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Kerala HC issues notice to Centre & State in a PIL seeking extension of facilities to every person with disability in need of special assistance irrespective of percentage of disability

Kerala High Court: In a PIL seeking extension of facilities to every person with a disability in need of special assistance irrespective

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court upholds CCI’s direction to investigate alleged anti-competitive WhatsApp Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, 2021; Prima facie case established to investigate; FB a proper party

Parallel inquiries by two different authorities in their respective spheres of adjudication are not uncommon and a slight overlap between the inquiries does not mean that one must lead to the ouster of the other.

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court| LGBTQIA+ community sidelined from society’s mainstream for too long; Time for Tamil Nadu Government to frame guidelines to protect their rights

“If the Government is really willing and serious about the upliftment of persons belong to LGBTQIA+community, some urgency must be shown to finalise the policy and the rules.”

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Court of Appeal of the Republic of Singapore| CPC Cost Provisions “unlikely to deter” lawyers from providing bona fide legal advice; Constitutionality upheld

“The claim pertains to events that occurred between 2016 and 2018 and was then not followed up until 2022, a few days before the sentence was to be carried out. For all these reasons we are satisfied that OC 173 is without merit and an abuse of process and cannot therefore be a basis for us to grant a stay of execution.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Gujarat High Court quashes FIR in Dowry matter against husband’s distant relative finding the allegations to be of ‘general nature’

Gujarat High Court: Nirzar S. Desai, J. quashed an FIR and its consequential proceedings which were registered for the offences punishable under

Case Briefs High Courts

Withdrawal/Downgrading of VIP security cover: Punjab and Haryana High Court directs State to make fresh assessment of security threats; Provide one security personnel until then

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Raj Mohan Singh, J., while disposing of the bunch of writ petitions challenging the orders

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Manipulated laboratory report, broken links of evidence; Supreme Court reverses concurrent findings of Courts below to acquit a murder accused

Supreme Court: The Division Bench of Hemant Gupta and Vikram Nath*, JJ., reversed the impugned judgments of the Punjab and Haryana High

Case Briefs High Courts

Allahabad High Court | Social, Legal and Moral Responsibility of a man to maintain his wife; Appeal dismissed

Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Sunita Agarwal and Om Prakash Shukla, JJ. dismissed and appeal on the admission stage itself

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘Nothing survives after filing of Closure Report’; Supreme Court dismisses plea on sanction to prosecute UP CM Yogi Adityanath in 2007 Hate Speech case

Allegedly, a hate speech by CM Yogi Adityanath, who was then a Member of Parliament, had led to the 2007 Gorakhpur Riots.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

PM Modi Security Lapse: Justice Indu Malhotra headed Enquiry Committee submits report; Supreme Courts asks Central and Punjab Governments to take further action

Supreme Court: After Enquiry Committee headed by Justice Indu Malhotra, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, had submitted the report

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court injuncts myshoeshop from violating trademark rights by selling first copy shoes of NB Device mark as well as Adidas, Nike, Louis Vuitton etc

Delhi High Court: Navin Chawla, J. restrained a website myshoeshop (‘defendant 1') from selling shoes having NB Device mark (‘plaintiff').

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court | Appointment of Archaka to be done as per Agamas

Madras High Court: The Division bench of Munishwar Nath Bhandari, CJ. and N. Mala, J. has held that the temple

Case Briefs High Courts

Orissa High Court | Witnesses related to the deceased would not result in their testimonies being discarded if otherwise truthful and consistent

Orissa High Court: In an appeal filed challenging the Trial court ruling, convicting the accused under Section 302 of Penal

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court directs Haryana Discoms to pay compound interest on carrying cost to Adani Power from the date of Change of Law

Supreme Court: In a big win for Adani Power Limited, the 3-judge bench of NV Ramana, CJI and Krishna Murari and Hima

Case Briefs High Courts

“PIL in service-related matters ought not to be entertained”; Allahabad High Court dismisses PIL seeking increase in retirement age of PwD

Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Rajnish Kumar, JJ. dismissed a PIL which was filed by the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Expert Committee submits report before Supreme Court in Pegasus Spyware case; Matter to be heard after 4 weeks

Supreme Court: After the Technical Committee and the Overseeing Judge submitted their reports in the Pegasus Spyware case, the 3-judge bench of

Case Briefs High Courts

Family Courts cannot restrain a Muslim man from pronouncing talaq or entering into second marriage as per personal law: Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court: In a case relating to talaq as per Muslim personal law and bigamy, A. Muhamed Mustaque, J.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘At least two of the issues require reconsideration’; Supreme Court agrees to hear review petition of PMLA verdict

Supreme Court: As Congress MP Karti P. Chidambaram has sought review of the 3-judge bench verdict on the Prevention of Money Laundering

Case Briefs Supreme Court

One cannot seek transfer of execution proceeding under Section 125(3) CrPC to another Court once the order fixing maintenance attains finality: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: In a complex case where both the parties claimed to be disabled to get the matrimonial case transferred to the

Case Briefs High Courts

Calcutta High Court | Conduct of Parties – not a substitute for an arbitration agreement

Calcutta High Court: While deciding a review petition, Debangsu Basak, J. held that the court while exercising powers under Section