Supreme Court
Supreme Court: High Courts Cannot Grant “No Arrest Till Cognizance” Protection While Refusing to Quash FIRs
SC: Passport Cannot Be Denied Merely Because Criminal Cases Are Pending When Jurisdictional Courts Permit Renewal
Supreme Court appoints Court-monitored committee to revive Supertech’s ‘Supernova’ project
Allahabad High Court
Chanting “Gustakh-e-nabi ki ek saja, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda” Not Only Punishable under S.152 BNS, but Also Against Basic Tenets of Islam: Allahabad HC
Allahabad HC Discards Deeming Fiction For Constructive Service Under Sec 169(1) CGST Act If SCN/ Orders Are Available On Common Portal Or Sent Via Email
‘Mere Expression of Intention by State to Withdraw Prosecution Case Does Not Bind Court or Dilute Requirement of Independent Scrutiny’: Allahabad HC
Bombay High Court
Bombay HC: Cenvat Credit Availed By Dish TV On Clearance Of Smart Card To Set Top Box Manufacturer Is Not Liable For Reversal
Bombay HC Upholds Arbitral Award Against HPCL For Terminating Depot Contract; Slashes to ?25 Lakh
Degree Of Burns By Itself Is Not Decisive Of Credibility Of Dying Declaration; Bombay HC Upholds Conviction In Dowry Death Case
Bombay HC: 240 Days Continuous Service In Calendar Year Will Not Entitle Workmen To Regularisation Benefit, Absent Sanctioned Vacant Posts
‘No Pre-Emptory Right Is Vested in Any Person to Get a Particular Plot’: Bombay HC Rejects Challenge to MIDC Plot Allotment
Mere Presence at Seminar Not Enough to Attract Criminal Liability; Bombay HC Quashes FIR in ?50 Crore Crypto-based Investment Scam
“State is Expected to be a Model Instrument and Agency for Adequately Compensating the Sufferers of Compulsory Land Acquisition”: Bombay HC
Collective Interest Of Community May Outweigh Personal Liberty; Bombay HC Refuses Bail As Maximum Sentence For Offence Is Life Imprisonment/ Death
Palghar Lynchying Case: Bombay HC Denies Bail to 3 Accused, Holds Parity Cannot Apply Where Overt Acts Are Attributed
Mere Delay in Pronouncement is Not a Ground to Set Aside an Award; Bombay HC Upholds ?43 Crore Arbitral Award
State Govt. Erred In Purposive Interpretation Of Rule 10(6) Of Mineral (Auction) Rules, 2015; Bombay HC Extends Mining Lease To Dalmia Cement
Bombay High Court Quashes MPCB Circular on Area Allocation for Hazardous Waste Pre-Processing
‘Mere Acceptance of Bribe is Not Sufficient Unless Demand is Proved’: Bombay HC Acquits Executive Engineer in Bribe Case
Calcutta High Court
NCLT Has Declined Waiver Of Transfer Fees For Leasehold Rights, Based On Resolution Plan; Calcutta HC Refuses To Invoke Principle Of ‘Clean Slate’
Calcutta HC Flags Prima Facie Discrimination in IndiaMART’s Exclusion From ChatGPT Search Results; Matter Listed for January 2026
Delhi High Court
Cheques Dishonoured as “ACCOUNT BLOCKED” During CIRP Don’t Attract Section 138; Delhi HC Quashes NI Act Proceedings Against Directors
CBI Corruption Case: Delhi High Court Grants Bail to accused; Questions Selective Arrest
No Appeal Lies Against Orders Not Enlisted Under Order XLIII CPC Under Commercial Courts Act: Delhi HC
‘Every Advocate Defending His Client Will Have Knowledge of Case, This Cannot Make Every Lawyer a Witness’: Delhi HC Stays Notice by CBI
Delhi High Court Allows ITC to Seek Limited Interrogatories in Trademark Infringement Suit Against DAV Industries
Sec 311 CrPC Can’t Be Misused To Derail Proceedings Or Cause Prejudice To Complainant; Delhi HC Refuses To Summon Additional Record
Delhi HC: Worker Employed Through Contractor is Not an Employee, Must Satisfy “Triple Test” To Show Employer-Employee Relationship
Delhi High Court to Hear Plea Challenging Ban on Entry of Outstation BS-IV Vehicles in January
100% Interview-Based Selection Arbitrary; Delhi High Court Sets Aside PwD Assistant Professor Recruitment at NIEPA
‘Harm in False Sexual Offence Case Cannot be Undone Merely by Order of Discharge or Sympathetic Words’; Delhi HC Issues Directions for Recovery of Victim Compensation
Arbitrator Misdirected Himself, Returned Extraneous Findings: Delhi HC Upholds Setting Aside Of Arbitral Award
Tax Evasion Above ₹25 Lakh: CCIT/DGIT Collegium Lacks Power to Sanction Prosecution Under Section 276C: Delhi HC
Delhi High Court Issues Contempt Notice to LAC and DDA Vice Chairman Over Non-Payment of Land Acquisition Compensation
Delhi High Court Upholds Coal India’s Decision to Phase Out Ex-Servicemen Coal Transportation Scheme
Delhi High Court Dismisses Appeals Against Framing of Charges in NIA Kashmir Terror-Funding Case as Not Maintainable
Delhi HC Directs Arbitral Tribunal to Decide Objections under S. 16 of the A&C Act After Recording Complete Evidence in Matter Against Hero Motocorp Limited
Delhi HC Upholds Interim Injunction in ‘HP’ Trademark Dispute; Calls Defendant a “Rank Infringer”
Delhi High Court Issues Interim Directions Against Unauthorised Use of Pawan Kalyan’s Name, Image and Voice; Lists Matter for May 2026
Family Mutation Dispute Cannot Be Criminalised as Cheating or Forgery; Delhi HC Quashes Cheating and Forgery Case
DNR Profiteered From Infringement, Must Disclose Registrant & Suspend Domains; Delhi HC Grants Dynamic+ Interim Injunction To Protect COLGATE
Cheque Dishonour Offence is Composite; Liability Not Confined to Date of Dishonour: Delhi High Court
Delhi High Court Grants Dynamic+ Interim Injunction in Dabur Case; Issues Sweeping Directions to Curb Trademark Abuse and Online Financial Frauds
Delhi HC Orders Reasonable Gap Between Medical and Review Exams in Armed Forces Selection
Delhi HC: Sec 2(2) Arbitration Act Bar Supervisory Jurisdiction Of Indian Courts If Designated Seat Is Outside India
Delhi High Court Grants Interim Injunction to Allcargo Logistics Against Use of ‘VRS ALLCARGO’; Matter Listed for March 2026
Delhi High Court: Appeal Under Section 37 A&C Act Maintainable Even If Section 34 Plea Dismissed on Technical Grounds
Use of ICC Trademark Was Not Merely Incidental to Advertising; Delhi HC Upholds Withholding Tax on Royalty Component of Sponsorship Payments
Delhi HC Grants Ad-Interim Injunction to Jr NTR Against Unauthorised Sale of Merchandise and Misuse of Personality Rights
Gujarat High Court
Gujarat HC: Sale Of Unprocessed Tobacco Into Small Pouches Of ‘Chewing Tobacco’ Amounts To ‘Manufacture’, Post Transition To GST Regime
J&K and Ladakh High Court
‘PIL Cannot be Utilised as Instrument for Political Agendas or Transforming Court into Political Platform’; J&K and Ladakh HC Dismissed Mehbooba Mufti’s Plea
‘Child who is Neither Neglected nor Exploited is Not Child in Need of Care and Protection’; J&K and Ladakh HC Sets Aside Order by Child Welfare Committee
Kerala High Court
Kerala High Court Quashes State Approval for ?600-Crore Ethanol & Liquor Unit in Palakkad Over Flawed Water Availability Assessment
Madhya Pradesh High Court
SLSA Bound by NLSA’s 2022 Scheme; MP High Court Quashes SOP Mandating Fresh Selection of Legal Aid Defence Counsels
Orissa High Court
If Presence Of Suspect Is Necessary, Resulting Restraint Cannot Be Treated As Arrest; Orissa HC Upholds Detention By NCB During Seizure Of LSDs
Telangana High Court
Earning From Tissue Culture Operations Of Plants Qualifies As Agricultural Income; Telangana HC Allows Exemption Under Sec 10(1) To Biotech Lab
J&K&L High Court
J&K&L HC: Dharmarth Trust is “Industry” Under ID Act, Upholds Safai Karamchari’s Reinstatement and 50% Back Wages
Tribunals
Flipkart’s New Logistics Model Qualifies As ‘Goods Transport Agency Service’; West Bengal AAR Allows GST Exemption If Provided To Unregistered Customers
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Cement Packing Has Direct Nexus To Manufacturing Activity Under ‘Works Service Contract’; Bangalore CESTAT Allows CENVAT Credit To Zuari Cement
Chandigarh CESTAT: Revenue-Sharing Arrangements Between Hospitals And Diagnostic Service Providers Are Exempt From Service Tax
Addition/Removal Of Minerals Did Not Convert Packaged Potable Water Into ‘Mineral Water’; Chennai CESTAT Quashes MRP-Based Assessment Of Holy Aqua
Person Who Mortgages Property As Collateral Security Can’t Be Treated As Financial Creditor Of Borrower; Hyderabad NCLT Rejects Sec 7 IBC Petition
NCLT Chandigarh Approves Scheme of Amalgamation of Redbus India with MakeMyTrip
Whether DRT’s Exclusivity For Debt Recovery Ousts Authority Under Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act? Bombay HC Calls Larger Bench To Decide
Transaction Value cannot be Rejected on Third-party Invoices; CESTAT, New Delhi, Set Aside the Differential Duty Demand
Collaborative Healthcare Arrangements are Not Taxable; Chennai CESTAT Set Aside Service Tax Demand
NGT Issues Notice on Plea of ‘River Man of India’ Seeking Preparation of Comprehensive National River Atlas of India
Copyrighted Logo Not Taxable as IPR Service: CESTAT Sets Aside Service Tax Demand
District Court
Rajasthan Court Convicts Accused of Theft within 5 days of Chargesheet Filing, Relies on E-Sakshay Video Evidence
Legislation Updates
The Artificial Intelligence (Ethics and Accountability) Bill, 2025: A Bold Question but Not the Final Answer
Centre Bans New Mining Leases in Entire Aravalli Range; Protected Zones to Be Expanded
The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025
Ink & Insight
[Ink & Insight] A Flag That Failed to Fly: Rethinking the Supreme Court’s Emblem
By Noor Shergill
When Breathing Comes With a Tax Invoice: Behind Reclassifying Air Purifiers Under GST
By Kavya Dwivedi
News
Priya Kapur To Move Delhi High Court Seeking Injunction Against Sisters-in-Law Over Alleged Harassment and Defamation
Supreme Court Stays Conviction of NCP Leader Manikrao Kokate in 1995 Cheating Case, Shields Him from MLA Disqualification
National Herald Case: Delhi High Court Issues Notice to Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi on ED’s Plea Challenging Refusal of Cognisance
Supreme Court Takes Suo Motu Cognisance of Alleged Forest Land Encroachment in Uttarakhand; Directs Inquiry
Be Nation Builders, Not Mere Case Builders: CJI Justice Surya Kant’s Address at RGNUL’s Seventh Convocation
Centre Appoints Senior Advocates Anil Kaushik, Davinder Pal Singh and Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar as Additional Solicitors General
Punjab & Haryana High Court Appoints Justice Harinder Singh Sidhu (Retd.) as Sole Arbitrator in Dispute Over Chairmanship of Punjab Kings Franchise Owner
Delhi High Court Grants Bail to Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Unnao Rape Case
Celina Jaitly’s Plea for In-Camera Hearing Allowed by Delhi High Court; Matter to Be Heard in Chamber
Delhi High Court Directs Meta, X and E-Commerce Platforms to Take Down Fake Quotes and Unauthorised Merchandise Using Sunil Gavaskar’s Name
Delhi High Court in Celina Jaitly Brother Detention Case Directs Indian Consulate to Share List of Local Accredited Lawyers for Legal Representation
Chinese Visa Scam Case: Delhi Court Frames Charges Against Karti Chidambaram for Criminal Conspiracy and Bribery
CJI Surya Kant to Inaugurate BCI’s National Mediation Conference in Goa; Focus on Mediation Act, 2023 and Court-Integrated ADR
Delhi High Court Declines to Stay Release of Web Series ‘UP77’; Seeks Undertaking from Producers on Fictional Nature
Clean Air Is a Facet of Right to Life; Delhi HC Pulls Up Centre Over 18% GST on Air Purifiers
Delhi High Court asks GST Council to consider lowering GST on air purifiers amid worsening air quality
SIAC Annual India Conferences 2025: Mumbai and Delhi Host High-Level Dialogue on Innovation, Growth and the Future of International Arbitration
Delhi High Court Seeks Status Report on Indian National Detained in UAE; Directs Facilitation of Legal Representation
Centre Flags Constitutional, Procedural Concerns Over Plea Seeking GST Cut on Air Purifiers Before Delhi High Court
Autobiography of Upul Jayasuriya PC Launched at Colombo Amid Distinguished Gathering
BCI Issues Detailed Clarification on 30% Women’s Representation in State Bar Councils; Defines Seat Computation and HPEC Grievance Framework
SLP Moved in Supreme Court Seeking Cancellation of Bail Granted to Kuldeep Singh Sengar
Law Must Not Merely Close Cases But Preserve Futures: CJI Surya Kant
Interviews
[Interviews] Justice Mukta Gupta (Retd) on Courts, Accountability & India’s Global Arbitration Push
Roundup
Weekly Bulletin [15th – 21st December, 2025]