Bombay High Court orders CBI probe into Disha Salian death
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·2 Sept 2026
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the death of celebrity manager Disha Salian in 2020 [Satish Salian v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.]
Delay in depositing tax is not failure to pay: Supreme Court quashes ₹71 lakh penalty on Saudi Arabian Airlines
Bar and Benchby Ritu Yadav·2 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a delay by an airline in depositing Foreign Travel Tax (FTT) collected from international passengers cannot be treated as a complete failure to pay the tax so...
Nepal floods: Madras High Court seeks reports from Centre, State on efforts to trace missing pilgrims from TN
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan·2 Sept 2026
The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Central and Tamil Nadu governments to file status reports on the steps taken to trace 85 people from the State who remain unreachable following the...
Delhi HC seeks police reply to Tahir Hussain plea against life sentence in Ankit Sharma murder case
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha·2 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought a response from the Delhi Police on a plea filed by former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain against his conviction and life sentence for the...
Bengaluru court upholds dismissal of defamation complaint against Siddaramaiah over remarks on RSS, Bajrang Dal
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S·2 Sept 2026
A Bengaluru court has dismissed a criminal revision petition questioning the correctness of an order dismissing a defamation complaint against Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister...
Argus Partners hires Corporate Partners Saurav Kumar, Swathi Sreenath and team from CMS IndusLaw
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·2 Sept 2026
CMS IndusLaw long-time Partner Saurav Kumar is joining Argus Partners as a Senior Partner in the firm's Corporate & M&A Practice and as Head of the Japan and South Korea Desk.
Inability to prove exact quantum of loss does not bar award of compensation: Bombay High Court
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·2 Sept 2026
Inability to prove the precise quantum of loss does not prevent an award of compensation if the fact of loss is proven, the Bombay High Court recently held [Ultra Distributors Pvt Ltd v.
Vinayak Savarkar did not hate Muslims, wanted their progress: Savarkar kin to Pune court
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·2 Sept 2026
Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi falsely depicted Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as an extreme hater of Muslims and a mob lyncher, Savarkar's grandnephew Satyaki Savarkar told a...
Diverting codeine cough syrup for intoxication attracts NDPS Act even if within permissible limits: Allahabad High Court
Bar and Benchby Swagta Nath·1 Sept 2026
The Allahabad High Court has ruled that possessing, transporting, or selling codeine-based cough syrup for intoxication attracts the stringent Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act...
Merit cannot be compromised: Bombay HC in medical college fee reimbursement case
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·1 Sept 2026
Merit can never be compromised nor can be on second pedestal, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court observed while pulling up the Maharashtra government for implementing a medical fee...
CCPA imposes ₹10 lakh fine on Dial4Trade for listing Ammonium Nitrate online with images of blasts
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan·1 Sept 2026
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of ₹10 lakh on online marketplace Dial4Trade Technologies Private Limited for listing ammonium nitrate, a regulated explosive...
Medical negligence: Hyderabad consumer forum directs hospital to pay ₹1 crore to parents of deceased PhD student
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee·1 Sept 2026
A Hyderabad District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently directed Citizens Speciality Hospital and its consultant neurologist to jointly and severally pay ₹1 crore in compensation and...
Supreme Court miffed after newspaper reports contradict claims by MCD, ASI about protected monuments
Bar and Benchby Ritwik Choudhury·1 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court recently pulled up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) over what it termed “total callousness” and “suppression of facts” about...
Kissing child's penis is penetrative sexual assault under POCSO Act: Kerala High Court
Bar and Benchby Praisy Thomas·1 Sept 2026
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 20-year prison sentence of a 61-year-old man for the offence of aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a 14-year-old boy under the...
Jammu court denies bail to man accused of attempting to rape his elderly mother
Bar and Benchby Mohsin Dar·1 Sept 2026
A Jammu court has dismissed the bail application of a man accused of allegedly assaulting and attempting to rape his elderly widowed mother.
Tackle egg-pelting menace with iron hand: Calcutta HC while ordering security cover for TMC MP Mahua Moitra
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·1 Sept 2026
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered that two police personnel be deployed to protect Trinamool Congress (TMC) Member of Parliament (MP) Mahua Moitra from egg pelting or other similar attacks...
From nudge to notice: What India’s dark pattern orders mean for digital business
Bar and Benchby Naresh Pareek·1 Sept 2026
The price shown on a product page rises at checkout. A donation is already selected. Declining an add-on requires the consumer to announce that they will “take the risk."
Candidates can claim reservation in Puducherry based on mother's native origin even if father is a migrant: Madras HC
Bar and Benchby Swagta Nath·1 Sept 2026
The Madras High Court has held that candidates born and raised in Puducherry can claim Scheduled Caste (SC), Most Backward Class (MBC), and Other Backward Class (OBC) reservation benefits based on...
Woman returning after maternity leave has right to resume duty without change in role, authority: Delhi HC
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha·1 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court recently held that a woman employee of a private company returning from maternity leave is entitled to be reinstated in the same position she held before proceeding on leave...
Press release led to mob violence: Gauhati HC pulls up Mizoram Police for revealing key details of murder probe
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee·1 Sept 2026
The Gauhati High Court recently pulled up Mizoram authorities over a police press release that disclosed sensitive details of an ongoing criminal investigation and exposed a suspect’s family to...
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