Case Briefs Archives

Del HC | Faces cosmetics restrained from selling products under the trademark “Velvet Matte”

Delhi High Court: Prathiba M. Singh, J. granted an ad interim ex parte injunction in favour of Colorbar cosmetics Private Limited by

Case Briefs High Courts

Guj HC | Bail granted to a 16-year-old boy accused of having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old boy

Gujarat High Court: Samir Dave, J., granted bail to the accused while prohibiting him from accessing the society in which the claimed

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Disclosure of inspection reports of the law colleges in public domain will benefit students: CIC to BCI

Central Information Commission (CIC): Saroj Punhani, Information Commissioner addressed a matter with regard to the disclosure of the inspection reports of the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Unless there’s a written instrument declaring land was voluntarily relinquished for no consideration, State cannot deny payment of compensation: Supreme Court

Supreme Court | The Division Court of Vikram Nath* and Dinesh Masheswari, JJ. held that the State’s act of taking the appellants’

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether offence of bigamy is a continuing offence or the proceedings instituted for offence punishable for bigamy under S. 494 CrPC can be obliterated on the ground of delay? Kar HC answers

Karnataka High Court: M. Nagaprasanna, J. allowed the petition in part and remarked the protagonists in the quadrangle to resolve the issue

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC enlists causes of delay in completion of investigation and lays down strict guidelines for speedy investigation

Karnataka High Court: S. Sunil Dutt Yadav, J. enlisted a few causes of delay in investigation, the principal causes of low rate

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Date of dispatch/shipment: Is it when the loading commences or when the loading completes?

Supreme Court: The 3-judge Bench comprising Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat*, Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, JJ., reversed NCDRC’s findings where it had

Case Briefs District Court

Made physical relation, captured and circulated pictures, forced to have physical relations with friend: Did District Court grant bail to accused? Read to know

Rohini Courts, Delhi: Jagdish Kumar, ASJ: Special FTC (North), grants bail to an accused alleged of making physical relationship and then capturing

Case Briefs High Courts

Police post not a place where public servants are attacked with forearms, Dandas and lathis or stone pelting: Del HC

Delhi High Court: In a case wherein a police officer got injured due to an attack by an illegal weapon out of

Advance Rulings Case Briefs

AAR | Schools are not liable to pay GST on canteen and transportation services furnished by schools

Maharashtra Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR): The Coram comprising Rajiv Magoo (Member) and T.R. Ramnani (Member) has noted that the schools are

Case Briefs High Courts

If wife is earning, can it operate as a bar from awarding maintenance to suit lifestyle of her husband in matrimonial home? Tel HC answers

Telangana High Court: Sathish Reddy, J., while addressing a maintenance case, expressed that, the wife’s earning capacity cannot be a bar from

Case Briefs High Courts

Can merely smuggling of gold without any connection to threat to economic security of India amount to terrorist act? Read what Del HC says

Delhi High Court: While granting bail to men accused of smuggling gold, the Division Bench of Mukta Gupta and Mini Pushkarna, JJ.,

Case Briefs High Courts

Tel HC discusses contours of law regarding issuing notice under S. 41 A CrPC vis a vis grant of anticipatory bail

Telangana High Court: Juvvadi Sridevi, J. granted anticipatory bail subject to completion of investigation and filing of the final report. The facts

Case Briefs High Courts

[Fake Rape] Utt HC | Sexual intercourse found to be a voluntary and conscious act of prosecutrix; HC acquits man wrongfully convicted for rape

Uttaranchal High Court: Ravindra Maithani, J. allowed an appeal against an order of the Trial Court which convicted a man of raping

Case Briefs High Courts

“They are majors and they have agreed to live together”; AP HC granted relief to an inter religious married couple

Andhra Pradesh High Court: A Division Bench of Tarlada Rajashekhar Rao and K Manmadha Rao, JJ. disposed of the petition and directed

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC │ Justice Deepak Gupta, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India appointed as the Arbitrator to adjudicate the disputes in L&L Partners Litigation firm after unsuccessful mediation

Delhi High Court: Prateek Jalan, J. took up a petition which was filed under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act,

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC analyses Right of Transgender unmarried daughter to choose gender and avail family pension

Orissa High Court: A.K. Mohapatra, J. directed to process the application for grant of family pension to the transgender woman as expeditiously

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Allahabad HC grants bail to a history sheeter only on the basis of parity; prompts SC to lay down illustrative circumstances for cancellation of bail

Supreme Court: In a murder case where the Allahabad High Court had granted bail to the main accused only on the basis

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

SCOTUS | Courts should not make procedural rules favoring arbitration; FAA Policy not to foster arbitration

Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS): Elena Kagan, J. has clarified that a party challenging arbitration does not need to prove

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Consider relocating and rehabilitating 268 Jhuggi Dwellers without insisting on Ration Card proofs; Supreme Court directs Delhi Government

Supreme Court: The 3-Judge Bench of L. Nageswara Rao, B.R. Gavai and A.S. Bopanna, JJ., directed the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board