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6 Months Bail Granted To Asaram Bapu: Rajasthan HC
The Rajasthan High Court has granted 6 months temporary bail to Asaram Bapu, currently serving a life sentence for the rape of a minor.The...
SC Declines to Issue Notice to Advocate Who Threw Shoe at CJI Gavai, Says Will Consider Preventive Guidelines
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to issue notice to Advocate Rakesh Kishore, who recently attempted to throw a shoe at Chief Justice of...
Daughters Can’t Inherit Father’s Property If He Died Before Hindu Succession Act, 1956: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that a daughter cannot claim a share in her deceased father’s property if he passed away before the...
District Court Dismisses Advocate’s Plea Challenging Ayodhya Verdict, Imposes Rs. 6 Lakh Cost for ‘Frivolous Litigation’
The District Judge-1 of New Delhi, Patiala House Courts, Sh. Dharmender Rana, has dismissed an appeal filed by Advocate Mehmood Pracha that sought to...
Madras High Court Strikes Down Departmental Action Against Retired Judicial Employee After 24 Years
The Madras High Court has struck down departmental action against retired judicial employee, K.Sadhasivam after 24 years.The Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava...
Sale of Property During Pendency of Suit Invalid: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that any transfer of property made during the pendency of a suit is invalid under the doctrine of lis...
SC Clarifies Tests to Determine Employer–Employee Relationship
The Supreme Court of India has elaborated on the various judicial tests that must be applied while adjudicating disputes under labour welfare legislations like...
Public Trust Doctrine Extend Even On Man-Made Natural Objects, Drawn And Created From Nature: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that the public trust doctrine would thus extend in respect of even man-made or artificially created natural objects, waterbodies, lakes,...
Advocate’s Presence During Interrogation By Police: SC Seeks Centre, States’ Response
The Supreme Court issued notices to the Union government, all States, and Union Territories on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking recognition of an...
Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021: Supreme Court Hears Debate on Tribunal Tenures
The Supreme Court has once again turned its attention to the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021, revisiting a persistent and deeply consequential debate — the...
Daughter Had No Inheritance Right as Father Died Before 1956: Kerala High Court
In a significant ruling interpreting pre-1956 Hindu inheritance laws, the Kerala High Court has upheld the validity of a registered sale deed executed by...
Religious Conversion Of Hindus Into Christianity: Supreme Court Quashes Multiple FIRs
The Supreme Court while quashing the multiple FIRs registered at Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh against the Vice Chancellor of a university and its...
S. 270A Penalty Unsustainable Without Clear Identification of ‘Misreporting’: ITAT
The Mumbai Bench of Income Tax Appellant Tribunal (ITAT) has held that the penalty Under Section 270A of the Income Tax Act, 1962 is...
Country is Burning with Judiciary”: Senior Advocate Warns Jharkhand HC Judge to Stay Within Limits, Video Goes Viral
A dramatic courtroom exchange at the Jharkhand High Court, Court No. 24 has gone viral across social media after a Senior Advocate confronted a...
Supreme Court Takes Suo Motu Cognizance of ‘Digital Arrest’ Scam Involving Forged Judicial Orders
The Supreme Court of India on Friday took suo motu cognizance of a shocking case involving a “digital arrest” scam in which fraudsters allegedly...
Sameer Wankhede Promotion: Delhi HC Dismisses Dept’s Review; Imposes Rs. 20k Cost Citing Concealment
The Delhi High Court has dismissed the Review Petition filed by the Union of India in the promotion matter of IRS officer Sameer Wankhede,...
AG Grants Consent for Criminal Contempt Against Advocate Over Shoe-Throwing Incident in Supreme Court
Attorney General for India R. Venkataramani has granted consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against advocate Rakesh Kishore, following his alleged misconduct by throwing...
Shoe-Throwing at CJI: SC Urges Restraint to Avoid Social Media Sensationalism
A day after an advocate allegedly attempted to hurl a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice B.R. Gavai inside the Supreme Court,...
Convicts Be Given Option To Choose Between Hanging And Lethal Injection: SC Urges Centre to Consider
The Supreme Court asked the Union government to revisit the existing mode of executing death sentences in India, suggesting that convicts on death row...
Running Lawyer’s Office Is Not ‘Commercial Activity’: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that operating a lawyer’s chamber from a residential property does not amount to engaging in a commercial activity. The...
