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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Blenders Pride trade mark
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The products in the present case are premium and ultra-premium whiskies, targeted at a discerning consumer base, that are likely to exercise greater care in their purchase decisions. The distinct trade dress and packaging reduce any likelihood of confusion.

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Unregulated Sale of Sharp Knives
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“This lack of oversight and regulation can contribute to an increase in violent incidents, such as stabbing, and raises concerns about public safety.”

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PNB Officer with 70% disability
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The bank officer sought reversion when his legitimate request for posting him to Kolkata went in vain and he found himself unable to function at Patna without any family support and with 70% disability.”

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BJP Activist S.K. Sreenivasan murder case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“On 16-04-2022, 5 accused persons came on three two-wheelers, and inflicted grievous injuries on Sreenivasan and killed him by hacking his head and other parts of his body with choppers.”

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Captain R Tamil Selvan
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Once such scrutiny attains finality, then election can only be set aside under Section 100 if it is shown that the result of such election has been materially affected by non-compliance with the provisions of the Constitution or the RP Act.”

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ineligible person appointed as Director of Family Welfare
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Where one ineligible person was ignored at the cost of another ineligible person without reasonable basis or rationale, the ineligible person, who was ignored, could raise his voice and approach the Court to find out the reasons for his exclusion”

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rickshaws in Matheran
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Court opined that continuing such an inhuman practice even after 78 years of the country getting its freedom and after 75 years of the Constitution being enacted and promising social and economic justice to its citizens, would be betraying the promise given by the people of India to themselves.

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builder's agreement can't modify family settlement
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Once, by virtue of the Memorandum of Family Settlement, the respective shares of the family members were identified, the Builders’ Agreement, which is essentially an agreement to construct the building, will not result in its modification or novation.”

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Arvind Dham in bank fraud case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The magnitude of the alleged fraud is staggering and has caused colossal losses to public sector banks. Such offences, if proved, undermine the very foundation of the nation’s financial system.

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regularisation of Class III & IV employees
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Ad-hocism thrives where administration is opaque and the State Departments must keep and produce accurate establishment registers, muster rolls and outsourcing arrangements, and must explain, with evidence, why they prefer precarious engagement over sanctioned posts where the work is perennial”.

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Guidelines for police arrest in court premises
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The State Government shall forthwith issue an Office Memorandum highlighting the clarifications noted above for the purpose of informing all the stakeholders of the contents of this order.”

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Abbas Ansari Hate Speech
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“He was a sitting MLA and due to his conviction in the present matter, he has been disqualified. Therefore, on one hand, his conviction deprived his constituency from legitimate representation and on the other hand, it also restrained him to represent his constituency.”

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forum shopping by litigants
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“A Judge may recuse himself from a case entrusted to him by the Chief Justice with his own choice but recusal at the asking of a litigating party, unless justified must never to be acceded to. This would give the impression of the Judge being scared out of the case, just by the sheer force of the objection.”

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relief in 21 -year- old dowry case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“This prolonged and unexplained inaction by the Trial Court constitutes not only a denial of timely justice, but also a serious erosion of the rule of law and a violation of the wife’s fundamental right to a fair and expeditious trial.”

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Speedy disposal of Trademark application a fundamental right
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court issued a general direction to the Registrar of Trademarks to decide all pending trademark registration applications as early as possible.

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crying of woman does not prove dowry harassment
Case BriefsHigh Courts

It is quite understandable that being the deceased’s father, he would have been highly traumatized due to untimely death of his daughter. However, it is quite evident from his first statement that no details of the alleged harassment of the daughter were mentioned.

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retrospective promotion of ASI held illegal
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“If the action of official respondents is not set at naught, it would legalize their action. It would create undue benefit in favour of private respondents as well as encourage officers to follow the same practice. It would be violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India because seniority and promotions are facets of conditions of service.”

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