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A senior citizen NRI’s email was hacked, and Punjab National Bank wired USD 92,420 to Singapore on email instructions alone, without verification or authentication. The Adjudicating Officer held the bank liable for the unrecovered balance, with interest.
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The Court dismissed a special leave petition challenging the Delhi High Court’s order appointing a Sole Arbitrator under Section 11, Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The Court upheld the view that an exclusive jurisdiction clause, in the context of arbitration proceedings, can be construed as indicative of the seat of arbitration.
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The Court directed that all CCTV footage, drone footage, body-worn camera recordings, videography, wireless communication records, and PCR lodge collections related to the students’ protest be preserved.
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The Court modified the impugned condition and directed that an advocate would be permitted to remain at a place from where he could see the respondent but would not be permitted to intervene in the investigation “at any cost”.
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The High Court object of the moratorium is merely to postpone civil debt enforcement and not to shield an accused from criminal accountability arising out of dishonour of cheques.
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The Supreme Court on 24 July 2026 issued interim order prohibiting monetisation, posting, re-posting, uploading, transmitting, modification etc., of recording of judicial proceedings in light of concerns raised by the petitioner over selective circulation of clipped, edited, and decontextualised portions of court hearings on social media platforms.
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The dispute arose after a hotel redevelopment project generated profits from the sale of newly developed properties. While the builders claimed entitlement to a share of those profits under an alleged partnership arrangement, the owners stated that the parties’ relationship was governed solely by a building contract.
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Kerala High Court held that in cases involving child victims, expressions used to describe the act of sexual assault must be interpreted in the factual context rather than through strict anatomical distinctions.
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Delhi High Court ruled that a caste-based insult under Section 3(1)(x), SC/ST Act must occur in a place within public view. Finding this essential ingredient absent, it set aside the charge and remanded the case for consideration under the IPC.
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The Court held that although the expression “arising out of” receives a broad interpretation and compensation proceedings are governed by the standard of preponderance of probabilities, the existence of some link whatsoever between the car, and the death had to be established.
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The Court observes that in absence of a specific procedure followed by the disputants for getting a parking for their flat, they cannot claim any right, interest over the parking slot of their predecessor in title.
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The Court observed that although bail is the rule and jail the exception, and every accused is entitled to the presumption of innocence, the present case stood on a different footing as the earlier orders rejecting the respondent’s bail on merits had attained finality and the trial had already commenced.
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The case arose from a Russian company’s attempt to restrain LCIA arbitration proceedings on the ground that foreign restrictive measures and procedural difficulties had rendered the arbitration agreement incapable of performance.
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Delhi High Court held that OpenAI’s use of ANI’s works for training ChatGPT’s LLMs is prima facie protected under fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act and declined interim injunction.
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The Court directed that directions issued in Rohit Anand Das v. State of Odisha, 2025 SCC OnLine Ori 4535, regarding modification of the APAAR consent form should operate on a pan-India basis.
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The Tribunal clarified that whether a SARFAESI notice amounts to invocation of a personal guarantee depends entirely on the contractual terms governing the guarantee and the language of the demand notice. Courts must examine the substance of the communication rather than its form or the designation assigned to the guarantor.
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Neither a divorce nor a marriage can be conducted through a notarised agreement, the Madhya Pradesh High Court holds, dismissing a family pension claim by a man who could not prove he was ever legally married to a deceased Tribal Affairs Department employee.
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The Court observed that the relief sought by the petitioner seems to be in disguise as it tries to achieve approval indirectly, which it has failed to achieve directly.
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“The Court held that the salary certificate and pay slip, corroborated by the oral testimony of the dependants and co-workers, constitute reliable and corroborative proof of the income of the deceased and cannot be rejected merely on the ground that the author of such documents was not examined.”
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The Allahabad High Court held that the absence of specific casteist words in the FIR did not justify discharge where the Facebook post recovered during investigation and witness statements disclosed a prima facie case against the accused.
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