‘Hospitals can’t insist on police complaint as condition to provide medical care’: Bombay HC
“Grant of medical aid to any person is directly concomitant with the guarantees of Article 21 of the Constitution.”
Article 21 of Constitution of India
Tripura High Court| Court can neither direct Central Government to make amendments in Wildlife Act, 1972 to include exotic species nor can direct to change classification of such bailable offence to non-bailable offence
Tripura High Court: In a public interest litigation seeking issuance of show cause to the respondents as to why a writ of
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
Madras HC | “Authorities need to be told that right to property has close nexus with right to life under Art. 21”: HC while issuing notice in acquisition matter pending from 16 yrs
Madras High Court: N. Seshasayee, J., said that if the allegations made in the present petition were true then it exposes the callousness
Pat HC | [Article 21] Torture, either mental or physical, represents worst violations of individual human personality, an outright and premeditated attack on human dignity; Petition allowed against illegal detention
Patna High Court: A Division Bench of Sanjay Karol, CJ. and S. Kumar, J., while allowing the present petition, discussed the issue
Kar HC | Whether the indefeasible right of an accused to seek compulsive bail under S. 167(2) CrPC is defeated by the unilateral extension of time by the Court; HC elaborates
Karnataka High Court: John Michael Cunha, J., while allowing the present application for bail under Section 439 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 made
Patiala House Court | “When you choose to play with embers, you cannot blame the wind to have carried the spark bit too far and spread the fire”; Student activist Safoora Zargar denied bail in Chand Bagh Riots case
Patiala House Court, New Delhi: While deciding the instant bail application of student activist Safoora Zargar, who was accused of giving inflammatory
All HC | ‘Azan’ an essential & integral part of Islam but use of loudspeakers is not; Right to offer Azan by voice, protected under Art. 25 of Constitution
Allahabad High Court: A Division Bench of Shashi Kant Gupta and Ajit Kumar, JJ., while addressing a Public Interest Litigation held that, “Azan
Madras HC | Liquor shops that were opened in neighbouring Kerala & far off Mumbai were closed down by those Governments to save human lives, but, alas, this State failed to learn any lesson!
They that sleep resemble the dead; likewise, they that drink are no other than poison eaters. Couplet 926 of Chapter 93 titled
All HC | Banners displaying personal details of individuals accused of destroying public property during Anti-CAA protests directed to be removed
Allahabad High Court: A Division Bench of Govind Mathur, CJ and Ramesh Sinha, J. directed the District Magistrate, Lucknow and the Commissioner of Police,
Bom HC | Illegal search is violation of fundamental right to privacy, State directed to pay compensation; law on Ss. 165 & 166 CrPC explained
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench comprising of T.V. Nalawade and S.M. Gavhane, JJ., partly allowed the present petition while explaining the
P&H HC | Art. 21 being sacrosanct under Constitutional scheme to be protected regardless whether parties are of marriageable age or not
Punjab and Haryana High Court: Arun Monga, J. disposed of the writ petition after issuing necessary direction to Superintendent of Police to
Ker HC | Student’s freedom to choose college of his/ her choice for pursuit of studies – an aspect of fundamental right to privacy guaranteed under Art. 21
Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of CJ Hrishikesh Roy and A.K. Jayashankaran Nambiar, J. opined that the students could not be
J&K HC | Preventive detention: An invasion to personal liberty guaranteed under Art. 21 – therefore order must be passed after following procedural safeguards
Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Rashid Ali Dar, J. set aside the detention order passed by respondent 2-District Magistrate, Baramulla and ordered
Tri HC | Wife entitled to lead life at par the standard of husband, appeal under S. 19(1) of Family Courts Act for reducing pendente lite maintenance dismissed
Tripura High Court: A Division Bench of Sanjay Karol, CJ and Arindam Lodh, J. dismissed an appeal filed under Section 19(1) of the
Ker HC | College cannot arbitrarily reject issuance of NOC to students desirous of taking admission into another college/ institute
Kerala High Court: P.V Asha, J. allowed a petition directing the respondent college to issue NOC to the students applying for transfer
Duty of State to ensure safety of run-away couples from dangers to their life, limb and liberty: A constitutional mandate under Article 21
Punjab & Haryana High Court: A Single Judge Bench of Raj Shekhar Attri, J., allowed a writ petition filed by the petitioners
Water and electricity supply form a part of right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution of India: Himachal Pradesh HC
Himachal Pradesh High Court: A Division Judge Bench comprising of Surya Kant, CJ and Ajay Mohan Goel, J., disposed of an appeal