A view of Delhi High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 8, 2025) refused to direct the Centre to provide a comprehensive rehabilitation package for migrants from Pakistan who obtained citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. A Bench of acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar … Read more
Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid. FIle | Photo Credit: Imran Nissar A Delhi court on Tuesday (December 24, 2024) refused to pass order on Jammu and Kashmir MP Rashid Engineer’s regular bail application in a terror-funding case. Additional sessions judge (ASJ) Chander Jit Singh dismissed the application … Read more
The concrete road leading to Moodu Maravanthe had got damaged at the junction with the main road in Maravanthe village, Byndoor taluk, Udupi district. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT When the damaged portion at the junction of two main roads leading to Maravanthe village remained unattended for months, a few youth of teamed up to … Read more
SC says this is not a case of passive euthanasia, as the patient, comatose after a multi-storey fall, is not dependent on any external device for life support. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant an aged couple’s plea to allow “passive euthanasia” for their 30-year-old son, who … Read more
The poster of Netflix series Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper The Delhi High Court has refused to impose an interim stay on the release of Netflix series Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper, saying it appeared to be in the genre of comedy and cannot be perceived as derogatory to the profession of chartered accountancy. The high court … Read more
Former Tamil Nadu Special DGP Rajesh Das. File photograph The Madras High Court on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, dismissed a petition filed by former special Director General of Police (DGP) Rajesh Das, seeking exemption from surrendering despite a trial court as well as an appellate court having found him guilty of making sexual advances towards … Read more
The State Bank of India (SBI) has refused to disclose under the Right to Information (RTI) Act the details of the electoral bonds furnished to the Election Commission (EC) of India, claiming that it is personal information held in a fiduciary capacity, even though the records are in the public domain on the poll panel’s … Read more
The Bombay High Court on March 11 refused to issue an interim stay on the formation of a Fact-Check Unit (FCU) by the Union government. A single-judge Bench of Justice A.S. Chandurkar, the tie-breaker judge in the case after a split verdict was delivered by the court on January 31, said “no case was made … Read more
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan (right) with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan (file). | Photo Credit: S. MAHINSHA The Kerala Government has dismissed the petitions on the Kerala Land Assignment (Amendment) Bill forwarded by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan as “speculative ones” which cannot be entertained. The Kerala Government made its position clear to the Governor in … Read more
A view of the Madras High Court. File The Madras High Court on Wednesday refused to issue a direction to the Tamil Nadu government to conduct a caste-wise census. The court disposed of a public interest litigation petition which sought this direction, with liberty to the litigant, to pursue a representation made by him in … Read more