barandbench.comadded August 2026
Bar and Benchby Ritwik Choudhury2d ago
Sixteen years after he was accused of demanding a ₹5,000 bribe, and long after he finished serving his four-year prison sentence, a former Jharkhand government employee was recently acquitted by...
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee2d ago
The meeting proposed by Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the One Nation, One Election Bills with Supreme Court judges was done based on a proposal by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)...
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha2d ago
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted right-wing influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj regular bail in a case related to the assault of the father of a student-activist during the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP)...
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court notice to Chief Secretary KP Sinha for misrepresenting facts about the filing of Punjab government's appeal before the...
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy2d ago
The Supreme Court on Tuesday closed a 2003 case referred to a Constitution Bench to examine the limits of legislative privilege and its interplay with free speech [N Ravi and others v.
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench2d ago
Punjab government has moved the Supreme Court challenging Punjab and Haryana High Court's order directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to register a criminal case to probe allegations...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan2d ago
Banks cannot unilaterally reduce interest on fixed deposits maintained pursuant to court orders without justification, the Delhi High Court recently held [Natwest Vs Hero Exports].
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha2d ago
A Delhi court on Monday night granted bail to 17 students and freelance journalists arrested by the Delhi Police during the protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan3d ago
The Delhi High Court has held that Debts Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) cannot accept written statements beyond 45 days under the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act [Nikhil Podar Vs PNB].
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee3d ago
Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal on Monday urged young women lawyers not to allow circumstances, expectations or others’ doubts to limit their achievements.
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi3d ago
The Bombay High Court on Monday flagged the "complete catch-22 situation" being faced by voters who have changed their residences in the recent past [Paresh Salgaonkar v. State of Goa & Ors.]
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy4d ago
Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday said that any process which disenfranchises millions of Indian citizens is intrinsically arbitrary and a negation of the constitutional order.
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi4d ago
Former Supreme Court Justice Rohinton Nariman recently said that the criticism levelled at the Collegium system of appointing judges to the High Courts and the Supreme Court is not misplaced, and...
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi4d ago
Former Supreme Court Justice Rohinton Nariman has expressed grave concern over the functioning of the Election Commission of India (ECI), particularly large scale voter exclusion and executive...
Bar and Benchby Hiranya Bhandarkar5d ago
The Karnataka High Court recently granted bail to a man accused of tampering with a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report in a case registered over the alleged murder of an ex-army officer...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan5d ago
The Madras High Court recently refused to restrain the release and exploitation of the Ajay Devgn-starrer Hindi version of Drishyam 3 amid claims that production house Rajkumar Theatres Private...
Bar and Benchby Vinod Kumar5d ago
The Election Commission of India (ECI) justifies the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on the ground that it bears a constitutional and statutory duty to maintain accurate...
Bar and Benchby Bhavini Srivastava5d ago
The Delhi High Court recently observed that a woman's father-in-law cannot be made liable in a case filed by her under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (DV Act) merely on the...
Bar and Benchby Shrey Brahmbhatt5d ago
The Supreme Court did not deliver a judgment in Kusumavati Gowda v. Government of Karnataka; it delivered an indictment.
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan5d 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...
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