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Advocate Forced To Litigate For Fees, Paid After 15-Year Delay By State
A woman advocate practicing for almost 32 years at the Rajasthan High Court, received her professional fees for acting as advocate for the National Rural Health Mission (“NRHM”) in 84 petitions, only after 15 years, upon filing a legal case against the State. The petitioner was engaged by NRHM in 2010 as its advocate for appearing in a bunch of 84 petitions which were decided by the Court...
Kerala High Court Seeks State's Stand In Plea Challenging Appointment Of Ex-CM VS Achuthanandan's Son As IHRD Director
A plea has been filed before the Kerala High Court challenging the appointment of Dr. V.A. Arun Kumar as the Director In-Charge of the Institute of Human Resources Development. Dr. Arun Kumar is the son of the late former Chief Minister V.S. Achuthananthan.This is the second such plea challenging his appointment. The petition is filed by Dr. Vinu Thomas, Dean (Academic) and Controller...
Allahabad High Court Grants Bail To Tamil Nadu Resident Accused Of Unlawful Conversion Of Over 60 People In Mirzapur
The Allahabad High Court last week granted bail to a Tamil Nadu resident (Dev Sahayam Deniyal Raj) in a case involving alleged unlawful religious conversion in Mirzapur. UP Police has claimed that Deniyal was the gang leader who lured people into converting, and his gang has so far converted 70 people and was planning to convert 500 more when he was arrested in September last...
Gujarat High Court Monthly Digest: January 2026
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 1 to 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 31NOMINAL INDEXMilacron India Private Limited v/s The Assessment Unit, Income Tax Department & Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 1Shree Ukai Pradesh Sahakari Khand Udyog Mandali Ltd. Union of India & Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 2Swagat Infrastructure Private Limited v/s The Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax Central Circle 1(4), Ahmedabad 2026...
'Manifestly Unreasonable, Arbitrary': Delhi High Court Strikes Down Blanket Ban On Migration Of MBBS Students
The Delhi High Court has quashed Regulation 18 of the Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023, which imposed a complete prohibition on migration of MBBS students from one medical college to another.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said that Regulation 18 did not pass the constitutional muster as per Article 14 of the Constitution...
Kerala High Court Mulls Introduction Of Spot Booking Passes & Virtual Queue For Monthly Poojas In Sabarimala
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (February 4) mulled introducing a virtual queue or spot booking system for permitting devotees into Sabarimala temple for monthly poojas.The Division Bench comprising Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar referred to an earlier order in another suo motu petition, wherein the Chief Coordinator of the police team and the Travancore...
Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Stay On Netflix Show 'Ghooskhor Pandat', Alleges Collective Defamation Of Brahmin Community
A plea has been filed before the Delhi High Court challenging the proposed release of a Netflix show “Ghooskhor Pandat”. Filed by one Mahender Chaturvedi, who claims to be an Acharya by vocation, the plea alleges that the title and promotional material of the show are defamatory, communally offensive and violative of fundamental rights.The writ petition has been filed against the Union...
Trader Storing Any Item In Refrigerator Is Not Manufacturing Process, Doesn't Make Its Premises A Factory: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court recently held that merely storing or preserving any item in a cold storage or more particularly a refrigerator would not amount to 'manufacturing process' and would thus not make a premise where such preserving and storing is taking place, a factory under the Factories Act.Single-judge Justice Jitendra Jain delivered the ruling while disposing of a first appeal filed by...
Pay Fixation Claim Raised Decades Later After Retirement Barred By Delay & Laches: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed a plea seeking refixation of pay and consequential retiral benefits, holding that a claim raised decades after the alleged cause of action and nearly seven years after retirement is barred by delay and laches.Justice Harpreet Singh Brar noted, "the petitioner has approached this Court after a considerable lapse of time. The alleged wrong...
Mere Allegation Of Influence Of Local Lawyer No Ground For Transfer Of Case: Punjab & Haryana High Court
While dismissing a plea for transfer of case from one district to another, the Punjab & Haryana High Court made it clear that the applicant has to pin point the circumstances, under which, he gathers impression that justice will not be done, mere apprehension against a lawyer is not sufficient.The transfer plea was filed on the ground that respondent is a local advocate in the same...
'Violative Of Woman's Dignity U/Art 21': Allahabad High Court Rebukes Advocate Over Character Assassination Of Rape Victim
The Allahabad High Court last week castigated an advocate for attempting to portray a rape survivor as a "woman of easy virtue" and warned him to exercise due care and restraint in the manner of making submissions before the Court. A bench of Justice Anil Kumar-X observed that filing such pleadings, which contain scandalous allegations questioning the character and dignity of a...
'Victim's Evidence Inconsistent, Untrustworthy': Karnataka High Court Upholds Acquittal Of Accused In POCSO Case
The Karnataka High Court upheld a trial court order acquitting two men accused of sexually assaulting a girl who was stated to be a minor, observing that the victim's evidence was inconsistent and not trustworthy. The trial court had acquitted the two accused who were earlier booked under Sections 4(Punishment for penetrative sexual assault), 7(Sexual assault), 8(punishment for sexual...