Court News Updates

The Karnataka High Court has sent an Additional District and Sessions Judge of Mysuru, who granted bail to a dowry death accused, to the Judicial Academy for training, so that he could apply judicious thought process and exercise judicial discretion in future, before granting bail in heinous offences such as dowry death.

The Karnataka government on Friday told the High Court that preventing a person from wearing hijab did not amount to violation of religious freedom of a person, since wearing hijab was not an essenti...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea challenging bail granted to a man by the High Court accused in a case of cheating and under various other sections of the Indian Penal Code on account of overcr...

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to consider lifting the freeze on fee hike in private schools.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to quash FIRs registered over the use of firecrackers during Diwali.

The Rajasthan High Court has recently observed that unless the decision is shown to be malafide or opposed to legal principles, the Court would not substitute its wisdom or desire for that of the authority.

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned till March 9, hearing on a petition filed by Advocate Manohar Lal Sharma, seeking direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to register an FIR and probe the duty evasion by 61 companies for allegedly 'smuggling' iron ore to China since 2015.

The State of Uttar Pradesh on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it has withdrawn 274 notices issued to Anti-CAA protestors in 2019 for recovery of damages done to public property and proceedings initiated against them, during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed NRC.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that sought the removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. The PIL was filed by lawyer Rama Prasad Sarkar seek...

In this case, On behalf of the prosecution, the Allahabad High Court had demanded the death penalty for all the culprits. At the same time, the defense had appealed at least the punishment in the court.