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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicHigh court

Topic: high court

HC dismisses Vodafone’s plea seeking refund of Rs 4,759 crore from I-T dept

Delhi HC declined to grant relief to Vodafone saying substantial outstanding demand was pending against the company.

Like Aarushi Talwar, no one killed Bibi Jagir Kaur’s daughter

The higher courts in both cases pointed out problems with trial court findings and reversed them.

New bill to be introduced in Parliament to change names of three high courts

The earlier bill ran into trouble as West Bengal and Tamil Nadu governments disagreed with it.

What happens when corruption scandals hit the Supreme Court? Nothing

Indian courts deal with corruption charges against its judges in two ways: Transfers or looking away

CJI Gogoi’s no leave formula for judges: Fighting backlog in courts or mere rhetoric?

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has asked chief justices and high court judges to not take leaves on working days to tackle the...

Judges order lawyer’s Facebook account to be deleted for contempt of court

Comments by Shimla-based lawyer Vikas Sanoria against a district court judge, who is daughter of a HC judge, also lands him in jail for a month.

70 years after independence, J&K High Court finally gets first woman CJ

Gita Mittal administered oath of by governor Vohra in Srinagar. While ex-CMs Farooq Abdullah and Omar attended the ceremony, Mehbooba Mufti was missing.

Placed low in seniority list, Justice K.M. Joseph won’t have say in HC judges’ appointment

Supreme Court itself has created and carefully nurtured a hierarchy among the judges.

Despite HC order, MP government allows 3 former BJP CMs to retain official bungalows

Chouhan government says ex-CMs paying rent at market rates, insists they made a case to stay.  New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh government’s decision to allow three...

Two Supreme Court benches. One case. Divergent views

The case — promotion of judges in lower judiciary — relates to a Punjab and Haryana HC order that the court itself has challenged.

On Camera

Tejaswi Yadav’s govt job promise in Bihar tells us about the real problem in India—unemployment

India's playing catch up in AI & green tech. It would gain more by focusing on manufacturing to fix the job crisis.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.