Ilaiyaraaja v. Saregama: Judicial adventurism?
Bar and Benchby Rajesh Kumar·3 Sept 2026
The recent judgment of the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court in Ilaiyaraaja v. Saregama raises an important question: can the rights of a music composer continue to subsist after the composer...
Highway safety case: Supreme Court asks TN Chief Secretary to appear over non-compliance with directions
Bar and Benchby Ritwik Choudhury·3 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu to appear before it after the State failed to file a compliance affidavit on highway safety directions issued earlier this...
Flipkart moves Karnataka High Court challenging ₹5 lakh penalty for selling non-BIS-compliant toys
Bar and Benchby Hiranya Bhandarkar·3 Sept 2026
E-commerce platform Flipkart has moved the Karnataka High challenging a Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) order that imposed a ₹5 lakh penalty on it for selling toys that did not comply...
Tryst with the Constitution: The Chief Minister is not just first among equals
Bar and Benchby Swapnil Tripathi·3 Sept 2026
Earlier this month, the Maharashtra government revised its Rules of Business, expressly empowering the Chief Minister to override a decision taken by any minister in the Cabinet, except...
India’s first ‘vibe-coding’ hackathon for lawyers opens registration
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·3 Sept 2026
The Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN) and vibecode.law have launched India’s first “vibe-coding” hackathon for lawyers.
J&K terror case: Delhi High Court grants bail to 2 UAPA accused who spent nearly 5 years in custody
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha·3 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted bail to Sobiya Aziz and Kamran Ashraf Reshi, two accused in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case alleging a wide-ranging terror conspiracy by...
CCI holds Trustees’ Association of India guilty of cartelisation for fixing minimum fees
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan·3 Sept 2026
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has held that the Trustees’ Association of India (TAI) and three debenture trustee companies indulged in cartelisation by collectively fixing the minimum...
Digital evidence does not connect Satyendar Jain to kickbacks; ACB rushed to arrest him: Delhi court
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha·3 Sept 2026
A Delhi court on Thursday observed that the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) “rushed” to arrest Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) corruption case relating to...
MNLU Mumbai announces 15th Edition of NA Palkhivala Memorial National Research Paper Competition
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·3 Sept 2026
Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, in association with the All India Federation of Tax Practitioners – Western Zone (AIFTP-WZ) and the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Bar Association...
Rajasthan HC Acting Chief Justice SP Sharma says Justice Sandeep Mehta made allegations out of resentment
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·3 Sept 2026
Rajasthan High Court Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma has issued a statement denying the allegations made by Supreme Court Justice Sandeep Mehta of manipulation of case listings and...
Bombay High Court grants actress Shruti Haasan interim relief on plea against AI deepfakes
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi·3 Sept 2026
The Bombay High Court has passed an interim order in favor of actress Shruti Haasan on her plea seeking directions to restrain the publication of artificial intelligence (AI) generated and other...
Change the date of anti-reservation protest: Delhi High Court to Kshatriya Karni Sena
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha·3 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to pass any immediate direction on a plea by Kshatriya Karni Sena seeking permission to hold a demonstration against reservation and the University Grants...
Jyoti Maheshwari joins ANM Global as Partner in Corporate, Fintech & Regulatory Advisory
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·3 Sept 2026
ANM Global has announced the appointment of Jyoti Maheshwari as Partner in its Corporate, Fintech & Regulatory Advisory practice, further strengthening the firm’s capabilities across corporate...
Punjab & Haryana High Court quashes dismissal of DSP accused of facilitating Lawrence Bishnoi TV interview
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·3 Sept 2026
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered reinstatement of a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) who was dismissed last year by Punjab government for allegedly facilitating a television...
Plea in Supreme Court to stop perks, amenities to Constitutional functionaries who resign to avoid removal
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy·3 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought the response of the Central government to a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking a declaration that any Constitutional functionary, who tenders his...
NEET leak: Delhi HC allows two candidates named as CBI witnesses to take part in counselling for admission
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee·3 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court recently directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to declare the NEET UG 2026 results of two candidates which were withheld over allegations that they had received a leaked...
Absence of word 'penetration' in child victim's testimony not ground to acquit rape accused: Delhi HC
Bar and Benchby Swagta Nath·3 Sept 2026
Absence of the word “penetration” in a child victim's testimony cannot be a ground for acquittal of rape accused, the Delhi High Court recently held while convicting a man for raping a...
SRM School of Law adds 35 faculty members
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench·3 Sept 2026
SRM School of Law, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) has appointed 35 new faculty members, taking total faculty strength to 75, in a major expansion aimed at strengthening its...
Beyond conventional dispute resolution: Architects of solutions
Bar and Benchby Pradeep Singh·3 Sept 2026
Drawing upon a multidisciplinary perspective across law, corporate and institutional advisory, governance and dispute resolution, this reflection explores whether the architecture of dispute...
BCI has no power to take disciplinary action against law students: Supreme Court rules after NALSAR row
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy·3 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the Bar Council of India (BCI) lacks the jurisdiction or statutory competence to look into the conduct of law students before their enrollment as an advocate...
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