High Courts

The Rajasthan High Court, in an order of Justice Ashok Kumar Jain, recently granted bail to a 19-year-old accused of circulating sexually explicit material and intimidating the complainant on social media. While allowing the bail, the court imposed an unusual condition: he was prohibited from using any social media platforms- whether under his own name […]

In a pivotal judgment , Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench, partly allowed a criminal revision application holding that refusing a woman the right to live in her shared household amounts to domestic violence under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. FACTS : The applicant before the High

The Kerala High Court has recently held that a marriage solemnised during the statutory period for filing an appeal against a decree of divorce will not be rendered invalid, provided the decree remains unchallenged by the former spouse.  The case required an interpretation of Section 15 read with Section 28 of the Hindu Marriage Act,

Patanjali Ayurved, has escalated its battle to the Delhi High Court by challenging a single judge’s directive that restrains the company from airing advertisements allegedly criticizing Dabur’s Chyawanprash. This case was recently presented before a division bench comprising Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla. Signalling their scepticism about the merit of this

In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court bench of Justice Ravindra V. Ghuge and Justice Ashwin D. Bhobe addressed the plight of law graduates whose applications for provisional sanads were stalled after their college was shown as “unapproved.”  Background: The fact of the matter was that these graduates, from a Mumbai-based law college affiliated

The Bombay High Court, led by Chief Justice (CJ) Shree Chandrashekhar , on Wednesday initiated a suo motu criminal contempt of court case against advocate Nilesh Ojha. This move comes in response to Ojha’s 'scandalous and scurrilous' accusations against a sitting judge, allegations he made while defending himself in another criminal contempt case. That original

The Kerala High Court’s division bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar has instructed the Chief Vigilance and Security Officer (Superintendent of Police) to probe suspected discrepancies in the recorded gold weight of the Dwarapalaka idols of the Sabarimala temple. Facts: The alleged loss of gold surfaced during the Court’s consideration of

During the hearing of the appeal filed by victims of the 2008 Malegaon Blast against the acquittal of former BJP MP Pragya Thakur, Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit, and others, the Bombay High Court, led by Chief Justice Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad, made it clear that it would consider the plea only if the appellants

In a case raising serious environmental concern, the Madras High Court Division Bench of Justice N. Sathish Kumar and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy recently heard a batch of writ petitions challenging the Segur Plateau Elephant Corridor Inquiry Committee and questioning the applicability of the Tamil Nadu Preservation of Private Forests Act, 1949 (TNPPF), highlighting the

An application under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (“CrPC”) was filed before the Delhi High Court seeking to quash an FIR for rape under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (“IPC”), where the central issue before the Single Bench of Dr. Swarana Kanta Sharma was whether the complainant, despite knowing