The golden hour is a constitutional emergency: The State and the wounded republic
Bar and Benchby Shrey Brahmbhatt9d ago
The Supreme Court did not deliver a judgment in Kusumavati Gowda v. Government of Karnataka; it delivered an indictment.
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top 61%₹1 lakh per month maintenance for woman who owned ₹1.7 crore flat, luxury cars: What Madras High Court held
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan9d ago
The Madras High Court recently upheld a family court order directing that ₹1 lakh be paid as monthly maintenance to a woman by her estranged partner, rejecting his argument that there was no need...
Delhi High Court commends junior for arguing case, senior for allowing him to argue
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha9d ago
The Delhi High Court commended a young advocate for being thoroughly prepared and arguing a case independently when his senior, representing the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in...
30-year-old NOIDA housing dispute: Supreme Court appoints former judge to identify genuine allottees
Bar and Benchby Ritwik Choudhury10d ago
The Supreme Court recently constituted a one-member high-powered independent committee headed by former Allahabad High Court Justice Sudhir Kumar Saxena to finalise the list of genuine members and...
Plea in Delhi High Court challenges appointment of additional public prosecutors on deputation, short-term contracts
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha10d ago
The Delhi High Court recently issued notice to the Delhi government on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging a notification allowing the recruitment of additional public prosecutors (APPs)...
HKIAC Secretary-General Joanne Lau on Hong Kong's neutrality, Indian parties and more
Bar and Benchby Pallavi Saluja10d ago
Joanne Lau was a partner in Allen & Overy's international arbitration practice, where she spent close to 12 years, before taking over as Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration...
A decade of judicial vacancies: Who is responsible for filling the gap?
Bar and Benchby Shruthi Naik10d ago
The judge reportedly called such a shortage "glaring" and made a call for urgent steps to fill the vacancies.
Madras High Court refuses to recall order to disclose microplastics in packaged water, sugar, salt
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan10d ago
The Madras High Court recently refused to recall an interim order directing the addition of labels to bottled drinking water and packaged salt and sugar to disclose that such products may contain...
Is slipping into DMs enough to prove adultery by wife? Allahabad High Court answers
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench10d ago
The Allahabad High Court recently said that a husband cannot merely rely on social media messages to establish that his wife is continuously “living in adultery” without corroborative evidence of...
Body-shaming, verbal abuse not enough to prove offence of insulting woman’s modesty: Karnataka High Court
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee10d ago
The Karnataka High Court recently held that allegations of body-shaming and verbally abusing another woman do not, by themselves, constitute the offence of insulting a woman’s modesty under Section...
To be or not to be? Supreme Court between foundational doctrine and ad-hoc expediency
Bar and Benchby Shanmugham D Jayan10d ago
Bar & Bench recently reported a case before the Supreme Court. The facts, simply put, are as follows: a private university encroached upon government land in Tamil Nadu, which had been allotted to...
Wife's inability to conceive not ground to grant divorce for cruelty: Madras High Court
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan10d ago
Childlessness cannot by itself amount to cruelty and a wife cannot be blamed merely because a married couple is unable to conceive, the Madras High Court recently observed.
Ozone Group Chairman Vasudevan Satyamurthy remanded to 14-day ED custody in ₹927 crore money laundering case
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S10d ago
A Bengaluru special court on Thursday remanded Ozone Urbana Infra Developers Pvt Ltd managing director Vasudevan Satyamurthy to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 14 days following...
Bar Council cannot suspend advocate's license at interim stage of disciplinary inquiry: Allahabad High Court
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench10d ago
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday held that the disciplinary committee of a State Bar Council cannot suspend a lawyer at an interim stage of disciplinary proceedings against him [Akhilesh...
Gujarat High Court upholds judge's dismissal over 'benami' phones, undisclosed vehicle purchases
Bar and Benchby Swagta Nath10d ago
The Gujarat High Court recently upheld the dismissal of a Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) from service over allegations that he held three 'benami' mobile phones, and that he had failed to...
Buddhist activist moves Supreme Court against singing full version of Vande Mataram; terms it Islamophobic
Bar and Benchby Ritwik Choudhury10d ago
A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging two Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) orders that mandate the singing of all six stanzas of national song Vande Mataram at formal State...
Supreme Court stays Karnataka HC direction for SIT probe into KPSC recruitment cases
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S10d ago
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Karnataka High Court's direction constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by senior IPS officer Alok Kumar to conduct a de novo investigation...
Delhi High Court refuses to stay Bihar BJP MLA Raju Kumar Singh's conviction in celebratory firing case
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha10d ago
The Delhi High Court has dismissed an application filed by Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Raju Kumar Singh seeking suspension of his conviction in a case arising from the fatal shooting of...
Karnataka High Court rejects JSW Steel’s challenge to ED attachment orders
Bar and Benchby Hiranya Bhandarkar10d ago
The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash Enforcement Directorate (ED) proceedings and its provisional attachment order against JSW Steel for allegedly having procured illegally mined iron ore...
Sabarimala halal jaggery row: Kerala High Court tells Devaswom Board to exercise greater care
Bar and Benchby Praisy Thomas10d ago
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday told the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) to exercise greater care while procuring supplies for making Nivedyam/ Prasadam at the Sabarimala temple after a plea...