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Covid Immunization| Kerala HC directs Center to formulate policy for identifying & compensating deaths due to after-effects of Covid-19 vaccination

Kerala High Court: In a significant case where a widow whose husband died due to adverse effects of Covid-29 immunization had approached

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Party willing to pay but has no funds: Will it amount to readiness and willingness for specific performance of a contract?

Supreme Court: In a suit for specific performance the Division Bench of Indira Banerjee* and Hrishikesh Roy, JJ., explained the

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court restrains media to publish or broadcast identities of the victims and witnesses of the ‘Pollachi sexual abuse case’

Madras High Court: In a case relating to a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for directing the media

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court pulls up Ludhiana Improvement Trust for sitting over an acquired land for three decades without paying for it; says ‘citizen’s right cannot be taken for a ride’ like this

“The Improvement Trust behaved as if it had some superior right to appropriate the property of the owners without paying for it contrary to the mandate of the LA Act.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Tripura High Court | Section 311 CrPC cannot be used to fill up the lacuna but re-examination can be done to meet the ends of justice

Tripura High Court: In a case relating to a revision petition filed by the State, challenging the order of the

Case Briefs High Courts

Chhattisgarh High Court | Customary divorce reduced into writing followed by separation would be a valid divorce when custom is proved ancient

Chhattisgarh High Court: In a case related to an appeal filed against the decision of the family Court, whereby an

Case Briefs High Courts

Calcutta High Court stays ED’s Provisional attachment order against the Corporate Debtor before commencement of CIRP

Calcutta High Court | While awarding the injunction, Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J. restrained the Enforcement Directorate from giving effect to the impugned order

Case Briefs High Courts

J&K and Ladakh HC| Number of acts not to be determined for detention of an individual, but impact of the act(s) [Preventive Detention]

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court: Moksha Khajuria Kazmi, J. dismissed a petition which was filed assailing the detention

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court | Mere signing documents in English does not mean the detenue has a working knowledge of English; detention order set aside

Signing in English and understanding English are two different things and it cannot be said that if one signs in English, therefore he has full understanding of the language. In other order, the ability to write one’s signature in English does not translate to having a working understanding of the language.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court restrains rogue websites from streaming ‘Brahmastra Part One: Shiva’ in any manner, on any platform

Delhi High Court: In a case filed by producers’ (‘plaintiff') of the film ‘Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' seeking permanent injunction

Case Briefs High Courts

Allahabad High Court| Arya Samaj Certificates not enough to prove legality of marriage; Petition of habeas corpus dismissed

Allahabad High Court: Saurabh Shyam Shamshery, J. dismissed a habeas corpus petition holding that the certificates issued by Arya Samaj

Case Briefs District Court

Sale of Unauthorised/Counterfeit copies of EBC Books: FIR filed against Amazon, Flipkart and Mackhingee Publisher; Police files status report

Tis Hazari Court, Delhi: In a case relating to the unauthorized printing/binding/manufacturing/storing/advertising for sale and selling of counterfeit books published by Eastern

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Can sentence of a murder convict be reduced to sentence already undergone which was less than life imprisonment?

Supreme Court: In a murder case, where the Madhya Pradesh High Court had reduced the sentence to sentence already undergone which was

Case Briefs High Courts

Bombay High Court| Mere seeds and leaves of a cannabis plant, cannot be included in the definition of Ganja

Bombay High Court: While deciding the instant application for anticipatory bail wherein the Court deliberated on what constitutes ‘Ganja' as

Case Briefs High Courts

Alarmed by trial and conviction of a person with an unsound mind, Meghalaya High Court stresses on quality of free legal aid

Meghalaya High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ. and W. Diengdoh, J. was alarmed by the present criminal

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Imposing higher punishment on an illiterate senior citizen, merely because psychotropic substance was recovered from her residence, wrong; SC reduces sentence

Supreme Court: In an appeal directed against the judgment and order upholding conviction of the appellant for the offence under Section 20(b)(ii)(C)

Case Briefs High Courts

Calcutta High Court | “AMUL” being a well-known trademark deserves a broader scope of protection – even against non-competing goods or services

“The trademark “AMUL” symbolizes a movement among Indian Rural Community towards prosperity and Indian public perceives the trademark “AMUL” having association of connection with the plaintiffs and no other. It is a combination of all the foregoing factors that had culminated into the trademark “AMUL” being recognized as well-known trademark and, therefore, deserves a broader scope of protection against unauthorized use on non-competing goods or services.”