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Bar  and   Bench 12 November 2025
The Allahabad High Court recently stressed that the authorities, particularly the police, must ensure that the verification required for the issuance of passports is completed within a month (Rahimuddin Vs. Union Of India And Another).   Taking note of the timeline - 30 working days for new...

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The recent Parth Pawar land grab deal created enough of a controversy to lift the veil on a larger problem. The deal involved transfer of 40 acres of government land in Pune, reserved for the scheduled caste community, to a firm linked to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s son for just Rs300...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 November 2025
A powerful explosion near Delhi's Red Fort Metro Station on Monday evening killed at least 10 people and left 24 others injured, sending shockwaves across the capital and prompting a nationwide security alert. The high-intensity blast, which tore through parked cars near gate no1 of the metro...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 10 November 2025
Indian roads are increasingly becoming more dangerous for its most vulnerable users, an IndiaSpend analysis of national data shows. In a decade to 2023, road accident deaths increased 24% to about 173,000, but pedestrian deaths nearly tripled, those of two-wheeler riders nearly doubled, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2025
The Supreme Court (SC) has ended a tenancy dispute that spanned more than seven decades, ruling in favour of landlord Jyoti Sharma in her eviction suit against tenants Vishnu Goyal and others. In its judgement on 11 September 2025, the bench comprising justice JK Maheshwari and justice K Vinod...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 07 November 2025
The Supreme Court recently directed all Motor Accident Claims Tribunals and High Courts across the country not to reject compensation claims of road accident victims on the ground of delay in filing such petitions [ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd. vs. Ayiti Navaneetha & Ors.].    A...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 07 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the State governments and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to ensure removal of stray animals from the highways across India [In Re: “City Hounded By Strays, Kids Pay Price” Versus The State Of Andhra Pradesh].    A bench of Justices Vikram...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 03 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed shock after it was informed that almost Rs3,000 crore have been extorted from people in cyber frauds, particularly digital arrest scams.   A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi called for stringent action to deal with the situation.   "It’s...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 31 October 2025
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled that the right to correct errors in Aadhaar data is both a statutory and fundamental right, and that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) must ensure that citizens can exercise this right without hardship. (Pushpam v....

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 30 October 2025
Religious practices that cause pollution or environmental harm cannot claim protection under Article 25 of the Constitution, former Supreme Court Justice Abhay S Oka said while urging citizens, governments and courts to rethink the ecological cost of festivals and faith-based customs.   "So...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 October 2025
Coming down heavily on the Maharashtra government for its 'gross negligence' in carrying out compensatory afforestation in Mumbai, the Supreme Court on Monday warned that all prior permissions for felling trees for infrastructure projects such as the Mumbai Metro and the Goregaon-Mulund Link...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 28 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central and State governments to complete the process of appointing Information Commissioners within three weeks. (Anjali Bharadwaj & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors.)    The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it had no reason to doubt...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 27 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday directed all States to file details of the first information reports (FIRs) registered by them with respect to digital arrest scams.   A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi also contemplated handing over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation...

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Nidhi Jamwal (IndiaSpend) 27 October 2025
There is an uneasy calm in Kuradiphasa village at the foothills of the Gandhamardhan Hills. “It is the calm before the storm,” says Himanjali Das, who belongs to the indigenous Kondh tribe.   Wearing a t-shirt and trousers, a watch strapped to her wrist, the youth leader in her 20s leans on...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 24 October 2025
अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति। (But persons who possess neither faith nor knowledge, and who...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 October 2025
Citizen groups and environmental activists in Mumbai have raised strong objections to the draft zonal master plan (ZMP) for the Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), released by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The 400-page draft, made public in...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 17 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response of the Central government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a suo motu case initiated over the rise of ‘digital arrest scams’ across India.   A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi today expressed that it was aghast...

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SN Thyagarajan  and   Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 15 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that the proposed ILS Hill Road, part of the Balbharati–Paud Phata link road planned through the Indian Law Society (ILS) campus and Law College Hill in Pune, shall not be constructed without first obtaining environmental clearance (EC). (Sushma Date v....

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 October 2025
Ordering a compensation of Rs6 lakh to be paid in every case where a person has died due to potholes or open manholes, the Bombay High Court (HC) says there can be 'no justification for bad roads' in Mumbai, India’s financial capital. The HC held that civic bodies and the state government are...

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Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu 14 October 2025
In this concluding part, Dr M Sridhar Acharyulu examines how the legislature, executive and judiciary have collectively undermined the spirit of transparency over two decades of the Right to Information Act. He also outlines what must be done to restore citizens’ right to know.   If part one...

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