Criminal Law Roundup June 2025
Legal RoundUpTopic-wise Roundup

Covering all the important criminal cases across various High Courts and the Supreme Court, this roundup provides a quick summary of cases, links to other roundups, latest legal updates in criminal law and a few top stories of the month.

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NEET UG 2025 power outage
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The exam was only three hours, in which even for ten minutes, if a student faces a difficulty in reading and writing due to a power outage, the same has the effect of rattling one’s mental condition, and is sufficient to disturb his or her composure and focus for the remaining time.”

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Urs at Hazrat Sheikh Muhammad Ghaus Dargah
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Constitutional vision and morality ought to prevail over personal and vested interests. It deserves to be protected with utmost care and caution, and no activity as sought by the petitioner can be permitted lest the monument lose its originality, sanctity, and vitality.”

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Hamar-Lab scam
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Economic offences having deep rooted conspiracies and involving huge loss of public funds need to be viewed seriously and considered as grave offences posing serious threat to the financial health of the country.”

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BCI press release
Events/WebinarsNews

“The deliberate dissemination of misleading statements, intended to create a false impression among the legal fraternity and the public at large, is not merely an act of misinformation, but also a clear violation of an Advocate’s broader duty to maintain the dignity and integrity of the profession.”

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ban on online opinion trading platforms
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Since there exist adequate statutory frameworks for redressal of these grievances, including the Haryana Prevention of Public Gambling Act, 2025, there arises no occasion for the Court to entertain the petition under its extraordinary writ jurisdiction.”

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High Court Weekly Roundup
High Court Round UpLegal RoundUp

A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.

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Allahabad High Court Live- in relationship
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The concept of live-in relationship goes against the interest of the women since a man can marry a woman or number of women even after a live-in relationship, but it is difficult for the women to find a life partner after a breakup.”

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CRPF personnel killed colleagues
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Long working hours without leave and difficult environment does not give the right to any person to vent his anger by causing the death of his own colleagues.”

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e-filing for jail
Hot Off The PressNews

Previously, prisoners would have to file their appeals and other applications by preparing them in physical form and sending them to the Court for filing.

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90-day Mediation Drive
Hot Off The PressNews

“The special pan India mediation campaign is being organised with the objectives to settle suitable matters pending in the Courts, from the Taluka Courts to the High Courts, and taking mediation to every nook and corner of the country as people’s friendly mode of dispute resolution.”

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Illegal Mining at Satluj River
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court held that the offence of illegal mining in rivers needed to be taken seriously despite less punishment prescribed under law.

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Morni Hills as Reserved Forest
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“To permit nearly four decades to elapse without any discernible, substantive action flowing from a statutory declaration is, to put it mildly, an affront to the principles of effective governance and a manifest failure at the end of concerned officers, both statutory and constitutional.”

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Custody of minor girl
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The principle that the father is the natural guardian of the minor child-boy or unmarried girl, and after him, the mother is primarily derived from section 6 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, though seminal at its time. Now it smacks patriarchal bias, therefore, become obsolete in the progressive realities of 21st- century in India”

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death of prisoners Varanasi
Hot Off The PressNews

The NHRC stated that if the media report was true then it would raise serious issues of human rights violations.

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Delay in curing registry defects
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court noted that the registry did not follow the procedure prescribed in the GHC Rules for movement of the papers from the registry to the competent Court, thus there was no occasion for consideration by the Court concerned as to whether the respondents were entitled to condonation of delay in removal of office objections.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“A firm hand, with stringent law enforcement and legal measures, is essential to dismantling extortion rackets, deterring future criminal enterprises and safeguarding the moral fabric of society.”

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

A news report published on 17-6-2025, highlighted that PGIMER had been facing severe shortage of hospital attendants and nursing staff, thereby which forcing relatives of patients to step in as caretakers, resulting in overcrowding and compromise in service.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

According to the news report, residents and environmental activists have launched protests and official petitions against the alleged tree felling citing destruction of the Aravallis in DLF Phase 5.

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Gauhati High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The alleged termination order of the petitioner, though said to be illegal and arbitrary, was not put to challenge either in the present or earlier writ proceeding.”

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