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Registering your marriage — what state portals require
A hundred and fifty villagers objected in writing. Himachal Pradesh High Court grants the life convict parole anyway
Justice Rakesh Kainthla holds that an objection from the victim's side or from local residents cannot by itself decide a parole application, and that the authority must apply an independent mind.
Twenty years of teaching on eleven-month contracts: Andhra Pradesh High Court orders regularisation from the date of first appointment
Justice Balaji Medamalli holds that the label attached to an engagement cannot decide a regularisation claim where the duties are perennial and discharged against a sanctioned vacancy.
A grounds-of-arrest challenge has a shelf life: Allahabad High Court holds Article 22 cannot be invoked once charges are framed
Justice Manish Mathur accepts that a second arrest in custody is a fresh arrest and that an Article 22(1) breach vitiates remand, then holds the remedy expires when the Section 167 stage does.
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Supreme Court holds police who breach Article 22 cannot decide on re-arrest themselves, and orders the judgment sent to every DGP
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Supreme Court orders a fresh investigation into a 2012 rape and murder, barring every officer who handled it before
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Supreme Court faults all three courts below on preliminary issues and sends a suit filed in 2013 back for trial
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Supreme Court restores a charge-sheet extension, holding the High Court read one sentence out of context
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Supreme Court sets aside a Rs 2.4 crore fire insurance award that brushed aside both surveyors' reports
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Hohfeldian Rights and the Sloppy Indian Use of "Right"
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Centre Notifies Appointment Of Nine Lawyers As Judges Of Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Central Government notified the appointment of nine advocates as Additional Judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
SC Collegium Recommends Four New High Court Chief Justices, Two Judge Transfers
A single Collegium meeting reshuffles leadership at four major High Courts and moves two Orissa HC judges out — one to Gujarat, one to Chhattisgarh.
BCI Bars, Reverses and Finally Drops Enrolment Case Against NALSAR's 2026 Batch After CJI Calls the Move "Uncalled For"
For a few hours on 13 August, every law graduate of NALSAR University of Law's 2026 batch was, on paper, unemployable as a lawyer anywhere in India. By the next morning, the ban was gone, the inquiry behind it was gone too, and the Chief Justice of India had told the regulator that ordered it all that it had "no busine