Karnataka High Court holds that a police transfer order issued without the Police Establishment Board's prior approval is not void, since subsequent ratification by the competent Board can cure the procedural defect, including a transfer made before completion of minimum tenure.
Delhi High Court dismisses a plea to regularise a temple built without sanction on land earmarked for a nursery school, directing that the idols be respectfully relocated and the illegal structure removed within four weeks.
Delhi High Court rejects a habeas corpus plea by Swatantra Bhardwaj challenging his arrest over the alleged assault of a teenage CJP protester's father at Jantar Mantar, finding his key argument was never raised in the petition itself and the underlying FIR had not been quashed.
Madras High Court holds that converting a disciplinary charge from a serious to a non-serious provision does not relate back to the original charge-memo date, leaving the government servant's promotion barred by an intervening censure punishment.
Madras High Court declines to entertain a social activist's plea seeking strict enforcement of Central Pollution Control Board idol-immersion guidelines ahead of Vinayaga Chaturthi, asking why he "slept on it for one year" before approaching the court at the last moment.
Madras High Court dismisses a PIL challenging the award of a tender to Joyalukkas for the "Thaimaman Thanga Mothiram" scheme distributing 1-gram gold rings to newborns, finding no arbitrariness or mala fides in the award and noting the petitioner never participated in the tender.
Madras High Court upholds a divorce granted on grounds of cruelty, holding that a wife's unjustified pressure on her husband — the only son of his parents — to set up a separate residence, combined with frequent, unexplained visits to her maternal home, amounted to cruelty.
Madras High Court's Madurai Bench declines to direct that Tamil hymns be recited on an equal footing with Sanskrit during the Meenakshi Temple's Kumbabishegam consecration, holding a writ court cannot legislate such a ritual arrangement absent an enabling law.
Madras High Court dismisses two writ petitions seeking inclusion of the OBC category in the House Listing Operation and Population Enumeration of the ongoing census, holding the Centre's decision to enumerate caste data only for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is a policy decision beyond the court's remit.
Bombay High Court refuses to quash a criminal defamation complaint against Rahul Gandhi over his "Choron Ke Sardar" and "Commander-in-Thief" remarks about the Prime Minister, holding that a registered political party is an identifiable body capable of being defamed.
Bombay High Court refuses to transfer an 11-year-old girl's custody from the neighbours who raised her since infancy back to her biological parents, holding the child's expressed preference and emotional stability could not be disregarded.
Bombay High Court dismisses an MBBS student's plea for a fifth attempt at a first-year subject, holding the NMC's four-attempt cap applies to the First Professional MBBS course as a whole, regardless of which specific subjects were attempted each time.