barandbench.comadded August 2026
Bar and Benchby Arvind Datar26d ago
What is the difference between a retrospective and a retroactive law? As this important question remains unanswered till date, this article suggests what the proper tests should be.
Bar and Benchby Hiranya Bhandarkar26d ago
The Karnataka High Court has quashed a ₹482.69 crore penalty imposed by the Karnataka Department of Mines and Geology (DMG) against Adani- controlled ACC Limited for mining operations in Kalaburagi...
Bar and Benchby Soumanasya Sengupta26d ago
Vardharma Law, formerly Vardharma Chambers, has announced the promotion of Vidula Mehrotra to Partner and the addition of Roshni Khirbath as Partner, expanding its partnership to three Partners in...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan26d ago
A statutory framework for interim payments in construction disputes can protect government and PSU officials who release contested funds from vigilance, audit and investigative scrutiny, former...
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi27d ago
The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to issue preemptive orders against Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil's proposed march to Mumbai [Nilesh Ramchandra Dhanukar v.
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench27d ago
The Allahabad High Court recently observed that the Uttar Pradesh government was continuously using the UP Control of Goondas Act, 1970 as a tool of oppression despite the courts regularly...
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S27d ago
The Karnataka High Court has stayed an order of the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (KAT) that had questioned the continuation of Anjali Devi as in-charge Director of Prosecution and...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan27d ago
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has said that a resolution plan submitted as part of insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) does not automatically...
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S27d ago
The Karnataka High Court on Friday recorded that the State government has completed the process of creating wards and reserving seats for members in all 5,864 Gram Panchayats across the State in...
Bar and Benchby Fahas Abdulla27d ago
Two former DGPs – Prakash Singh and NK Singh - along with Common Cause, filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court of India in 1996.
Bar and Benchby Kamaldeep Dayal27d ago
The latest amendment to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (MMDR Act), which received the assent of the President on August 17, has brought about significant changes.
Bar and Benchby Bhavini Srivastava27d ago
The Delhi High Court recently stressed that courts must ensure the protection of rights of weaker sections of the society to preserve the ‘socialist’ structure of India envisaged in the preamble of...
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench27d ago
IC RegFin Legal has announced the opening of its larger, state-of-the-art new office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City.
Bar and Benchby Bhavini Srivastava27d ago
The Delhi High Court recently directed the Punjab & Sind Bank to pay an amount of ₹50,000, along with an annual interest of 12 percent, to a manager who had foiled a robbery attempt at its...
Bar and Benchby Ritu Yadav27d ago
The Supreme Court has recently quashed a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) against a school teacher accused of hitting minor girl students on their...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan27d ago
The Delhi High Court has reduced the sentence of a man convicted of rape and kidnapping a 14-year-old girl after noting that she had his name tattooed on her chest and had voluntarily travelled...
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee27d ago
The Himachal Pradesh High Court recently held that a promise of marriage may not amount to the offence of deceitful sexual intercourse when both the accused and the victim are already married to...
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S27d ago
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday took strong exception to the practice of not paying the process fees in cases where interim orders had been passed months or even years earlier.
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan27d ago
The Delhi High Court on September 7 refused to restrain Xiaomi Technology India from using its “Find Device” feature in its mobile phones after finding that it did not prima facie infringe a patent...
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha27d ago
A Delhi court on Thursday denied anticipatory bail to an advocate accused in the case related to the collapse of a paying-guest (PG) building in Satya Niketan that killed seven people.
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