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Delhi High Court Asks DSLSA Committee To Consider Giving Preference To 3rd-Year Law Students In Para Legal Volunteers Selection
The Delhi High Court has asked the District Legal Services Authority (DALSA) Committee responsible for selecting Para-Legal Volunteers (PLVs) to consider giving preference to third-year law students, noting that they would be passing out soon. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 779]Justice Jasmeet Singh requested the Committee to conclude the selection procedure for PLVs as per the extant rules and...
Mere Mutation In Revenue Records Cannot Extinguish One's Title In Property: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday (August 20) reiterated that a revenue record entry neither creates nor extinguishes title to immovable property. A bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Augustine George Masih heard a case in which title rights in a joint family property were declared extinguished because of a subsequent entry in the revenue records in the name of another person. The...
'Authorities Best Placed To Decide': Delhi High Court To Lawyer Troubled By Traffic Near His Connaught Place Office
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by a lawyer seeking immediate deployment of traffic marshals at the Connaught Place to ensure uninterrupted vehicular flow. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 778]Referring to a division bench decision, Justice Amit Bansal noted that the traffic authorities are in best position to decide the regulation of traffic in the city and that the issue cannot be raised...
Multiplier Method Under Motor Vehicles Act Cannot Be Applied To Electrocution Death Cases : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently clarified that the multiplier method used in computing compensation in motor accident claim cases cannot be applied for computing compensation in electrocution death cases. “…the multiplier method cannot be applied to determine compensation in cases of electrocution. Since the calculation paradigm as provided for in connection with the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988...
Accused On Bail Shown As In Jail, Gang Chart Approved Without Joint Meeting: Allahabad High Court Quashes UP Gangsters Act FIR
The Allahabad High Court recently quashed an FIR registered under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, after noting that the mandatory joint meeting was not held and incorrect entries were made showing accused persons as being in jail despite the fact that they had been granted bail. A Bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena thus allowed...
Govt Employee Has No Right To Continue In Official Quarter When It Is Needed For Public Interest Redevelopment: Gauhati High Court
The Gauhati High Court has held that a government employee has no right to claim continued occupation of an official quarter where the government has taken a policy decision to dismantle the premises and redevelop it by constructing a multi-storied building in the larger public interest.Justice N. Unni Krishnan Nair observed, “This Court further notices that the petitioner has no right to...
Candidate Securing Employment Using Forged Records Has No Vested Right To Hold Public Office: MP High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld an order cancelling appointment of Gram Rojgar Sahayak (Village Employment Assistant) of Gram Panchayat Mednipur, observing that a candidate securing public employment through forged records is not entitled to hold public office. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 337]The bench of Justice Vivek Kumar Singh observed that the petitioner had manipulated the Gram...
S.149 IPC | Mere Presence Or Nomination In FIR Cannot Sustain Conviction Without Proof Of Unlawful Assembly, Common Object: Allahabad High Court
No specific role or weapon attributed to two accused; Court finds Prosecution failed to establish they were part of alleged Unlawful Assembly or shared a Common Object
Lack Of Infrastructure, Doctors Can't Justify Excluding MD Geriatric Medicine From DM Super Speciality Courses: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to reconsider and include MD (Geriatric Medicine) as an eligible feeder qualification for admission to DM super-speciality courses via National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test- Super Specialty (NEET-SS) and Institute of National Importance – Super Specialty (INISS) examination. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 777]Justice Jasmeet...
Reserved Candidate Selected On Open Merit Can Claim Better Reserved-Category Post Than Reserved Candidate Having Lower Marks: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently observed that a candidate belonging to a reserved category, who is otherwise eligible and has been selected in the open category on merit, is entitled to a better post under the reserved category than a reserved-category candidate who has secured lower marks.The bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Prasanna B Varale said the legal position was settled and had...
