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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bom HC | “Black sheep are found in all walks of life and in all spheres”: HC issues directions to executive in light of upholding the rights of citizens

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of Ravindra V. Ghuge and Shrikant D. Kulkarni, JJ., while addressing the instant PIL, observed that,

Published on August 21, 2020October 3, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Sushant Singh Rajput death | Bom HC defers hearing till 21st August, 2020 on plea seeking CBI investigation

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Dipankar Datta, CJ, and A.S. Gadkari, JJ., deferred the hearing for PIL’s filed in view of

Published on August 8, 2020August 14, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Del HC | Advocates are capable enough to approach Court, if aggrieved: Plea for non-inclusion of advocates as “Professionals” under MSME Act dismissed

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of D.N. Patel, CJ and Prateek Jalan, J., held that as and when any advocate approaches the

Published on July 30, 2020August 14, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Guj HC | Virtual Streaming of Court proceedings to be decided after Judge’s report to work out modalities in view of facilitating public at large

Gujarat High Court: A Division Bench of Vikram Nath, CJ and P.B. Pardiwala, J., while addressing an issue with regard to the live

Published on July 28, 2020August 7, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

TN Custodial Deaths | Madras HC | Suo motu cognizance of “Jayaraj & Bennicks” matter already taken on Judicial side; PIL seeking registration of FIR against police excesses — closed

Madras High Court: A Division Bench of M. Sathyanarayanan and P. Rajamanickam, JJ., while stating that it has already on the Judicial side

Published on July 20, 2020July 24, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Del HC | Deduction of 1 day’s salary not harsh or inadequate in view of pandemic: Petition challenging deduction for contribution to PM CARES rejected

Delhi High Court: A Division bench of Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula, JJ. while addressing the present petition stated that, wouldn’t a ‘stone

Published on June 17, 2020October 3, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

PIL seeks ban on sale of Coca cola, Thums Up; SC imposes fine of Rs. 5 Lakhs for abuse of process

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi, JJ has imposed a fine of Rs 5,00,000

Published on June 11, 2020June 19, 2020By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Breaking | Direction sought for PM-CARES Fund to reveal money received and other details on its website; PIL filed in Delhi HC

Direction sought for PM-CARES Fund to reveal money received and other details on its website. As reported by ANI, A Public Interest

Published on June 4, 2020October 3, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

All HC | PIL seeking social distancing and proper sanitisation in UP jails to protect fundamental rights of inmates: State to file affidavit

Allahabad High Court: A Division Bench of Anil Kumar and Manish Mathur, JJ.,took cognizance of the Public Interest Litigation petition filed seeking enforcing

Published on June 2, 2020October 3, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP HC | M.P. Government’s Order prohibiting disclosure of identity of Covid-19 positive patients, upheld

Madhya Pradesh High Court: While deciding the instant matter wherein the petitioner sought the quashment of order dated 19-5-2020 issued by the

Published on May 30, 2020October 3, 2023By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Cal HC | “Responsible journalism includes exclusion of irresponsible reporting”; Court advices those in need of information to access HC website

Calcutta High Court: A Division Bench of Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan, CJ and Arijit Banerjee, J., while addressing a petition stated that responsible journalism

Published on May 1, 2020May 8, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Gau HC | “Make atleast 2 testing labs functional, provide PPEs, identify ICU facilities, etc.”: Court gives directions to State for tackling COVID-19

Gauhati High Court: A Division Bench of Songkhupchung Serto and S. Hukato Swu, JJ. gave certain limited directions to the State Government

Published on April 30, 2020May 8, 2020By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Guj HC | PUBG Ban | Rajkot Police Commissioner lifts ban on PUBG after High Court orders filing of affidavit in a PIL filed by Law student

Gujarat High Court: A Bench of Anant S. Dave, Acting CJ and Biren Vaishnav, J. disposed of a public interest litigation that challenged

Published on May 17, 2019May 17, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Raj HC | Petitioner directed to approach District Collector in PIL concerning encroachment causing hardship

Rajasthan High Court: The Bench of Mohammad Rafiq and Goverdhan Bardhar, JJ. disposed of a petition with the direction to the petitioner

Published on February 15, 2019February 18, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Sinister act of wife seeking remedy through PIL to foster personal vendetta against husband not in public interest: Karnataka HC

Karnataka High Court: A Division Bench comprising of Dinesh Maheshwari, CJ and S. Sujatha, JJ. dismissed a PIL and condemned the act

Published on December 4, 2018December 4, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Karnataka HC declines to entertain PIL pertaining to encroachments on public roads holding that the same required determination of questions of fact

Karnataka High Court: A Division bench comprising of Dinesh Maheswari and S.G. Pandit, JJ. while hearing a civil writ petition declined to

Published on November 1, 2018November 5, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Petition dismissed as issue raised beyond the scope of Public Interest Litigation: Punjab and Haryana High Court

Punjab and Haryana High Court: The petition was filed before Krishna Murari, CJ. and Arun Palli, J., praying that the State Government

Published on October 6, 2018October 12, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bombay HC allows PIL against illegal felling of trees in light of the “Tree Act”

Bombay High Court: In an highly structured and ornate decision concerning the deficiencies of the Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of

Published on June 1, 2018By Saba
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Newspaper reports cannot be basis of filing PIL, party must do adequate research before approaching court

Calcutta High Court: Public Interest Litigations (PILs) were filed for a direction to the authorities to take appropriate measures for combating the

Published on December 7, 2017By Saba
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NUJS students, who obtained stay against demolition of Subhas Sarovar slums, assaulted

In an unfortunate incident that took place last night, six NUJS students were groped and brutally assaulted by a mob of goons

Published on September 11, 2017September 11, 2017By Prachi Bhardwaj
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