TN Govt Free To Render 'Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu' Before National Anthem At Official Functions: Centre To Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has closed a public interest litigation challenging a Government Order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which mandates the order in which the National Song Vande Mataram and the National Anthem Jana Gana Mana are to be played during a state ceremony attended by the Governor of the State. [2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 397] The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari...

Delhi High Court Rejects Husband's Divorce Plea Over Claim He Was Under Sedative Influence During Marriage

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a man's appeal seeking dissolution of his marriage, after he claimed that his marriage was invalid as he was under the influence of a sedative substance when the marriage ceremonies were performed way back in 2008. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 767]A Division Bench comprising Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Renu Bhatnagar held that the husband's claim, can at...

Electronic Evidence | Delhi High Court Issues Notice On PIL Seeking Free Forensic Assistance For Legal-Aid Beneficiaries

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice on a PIL seeking a mechanism to provide free forensic expert assistance to persons entitled to legal aid for compliance with the electronic-evidence certification requirements under Section 63 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA).A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia sought response of...

NEET-UG 2026: MP High Court Dismisses OMR Discrepancy Plea After Student Verifies Signature On Original Sheet Produced By NTA

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a NEET UG candidate seeking comparison of her original physical OMR answer sheet with the scanned one uploaded on the official portal, after she verified that the original OMR sheet produced by the NTA was indeed hers. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 330]The candidate's primary issue was "whether the physical OMR sheet is identical to the...

No Evidence Lethal Injection Is More Humane Than Hanging For Death Sentence: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court recently observed that there is no concrete scientific material before it to establish that lethal injection (administering drugs intravenously to cause death) is a demonstrably superior or more humane method of executing a death sentence than hanging.“The available material, therefore, does not establish that lethal injection has any added advantage over hanging as a mode...

Shiv Sena Row | Can We Declare Eknath Shinde Disqualified Today? Supreme Court Asks UBT Group

In the Shiv Sena matter, Justice Joymalya Bagchi of the Supreme Court today asked the Uddhav Thackeray faction whether Eknath Shinde (and other splinter group MLAs) can be consequentially declared disqualified as per the anti-defection law under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution if the Maharashtra Speaker's order refusing to disqualify them is set aside.The judge posed to Senior...

J&K High Court Issues Summons To JKMSCL Managing Director Over Failure To Supply Haemophilia Drug To Govt Medical Colleges

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has summoned the Managing Director of the Jammu & Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation Limited (JKMSCL) to personally explain the shortage of life-saving anti-haemophilia drugs, Factor-VIII and Emicizumab, at Government Medical Colleges in Srinagar and Jammu.The Court observed that despite repeated reminders from the medical...

Failure To Follow Binding Precedents Gives Rise To Substantial Question Of Law In ESI Act Appeals: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently held that a failure to follow binding precedents by the Employees' Insurance courts would give rise to a substantial question of law in ESI appeals. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 455]The Bench of Justice S. Manu held:“the EI Court has not analysed the dispute in tune with the law laid down in the judgment referred above and hence the impugned judgment cannot be...

Calcutta High Court Orders Closure Of M-Bazaar Operating Inside Former Cinema Hall, Says Trade Licence Cannot Authorise Illegal Change Of Use

The Calcutta High Court has directed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to immediately stop the operation of a mega garment store, M-Bazaar, being run from the premises of the erstwhile Paradise Cinema Hall at 39 Bentinck Street, Kolkata, holding that a garment business could not be operated from an assembly building without obtaining the requisite permission for change of use under...

'Mixture Of Prayers': Delhi High Court Refuses To Entertain Plea Seeking NEET Re-Exam Score Correction, Expert Panel & Scrapping Of NTA

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition filed with “mix bunch of prayers” concerning NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, including a prayer to scrap the National Testing Agency (NTA) from conducting future public examinations. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 766]A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia observed that a writ petition with...

Men, Working Women & Professionals Who Take Care Of Family Are Also 'Home Makers': Karnataka High Court

Interpreting the term 'homemaker', the Karnataka High Court has held that even highly qualified post-graduates who render services at home are entitled to compensation for loss of future earnings if they are not working elsewhere at the relevant time. [2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 310].The Court rejected KSRTC's argument that the claimant, who holds a Master's Degree in Biotechnology and had worked as...

Calling By Caste Name Without Intent To Humiliate Doesn't Attract SC/ST Act: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the mere use of the word “Chamar”, without material showing that it was used with the intention or knowledge of insulting the victim on the ground of her caste, does not prima facie disclose the ingredients of Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and cannot sustain an...