Common Intention | S.34 IPC Attracted Where Co-Accused's Participation Has 'Functional Relationship' With Offence: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that to attract 'common intention' liability under Section 34 IPC, the participation of a co-accused must have a "functional relationship with the offense in question".The bench clarified that the mere fact that several persons participated in the same occurrence does not make each of them liable for every offence committed during it. A Bench of Justice...

Supreme Court Stays PMLA Trial Against J&K Officer

The Supreme Court has stayed the proceedings before the Special Court (Srinagar) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) against Tariq Ahmad Ganaie, after the petitioner raised the lack of prior sanction as required under Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC, now Section 218 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023). The provision mandates...

Government Employee Can't Be Denied Financial Benefit Merely For Lack Of Awareness Of Office Order Published Online: HP HC

A Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court comprising Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia and Justice Bipin Chander Negi held that a government employee cannot be denied the benefit of an office order with financial implications merely because it was placed on a website, as proper publication through a reasonable mode is essential, and the employee's lack of awareness due...

Children Of Central Govt Employees Transferred Outside Telangana Entitled To 'Local Candidate' Benefit For MBBS Admissions: High Court

The Telangana High Court has directed that children of Central Government, Central Government Corporations and Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) employees who studied outside State due to their parent's posting, must be given benefit of local candidature for medical and dental admissions on same terms as children of State Government employees. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 135]A Division...

Centre Notifies Appointment Of Nine Lawyers As Judges Of Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Central Government on Thursday notified the appointment of nine advocates as Additional Judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal took to X to notify the appointments. The post states,"In exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution of India, after consultation with Chief Justice of India, the President is pleased to appoint the following...

Civil Court Lacks Jurisdiction To Try Commercial Dispute Of Specified Value After Designation Of Commercial Courts: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that once notification is issued by the State constituting sub Courts as Commercial Courts for recovery of a specified amount, the Civil Courts cannot proceed to adjudicate the matter on merits.[2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 459]Justice Easwaran S was delivering the judgment in a Regular Second Appeal filed by BRD Finance Ltd. against judgments of the Munsiff Court,...

MBBS Student Denied Passport Over Mother's Name Deletion From Voter List: Calcutta High Court Directs SIR Tribunal To Decide In 2 Weeks

The Calcutta High Court has directed the concerned SIR Appellate Tribunal to decide within two weeks an appeal challenging the deletion of the petitioner's mother's name from the electoral roll, after the issue allegedly came in the way of the petitioner's passport application.The petitioner, who has secured admission to an MBBS course at a medical college in Bangladesh, approached the High...

Gujarat High Court Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Objecting To SC/ST Community Member's Invitation To Brahmin Marriage Function

The Gujarat High Court granted regular bail to a man accused of portraying complainant as a "bootlegger" and saying that a member of SC/ST community should not be invited to marriage in the Brahmin community. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 223]The court was hearing a man's appeal booked under Sections 3(1)(U) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 whose regular...

Kerala High Court Initiates Contempt Against Advocate Mathews Nedumpara For Unauthorisedly Uploading Court Proceedings On YouTube, Bars His Virtual Appearance

The Kerala High Court on Thursday (August 20) issued notice to Advocate Mathews Nedumpara in suo motu criminal contempt proceedings for unauthorisedly recording and uploading court proceedings on his YouTube account.The Court also made it clear that Advocate Nedumpara would not be permitted to virtually participate in court proceedings in the State, until further orders.The Division Bench...

Union Of India Being A 'Model Employer' Cannot Violate Equality In Public Employment: Calcutta HC

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee and A.C.J. Tapabrata Chakraborty held that regularization of ad hoc employees must be granted uniformly to all similarly situated individuals, and cannot be denied on the grounds of precedent being in personam when the facts and circumstances are identical. Background Facts The...

Victim Turning Hostile Not Enough For Bail Where Medical Evidence Supports Sexual Assault Allegation: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed the regular bail application of a man accused of kidnapping and raping a minor girl, observing that the medical evidence proves sexual assault even though the victim had turned hostile. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 333]Emphasizing that a criminal trial is a quest for truth, wherein neither the accused nor the victim can be permitted to subvert the trial...

Only 29 Of 92 Posts Filled: Allahabad High Court Flags 'Disturbing' Vacancies In UP GST Appellate Tribunal

While flagging a “disturbing state of affairs” over substantial vacancies in the GST Appellate Tribunal in Uttar Pradesh, the Allahabad High Court has noted that only 29 of the 92 sanctioned posts have been filled, leaving 63 posts vacant.Justice Piyush Agrawal observed that mere issuance of circulars or advertisements cannot amount to compliance with the obligation to make the...