three-year legal practice requirement
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Supreme Court clarified that the three-year period of legal practice would be counted from the date of provisional enrolment as an advocate, and not from the date of passing the All-India Bar Examination (AIBE), recognizing the varying schedules of the AIBE across jurisdictions.

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Delhi High Court
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“From the harmonious reading of the provisions of PC & PNDT Act, which make the offences as cognizable and non-bailable along with the provisions of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, it cannot be said that no FIR can be registered or that the registration of FIR is barred under PC & PNDT Act.”

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Rajasthan High Court
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“We also find that in the year 2025 itself, about 14 suicides have taken place. This is a matter of serious concern for us.”

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Himachal Pradesh High Court
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“Bare reading of Section 446 of the CrPC makes out a case wherein separate orders are required to be passed by the Court, firstly, at the time of cancellation of the bail bonds, and secondly, when the penalty is imposed.”

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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“It is settled proposition of law that where no limitation period is prescribed, authorities are bound to act within reasonable period. The reasonable period depends upon facts and circumstances of each case, there is no hard and fast or straitjacket formula.”

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Rajasthan High Court
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“How can it be termed to be a financial loss to the State Government when an employee who had been imparted training for some particular contractual job, continues to serve the State Government although, on regular basis.”

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OROP for Retired High Court Judges
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“A retired Judge of the High Court shall also include such of the retired Judges of a High Court who have retired as Additional Judge of the High Court”

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s 25 hma permanent alimony
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The Family Court while decreeing the dissolution marriage, had directed the appellant-husband to pay a sum of Rs. 70 lakhs towards permanent alimony to the respondent-wife.

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Delhi High Court
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The plaintiff contended that the defendants were infringing the plaintiff’s rights in the ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ film by displaying/communicating to the public/hosting/utilizing content, creating merchandise, and online content related to the said film, which exclusively belonged to the plaintiff.

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Gujarat High Court
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“It is evident that the petitioner is blackmailing and is trying to extort money from the businessmen of the Surat city by creating fear in their mind that if they do not shell money, he would make a complaint of violation of one or the other laws.”

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Allahabad High Court
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“The right to know and to effectively respond to the charges has been recognized as a fundamental feature of any administrative adjudicatory process. It is a fundamental principle of fairness that a party should have prior notice of the case against him and an opportunity to properly respond to the same”

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Delhi High Court
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The case began with a search and seizure by the Enforcement Directorate under Section 37 of FEMA at the petitioners’ premises and during the operation, the petitioners allegedly confessed to illegal hawala transactions worth ₹3,500 crore routed abroad using fabricated documents to remit money to their companies in Hong Kong and Canada.

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Bombay High Court
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The Court took note of the various posts by the petitioner on her Instagram, where most of the posts appeared to be political in nature, however, one post appeared to be contrary to the official version of the Government of India in relation to “Operation Sindoor” carried out recently.

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Delhi High Court
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“Quite often, it is seen that road rage leads to loss of human lives as well. The damage caused gets aggrandized when one of the aggressors is a lawyer while the other is a President of a political organization.”

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Meghalaya High Court
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Plastic waste cannot be easily recycled or safely destroyed. It causes waste management problems because of its long natural life; it chokes waterbodies and the drainage system, accumulating garbage in public places.

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Bombay High Court
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The applicant did not approach the Court with clean hands which is the sine qua non, in an application for pre-arrest bail and the complaint has merit for which the applicant may have to be interrogated for effective and appropriate investigation as the law would mandate.

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forest land illegal conversion SIT
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In the instant case, reserved Forest Land in Village Kondhwa Budruk, Pune was allotted to private builders after bypassing the doctrine of public trust, thereby revealing an unholy nexus of Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Builders.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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“One cannot overlook the role played by the so-called beauty and fitness influencers in setting unrealistic standards by creating a make-believe world. In a bid to meet these fickle societal standards of beauty, vulnerable people go to extreme lengths and even undergo risky procedures.”

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Rajasthan High Court
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The Court cautioned respondent 4 (Principal Secretary, Law and Legal Affairs Department) to remain “alive to his duty” to file a proper and complete affidavit.

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Delhi High Court
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The accused has spent more than six years in custody, despite which, the matter is still at the stage of examination of prosecution witnesses and only 11 out of 100 witnesses are examined till now.

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