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transgender person entitled to change name and gender

Inside Manipur HC’s ruling on whether a transgender person is entitled to change original name and gender in official documents

The Court refrained from adopting the usual practice of concealing and masking name of the transgender person in the present judgment and revealed the name so that this judgment becomes a torch to other transgender persons leading them to the path of access to justice.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Preventive detention cannot override bail for past crimes’; Calcutta HC sets aside detention order in NDPS case

“Since preventive detention, is an anathema to personal liberty, one has to give equal credence and weightage to the personal liberties of a person which are proposed to be suspended by way of the order of preventive detention.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Rajasthan High Court Rejects Extension of Asaram Bapu’s Interim Bail

Asaram Bapu was directed to surrender on or before at 11:00 a.m. on 30-08-2025.

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of reported corporal punishment to students in Bihar

About 18 students were subjected to corporal punishment by their teacher after locking them inside a room of a government school.

two including death row convict acquitted

Case Briefs Supreme Court

“Classic example of lackluster and shabby investigation”; Supreme Court acquits two men, including death row convict, in 12-year-old’s rape and murder case

“We feel that the present case is yet another classic example of lackluster and shabby investigation and so also laconic trial procedure which has led to the failure of a case involving brutal rape and murder of an innocent girl child.”

reconsideration of death sentence under Art. 32

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Whether Art. 32 of the Constitution empowers reconsideration of death sentence that has attained finality? Supreme Court answers

In a significant decision, a 3-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court explored the contours of Article 32 of the Constitution to answer whether death sentence which has attained finality, can be revisited at all?

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court grants interim relief to NDTV; Restrains websites and social media platforms from misusing NDTV Trade mark

Delhi High Court directed the Department of Telecommunications and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to issue a notification calling upon the various internet service providers and telecom service providers, registered under it to block access to the various websites identified by NDTV in the present suit or such other websites that may subsequently be notified by them.

Higher Judiciary Member seeks favourable order

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLAT Chennai Judicial Member recuses from IBC appeal after request for favourable order by a revered Higher Judiciary Member

Following the development, the Supreme Court has reportedly ordered an investigation into the claim raised by the NCLAT Judicial Member.

Case Briefs High Courts

Rajasthan High Court upholds ‘Sleeper Bus’ tax amendment by Transport department

“The State Government is fully competent to extend the benefit of exemptions to a particular category and deny the same to other, keeping-in-mind the larger public interest, the nexus and the object sought to be achieved.”

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of Zimbabwean student’s death following assault in Punjab

The Zimbabwean student succumbed to his injuries after being assaulted by group of people in Bathinda, Punjab.

Case Briefs High Courts

Justice after a decade: Constructive interpretation by Orissa HC ensures meritorious PwD candidate’s appointment as ‘Sikshya Sahayaka’

“The expression “untrained SC, ST and PH Candidates” employed in this Guideline should not be literally interpreted, but it has to be given a constructive and purposeful interpretation. Otherwise, merit will be at casualty and nothing else.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘One accused can be convicted in gang-rape case’: Delhi High Court upholds conviction of one accused where co-accused could not be apprehended

In the case at hand, the convict and the co-accused had kidnapped the minor girl on their bike and raped her in the jungle. The convict had been apprehended but the co-accused had managed to escape.

Case Briefs High Courts

Indian Citizenship cannot be granted without renunciation certificate from country-of-origin; Mere surrender of passport insufficient: Kerala HC

“Even though all necessary formalities might have been completed, as per Section 14A of the of the Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951, a Renunciation Certificate is mandatory, and it cannot be waived of stating that the documents produced are sufficient to show that the respondents have renounced their Pakistani citizenship and, as such, they still continue to be citizens of Pakistan.”

Hemo Organic Ltd. misleading YouTube promotion

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

SEBI finds no evidence of misleading YouTube promotions in Hemo Organic Ltd. stock activity; disposes of proceedings against the noticees

SEBI held that the material available on record was not sufficient to ascertain whether the Noticees disseminated misleading information in the scrip of Hemo Organic Ltd. to public through video on YouTube channels viz. “Money Wise” and “The Advisor”.

Bail to accused of deprived scheduled caste in SCST Act case

Case Briefs High Courts

Punjab & Haryana HC grants bail in SC/ST Act case; Questions applicability of Act against accused belonging to deprived scheduled caste

In the present case, the accused belonged to the Deprived Scheduled Caste category and was charged with voluntarily causing simple as well as grievous injuries to the person also belonging to Scheduled Caste category by criminally trespassing into his premises.

Case Briefs High Courts

Punjab & Haryana HC criticizes indiscipline but grants anticipatory bail to Judge’s PSO accused of attempting to open fire on Court officer

“The allegations leveled by the Chief Court Officer against the Judge’s personal security officer are serious in nature and being a member of the disciplined force, he is also expected to behave in a responsible manner. Even otherwise, he was on security duty before this Court, and he should have acted in a more disciplined and careful manner.”

Case Briefs High Courts

“Matter of grave concern that such incidents are recurring”: Chhattisgarh HC takes suo motu cognizance of phenyl being mixed in residential school children’s meal

“Had the contaminated food been consumed by the students, it is beyond imagination what devastation it would have caused to the lives of their parents and families, who repose their faith in the residential school system, believing that their children would be cared for like their own.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Cow slaughter committed repeatedly strikes the core of constitutional morality & social order’: Punjab & Haryana HC denies anticipatory bail to habitual offender

“This Court cannot remain oblivious to the fact that in a pluralistic society like ours, certain acts like cow slaughtering can have severe repercussions on public peace when they offend the deeply held beliefs of a significant population group”.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi LG’s notification declaring Delhi police stations as “designated places” for E-recording of evidence of police witness, challenged before Delhi HC

The Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution, challenged the vires of the Notification dated 13-8-2025, issued by the Home (General) Department, Government of NCT of Delhi (’GNCTD’), with the approval of the Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor.

charge sheet extension in routine manner

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Flagrant violation of Section 21(2)(b) of MCOCA’; Bombay HC grants bail to accused after extension to file charge-sheet granted five times in ‘routine manner’

The Special Judge had deprived the accused from their indefensible right to default bail as the orders granting extension to file the charge-sheet were passed in routine manner, without considering the provisions of Section 21(2)(b) of MCOCA in its true perspective and without enforcing the statutory duty of ‘application of mind’ by the Public Prosecutor.