Calcutta High Court
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The judiciary upholds a strong commitment to justice, fairness, and social equity. In complex cases involving competing rights, courts must sometimes innovate guided not by whim but by enduring principles of equity and good conscience. This ensures a balanced, equitable resolution.

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Delhi High Court
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“Even though the cheque return memo may mention its reason for dishonor as “insufficient funds”, the fact remains that, the petitioners’ account was frozen by the CGST Department, and thus, it could not be said to be “maintained” by them.”

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Calcutta High Court
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The deliberate suppression of such a crucial and material fact concerning one’s marital history at the solemnization of marriage, especially when it involved a contentious prior dissolution and criminal proceedings (a 498A IPC case), constitutes profound and inexcusable mental cruelty to the wife.

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Delhi High Court
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“Mere reliance on sales figures, promotional expenditure, or broad assertions of popularity, without cogent documentary substantiation connecting such use exclusively to the mark “ONE FOR ALL”, is insufficient.”

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Delhi High Court
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The Court observed that filing complaints against unauthorized construction by advocates themselves, coupled with writ petitions submitted without the signatures of the purported litigants, amounts to a clear abuse and misuse of the judicial process.

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Delhi High Court
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On 28-05-2024, the complainant while flying from Indore to Delhi alleged that co-passenger stared at her persistently, causing discomfort.

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Calcutta High Court
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The Court observed that the report submitted by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation lacked crucial particulars and failed to meet the substance and spirit of the earlier inspection order.

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Andhra Pradesh High Court
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“The ill conduct must be persistent for a lengthy period, where the relationship has deteriorated to an extent that because of the acts and behaviour of a spouse, the wronged party finds it extremely difficult to live with the other party any longer.”

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Calcutta High Court
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Calcutta High Court observed that the impugned order appears to have been issued in oversight of the directions issued in the case of Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273.

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Delhi High Court Arbitration Rules 2023
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Delhi High Court has unveiled the Draft Arbitration Rules, 2023, inviting public feedback until 05-07-2025. The draft aims at streamlining arbitration procedures and enhancing institutional efficiency, laying down comprehensive filing norms, encouraging institutional arbitration, and more.

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Calcutta High Court
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Sharmistha Panoli, a law student, was booked for allegedly making blasphemous remarks against Prophet Mohammad on social media.

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Delhi High Court
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The inability to engage in full-time or gainful employment by wife cannot be viewed as a voluntary choice but must be seen considering the practical limitations imposed by her dual responsibilities.

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Delhi High Court
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The central dispute involved RBI’s cancellation of Shabros Finvest Pvt. Ltd.’s NBFC registration for allegedly failing to meet the prescribed Net Owned Fund (NOF) requirement.

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Tribunal and Commission Roundup May 2025
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From a ₹20.24 Cr Google settlement in an Android TV antitrust case to NCLT’s rejection of Vedanta’s demerger, the May 2025 roundup covers key regulatory and tribunal decisions. Highlights include NCLAT’s take on electricity dues during CIRP, SEBI’s 5-year ban on actor Arshad Warsi, environmental rulings by NGT, and Amazon penalized for a ₹100 Rakhi delivery failure.

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Delhi High Court
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This case serves as an important reminder that a victim of sexual assault carrying the burden of an unwanted pregnancy may need more sensitivity to deal with as in many cases, such victims are under deep distress unable to process their situation and life. Further, each day’s delay in such cases in conducting MTP puts the victim under enhanced potential danger to her life

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Delhi High Court
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The present FIR was lodged in the year 2022, almost after a delay of 14 years, whereas CBI has already conducted the investigation from 2009 to 2014 for the same offences by registering PE & RC during this period.

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Securities and Exchange Board of India
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SEBI observed that the trades were not routine or incidental but strategically timed to avoid substantial losses which would have occurred had the information been public at the time of trading.

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Securities and Exchange Board of India
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SEBI emphasized that the integrity of the securities market is sacrosanct and any attempt to mislead investors, however novel or tech-enabled, would be dealt with strictly under the law.

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Delhi High Court
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PIL raised concerns about regular uploading, updating of the proceedings, information relating to video conferencing links, uploading of daily orders, cause lists, and information relating to the Presiding Officers of various forums under various labour laws who are on leave, on their respective official website or on the website of the government.

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Andhra Pradesh High Court
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“In the present day, vulgar, hate filled and abusive posts in social media have become the new age norm. The “trolls” as they are called, attract lightning responses all over and this is all the when the point of reference is a celebrity or a political leader of stature and the following.”

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