Hearing a bail application, Rajasthan High Court finds that routinely calling for full case diaries was adding 15-20 days to routine bail matters, and directs the Government Advocate's office to instead obtain a factual report on the FIR within 3-7 days for petty-offence cases.
MP High Court upholds the conviction but commutes to life imprisonment the death sentence of a man found guilty of raping and murdering a two-year-old girl in Shahdol district, holding the case did not meet the "rarest of rare" threshold for capital punishment.
Punjab & Haryana High Court denies bail to a man accused of sharing photographs of Ambala's Air Force Station and Rafale jets with a woman operating from Pakistan, holding that even if he was lured by a honey trap, there was no justification for sharing such sensitive images with an unknown foreign contact.
Punjab & Haryana High Court grants regular bail to a woman accused of conspiring to file multiple false rape cases across Punjab and Delhi to extort money from alleged victims, while separately suggesting a national database to track habitual complainants across jurisdictions.
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.
Punjab & Haryana High Court denies bail in a money-laundering case tied to an alleged ₹236 crore bank fraud, holding that economic offences involving calculated design and abuse of corporate or fiduciary structures warrant more circumspect scrutiny than offences committed impulsively.
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 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.
Hearing a contempt petition over delay in proceedings against a former minister and IAS officers accused of favouritism in municipal tenders, Madras High Court remarks that it is "very difficult" to get corruption cases registered against powerful men in the country.
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 the freezing of roughly ₹100 crore in Coda Payments India's bank and payment-gateway accounts over an alleged online-gaming cheating scheme, holding the PMLA Adjudicating Authority never recorded the mandatory finding on "proceeds of crime" and that the freeze was disproportionate to the ₹25 lakh actually alleged.
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.