act, the assessee is not liable to pay penalty under Section 271E of the Act for non-compliance of Section 269T of the Act.”

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Allahabad High Court
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“In the history of the University for well over a century no women has ever been appointed as Vice-chancellor. Appointment of woman as Vice-Chancellor of a premier institution of higher learning sends a message that the constitutional objective of advancement of cause of women is being promoted.”

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