The Calcutta High Court has held that an inordinate delay in filing a First Information Report would necessitate a preliminary inquiry prior to arrest and investigation.
An application has been filed by four advocates in the Supreme Court seeking intervention in a special leave petition filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay against an order of the Delhi High Court that dismissed his plea to control the population explosion in India.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court granted anticipatory bail to Sandeep Singh, personal secretary to Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra, considering that Singh was just a messenger for a letter from the party offering 1,000 buses to transport stranded workers.
Today, the High Court of Karnataka has quashed the criminal cases against nine foreign nationals belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat on the condition that they immediately leave the country, following an undertaking that they won’t visit India again in the next 10 years and pay the fine.
The Delhi High Court has directed the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and the tree Officer to remove unauthorized construction and concrete around an old banyan tree in the Chandni Chowk area of Old Delhi.
Judges across the country seem to be imposing some peculiar conditions on bail applicants—however beneficial or good-intentioned. Are such conditions actually legal?
The Delhi High Court has said that a July 8 circular issued by the Delhi Police crime branch chief, related to the investigation into the Delhi riots which took place in February, did not cause prejudice to any community. The court also refused to quash the circular.
A petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court challenging the Central government’s order excluding masks and sanitisers from the essential commodities list.
The Allahabad High Court has asked the Centre and the state governments to file a reply on a petition demanding the release of Dr Kafeel Khan, jailed under NSA for allegedly making inflammatory speeches during CAA protests.