Acting on data showing thousands of fraudulent GST registrations obtained by misusing stolen PAN and Aadhaar details, Delhi High Court directs GST authorities nationwide not to grant any fresh registration without biometric Aadhaar authentication.
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 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 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.
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."
Supreme Court stays a Delhi High Court judgment upholding the reinstatement of IAS officer Rinku Dugga, who was compulsorily retired after Thyagaraj Stadium was allegedly emptied for her to walk her dog, and issues notice on the Centre's challenge.
Supreme Court denies anticipatory bail to Sumit Roy, personal assistant to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, in the Salboni land-grab case, over allegations of illegal sale of West Bengal government land using forged documents and a linked cash trail.
Rajasthan High Court sets aside a Board of Revenue order that not only quashed a remand order but also dismissed the plaintiff's underlying suit outright, holding that doing so improperly deprives a litigant of the remedy of a first appeal.
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.
The Bombay High Court has held that an assignee under a deed of assignment executed before the institution of a suit cannot be impleaded as a co-plaintiff under Order I Rule 10 of the CPC, absent a bona fide mistake, and quashed a trial court order permitting such impleadment.
The Bombay High Court has held that a Government Circular extending the caste-validity-certificate submission deadline by three months to Scheduled Castes, Nomadic Tribes, and other reserved categories, while omitting Scheduled Tribes, is prima facie discriminatory, and extended the same benefit to an ST student.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has held that a husband's offer to bear his wife's travel expenses for court hearings is not an inflexible rule that automatically defeats her plea to transfer divorce proceedings closer to her residence, and ordered the case transferred to the Family Court at Sonepat.