Aastha Pareek The Jharkhand High Court on December 18, 2024, held two police officials guilty of criminal contempt for unlawfully arresting two employees of Instakart, a Flipkart subsidiary, in violation of Supreme Court guidelines laid down in Arnesh Kumar v. Read more
Alok Singh The Delhi High Court on 12th December 2024, passed an order directing the Government of NCT Delhi (GNCTD) to complete the appointment of vacant non-official members for the State Mental Health Authority (SMHA) without delay. The Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vibhu Read more
Aastha Pareek The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a directive to media outlets, requesting them to avoid mentioning the names of judges while reporting on the Court proceedings, orders, and judgments, especially in ‘sensitive cases’. This request was Read more
Alok Singh The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) presented a report before the Delhi High Court before a division bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Amit Sharma perused the report while hearing a Habeas Corpus petition. The report Read more
Aastha Pareek The Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 17 (Tuesday), ruled that litigants do not have an absolute right to represent themselves as a party-in-person before the Court. Justice Sumeet Goel clarified that the discretion to allow such Read more
Alok Singh The Delhi High Court is set to examine source articles published by The Caravan and The Ken that allegedly served as the basis for contentious edits to Asian News International’s (ANI) Wikipedia page. ANI had filed a defamation suit against Wikipedia, alleging Read more
Alok Singh The Punjab and Haryana High Court, on 18 December, 2024, examined concerns surrounding a concert by singer Diljit Dosanjh in Chandigarh, where the noise levels reportedly exceeded permissible limits set under the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, Read more
Alok Singh In People for Ethical Treatment to Animals (PETA India) v. State of Assam and Others, the Gauhati High Court, on December 17, 2024, completely banned Buffalo fights and Bulbuli (Bulbul) bird fights in the State of Assam. While putting Read more
Aastha Pareek The Supreme Court of India has recently agreed to examine a significant issue concerning the enrolment of correspondence degree graduates as advocates. The matter arose in the case of STS Gladies v. Bar Council of India and Another, where Read more
Alok Singh The Supreme Court, on its November 25, 2024 order in Dushyant Mainali v. Diwan Singh Bora & Anr., expunged the adverse remarks made by the Uttarakhand High Court judge, Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma, against a lawyer in an order passed in Read more