JuriSight Supreme Court Weekly Digest: August 24 – 29
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Aug 30, 2026·8 min
Top Legal News and Court Stories
Read Jurisight’s selected legal stories and court developments that matter most right now.
Drivers Move Bombay High Court Against Mandatory Marathi Rule
Commercial cab and auto-rickshaw drivers have approached the Bombay High Court against the mandatory Marathi...
Aug 25, 2026·2 min
Allahabad High Court Strikes Down Key Sections of UP Tenancy Law
The Allahabad High Court has invalidated key provisions of the UP Tenancy Act 2021 regarding...
Aug 24, 2026·3 min
Supreme Court Clarifies Threshold for Abetment of Suicide in Workplace Harassment Cases
The Supreme Court has held that mere administrative directions, disciplinary supervision, adverse remarks on official...
Aug 18, 2026·4 min
Supreme Court Allows Interim Relief to AAP Gujarat, Directs Meta to Restore Social Media Accounts Subject to Removal of Objectionable Posts
The Supreme Court allowed interim relief to the Aam Aadmi Party's Gujarat unit, directing Meta...
Aug 17, 2026·4 min
Bombay High Court Grants Interim Protection from Arrest to Former TISS Student
Justice Prafulla Khubalkar of the Bombay High Court granted interim protection from arrest to Kamakhya...
Aug 14, 2026·3 min
Rajasthan High Court Orders Immediate Medical Facilities in Jodhpur Sessions Court Complex After Lawyer's Death
The Rajasthan High Court has directed the State Government to deploy medical staff and an...
Aug 14, 2026·3 min
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US Court Dismisses Criminal Case Against Gautam Adani Following Justice Department's Decision to Drop Prosecution
A US federal court in Brooklyn dismissed the criminal case against Gautam Adani after the...
Aug 11, 2026·3 min
Supreme Court Refuses to Entertain Third Petition on Regulation of Religious Education
The Supreme Court dismissed as withdrawn a third petition filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking...
Aug 10, 2026·3 min
Remembering Mangal Pandey: The Spark of India's First Freedom Struggle
Explore the life, legacy, and revolutionary ideas of Mangal Pandey, the fearless sepoy whose supreme...
Jul 20, 2026·2 min
Supreme Court Clarifies Use of Deceased Witness’s Testimony Against Absconding Accused Under Section 299 CrPC
The Court held that earlier recorded testimony of a witness who has since died may...
Jul 19, 2026·3 min
Delhi High Court Declines to Quash Rape Case Based on False Promise of Marriage
The Delhi High Court has refused to close criminal proceedings against a married man accused...
Jul 19, 2026·3 min
Allahabad High Court Bars Election Tribunal from Scrutinising Caste Certificate Validity
The Allahabad High Court has held that an Election Tribunal lacks jurisdiction to examine the...
Jul 18, 2026·3 min
Allahabad High Court Criticises Trial Judge for Leniency in Acid Attack Case
The High Court condemned the trial court’s extraordinary leniency while upholding the three‑year sentence because...
Jul 18, 2026·3 min
Punjab and Haryana High Court Grants Bail in NDPS Case, Highlights Rehabilitation Prospects
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted regular bail to an accused charged with...
Jul 17, 2026·3 min
Allahabad High Court Grants Bail to Accused in Social Media Case
The bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal granted bail after noting delay in trial...
Jul 17, 2026·3 min
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Gujarat High Court Denies Bail to Woman Accused of Forcing Minor into Flesh Trade
The Gujarat High Court dismissed a regular bail application filed by a woman charged with...
Jul 16, 2026·3 min
Kerala High Court Seeks Expert Opinion on Substitutability of Patented Breast Cancer Drugs
The Kerala High Court has directed expert bodies to examine whether a cheaper, locally manufactured...
Jul 15, 2026·4 min
Rajasthan High Court Notes Alarming Decline in Camel Population
The division bench of the Rajasthan High Court has expressed concern over the sharp fall...
Jul 15, 2026·2 min
Delhi 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...
Jul 14, 2026·3 min
Supreme Court Issues Notice to HD Revanna in Karnataka's Challenge to Discharge in Outraging Modesty Case
The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice K Vinod Chandran issued notice...
Jul 13, 2026·4 min
Calcutta High Court Holds Punjab National Bank Liable to Compensate Farmers for Crop Insurance Failure
The Calcutta High Court has held Punjab National Bank liable to compensate a group of...
Jul 13, 2026·2 min
Allahabad High Court Grants Status Quo in Dispute Over 150‑Year‑Old Methodist School Land
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, sitting specially on a Sunday, directed the...
Jul 13, 2026·3 min
Allahabad High Court Clarifies Maintenance Entitlement Under Section 125 CrPC When Prior Marriage Subsists
The Allahabad High Court has held that a woman who enters into a relationship without...
Jul 13, 2026·4 min
Chhattisgarh High Court Rules That Sole Reliance on Web Portals for Recruitment Notices Violates Statutory Mandate for Physical Notice
The Court held that where a government circular requires communication of document‑verification dates by registered...
Jul 12, 2026·3 min
President Of Municipal Council Cannot Be Individually Held Liable For Decision Taken By Council: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that the President and the Chief Municipal Officer of...
Jul 12, 2026·3 min
Delhi High Court to Hear Visitation Plea in Pet Custody Dispute Next Week
The Delhi High Court has fixed a hearing for the coming week to consider Mahua...
Jul 12, 2026·4 min
Madras High Court Clarifies RTI Applicability to Private Unaided Schools
The Madras High Court has held that private unaided schools are not public authorities under...
Jul 12, 2026·3 min
Kerala High Court Dismisses Contempt Petition Against DySP After Police Inquiry Finds No Grounds
The Kerala High Court has closed a contempt petition filed by film producer Sheela Kurian...
Jul 12, 2026·4 min
Karnataka High Court Upholds FIR in Land Grabbing Case Against Former Minister
The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a 2017 FIR lodged against former minister...
Jul 12, 2026·3 min
Karnataka High Court Issues Notice on Parallel Electoral Roll Revision Plea
The Karnataka High Court has issued notice to the State Election Commission on a writ...
Jul 12, 2026·3 min
Supreme Court Upholds Rejection of Operational Creditor's Insolvency Plea Against Essar Power Gujarat
The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal challenging the NCLAT order that refused to admit an...
Jul 12, 2026·3 min
Kerala High Court Seeks State's Response to PILs Challenging Waqf Board Constitution
The Division Bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V.M. has directed...
Jul 10, 2026·4 min
Karnataka High Court Hears Challenge to Ticket Price Cap
Multiplex Association and other stakeholders tell the court that the state lacks power to fix...
Jul 10, 2026·3 min
Kerala Police Defends 11 p.m. DJ Restriction Before High Court
Kerala Police submitted a counter affidavit before the Kerala High Court defending its restriction on...
Jul 10, 2026·4 min
Delhi Court Orders Disciplinary Action Against Police Officers for Mishandling Murder Investigation
Judicial Magistrate First Class Bharti Beniwal directs Commissioner of Police to take action against investigating...
Jul 10, 2026·4 min
Gauhati High Court Upholds Foreigners Tribunal Declaration
The Gauhati High Court has affirmed the order of a Foreigners Tribunal that declared a...
Jul 10, 2026·2 min
J&K&L High Court Quashes Preventive Detention Order Under Public Safety Act
The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has set aside a preventive detention...
Jul 10, 2026·3 min
Karnataka High Court Grants Interim Stay in US Tourist Rape Case
The Karnataka High Court has stayed proceedings against a Kodagu homestay owner charged under the...
Jul 10, 2026·3 min
Allahabad High Court Holds Shariat Law Permitting Marriage at Puberty Conflicts with POCSO and PCMA
The bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Achal Sachdev dismissed a writ petition seeking...
Jul 9, 2026·4 min
Vehicle Cannot Be Kept In Police Custody Throughout NDPS Trial Merely Because It May Be Confiscated: J&K&L High Court
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that the mere fact that...
Jul 9, 2026·4 min
Jharkhand High Court Quashes FIR Against BDO Over Alleged Instigation to Suicide
The court held that addressing a Panchayat Secretary with the colloquial terms ‘tum‑tam’ or ‘mere‑tere’...
Jul 9, 2026·4 min
Jharkhand High Court Quashes Constable's Dismissal Over Alleged Adulterous Relationship
The High Court set aside the removal of a Jharkhand Armed Police constable after finding...
Jul 9, 2026·4 min
Calcutta High Court Flags Public Parading of Accused as Impermissible
The Calcutta High Court orally observed that the practice of publicly parading an accused person...
Jul 9, 2026·4 min
Madhya Pradesh High Court Clarifies Scope of Default Bail for Absconding Accused
The Court held that a chargesheet filed while the accused was absconding obviates the need...
Jul 8, 2026·3 min
MP High Court Sets Aside POCSO Conviction Relying Solely on DNA Evidence
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that a conviction under the Protection of Children...
Jul 8, 2026·3 min
Trial Court Cannot Place Entire Burden of Proving Husband’s Income on Wife: Madhya Pradesh High Court Grants Maintenance
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set aside a trial court’s order that placed the...
Jul 8, 2026·3 min
Karnataka High Court Denies Visitation Rights to Father Who Relinquished Them in Mediated Divorce Settlement
The single judge bench held that a father who voluntarily gave up his visitation rights...
Jul 8, 2026·3 min
