Pranav Shukla The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday that in criminal cases with multiple accused, partial settlements with some defendants aren’t permissible. This implies that if there’s a compromise with one or a few accused, it can’t automatically Read more
Rehan Khan Kaustubh Shakkarwar, a lawyer and LLM student at OP Jindal Global University, has filed a petition against the university, challenging its decision to fail him for allegedly submitting AI-generated content in an examination. Filed with the Punjab and Read more
Rehan Khan On 22nd October, the Punjab and Haryana High Court took strict action against a lawyer’s clerk for disrupting court proceedings by speaking loudly on his phone. The incident occurred during the hearing of an election petition challenging the Read more
Rehan Khan On 10th September, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that daily wage workers, contractual employees, and ad hoc appointees are entitled to the same pay as their regularly appointed counterparts, provided they perform similar duties. This Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On 28th August 2024, the Punjab and Haryana High Court delivered a strong critique of the antiquated belief that a father is inherently a more suitable guardian for an adult woman, stressing that such a view undermines her Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On 6th August 2024, the Supreme Court took up a suo motu case concerning Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Justice Rajbir Sehrawat’s order, which criticized the Supreme Court for pausing proceedings in a matter pending before his Read more
K Chakra Pani The Punjab and Haryana High Court imposed a cost of ₹1 lakh on the Vice Chancellor (VC) and Registrar of Dr. BR Ambedkar National Law University, Sonipat, for unlawfully repatriating the university’s Deputy Registrar, Dr. Veena Singh, Read more
K Chakra Pani The Punjab and Haryana High Court has clarified that fresh cases can be filed under either the newly enacted criminal laws or the old laws that were repealed on July 1, 2024. The Court has instructed the Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal In one of the initial rulings under the newly enacted Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), the Punjab and Haryana High Court clarified that Section 531 of the BNSS mandates that any pending appeals filed before the BNSS came Read more
Radhika Mittal The Punjab State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Punjab, has raised serious concerns over the rejection of insurance claims on unfounded substantiated grounds by insurance companies. The Commission emphasized the urgent need for the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Read more