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.
Supreme Court sets aside an NGT order that quashed environmental clearance for a bio-medical waste facility over a land-area shortfall, holding that prior land possession is not required at the application stage under the EIA Notification, 2006, only identification of a prospective site.
In a long-pending civil appeal, Supreme Court holds that a defendant relying on a document already admitted in evidence is not required to personally enter the witness box to prove it.
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.
The Bombay High Court, Circuit Bench at Kolhapur, has held that a dependent mother cannot be denied family pension solely on the ground that she has other surviving children, if those children are not in a position to provide her economic sustenance.
Bombay High Court orders reimbursement, with interest and exemplary costs, to medical students denied benefits under a fee-reimbursement scheme even though lower-ranked students received the same benefit, holding "merit can never be compromised nor can be on second pedestal."
Bombay High Court holds a 65-year-old father who receives both his own pension and his late wife's family pension is not a senior citizen "unable to maintain himself" under the Senior Citizens Act, and so cannot claim maintenance from his son.
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.
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.
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.
Hearing a criminal petition on the Paperless Module, Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand of the Rajasthan High Court found that only the stay application, not the main petition, had been scanned and uploaded. Rejecting the explanations of the dealing clerk and the scanning firm, the Court recorded its displeasure (paras 3-4). It directed that the order be placed before the Chief Justice for an amended Standing Order fixing staff responsibility and making the Paperless Module mandatory in all matters (para 12).
The Bombay High Court has initiated contempt proceedings against Dilip S. Ghumare, Secretary and Senior Legal Advisor of Maharashtra's Law and Judiciary Department, after he responded to the Bench in an "aggressive, high-pitched tone (bordering to shouting)" and publicly blamed the High Court administration during a PIL hearing on judicial appointments.