Editorial Team 
The Karnataka High Court has restored the Union government’s claim to land used by the Indian Air Force at Yelahanka, reversing a lower court ruling that favoured a private claimant. In its 28 September decision, the appellate bench examined a 1943 acquisition notice, a 1944 survey, compensation records, a village map and the Military Land … Read more
Restaurants in Uttar Pradesh cannot provide hookah service even inside designated smoking areas, the Allahabad High Court ruled on 29 September, dismissing a group of challenges brought by operators. The court drew a distinction between permitting a person to smoke in a designated area and a business preparing, supplying and maintaining a hookah there. An … Read more
India’s Supreme Court has set aside the preventive detention of Mulla Afroz, an accused in the 2024 Sambhal violence, and ordered Uttar Pradesh to pay him ₹10 lakh within a month. The 29 September judgment found that authorities had used allegations already under criminal investigation to justify a separate detention under the National Security Act. … Read more
The Supreme Court on 28 September stayed a Delhi High Court ruling that had upheld a tax search and seizure at an advocate’s office. A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu issued notice, returnable in four weeks, and suspended the challenged order until the next hearing. The court also modified the advocate’s immediate … Read more
The Supreme Court opened suo motu proceedings on 28 September after reports of sexual violence across Delhi-NCR raised broader questions about public safety. The bench framed safe access to public spaces as part of Article 21, while making clear that individual criminal responsibility remains for investigation and trial. Within four weeks, Delhi Police must deploy … Read more
The Kerala High Court has held that Section 100 of the Patents Act permits the Union government to use a patented invention to make a medicine and sell it on a non-commercial basis, including to a needy patient. In a 28 September judgment in a suo motu case on pricing of life-saving medicines, Justice Harisankar … Read more
The Supreme Court has directed Meerut authorities to begin action against 16,726 unauthorised structures identified in Zone A, ordering occupants to vacate before the premises are sealed and demolished. The 21 September order also requires demolition of 24 remaining sealed properties and 138 setback violations. Officials must submit fuller data for Zones B, C and … Read more
The Supreme Court has dismissed two long-running appeals between the National Highways Authority of India and Hindustan Construction Company. In the first, the Court found no error of law or fact in the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s decision and rejected NHAI’s challenge. The second concerned a High Court ruling under Section 37 of the … Read more
The Supreme Court has granted anticipatory bail to Jaison Varghese in a Kerala case alleging criminal breach of trust, cheating and common intention. Varghese joined the investigation following an earlier direction from the Court. The judges also recorded that a co-accused had already obtained bail. Those two considerations—cooperation and parity—were sufficient to set aside the … Read more
The Supreme Court has granted regular bail to Liton Roy after seven months in custody in a West Bengal prosecution that includes an allegation under Section 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The Court said, on a preliminary view, that the case appeared to involve a relationship that had turned sour. It also recorded that … Read more
