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Man acquitted in 26/11 terror case denied police clearance considering national security: HC

Man acquitted in 26/11 terror case denied police clearance considering national security: HC

Ansari filed the plea in January last year, seeking the police clearance certificate for the purpose of securing a publi...

Madras High Court Grants Interim Injunction to Reliance Industries Against Unlawful Broadcast of Cinematographic Film

Madras High Court Grants Interim Injunction to Reliance Industries Against Unlawful Broadcast of Cinematographic Film

Court Orders Indemnification to Protect Legitimate Business Interests Amidst Apprehended Copyright Infringement ...

Telangana High Court Quashes Reopening of Assessment Against Piramal Swasthya

Telangana High Court Quashes Reopening of Assessment Against Piramal Swasthya

Court rules that audit objections cannot justify reopening assessments when issues were previously examined and accepted...

WB polls: Plea filed in HC claiming only central govt employees deputed as counting supervisors

WB polls: Plea filed in HC claiming only central govt employees deputed as counting supervisors

Banerjee, who is also a Trinamool Congress MP, claimed that state government employees were requisitioned for polling du...

 Gujarat High Court Upholds Compensation for Railway Accident Victim

Gujarat High Court Upholds Compensation for Railway Accident Victim

Court dismisses Railways' appeal, emphasizes welfare statutes in compensation claims...

Gujarat High Court Quashes FIR: Consensual Relations Misused for Extortion

Gujarat High Court Quashes FIR: Consensual Relations Misused for Extortion

FIR alleging rape and intimidation deemed a honey trap; court finds no prima facie case against accused....

Bhojshala complex registered as 'mosque' in old revenue records: Muslim side to MP HC

Bhojshala complex registered as 'mosque' in old revenue records: Muslim side to MP HC

Moinuddin's lawyer, Sheikh, claimed in the court that his client's ancestors, who are descended of Maulana Kamaluddin Ch...

HC grants bail to Punjab YouTuber arrested on charges of spying for Pak ISI

HC grants bail to Punjab YouTuber arrested on charges of spying for Pak ISI

The court observed that the state counsel was not in a position to dispute that the petitioner operated a YouTube channe...

HC refuses to entertain plea on Sahara Shahar land lease

HC refuses to entertain plea on Sahara Shahar land lease

The petitioner submitted that an arbitration order had been passed in its favour regarding this land on September 2, 201...

Rajasthan HC bars construction, unregulated tourism activities in Jawai leopard reserve

Rajasthan HC bars construction, unregulated tourism activities in Jawai leopard reserve

The court also directed the immediate implementation of a draft set of standard operating procedures (SOPs) governing sa...

Rajasthan HC extends rape convict Asaram’s interim bail till May 25 on medical grounds

Rajasthan HC extends rape convict Asaram’s interim bail till May 25 on medical grounds

The Rajasthan High Court’s October order granting Asaram interim bail was followed by a similar six-month interim relief...

Delhi HC refuses to entertain PIL seeking reservation for terror attack survivors, victims’ kin

Delhi HC refuses to entertain PIL seeking reservation for terror attack survivors, victims’ kin

All the prayers made in the writ lie in the realm of policy decision, which is primarily the reserve and prerogative of ...

Two-judge Allahabad HC bench differ in opinion on NHRC order for inquiry into 558 madrassas

Two-judge Allahabad HC bench differ in opinion on NHRC order for inquiry into 558 madrassas

The NHRC had passed the order after hearing a complaint filed by Mohammad Talha Ansari alleging that 558 madrassas were ...

Obscene content played during virtual hearing disrupts Delhi HC proceedings

Obscene content played during virtual hearing disrupts Delhi HC proceedings

Virtual proceedings in the chief justice's court were disrupted thrice in the pre-lunch session when a participant under...

HC expresses displeasure over Delhi govt's failure to fill vacant posts in DCPCR

HC expresses displeasure over Delhi govt's failure to fill vacant posts in DCPCR

While enacting the law, you blow trumpets. The Juvenile Justice Act was enacted when? Eleven years and we are still stru...

Dabholkar murder: HC grants bail to convict Sharad Kalaskar, raises doubt whether he was shooter

Dabholkar murder: HC grants bail to convict Sharad Kalaskar, raises doubt whether he was shooter

Kalaskar, who is also facing trial for the killing of communist leader Govind Pansare, was granted bail by the high cour...

After Kejriwal and Sisodia, AAP's Durgesh Pathak refuses to appear before Justice Kanta Sharma

After Kejriwal and Sisodia, AAP's Durgesh Pathak refuses to appear before Justice Kanta Sharma

He requested that the letter be taken on record and that the proceedings be conducted in a manner the court considers ap...

Excise case: Delhi HC lists CBI plea against discharge of Kejriwal, Sisodia for hearing on May 4

Excise case: Delhi HC lists CBI plea against discharge of Kejriwal, Sisodia for hearing on May 4

They claimed that the judge's children are empanelled central government lawyers who receive work through solicitor gene...

Narendra Dabholkar murder case: Bombay HC grants bail to convict Sharad Kalaskar

Narendra Dabholkar murder case: Bombay HC grants bail to convict Sharad Kalaskar

Dabholkar's murder was the first in a chain of similar killings of three other rationalists and activists -- Govind Pans...

HC dismisses plea of man acquitted in 26/11 terror case for police clearance to ply autorickshaw

HC dismisses plea of man acquitted in 26/11 terror case for police clearance to ply autorickshaw

Thereafter, he got a job at a printing press in Mumbra in the neighbouring Thane district. However, since the income was...

Madras HC orders CBI probe into 'irregularities' in purchase of transformers in TN

Madras HC orders CBI probe into 'irregularities' in purchase of transformers in TN

Ordering the CBI to conduct a fresh investigation into this matter, the judges directed the Directorate of Vigilance and...

Day after adjourning defamation suit to 2046, HC modifies order; posts hearing in July 2026

Day after adjourning defamation suit to 2046, HC modifies order; posts hearing in July 2026

Desai sought Rs 20 crore as damages claiming that the communications of the society were defamatory, causing them mental...

HC issues fresh notice to Kejriwal on ED plea against acquittal in summons cases

HC issues fresh notice to Kejriwal on ED plea against acquittal in summons cases

Kejriwal is presently on interim bail in the money laundering case, with the Supreme Court referring questions on the as...

Andhra Pradesh High Court Accepts Unconditional Apology from Government Officials in Contempt Case

Andhra Pradesh High Court Accepts Unconditional Apology from Government Officials in Contempt Case

Senior officials escape fine after delay in complying with court orders, highlighting concerns over bureaucratic complia...

Approve maternity leave for third pregnancy: HC to TN govt

Approve maternity leave for third pregnancy: HC to TN govt

The court said that even though Sub-Section (3) of Section 5 of the Central Act 53 of 1961 was quoted as a reason for re...

Himachal Pradesh High Court Upholds Dismissal of Writ Petition in Temple Dispute

Himachal Pradesh High Court Upholds Dismissal of Writ Petition in Temple Dispute

Court Denies Withdrawal of Petition at Appellate Stage, Citing Constructive Res Judicata and Limitations...

Chhattisgarh High Court Invalidates Transfer of Electoral Officer Without Election Commission's Nod

Chhattisgarh High Court Invalidates Transfer of Electoral Officer Without Election Commission's Nod

Court Upholds Statutory Mandate Under Representation of the People Act, Affirms Single Judge's Order...

Madras High Court Upholds Ancestral Property Rights in Landmark Partition Case

Madras High Court Upholds Ancestral Property Rights in Landmark Partition Case

Plaintiff's share increased from 1/7th to 1/6th, affirming coparcenary rights post-2005 amendment to Hindu Succession Ac...

Dhar State court declared Bhojshala a 'mosque' in 1935, Muslim side claims in MP HC

Dhar State court declared Bhojshala a 'mosque' in 1935, Muslim side claims in MP HC

The senior advocate claimed that this "Ailaan" declared the disputed Bhojshala complex as a "mosque" and stipulated that...

"Ego fight" between parties, says HC, adjourns hearing on defamation suit to 2046!

"Ego fight" between parties, says HC, adjourns hearing on defamation suit to 2046!

The HC noted that this was one of the matters where the "ego fight" between the parties at the fag end of their lives "c...

HC seeks Rajasthan govt's response on delay in appointing sanitation workers

HC seeks Rajasthan govt's response on delay in appointing sanitation workers

It sought clarification on why appointments were made in municipalities such as Rajakhera (Dholpur), Kota, Rajsamand, To...

Allahabad HC says 'kinnar' community not entitled to seek 'badhai'

Allahabad HC says 'kinnar' community not entitled to seek 'badhai'

The petitioner sought to earmark an area from Kati Ka Pul in Jarwal town to Ghaghra Ghat and up to Saryu Bridge in Colon...

Kerala High Court takes case against hartal violence

Kerala High Court takes case against hartal violence

Students who were supposed to appear for the Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE), ...

HC raps authorities for 'eyewash' approach against illegal hawkers

HC raps authorities for 'eyewash' approach against illegal hawkers

"What you do is a complete eyewash. Every time we ask something, you just read out earlier orders. Don't read and tell u...

Jharkhand HC rejects bail plea of suspended IAS officer Vinay Choubey

Jharkhand HC rejects bail plea of suspended IAS officer Vinay Choubey

He is also an accused in the multi-crore liquor scam in which he has already been granted bail by a lower court for non-...

Delhi HC permits candidate declared ineligible to write JEE Advanced 2026

Delhi HC permits candidate declared ineligible to write JEE Advanced 2026

The petitioner stated that although he promptly communicated his unwillingness to join IIT Guwahati, the organising auth...