Punjab & Haryana High Court quashes an FIR against the makers of "Yaarian 2" over a song showing a clean-shaven, non-Amritdhari actor wearing the Sri Sahib/Kirpan, holding the inadvertent portrayal — since removed, with a public apology issued — was not a deliberate, malicious insult to the Sikh religion.
Madras High Court quashes a criminal case against men who gathered to raise slogans in support of Palestine, holding that merely raising such slogans — without force, mischief or restraint of anyone — does not make out an unlawful assembly.
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 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.
Supreme Court holds that a company can face criminal prosecution for an offence requiring mens rea even where the individual officer through whom it allegedly acted has not been identified or arraigned, refusing to quash proceedings against Sanofi India over an alleged CBI procurement probe.
Rajasthan High Court dismisses a quashing petition and imposes ₹50,000 costs on a man who presented himself as an advocate before trial courts without bar enrolment, holding that no person may practise as an advocate without enrolment under the Advocates Act.
Rajasthan High Court quashes an FIR filed nearly four years into a marriage alleging the husband used drugs and black magic to induce it, holding the marital-rape exception under IPC barred the core allegation and the delay pointed to changed circumstances, not a concealed crime.
Rajasthan High Court quashes a dowry-harassment case against a husband and his family after the complainant accepted ₹20 lakh in permanent alimony and a mutual-consent divorce, holding that continuing the prosecution afterward was a weapon of harassment, not a pursuit of justice.