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The Court expressed serious concern over the Income Tax Department’s failure to release seized cash and jewellery even after adjustment of the tax demand and completion of requisite formalities, observing that such prolonged inaction reflected red-tapism and high-handedness on the part of the authorities.
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The Court clarified that the safeguards against arrest laid down in Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273 shall be strictly followed. No live-in partner or relative should be arrested without the mandated preliminary safeguards.
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The Bombay High Court restored a food business licence suspended under the proviso to Section 32(3), Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, holding that once fresh inspections conducted pursuant to the Court’s orders demonstrated 95 per cent compliance and graded the establishment as “Compliance/Satisfactory”, continuance of the suspension no longer served the preventive object for which it had originally been imposed.
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The appellant, a first-time blood donor, was hospitalised for seven days after developing a pseudoaneurysm and compartment syndrome following a blood donation procedure. The appellant’s claim, initially dismissed by the Sessions Court, ultimately came before the Malaya High Court on appeal.
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The Delhi High Court restrained unauthorised use of Yuvraj Singh’s name, image, voice and likeness, including through AI-generated content, deepfakes and commercial exploitation.
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A paper mill’s new owner took over under an approved resolution plan, but the electricity board still wanted over ₹2.5 crore in old dues and surcharges before switching the power back on. The Calcutta High Court said the clean slate principle doesn’t have exceptions for electricity bills.
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The Court noted that the respondent was dragged unnecessarily to the High Court by a review prompted by the office of the Chief Minister. The State ought to have accepted the High Court’s interference with a “patently illegal and blatantly tainted” sanction order.
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A woman cleared the written exam for Forest Guard and Wildlife Guard recruitment, nine months pregnant at the time, was told there was no rule allowing her physical test to be postponed. The Allahabad High Court disagreed, holding that no woman should have to choose between motherhood and a job.
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Written statement was e-filed within 44 days from the receipt of the complaint which was beyond 30 days prescribed time-limit but the delay beyond 30 days held to be extendable if sufficient cause explained, thus making the prescribed period to be of 45 days. The written statement was thus filed within the prescribed period.
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The High Courts observed that criminal prosecution of any person is a serious matter as it affects the liberty of that person.
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Supreme Court awarded ₹15 lakhs compensation to the widow of a man who died after a stray bull attack, holding that relegating the claimants to a civil suit after nearly 2 decades would leave them “remediless”.
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The present application arose because the earlier order did not expressly refer to 39 short videos and 5 English-language videos that were mentioned in Para 10 of the plaint, although according to Isha Foundation these videos formed part of the original cause of action and contained content substantially identical to the impugned videos already directed to be taken down.
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The Supreme Court said that there cannot be a presumption in law that, after marriage, a daughter severs her ties with her parental family and resides with husband in her matrimonial home and that any classification differentiating a daughter from a son is, per se, unconstitutional
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The Court reiterated the golden rule of law that when a specific statutory provision to do certain act is codified under the statute, such an act must be and should be done in the same manner as codified under the statute or not at all. Any other mode is expressly forbidden in law.
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The Court directed that the petitioner’s bank account be unfrozen holding that freezing the account at the instance of the cyber cell, on the basis of a single UPI transaction of ₹1000 from vendee, without notice and without following due process of law was unsustainable, contrary to law and illegal.
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The Court observed that arrest is not designed to operate as a punitive measure nor as an instrument for demonstrating the authority of the investigating agency.
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The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court ruled that maternity benefits cannot be curtailed based on the nature of employment and that withholding salary during maternity leave unfairly penalises motherhood.
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A 29-year-old woman was allegedly kept from leaving her own home for nearly three months, her phone and laptop taken away, after traveling to Manipur for what she believed were wedding preparations.
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The Court held applicable rules did not prescribe a mandatory requirement of 10ten years’’ continuous physical residence, and such a condition could not be introduced or enlarged through executive or administrative instructions.
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The Court observed that environmental adjudication requires reconciling 2 competing constitutional aspirations, the fundamental right of present and future generations to live in a pollution-free environment and the developmental aspirations of a nation comprising nearly one-sixth of humanity.
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