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 orders closure of a TASMAC liquor shop found to be just 55.7 metres from a National Highway, holding distance for the statutory liquor-shop ban must be calculated as the shortest path, rejecting the shop's claim it was over 30 metres away.
Madras High Court directs Tiruppur police to permit installation of a Vinayagar idol for Ganesh Chaturthi after an application went unanswered, remarking that "worship is a fundamental right" and the petitioners should not be prevented from installing the idol.
Madras High Court questions the CBI and Bureau of Immigration's practice of treating Look Out Circulars as confidential, remarking that India "does not follow a Kafkaesque trial" and that a person affected by adverse proceedings has a right to know why.
Bombay High Court strikes down a Maharashtra government resolution that retrospectively cut the maximum age for Anganwadi Sevikas seeking promotion to Supervisor from 55 to 50, restoring the 55-year limit on grounds of legitimate expectation.
Bombay High Court directs Maharashtra's DGP to personally explain why the Deputy Chief Minister's son was not made an accused in a case over 40 acres of government land in Pune acquired by his firm at far below market value, despite records showing him as a company director.
Bombay High Court declines to pass any pre-emptive order against Maratha quota leader Manoj Jarange-Patil's planned "March to Mumbai," holding it cannot restrain a protest merely on apprehension and that "State machinery is capable of handling all these situations."
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 deprecates a Pune-only, 12-day blanket ban on alcohol sale during Ganesh Chaturthi as irrational and warns it would flood hospitals with distressed habitual drinkers, prompting the Collector to cut the ban down to two days.
Bombay High Court quashes an FIR against two men accused only of shouting loudly at each other on a public street, holding that mere volume — without obscenity, depravity or disturbance to a third party — does not make out a cognizable offence.
Bombay High Court restores a hotel's FSSAI licence after it achieved 97% compliance on re-inspection, holding that suspending a food licence to protect public health cannot continue indefinitely once the establishment rectifies the deficiencies that triggered suspension.
Twelve OCI-cardholding young cricketers challenging BCCI's Indian-passport requirement for domestic tournaments are directed by Bombay High Court to make the Central Government a party, with the Centre asked to state its position given the decision's potential "wide ramifications."