Dealing with a suo moto case concerning the plight of a minor rape victim, the Gauhati High Court has stayed a trial court's order grating the victim's custody to accused's sister-in-law after observing that the same will not be in

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that the act of an accused to take off his own and victim's trousers, in the absence of penetration, does not amount to 'attempt to rape' within the meaning of Section 376/511

The Delhi High Court has notified new nomenclature in respect of the matters relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) coming into force with immediate effect. The High Court had recently established the Intellectual Property Division (IPD) to deal with all

The Delhi High Court has asked CBSE to consider as representation a petition for refund of fees collected by the authority for conducting class 12th Board examinations, that were cancelled vide order dated June 1, on account of second wave

The Madras High Court affirmed the orders of a lower court convicting and sentencing an auto-rickshaw driver to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for abducting and sexually molesting a visually challenged woman. Opining on the probative value of the testimony

The Delhi High Court has issued notice on plea seeking issuance of guidelines or rules to be framed against the crypto currency exchanges in India advertising on televisions without adequate standardized disclaimers. A division bench comprising of Chief Justice DN

The Jharkhand High Court has held that in the absence of any allegation of deception, false promise, or inducement at the time of the transaction, merely the breach of undertaking to repay the loan in the manner claimed cannot be

A petition has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking directions on the Centre to formulate a policy for protection of children from online gaming addition as well as constitution of a regulatory body to monitor gaming content, including

Observing that the Court's powers to summon any person under section 311 of the CrPC cannot be used to tie loose ends in the prosecuting agency's case, the Bombay High Court has set aside a trial judge's order recalling a

The Central Government has invited suggestions for Draft Drone Rules to regulate Drone Related Activities. These Rules, when notified, will repeal the Unmanned Aircraft System Rules 2021 which had come into force earlier this year. Objections and suggestions are invited

The Reserve Bank of India barred the US-based card network Mastercard from onboarding new domestic debit, credit or prepaid customers on its card network in India from 22 July onwards. The central bank’s supervisory action on Mastercard is citing its

The Reserve Bank came out with draft guidelines allowing primary urban cooperative banks (UCBs) to augment capital through issuance of equity shares, preference shares and debt instruments. The UCBs, it said, could raise share capital by issue of equity to

The Calcutta High Court vide order dated 22.6.21 explained in detail the distinction in the nature of relief between a 'temporary injunction' under Order XXXIX Rule 1 and an order for 'attachment before judgment' under Order XXXVIII Rule 5 of

Observing that the wife's decision to remain in Canada, where she settled with the couple’s son is not "unjustified" or "selfish," the Bombay High Court refused to grant a divorce to a 44-year-old engineer alleging cruelty and desertion following his

The Kerala High Court decided in a pension recovery matter that the Law of Limitation only bars judicial remedy, and that the substantive right itself survives and continues to be available in other ways and clarified that the rules of

A writ petition has been filed before the Calcutta High Court challenging the constitutional validity of Rule 86A of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017 (CGST Rules) and its concurrent provision in the state legislation i.e. the West

The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that the effect of a valid remarriage is that the widow loses her right in the property inherited from her previous husband and that the same cannot be said to be established unless strictly

The RBI's ban on selling new credit cards has impacted market share on an incremental basis, HDFC Bank said, promising to get back to the market "with a bang" once the "temporal" embargo is lifted and recoup the losses. The bank's

Entry of the so-called Big Tech companies in financial services in emerging markets such as India could present challenges to regulators towards maintaining adequate stability and governance of the ecosystem, the Reserve Bank of India said. The central bank flagged

The Madhya Pradesh High Court observed that compelling a married woman to live in her parental home after marriage amounts to cruelty and that for this reason, it cannot be said that she was living seperately without reasonable reason. The

The Madras High Court has held that the limitation prescribed under Section 23 of the Registration Act, 1908, for presenting documents will not stand attracted insofar as an order or decree passed by a Court is concerned. The provision stipulates