High Courts
LiveLaw Andhra Pradesh High Court Weekly Round-Up: 10 August - 16 August, 2026
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (AP) 183– 2026 LiveLaw (AP) 189Nominal IndexBoddusatyavathi and Others v. The State of Andhra Pradesh and Others, 2026 LiveLaw (AP) 183Kadagala Srinivas Rao v. The State of Andhra Pradesh and Others, 2026 LiveLaw (AP) 184Smt. Sivakumar Meenakshi v. State of Andhra Pradesh and Others, 2026 LiveLaw (AP) 185Dr Rayagada Santosh Patnaik v. State of Andhra Pradesh, 2026...
Delhi High Court Directs Meta To Disclose Material Behind Disabling Stock Market Advisor's Instagram Account
The Delhi High Court on Monday (August 17) directed Meta to place on record the material based on which it disabled the Instagram account of a stock market advisor and imposed restrictions on her other social media accounts. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 756]Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani passed the direction while hearing a suit filed by Aakanksha Gupta, who is stated to be a stock market advisor...
Gujarat High Court Launches Wi-Fi Facility To Enhance Digital Access For Lawyers And Litigants
The Gujarat High Court has launched a state-of-the-art Enterprise Wi-Fi facility across its court complex to enhance digital access for advocates and litigants during court proceedings.The facility was inaugurated on August 15 by Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal.According to a press note issued by the High Court, the Wi-Fi system is powered by approximately 655 enterprise-grade Access Points and...
Mere Claim Of Ownership Of Suit Property Doesn't Make Third Party A Necessary Party In Small Causes Suit: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that third party claiming independent title doesn't become necessary or proper party merely by asserting it in a small causes suit. It held that such a person can be brought on record only where his title has to be decided before the plaintiff's entitlement to the relief claimed can be determined.Order I Rule 10 CPC governs the addition of parties to a...
Writ Petition For Contractual Dues Against State Not Entertainable Unless Amount Is Admitted: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that a writ petition seeking payment of contractual dues can be entertained against the State only where the dues are admitted. The bench of Justice J.J. Munir and Justice Indrajeet Shukla held,“We are conscious of the fact, that every writ petition seeking payment of contractual dues cannot be thrown out and can very well be entertained against the State...
LiveLaw Madras High Court Weekly Roundup: August 10 to August 16, 2026
Citations: 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 373 To 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 389 NOMINAL INDEX R Raja v The Commissioner of Police and Others, 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 373 Sherip and Another v State and Another, 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 374 Go Digit General Insurance Company Ltd v The State of Tamil Nadu and Others, 2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 375 GK Chitradevi v The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry...
Teacher Appointed Without Sanctioned Post, Qualification Can Claim Salary Only From Management Committee That Appointed Him: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that a teacher appointed by a Committee of Management without prior approval of the post and without the qualification prescribed for it can only claim his salary from the Committee of Management which appointed him.Petitioner was appointed by the Committee of Management on 23rd November 1999, when he held the degree of 'Shiksha Alankar'. Unpaid, he moved...
Excess Salary Paid Due To Employer's Error 17 Years Ago Can't Be Recovered From Retiral Dues: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that excess salary paid to a Class-III employee because of the employer's own faulty pay fixation cannot be recovered from his post-retiral dues where the mistake is corrected 17 years later and the employee is not shown to have brought it about.Directing refund of Rs. 11,51,840/- deducted from the retiral dues of a retired Head Constable (Driver), with 7%...
Siblings-In-Law Can Claim Accident Compensation As Dependents If Financial Dependency Is Proved: Sikkim High Court
The Sikkim High Court has held that siblings-in-law of a deceased can be treated as dependents for the purpose of claiming compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act, provided their financial dependency is established through evidence. The Court observed that there is no hard-and-fast rule for determining dependency and that the question must be decided on the facts and evidence of each...
'Backdoor Appointments': Tripura High Court Restrains Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council From Paying Salaries To Regularised Employees
The Tripura High Court recently restrained the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, till further orders, from paying salaries to the to the part-time workers, casual workers and paid vouchers who have been regularised in absence of existence of sanctioned posts with approved scale of pay and allowances. The Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) is...
Authorities Duty Bound To Take Steps If Protest Turn Violent: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that while citizens have a fundamental right to assemble and express their views through peaceful protest, the competent authorities are duty-bound to take appropriate preventive and remedial measures in accordance with law if a protest turns violent or poses a threat to public safety.A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra...