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The Supreme Court said employers would be wary of recruiting women if menstrual leave was made mandatory, adding that it was better if the government took a call on the matter.

The prosecution opposed the bail plea, submitting that the petitioner had committed a heinous offence and was responsible for the pregnancy of the minor.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed the termination of a disabled woman peon, holding the order stigmatic and directing reinstatement with consequential benefits but without back wages.

Hearing the plea of a Group-D peon whose promotion was halted because he had acquired higher education without the authorities' nod, the Orissa High Court also quoted lines from Shakespeare's famous play 'Henry VI'.

The Supreme Court said the moment a menstrual leave policy was introduced as a compulsory condition, it could do a lot of damage to women's careers.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court suspended the sentence of a 73-year-old PMLA convict pending appeal and directed him to plant 20 saplings and maintain them for a year.

The petitioner has not even deposited the previous penalty of Rs 50,000 imposed by the trial court earlier, the Delhi High Court noted.

The defence also cited historical records of various irrigation projects in the Telugu states to show that the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project had the lowest escalation factor.

Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a plea seeking land benefits linked to WWII George Medals, citing an unexplained delay of over seven decades.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court noted that the home guard sainik was discharged from service following a criminal case in a matrimonial dispute. 

The Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed an order by the Jammu Municipal Corporation for a fresh safety audit, saying closure of shops despite safety findings violated shopkeepers’ right to livelihood.

The Air India housing colony eviction case saw the Bombay High Court dismiss employees’ appeals and uphold eviction orders for unauthorised occupation of airport premises.

THE SUPREME Court on Thursday granted bail to Pawan Bishnoi and Jagtar Singh, accused in the May 29, 2022 case of killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep

The top court also directed the registry to file fresh suo moto case on issues concerning air pollution in NCR

The body of the six-year-old victim girl was found in bushes near a Zilla Parishad (ZP) school in a village in Pune district on August 3, 2022.

In January, the Supreme Court said that it would order expediting the proceedings as Gadling remains behind bars for seven years since his arrest in 2019, with the trial yet to commence.

The plea also sought directions to authorities to ensure that LPG available within the country is “first allocated and supplied for domestic distribution, servicing export commitments during the prevailing period of supply disruption.”

The Karnataka High Court pointed out the six-year delay in the ED's action and the dangers of designating properties as "proceeds of crime" long after a case is closed.

Court orders government to refund amount of pension cut imposed on Shaikh along with an interest of 6% per annum by May 15, 2026, failing which, a penalty of Rs 50,000 will be imposed

Punjab and Haryana High Court was hearing the second bail plea of Prabhdeep Singh accused of reconnaissance (reiki) and disclosing the location of Moose Wala to the main accused.

IPS officer M Chandrashekar, who heads the Lokayukta Special Investigation Team, is investigating illegal mining cases in which H D Kumaraswamy is an accused.

The Delhi High Court noted that the man’s children, who are British nationals, have been residing in Delhi with their mother for the last two years.

The bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant was not inclined when petitioner Ashish Ray’s counsel said Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's only daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff, who lives in Austria, was appearing online and

The Punjab and Haryana High Court denied bail in a spurious liquor death case, stressing that prolonged trial delays erode public trust and risk turning justice delayed into justice doubted.

The High Court also directed the hospital to provide continuous medical supervision and appropriate antenatal care for the sexual assault victim until delivery.