CCPA imposes ₹1 lakh fine on United Biscuits for misleading 'wholewheat' Marie claims
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan·31 Aug 2026
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a ₹1 lakh penalty on United Biscuits Private Limited, formerly Pladis India Private Limited, for marketing McVitie’s Marie Biscuits as...
Fortifying the frontiers of food safety
Bar and Benchby Krithika Jaganathan·31 Aug 2026
Food safety regulation has always been driven with public welfare at its heart, with the “duty of care” as the guiding doctrine.
Viable mining for a Viksit Bharat
Bar and Benchby Naveen Kumar·31 Aug 2026
Chanakya in Arthashastra The mining sector supports approximately 12.5 million livelihoods, while the coal sector alone employs more than 2.5 million people.
Google keywords and trademark infringement
Bar and Benchby Zeeshan A Khan·31 Aug 2026
The Delhi High Court’s judgment in Hindware Ltd. v. Grohe India Pvt. Ltd. & Ors., 2026 SCC OnLine Del 3913 is an important milestone in India’s evolving jurisprudence on trademarks and keyword...
Students cannot be threatened for questioning, dissent is essential to democracy: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy·30 Aug 2026
Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday said that students cannot be threatened with punitive action for expressing a different point of view or asking questions, stressing that the...
Why has no ‘distinguished jurist’ been made Supreme Court judge in 76 years? Justice Ujjal Bhuyan asks
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy·30 Aug 2026
Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday called for a debate on the appointment of distinguished jurists as judges of the Supreme Court, noting that the constitutional provision enabling...
Whitefield police station should be renamed darkfield: Karnataka HC flags repeated violation of arrest guidelines
Bar and Benchby Hiranya Bhandarkar·29 Aug 2026
The Karnataka High Court on Saturday ordered the State Director General of Police (DGP) to issue guidelines with regard to the cases registered over social media posts [Mohan Gowda v.
Bombay High Court pulls up FDA for 'high-handed' cancellation of Cipla drug licences
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·29 Aug 2026
The Bombay High Court on Saturday pulled up the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for going overboard and high-handedly by cancelling the wholesale drug sale licences of Cipla Pharma &...
Not a single life should be lost: Bombay High Court orders medical care for fasting tribal students
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·29 Aug 2026
The Bombay High Court on Saturday directed the Maharashtra government to provide immediate medical assistance, hospitalisation and supervised care to tribal students currently on a hunger strike in...
Take appointment of arbitrators away from parties, institutionalise process: Shashank Garg
Bar and Benchby Pallavi Saluja·29 Aug 2026
Senior Advocate Shashank Garg on Thursday called for the appointment of arbitrators to be taken away from parties and entrusted to courts or arbitral institutions.
Bombay HC closes taxi drivers' PIL against Marathi rule after State extends deadline by 1 year
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·29 Aug 2026
The Bombay High Court was on Saturday informed by the Maharashtra Transport Department that auto and taxi drivers across the State have been granted a one-year extension to learn, read and speak...
FDA restores licenses of Mumbai Cricket Association eateries after Bombay HC intervention
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·29 Aug 2026
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday withdrew its orders suspending the food licenses of five eateries at the Mumbai Cricket Association's (MCA) Bandra Kurla Complex club...
[Book Review] The People's Sanctum: 100 year struggle to democratize temples in India
Bar and Benchby MF Philip·29 Aug 2026
In his debut book The People's Sanctum (Penguin, 2026), Manuraj Shanmughasundaram traces a century-long struggle of the depressed classes in South India, from the fight for road access around...
NLU Delhi student body expresses solidarity with NLSIU students over cancelled convocation
Bar and Benchby Satyendra Wankhade·29 Aug 2026
The governing council of the student bar council at National Law University, Delhi (NLUD) has expressed solidarity with the graduating batch of National Law School of India University (NLSIU) after...
The convocation that did not happen
Bar and Benchby Huzaifa Shaikh·29 Aug 2026
For NLSIU’s graduating class, the first loss is obvious. A convocation is a one-time event. Degrees can be conferred in absentia and certificates sent home, but the ceremony - the walk across the...
Legal Notes by Arvind Datar: The Henderson Principle
Bar and Benchby Arvind Datar·29 Aug 2026
Recently, the Supreme Court discussed the Henderson Principle in Celir LLP v. Sumati Prasad Bafna (2024).
Not a good sign when bar council does not earn respect of its members: Supreme Court Justice BV Nagarathna
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy·29 Aug 2026
Supreme Court Justice BV Nagarathna on Saturday that bar councils must introspect on their role in upholding professional ethics, morality and competence.
Harsh to impose court fees at ad valorem rate in civil matters: Allahabad High Court
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·29 Aug 2026
Levy of court fees at ad valorem rates in cases before civil courts is harsh, the Allahabad High Court recently said while asking the government to consider easing the same [Laxmikant Aggarwal v...
When a judge errs: What the Judicial Transparency Index reveals about disciplinary accountability
Bar and Benchby Shadab Khan·29 Aug 2026
Of the many findings in the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and JALDI's Judicial Transparency Index Report, released on August 1, 2026, one stat should stop readers in their tracks: not a single one...
Climate crisis will test existing laws; displaced people need status of their own: CJI Surya Kant
Bar and Benchby Ritu Yadav·29 Aug 2026
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday said that people displaced by the slow degradation of their land deserve a status of their own, since existing refugee and migration laws were not...
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