Case Briefs Archives

Ker HC | Arts. 21 and 51-A places an onerous duty on State to ensure the well being, life and liberty of every citizen, which includes migrant workers

Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of S. Manikumar, CJ, and Shaji P. Chaly, J., while reviewing reports on conditions of migrant

Case Briefs Supreme Court

COVID-19| Migrant Labourers: SC pulls up Maharashtra for lapses; says “this is not an adversarial litigation”

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ashok Bhushan, SK Kaul and MR Shah, JJ pulled up State of Maharashtra for submitting that

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

US SC asks President Trump to release his financial records to NY prosecutors but not to Congress

US SC: In a high-profile set of rulings, the US Supreme Court has, in a 7:2 verdict, held that the t President

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Even non-payment of entire sale consideration cannot be a ground cancellation of sale deed: SC

Supreme Court: The 2-judge bench of Indu Malhotra and L Nageswara Rao, JJ has held that even when the entire sale consideration

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | “If SOP encourages e-learning, any citizen questioning its intentions would only be acting against interest of his own country”

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Sunil B. Shukre and S.M. Modak, JJ., while addressing a matter with regard to Standard Operating

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | If consent given out of love and passion on a promise of marriage, sexual intercourse is not rape: Court while granting pre-arrest bail to rape accused

Kerala High Court: Raja Vijayaraghavan V, J., allowed pre-arrest bail to the applicant accused of raping a women whom he allegedly met on

Case Briefs High Courts

Tri HC | “Woman who lived like wife, cannot be deprived of maintenance”: Court grants maintenance to woman who “lived like wife” for 10 yrs

Tripura High Court: S. Talapatra, J., while addressing a matter with regard to provision of maintenance, observed that, When one statute ensures maintenance for

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC berates lethargy of DU administration in not issuing degree certificate for “lack of paper”: DU to streamline process of issuing degree with fixed timeline

Delhi High Court: Pratibha M. Singh, J., noted that the present matter of non-issuance of degree certificates from Delhi University shows that there

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Holistic reading of Ss. 306 and 308 CrPC reveals an “inexorable sequence” in which most mandatory step is examination of approver as a witness under S. 306 (4)

Delhi High Court: While deciding the instant matter which revolved around the interplay and interpretation of Sections 306 and 308 of the

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Prisoner who wished to appear for final year B.A Examination online was permitted to do so; Jail Superintendent directed to provide necessary gadgets

Delhi High Court: Suresh Kumar Kait, J., while addressing a bail application directed the Jail Superintendent to provide the necessary gadgets for the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

NLU Jodhpur student’s death: SC asks Rajasthan Police to complete the investigation within 2 months

Supreme Court: A bench headed by RF Nariman, J has granted Rajasthan Police two months deadline to complete the investigation into the

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | POCSO Act overrides S. 14-A of SC/ST Act: Court while granting bail to applicant accused of sexual assault/rape on minor victim belonging to scheduled caste

Bombay High Court: Bharati Dangre, J., allowed a bail application and granted bail to the applicant who was accused of committing the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Unitech’s Sanjay Chandra gets interim bail as parents hospitalised after testing COVID-19 positive

Supreme Court: The bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud and MR Shah, JJ has granted bail to former Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra after

Case Briefs Supreme Court

SC extends stay on coercive action against Amish Devgan for remarks on Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti

Supreme Court: The bench of AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari, JJ has extended it’s order directing no coercive action to be taken

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

SCOTUS | Bar imposed on families from using State Scholarships for religious schools is violative of Free Exercise Clause of Federal Constitution

Supreme Court of the United States: While determining that whether Rule 1 promulgated by the Montana Revenue Department barring the families from

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | “Abortion is often the only way out in a very difficult situation for a woman”; Medical termination of pregnancy beyond 20 weeks can be permitted only on limited grounds

Can Medical Termination of Pregnancy be allowed beyond 20 weeks gestation period? Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Ujjal Bhuyan and R.I.

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

ITAT | Bar Council of Delhi’s dominant purpose is advancement of general public utility: Held entitled for registration under S. 12-AA and consequent exemption under S. 80-G, Income Tax Act

Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT): A Division Bench of R.K. Panda (Accountant Member) and Kuldip Singh (Judicial Member), while addressing a matter held,