Article 226 Constitution Archives

‘Issue involves mixed question of law and fact’; Bombay HC dismisses family’s plea to transfer RBI bonds of a Jain man who took sanyas

The petitioners have other efficacious and appropriate remedy before appropriate forum/Court to adjudicate the disputed claims.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Individual’s liberty cannot be curtailed merely because he participated in political rally that later turned violent’; Bombay HC quashes preventive detention order

Respondents have not taken recourse to the procedure contemplated by Section 7 of the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers Drug-Offenders and Dangerous Persons Act, 1981, which provides for procedure to be adopted in case where the detenue is absconding.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court stays Kerala HC order directing a woman in same-sex relationship to undergo counselling

The 3-judges Bench of Supreme Court has stayed the impugned order of the Kerala High Court whereby the High Court had asked DLSA to record statements of the detenu and make her undergo counselling. Allegedly, the woman has been kept in illegal detention by her parents.