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“The right to human life is to be treated on a much higher pedestal, regardless of a citizen’s religious belief. The mere fact that the petitioners are living in an interfaith relationship would not deprive them of their fundamental right as envisaged in the Constitution, being citizens of India.”
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“The capacity to earn and actual earning are distinct concepts, and as per settled law, mere capacity to earn cannot be a ground to deny maintenance. The real test is whether the wife is actually earning.”
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The present writ petition was filed by an advocate seeking provision of amenities for specially abled persons to access the Court premises.
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“The respondent has neither challenged the rankings made by the ranking agencies, nor has it exercised its right to be forgotten by making a request to Google to efface its existence from the Google search results.”
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“The appellants have admitted in the plaint that they have been using the suit premises for the purposes of their trade and commerce for the last more than 10 years. When the parties entered into the said agreement to sell in respect of the suit premises, appellants were in possession of the shops as tenants and were using the same even then for their trade and commerce.”
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“The plea of the property being ancestral does not ipso facto grants immunity from attachment under the PMLA.”
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To the extent that the course studies would begin in July, the Court held that there was no occasion to allow for revision of the entire merit list on the strength of a single challenge.
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“Having slept over the matter for that length of time, the DoT cannot take advantage of its own lassitude and seek to mulct upon the respondent interest liability for that period.”
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“Because of the order restoring status-quo ante as operating prior to 18 December 2010, the petitioner continued to be an employee of Memon Co-operative Bank Ltd. and was entitled to all the benefits which were available to other employees who were absorbed by Bank of Baroda on amalgamation.”
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“An advocate with over 40 years of legal practice is expected to show greater restraint, if not circumspection, as he is as much an officer of the Court as the Judge presiding over it.”
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The Court held that extension of the investigation period under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999, by a Link Judge, during the absence of the designated Special Judge, does not render custody illegal or entitle the accused to default bail.
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Public dissemination of allegations by a PSU employee through social media may attract disciplinary consequences. However, where misconduct does not demonstrate corruption or moral turpitude, severance from service violates the doctrine of proportionality.
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“Present case appears to be a case of mental depravity arising out of sibling jealousy, which needs to be addressed before it takes unruly dimensions in the society.”
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“It is clear that the landlord has established the requirement as pleaded and subsequent developments are not such as to completely eclipse or extinguish the bona fide requirement.”
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The Court on 20 February 2026, had requested the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court to spare some serving judicial officers, along with some former judicial officers in the rank of District Judges/Additional District Judges, to revisit and dispose of the pending claims under the category of “logical discrepancy/unmapped category”.
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“During this long period of silence, the petitioner/assessee was entitled to proceed on the reasonable belief that the matter had attained finality and reopening it after nearly a decade frustrates legitimate expectations.”
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“Section 70(3) BNSS states that all summons served through electronic communication under Sections 64 to 71 BNSS shall be considered as duly served and a copy of such electronic summons shall be attested and kept as a proof of service of summons.”
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“Once the infringing goods were available for sale, the tort of infringement, which predicates use of the infringed mark, or a mark which is deceptively similar thereto, for trade, stood committed.”
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“The contention that the marriage could not take place due to non-matching of kundalis appears inconsistent with his own conduct and representations made over the years. If the issue of kundali matching was indeed of such determinative importance for the applicant and his family, the same should have been resolved at the threshold before entering into physical relations.”
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“The Act was legislated in order to give an element of protection to transgender persons, who on account of circumstances beyond their control were born into bodies not aligned with their identities. The social ostracism of such people had led the Parliament to enact the special statute.”
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