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Allahabad High Court grants 14 days imprisonment to investigating officer for violating Arnesh Kumar guidelines in contempt

Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Suneet Kumar and Syed Waiz Mian, JJ. held a Police Officer guilty of

Bombay HC| “Sudden reaction of a 19-year-old boy to the news of pregnancy, May fall short of the essential ingredients required to form the offence of abetment to suicide”

Bombay High Court: While deciding the instant bail application of a 20-year-old boy charged with abetment of suicide of a

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Interpretation of Schedule X of the Constitution vis-à-vis Disqualification; Speaker/Governor’s powers; Judicial Review: CJI led 3-judge bench refers matter to 5-judge Constitution bench

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of NV Ramana, CJI and Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli, JJ has referred the question relating to

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court injuncts Royal Champ from using Royal Stag/ Seagram marks; Similar label also amounts to copyright infringement; Directs Rs 20 lakh as damages

Delhi High Court: In a case where permanent injunction was sought against use of Royal Champs, a Gwalior Distilleries Private Limited product

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court| Muslim minor girl who has attained puberty can willfully marry without consent of her parents; POCSO charges do not stand

Similar cases are an exception to the precedent laid down in Imran v. State of Delhi, (2011) 10 SCC 192

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Sections 3 and 5 of the 1988 Benami Property law “still-born” and “unconstitutional”; 2016 Amendment can only apply prospectively: Supreme Court

“The continued presence of an unconstitutional law on the statute book, or the claim that such law was not challenged before Constitutional

Case Briefs High Courts

Kerala HC grants anticipatory bail to BJP State General Secretary accused of insulting National Flag by holding it upside down

Kerala High Court: Viju Abraham, J., granted anticipatory bail to BJP State General Secretary, Lakshadweep, who was accused of insulting the National

Case Briefs High Courts

Allahabad High Court| [Recruitment of Dependents of Government Servants Dying in Harness Rules, 1974] Wife entitled to compassionate appointment before sister

Allahabad High Court: Neeraj Tiwari, J. dismissed a writ petition which was filed with prayer for directing the respondents to grant the

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court refuses to declare Satyendra Jain as a person of unsound mind and denies disqualifying him from being an MLA

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Satish Chandra Sharma CJ and Subramonium Prasad, J. denied relief seeking Satyendra Jain (‘respondent 5′)

Case Briefs High Courts

Can the Trial Court determine the age of the juvenile involved in a crime? Madhya Pradesh High Court answers

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Satyendra Kumar Singh, J. in a recent case affirmed that Trial Court does not have power to determine

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court grants bail to a under trial pregnant woman prisoner ; Refusal for delivery outside prison only in case of high security risk

Delhi High Court: In a case where very serious allegations are made and 16 members from the same family are arrested, an

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court sets aside Madhya Pradesh HC’s “utterly incomprehensible” judgment discharging accused in a minor’s rape case for delay in filing FIR

“The facts of this litigation are quite heart-breaking and at the same time, more disturbing is the utterly incomprehensible impugned judgment of the High Court discharging the accused of the offence of rape essentially on the ground of delay in the registration of the FIR.”

Case Briefs District Court

Delhi Court acquits Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Yogender Yadav in a 2013 defamation case filed by former MLA of Shahdara constituency

Quality and relevancy; and not quantity of evidence, is what determines the fate of a case.

Case Briefs High Courts

Himachal Pradesh High Court | Inability to produce documentary evidence of deceased’s income may not justify adoption of lowest tier of minimum wage for computing Motor Vehicle Accident compensation

Himachal Pradesh High Court: While deciding an appeal against award of Rs. 15,85,000/- compensation to the deceased’s mother, Jyotsna Rewal Dua, J.

Case Briefs High Courts

Madhya Pradesh High Court| Charge of Murder added at the time of framing of charge based on Hospital’s MLC can be altered only after further examination

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Sanjay Dwivedi, J. dismissed a revision petition filed questioning the validity of the order passed by the Sessions

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘Mediation can become a potent alternate dispute resolution device’; Supreme Court lists down the ways to make it possible

Supreme Court: In a case relating to pre-litigation mediation in commercial disputes, the bench of KM Joseph* and Hrishikesh Roy, JJ has

Case Briefs High Courts

Findings of Trial Court based on surmise and conjecture, opposed to any reason, rationality, principles of evidence and natural justice; Calcutta High Court acquits in matter of 304 IPC

Calcutta High Court: Sugato Majumdar, J. allowed a criminal appeal which was assailed against the judgment and order of Additional Sessions Judge

Case Briefs High Courts

Granite Stones Trafficking| Kerala HC directs Geologist to release vehicles wrongfully seized for want of Mineral Transit Pass

Kerala High Court: N. Nagaresh, J., directed the Geologist of Department of mining & geology, Manjeri to release wrongfully seized vehicles of

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Pre-litigation mediation under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 mandatory; any violation would lead to rejection of plaint: SC

Supreme Court: The bench of KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy, JJ has held that the statutory pre-litigation mediation under Section 12A of

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court directs Bihar to reconsider stipulated percentage for Homeopathic Medical Professionals posts

Supreme Court: In an appeal filed to espouse the cause of Homeopathic Medical Professionals, the Division Bench of Uday Umesh