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Justices on a Division Bench A While it may be important to follow the principles of adversarial litigation when dealing with family disputes, Muhammed Mustaque and Sophy Thomas argue that this does not preclude the judge from using an inquisitorial paradigm to
An ex-parte temporary order was recently issued by an Additional City Civil Court in Bengaluru, directing Google India to keep an ex-Gmail employee’s account, as well as all of its data, until the next date of hearing. The plaintiff had shown a
[Rohit Kumar v. State of UT Chandigarh] The Punjab & Haryana High Court recently noted the legal void governing live-in relationships and requested a response from the Central government on measures taken to prevent adolescents with impressionable minds from living together. When
A full bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee, Justices HS Thangkhiew and W Diengdoh proposed that an independent committee be formed to carry out the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) and Supreme Court’s directives and recommendations in the matter. “District Magistrates, Sub-Divisional Officers,
The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) was fined by the Supreme Court on Monday for submitting a complaint against state-owned oil marketing companies raising the price of bulk fuel. S Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari, on behalf of a bench of
The scope and ambit of Section 319 of the Code have been well settled by the Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench in the case of Hardeep Singh v. State of Punjab and others, according to a Division Bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and
A man has filed a petition in the Supreme Court alleging that his wife cheated him by having male genital organs, which prevented the marriage from being completed. The Madhya Pradesh High Court had quashed a cheating case filed by the husband
The Madras High Court, in Rangarajan Narasimhan v. The Additional Chief Secretary to Government, refused to issue general directions to all temples to put up sign boards prescribing a dress code, reasoning that it was not for the courts to venture into
The Delhi High Court refused to halt the Delhi Government’s decree prohibiting any discount or rebate on the sale of liquor in the national capital. Justice V Kameswar Rao, who had reserved the order on Monday, issued it. The petition had requested