Delhi High Court To Order Takedown Of Obscene Content Against Actress Janhvi Kapoor, But Questions Blanket Restraint On Fanpages

"How can you shut down all fanclubs? Who is immune from all this today?" the Court asked.

Madras High Court Orders State Bar Council's Interim Panel Of 'Elected Members' To Handle Affairs Till Permanent Committee Is Constituted

BCI had earlier proposed an interim arrangement involving unelected persons, which was challenged.

Decide Plea To Remove Derogatory YouTube Videos Against Shirdi Sai Baba: Delhi High Court Asks Centre

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Union Government's Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) to decide complaints and an appeal seeking removal of several YouTube videos, and other online publications allegedly containing false, derogatory and inflammatory content concerning Shirdi Sai Baba.The plea alleges that the content has the potential to promote religious hostility and...

Calcutta High Court Reserves Order On Abhishek Banerjee's Plea Seeking Quashing Of FIRs, Extends Interim Protection

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea filed by Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee seeking quashing of FIRs registered against him.During the hearing, the Court indicated that it was not undertaking the final hearing of Banerjee's plea for quashing at this stage. Instead, the Court said it was contemplating passing an interim order and would permit...

Notice For Sarpanch's Removal Can't Be Served Through WhatsApp Or Wall Affixture: Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has recently held that notice for convening a meeting of Grama Panchayat for taking up 'no-confidence motion' against an elected Sarpanch must be served upon him personally, and any service through WhatsApp or by affixture of a copy thereof on residence wall is not permissible. [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 92]While finding fault with the aforesaid procedure and holding the same to...

'Non-Application Of Mind': Allahabad High Court Summons Hardoi DM Over Inquiry To Remove Ex-Pradhan Whose Term Expired Over 5 Yrs Ago

The Allahabad High Court has summoned the District Magistrate, Hardoi, Anunaya Jha, to explain why an inquiry committee was constituted by him to conduct proceedings for the removal of a Gram Pradhan 6 years after his term expired.A bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manjive Shukla passed the direction while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea concerning the inquiry...

WhatsApp Messages Inadmissible Without Section 65B Certificate, Oral Evidence Cannot Cure Defect: Patna High Court

The Patna High Court has held that WhatsApp messages relied upon as electronic evidence cannot be read in evidence without the mandatory certificate under Section 65B(4) of the Indian Evidence Act. It added that oral evidence cannot cure the absence of the statutory certificate.A Division Bench of Justice Bibek Chaudhuri and Justice Rana Vikram Singh made the observation while setting aside...

State Which Withdraws Special Appeal Is Bound By Findings Of Judgment It Challenged, Can't Re-Agitate Same Grounds: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that where the State gets its special appeal against a judgment dismissed as not pressed, it accepts the findings of that judgment and is barred from urging the same grounds again in later proceedings between the same parties. It held that an administrative order rejecting a claim on grounds already turned down by the Court amounts to sitting in appeal over...

Rajasthan High Court Grants Bail To 60-Year-Old Woman In NDPS Case Arrested Over Calls With Co-Accused Son-In-Law

Rajasthan High Court granted bail to a 60 year woman, accused in an NDPS Case solely based on the confessional statements of the co-accused, who was her son-in-law as well as their call details that revealed conversations between the two. The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand took note of the “special circumstances” of the relationship between the applicant and the co-accused. It opined...

'Police Can't Conduct Roving Enquiry In Guise Of Inquest': Karnataka High Court Quashes Notices To Hospital, Staff In Unnatural Death Case

The Karnataka High Court has on August 10 [Monday] quashed the multiple notices under Section 94 and Section 179 of BNSS issued by the police to Cloud Nine Hospital and its staff-including its female employees, in connection with the unnatural death of a patient following a polypectomy procedure. [2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 290]“….when the petitioners have responded to every notice, furnished...

Co-Accused's Disclosure Statements Without Recovery Prima Facie Hit By Section 23 BSA: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted bail to a man accused of supplying a countrymade pistol allegedly used in a jewellery shop dacoity, observing that the disclosure statements of co-accused, recorded in police custody and not leading to any recovery or discovery of fact, prima facie attracted Section 23 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA). [2026 LiveLaw (PH) 265]Justice...

Sister-In-Law's Advice To Take Care To Prevent Miscarriage Isn't Harassment For Not Bearing Child, Doesn't Amount To Abetment: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has observed that merely asking a woman to take care of her health, particularly her food habits to prevent a future miscarriage, may not be sufficient to conclude that she was being harassed or tortured for not bearing a child. The Court made the observation while granting bail to a woman accused of abetting the suicide of her sister-in-law, holding that...