Court News Updates

The Delhi High Court has recently ruled that it is a father’s duty to maintain his daughters and take responsibility of their education as well as their marriage irrespective of the fact that the daughters employed and earning well and have attained majority.

The Supreme Court has on Monday upheld the Bombay High Court decision to grant bail to Deepak Kochhar, the husband of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, in the ICICI Bank-Videocon scam case.

The Allahabad High Court has granted conditional bail to a man arrested with 526 kg ganja and ordered his release. A single-judge bench of Justice Saurabh Lavania passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Omprakash Jhaba.

Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.M. Sundresh, while stating that the petition was nothing but a publicity stunt, held that a chosen government was in place to do the needful in this matter.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has recently imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on a petitioner while dismissing his PIL contending that certain beneficiaries have given false affidavits and are siphoning off public money and have been given benefit under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in District Burhanpur.

The Bombay High Court has recently issued notice on a PIL drawing attention to the neglect of destitute senior citizens, who are mainly living on the streets, by the state government and the Central ...

A bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana said that it will later pass a detailed order in this regard.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the constitution of an independent inquiry committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate the security breach that occurred during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Punjab on January 5. The Supreme Court will release the names of the chairman and other officers in a detailed order.

The Supreme Court today agreed to urgently hear a PIL seeking its intervention in the matter pertaining to hate speeches delivered in December last year in  Haridwar by one Yati Narsinghanand and the other in Delhi by Hindu Yuva Vahini.

The Supreme Court has observed that a mere “common intention” per se may not attract Section 34 IPC, sans an action in “furtherance”. It stated, “When we speak of intention it has to be one of crimin...