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West Bengal Assembly Passes Public Safety Bills Allowing 12-Month Preventive Detention
3+ hour, 27+ min ago (382+ words) To review detention orders, the Bill provides for the establishment of three-member Advisory Boards headed by a serving or retired High Court judge, along with two members qualified to be appointed as High Court judges. Every detention order must be…...
Kerala HC Affirms Vicarious Liability of Managing Director Under Section 141 NI Act for Dishonoured Cheques [Read Order]
10+ hour, 11+ min ago (719+ words) Kerala: The Kerala High Court has held that a Managing Director who was in charge of and responsible for the day-to-day affairs of a company at the time of commission of an offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act,…...
Jharkhand HC Grants Anticipatory Bail, Holds Chargesheet Filing No Bar [Read Order]
10+ hour, 48+ min ago (316+ words) The Jharkhand High Court granted anticipatory bail to a school secretary facing fraud and forgery allegations, reiterating that the filing of a chargesheet is not by itself a bar to entertaining or allowing an application for anticipatory bail. Justice Sanjay…...
Bombay HC Modifies “2046 Order” in Defamation Suit: References to Plaintiff’s Age and 20-Year Adjournment Deleted; Matter Listed for July [Read Order]
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (463+ words) Mumbai: A day after passing an order adjourning a nine-year-old defamation suit to 2046 and declining to grant priority on the ground that the plaintiffs are senior citizens, Justice Jitendra Jain of the Bombay High Court, on April 29, 2026, modified the order…...
Madras HC Scientific Eminence No Defence for Derogatory Remarks Against Women Refuses to Quash FIRs | LawStreet
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (347+ words) Chennai: The Madras High Court has refused to quash two FIRs registered against scientist and political commentator Dr.Ponraj over allegedly derogatory remarks made against women members of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), holding that his scientific eminence and public…...
Kerala HC Orders Special Police Squads In Every District To Catch Hit-And-Run Offenders [Read Judgments]
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (426+ words) Kerala: Hearing three hit-and-run cases together, the Kerala High Court has directed the State Police Chief to set up special squads in every district to trace absconding drivers, while flagging the Centre's continued failure to make its hit-and-run compensation scheme…...
Calcutta HC Sets Aside Trial Court's POCSO Case Order in Mutual Divorce Proceedings, Says Judge Exceeded Jurisdiction [Read Order]
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (521+ words) Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has set aside a trial court order that dismissed a joint petition for divorce by mutual consent and simultaneously directed registration of a criminal case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, holding…...
Can the Delhi Police Invoke "Just Following Orders" to Justify Force at Jantar Mantar? Here Is What the Law Says
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (292+ words) New Delhi: Two PILs before the Delhi High Court over the CJP protest crackdown revive an old legal question: does obedience to orders ever excuse the unjustified use of force, and where does Indian law draw that line? Two PILs…...
Vedanta Loses Cairn Oil Block: Delhi High Court Upholds Government's Rejection of Contract Extension [Read Judgment]
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (419+ words) New Delhi: The Delhi HC in a single-judge bench comprising of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav has recently held that Vedanta's unilateral deduction from the Centre's share of profit petroleum was a valid ground to deny extension of the 1998 production sharing…...
Rajasthan HC Grants Divorce, Calls ‘Atta-Satta’ a Form of “Gender Coercion and Familial Extortion” [Read Judgment]
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (246+ words) The Family Court, Bikaner, dismissed the divorce petition by judgment dated September 24, 2025, holding that the primary cause of the appellant’s departure was not cruelty arising from dowry demands but the dispute stemming from the atta-satta arrangement, and that the appellant…...