Case Briefs Archives

Ori HC highlights need for equity in cases of deferred payments; Interest to be paid in delayed payment of arrears due to administrative laches

Orissa High Court: S. K Panigrahi, J. directed the State to pay simple interest computed at the rate of 6% per annum

Detenue is ambivalent in her stand between her desire to be with her husband and fear of being ill-treated by the parents of her husband; Ker HC did not issue Habeas Corpus

Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of K Vinod Chandra and C Vijayachandran, JJ. dismissed the petition and rejected the relief sought

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Madras High Court’s decision to keep enquiry report in a sealed cover in SP Velumani graft case doesn’t sit well with Supreme Court

Supreme Court: In the case where the Madras High Court had ordered an enquiry and obtained a report without furnishing a copy

Case Briefs High Courts

Does DRT has power to restrain a person from travelling abroad? Does Art. 21 includes right to travel abroad? Bom HC discusses

Bombay High Court: Expressing that the right to travel abroad has been spelt out from the expression “personal liberty” in Article 21

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Passing an order of debarment or blacklisting without prior notice is bad in law; Affects Right to Life

Karnataka High Court: S.G Pandit, J. disposed of the petition leaving respondent-Railway authorities at liberty to take action against the catering services

Case Briefs High Courts

Tri HC | Employer harassing employee by not releasing gratuity and leave encashment; Appeal allowed

Tripura High Court: Arindam Lodh, J. while noting that there were no legitimate grounds to deny the employee of gratuity and other

Case Briefs High Courts

In matrimonial offences, quashing is welcome as it shows that parties have decided to put an end to the lis as well as to the misery they undergo: Del HC

Delhi High Court: Stating that, cases under Section 376 of Penal Code, 1860 should not be quashed and should not be taken

Case Briefs High Courts

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