Case Briefs Archives

[Elgar Parishad Case] Bombay Court refuses to permit activist Varavara Rao to travel to Hyderabad for 3 months to undergo cataract surgery

City Civil and Sessions Court, Bombay: In an application filed by Dr. P V Varavara Rao ‘applicant-accused’ seeking permission to

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court set aside arbitral award as it suffers from patent illegalities, and fraud and conflicts with the Public Policy of India

Delhi High Court: In a petition filed under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (‘the Act’) for

Case Briefs High Courts

Jharkhand High Court directs police to provide security to a woman facing threat from her family and forcing to marry a 52-year-old man

Jharkhand High Court: While deciding the instant petition preferred by the petitioner seeking the direction of the Court to provide

Case Briefs High Courts

Bombay High Court | Writ Petitions against Air India by its employees cease to be maintainable after privatization

Bombay High Court: In total 4 writ petitions were filed against Air India Ltd./AIL (‘respondent’) by the AIL employees (‘petitioners’),

Case Briefs High Courts

Tripura High Court| 28-year-old woman to get Rs. 2.5 lakh compensation in custodial torture case

Tripura High Court: In a public interest litigation concerning custodial torture on a 28-year-old woman in the police lockup, the division bench

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Offer of possession of apartments without the amenities promised and arbitrary deduction of earnest money; Read to know whether NCDRC found Mahindra Homes liable for deficient service?

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): The Bench of S.M. Kanitkar (Presiding Member) and Binoy Kumar (Member) while deliberating upon

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court directs State to pay compensation to the detenue who has been kept in illegal detention for 128 days

Madras High Court: In a petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a writ

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Court of Appeal of the Republic of Singapore | Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunal is only revived to the extent of the remission ordered

“Apart from the remission ordered, there is no basis on which a party in CKH’s position or the Tribunal itself can seek to re-open or expand the subject matter of the award or arbitration.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Spare religious trusts in the matter of distributing public largesse’; Bombay High Court directs constitution of new Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Management Committee

God is not the fiefdom of ruling party

Case Briefs High Courts

Himachal Pradesh High Court | Question regarding Transfer of Govt Employee is the sole discretion of Administrative Authority; Recommendation by MP held unsustainable

Himachal Pradesh High Court | A division bench comprising of Tarlok Singh Chauhan* and Virendra Singh, JJ., held that a government employee

Case Briefs High Courts

Drug Peddlers must be dealt firmly and sternly; Punjab and Haryana High Court cancels bail granted to the accused

Punjab and Haryana High Court: While deciding the instant appeal, preferred by the appellant against the order of Additional Sessions Judge for

Case Briefs High Courts

Nothing wrong with Government dissolving existing governing body and constituting caretaker governing body, in a case of gross mis-management: Manipur High Court

Manipur High Court: In writ petitions filed to quash certain orders relating to the dissolution of the governing body of Naorem Birahari

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Hiding criminal antecedents while applying for Government job? Good enough reason for employer to terminate services. Read Supreme Court’s clear principles governing such cases

Supreme Court: While dealing with a case relating to termination of a CRPF probationer for suppressing material information relating to his criminal

Case Briefs High Courts

Death due to attack by wild animal is violative of Article 21; Bombay High Court directs compensation of 10 lakhs to the wife of the deceased

Bombay High Court: In a petition filed by petitioner-wife praying for quashing and setting aside the impugned communication dated 18-03-2019

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

“Hospitals are vicariously liable for the acts of negligence committed by their doctors”; NCDRC grants compensation of Rs 1 crore to the parents who lost their only child in a corrective surgery for squint eye

Human life is most precious; therefore, it is extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation in medical negligence cases, it is highly subjective in nature.

Case Briefs High Courts

Absence from duty without leave under CRPF is a gravest misconduct; Manipur High Court upheld order of Disciplinary Authority of dismissal from service

Manipur High Court: In a writ petition filed to quash the dismissal order dated 18.1.2005 on the ground that it

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Admiralty Law: Scope of Intra-Court appeals from interim orders to Commercial Appellate Division of the High Court

Supreme Court: The bench of Indira Banerjee* and AS Bopanna, JJ has held that an appeal does not lie to the Commercial

Case Briefs High Courts

Kerala High Court explains scope of grant of anticipatory bail in offences under SC/ST Act; true import of ‘knowing’ or ‘knowledge’ under Section 3(2)(va) of the Act

Kerala High Court: In an appeal relating to the grant of anticipatory bail for the commission of offences under Sections

Case Briefs District Court

Delhi Court transfers case of AAP leader Satyender Jain on the request of Enforcement Directorate due to likelihood of probable bias

Rouse Avenue Courts Complex, Delhi: In a case filed by Enforcement Directorate (‘petitioner') seeking transfer of the case titled ‘Directorate

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Dishonour of Cheques: Can non-executive Directors of the accused company be held vicariously liable under Section 141 NI Act?

Supreme Court: In an appeal against a judgment passed by the Calcutta High Court dismissing the Criminal Revision Application filed