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Bombay High Court Issues Rule in Criminal Contempt Reference Against Accused for Threatening and Scandalizing Metropolitan Magistrate. Persistent Harassment, Intimidation, and Obstructing Judicial Proceedings Prima Facie Constitute Criminal Contempt Under Section 2(c) of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

The matter arose from a criminal contempt reference made by the Metropolitan Magistrate, 17th Court, Borivali, Mumbai, under Section 15(2) of the Cont...

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Supreme Court Sets Aside Ante-Dated High Court Order for Breach of Judicial Discipline. Oral Dismissal Without Reserving Reasons Renders Court Functus Officio; Subsequent Reasoned Order After Over a Year is Invalid.

The Supreme Court dealt with a civil appeal arising from an order of the Gujarat High Court dated 1st March 2023, which dismissed a Special Civil Appl...

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Bombay High Court Allows Appeal in Copyright Infringement Case, Restrains Defendants from Selling Allegedly Copied Books. Court finds prima facie case of substantial copying of plaintiff's literary works on Indian Economy and Polity by former students.

The appellant, Ranjan Vasudeo Kolambe, filed a Commercial Appeal From Order under Section 13 of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, challenging the judgm...

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Supreme Court Rejects Recusal Plea in Land Acquisition Reference. Judge Who Decided Smaller Bench Can Sit in Larger Bench to Reconsider Same Issue as Bias Plea Based on Extrajudicial Factors.

This order arises from a reference to a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India concerning the interpretation of Section 24 of the...

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Bombay High Court Allows Public Interest Litigation and Quashes Sedition Charge Against Cartoonist. Freedom of Speech and Expression Under Article 19(1)(a) Protects Political Satire and Cartoons Unless They Incite Violence or Public Disorder.

The present Public Interest Litigation was filed by Sanskar Marathe, a practicing advocate, challenging the arrest of Assem Trivedi, a political carto...

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Supreme Court Hears Appeal on Limitation Issue Regarding Temple Property Alienations. High Court had applied Art. 134-B of Limitation Act, 1908 and rejected adverse possession claim since alienor was alive.

The dispute concerned lands granted in inam to a temple. By 1929, the manager of the temple had sold all the properties through various sale deeds and...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal Against High Court's Contempt Proceedings — Impleadment of Sitting Judge Not Permissible in Suo Motu Contempt. Filing of Scandalous Application Against Judge Constitutes Fresh Contempt and Professional Misconduct.

The appellant,  an advocate, filed Criminal Writ Petition No.1612 of 2025 before the Bombay High Court on behalf of his client seeking a CBI inve...

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Supreme Court Upholds BCCI's Amenability to Writ Jurisdiction and Applies Public Law Principles to Direct Structural Reforms. Lodha Committee Recommendations for Amending BCCI's Memorandum of Association and Rules to Prevent Conflict of Interest and Ensure Transparency Considered.

The Supreme Court of India, in a sequel to its earlier order dated 22 January 2015 in BCCI v. Cricket Association of Bihar, considered the report and ...