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NewsSupreme Court Addresses NCLT Appointment Delays, Evidentiary Standards in Murder and Dowry Cases, and Matters Concerning Lalu Prasad Yadav on July 14, 2026
On 14 July 2026 the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognisance of delays in the appointment of National Company Law Tribunal members and related infrastructure concerns, upheld an acquittal in a murder trial on the ground that telephone records alone cannot prove an illicit affair, acquitted a husband in a dowry death case while criticising the mechanical trial of seventeen in‑laws, and passed an order in a matter involving Lalu Prasad Yadav the details of which are not fully reproduced in the available excerpt.
SC NewsContract Denying Interest On Security Deposit Not Against Public Policy: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s ruling that a clause denying interest on a security deposit in a mining contract is contrary to public policy, holding that the stipulation is valid and binding on the parties.
HC NewsRecruitment Begins With Advertisement, Not Approval Of Appointment; Subsequent Selection Law Doesn't Govern It: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that a recruitment process commences on the publication of the advertisement, and not at the later stage of approval of appointment. It held that a law brought into force after the advertisement does not govern a process already set in motion.It further held that where a new Act comes into force after the advertisement but before the selection is finalised,...
HC NewsIndian Kanoon Challenges Delhi High Court’s Right to Be Forgotten Order
Indian Kanoon has approached the Delhi High Court seeking to set aside a single bench judgment that recognised a right to be forgotten and directed the de‑indexing of name‑based search results for judicial records. The matter is presently before a division bench comprising Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia.
HC NewsKerala High Court Refuses to Suspend Sentence in 2017 Actress Rape Case
The Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar dismissed the application seeking suspension of the twenty‑year sentence imposed on Sunil N.S. @ Pulsar Suni.
HC NewsKarkardooma Court Convicts Tahir Hussain and Four Others in Murder of IB Officer Ankit Sharma
Session Judge Praveen Singh of the Karkardooma district court delivered a verdict finding former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain and four co‑accused guilty of the murder of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the communal violence that erupted in Delhi in February 2020.
HC NewsDelhi High Court Bar Association Calls for Work Abstention Over Proposed Increase in District Courts' Pecuniary Jurisdiction
The Delhi High Court Bar Association has resolved to abstain from work on 14 July 2026 in protest against the proposal to raise the pecuniary jurisdiction of Delhi's District Courts from Rs. 2 crore to Rs. 10 crore.
SC NewsAdvocate Seeks Supreme Court Intervention for Police Protection After Alleged Assault at Delhi Residence
Advocate Pankaj Sharma has moved the Supreme Court seeking police protection, transfer of investigation and the invocation of stricter provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita following an alleged attack at his home in Delhi.
HC NewsAllahabad High Court Clarifies That 25% Of Husband's Net Income Is Not A Mandatory Maintenance Benchmark
The Allahabad High Court has held that the widely cited guideline of awarding a wife twenty‑five percent of a husband’s net income as maintenance is only a broad indicative figure and not a binding rule. The bench, comprising Justice Achal Sachdev, observed that courts retain discretion to award a higher or lower amount after considering the facts and circumstances of each case. The judgment arose from two connected criminal revisions filed in the matter of Pinki Alias Preeti versus State of U.P. and Another, wherein the wife sought enhancement of the ₹12,000 monthly maintenance granted by the Family Court, Kanpur Dehat, and the husband challenged the same award. The High Court noted that the husband’s divorce decree in his favour does not disentitle a legally wedded wife from claiming maintenance, provided she is unable to maintain herself, has not remarried and is not living in adultery. The bench reiterated that the object of maintenance is to enable the wife to live with dignity,不止
HC NewsBombay High Court Directs Masking of Litigant's Name in Online Records After FIR Quashed
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court held that the right to privacy under Article 21 includes a right to be forgotten and ordered the masking of a petitioner’s name in digital court records after his FIR was quashed.
SC NewsSupreme Court Criticises CRPF for Removing Driver Who Acquired Disability, Awards Rs 1.25 Crore
The Court held that the CRPF was bound to offer an alternate post to the employee as per the mandate of Section 47 of the Persons with Disabilities Act.
HC NewsSikkim High Court Reduces Rape Conviction to Attempted Rape Over Lack of Penetration Proof
The division bench of Chief Justice A Muhamed Mustaque and Justice Bhaskar Raj Pradhan altered the conviction from rape to attempted rape, holding that the presence of the accused’s semen on the victim’s clothing, without proof of penetration, is insufficient to sustain an offence under Section 376 IPC.