Insulting and humiliating during financial vulnerability
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Her behaviour, including instigating the daughter against the father, making unfounded demands during a financially unstable period, and leaving the home with the daughter while abandoning the son, demonstrated a pattern of mental harassment and disregard for the matrimonial bond.”

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PIL on MIDC land allotment
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“In the present case, there is no challenge to Land Disposal Regulations, which empower Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) to make allotments by entertaining private applications.”

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previous sanction for prosecution
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Merely because the power of appointment and removal was delegated to the Administrator, he could not be held as the competent authority to remove the accused, who was appointed prior to the delegation by the President”

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Renukaswamy murder case Darshan
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Article 14 of the Constitution guarantees equality before the law and prohibits arbitrariness. It mandates that all persons — regardless of their popularity, power, or privilege — are equally subject to the law”.

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Misuse of Public office a gruesome crime
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Such matters of a gruesome crime involving misuse of public office and public money do not warrant withdrawal of prosecution merely on the ground of good public image of an accused or that he is elected Member of Legislative Assembly.”

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Ghar Soaps trademark
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“It is clear that whilst selling counterfeit products, these listings display marks/trademarks that are deceptively similar to the Plaintiff’s marks, thereby infringing the Plaintiff’s trade marks and constituting an act of passing off as well.

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Dog-Licked Mid-Day Meal
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court stated that though three doses of anti-rabies vaccine had been administered to the school children, there was negligence on the part of the State.

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dog- walking dispute between neighbours
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Not quashing the criminal proceedings would rather rekindle hostility, whereas quashing the same would promote cordiality and bonhomie between the neighbours.”

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No law prevents living with married man
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“She cannot be treated like Chasser. She has a mind of her own and the right to make a decision, whether right or wrong, with regard to the person with whom she wants to live.”

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bail to Income Tax Officer in bribery case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The nuanced contours of exceptional circumstances are inextricably woven into singular factual matrix of each case, upon the Court’s discretion, and there may be multitude of factors resulting an accused to file, maintain and pursue his regular plea before the High Court straightaway.

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MLA Arif Masood
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Prima facie, it appears that Arif was a blue-eyed boy of the dispensation that existed before 2024. The party in power in the State has been the same for more than two decades. However, the captain of the ship changed in the year 2023, when the woes of the College commenced from 2024.”

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appointment in Ex-servicemen category
Case BriefsHigh Courts

This Court cannot decide question of inclusion of retired officials of Paramilitary Forces (CRPF, BSF, CISF etc.) in the definition of Ex-Serviceman. It is a policy matter, and the State has to decide the issue.

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2022 Magistrate First-Class appointment invalid
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“A post which is not in existence at the time of initiation of the selection process but likely to be created or come into existence during the selection process or at any time, thereafter, cannot be filled up by the advertised selection agenda.”

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privatising sanitary work
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court directed the State/Greater Chennai Corporation to negotiate with Delhi MSW Solutions Ltd. to ensure sanitary workers are paid their last drawn wages if they joined the Company.

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Advocate bound by client's instructions
Case BriefsHigh Courts

In this case, the appellant had challenged the judgment of the High Court’s Single Judge Bench, wherein it was held that advocates representing the opposing party had no fiduciary or professional relationship vis-a-vis the appellant.

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non-disclosure of assets in election
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The will of the people, expressed through the election result, should be respected, unless it has been corrupted by fraudulent practices, in which case, the court should intervene without hesitation.”

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Premji Invest trade mark infringement
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Defendants were operating several websites and applications to trick the general public into believing that they were associated with Premji Invest so as to scam them into illegal and fraudulent investments.

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Rapido Misleading ads 5 min auto guarantee Rapido
Case BriefsTribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

“Rapido had engaged in a practice calculated to mislead consumers by both commission and omission overstating its actual service capability while concealing qualifying conditions for the purpose of promoting its business”.

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Supreme Court stray dogs
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Supreme Court noted that since the application of the ABC Rules, 2023 was uniform across the country, and the issues raised in the Suo Moto Writ Petition were likely to arise or had already cropped up in every State, it proposed to expand the scope of the matter beyond the confines of New Delhi and the NCR region.

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MADC to refund 10.29 crores to Wipro
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Maharashtra Airport Development Company Limited (‘MADC’) is an instrumentality of State and is expected to act fairly. If MADC is permitted to retain the advance amount, the same would amount to unjust enrichment, as it has already allotted 33 acres of land to other entities at much higher rate.

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