Madras High Court declines to stay Tamil Nadu's move to a fully digital system for driving licences and vehicle registration certificates from September 13, issuing notice instead on a Bangalore firm's challenge to the transport department's communication.
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.
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 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 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 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."
Supreme Court declines to stay Bombay High Court contempt proceedings against Maharashtra's Law Department Secretary over an alleged courtroom outburst blaming the High Court for delayed judicial appointments, while restraining a final contempt order until September 28.
Rajasthan High Court sets up a committee, chaired by the Divisional Commissioner, Jodhpur, to coordinate with the Ramdevra Temple trust and oversee sanitation, healthcare and law-and-order arrangements for the roughly 2-3 lakh daily devotees the shrine draws during peak months.
Rajasthan High Court disposes of a 2018 PIL seeking regular, dedicated Art Teachers in government schools after the State satisfied the Court that arts education was now being handled by teachers who had studied the subject during their B.Ed. training, in compliance with the RTE Act.
Rajasthan High Court upholds the dismissal of a former Senior Auditor's plea to rejoin service after he resigned to contest the Rajasthan Assembly election and lost, holding that election defeat is not a "material change in circumstances" justifying withdrawal of a voluntary resignation.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has set aside a Single Judge's order regularising drivers, conductors and other staff engaged with the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation through a private outsourcing agency, holding that a master-servant relationship must be established through documentary evidence and cannot be presumed merely from the nature of duties performed or supervisory control exercised.
The Supreme Court has held that long possession of property, by itself, does not prove adverse possession, and that hostile intent towards the true owner must be affirmatively established for such a claim to succeed, in a decades-old dispute over agricultural land.