The Allahabad High Court has acquitted the surviving appellant in Krishna Pal and Others v. State, nearly four decades after he was convicted under Section 396 IPC [Section 310(3) of BNS], finding that the prosecution evidence did not establish that the fatal attack on the deceased was committed in the course of a dacoity. Justice
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Case Summary: Mahavir @ Avnish v. State of Madhya Pradesh (2026) | Juvenility Claim Can Be Raised at Any Stage
In Mahavir @ Avnish v. State of Madhya Pradesh (2026), the Supreme Court of India dealt with an important intersection between the finality of criminal proceedings, the inherent powers of the High Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (now Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita), and the special
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“The petitioner was virtually treated as ‘spare capacity’, to be placed wherever a colleague could be persuaded to take her.” With these unusually stark words, the Delhi High Court captured a workplace problem that often remains hidden behind unchanged salaries, intact designations and apparently neutral restructuring decisions. The Court found that the petitioner’s position had
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[Ashwin Murthy is the Negative Emissions Fellow at Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] The climate crisis necessitates immediate action. The IPCC has made it clear that addressing climate change
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... Continue Reading.Madhya Pradesh High Court Acting Chief Justice Vivek Rusia Addresses DNLU Jabalpur Students
Jabalpur, September 3, 2026: Hon’ble Justice Vivek Rusia, Acting Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and Chancellor of Dharmashastra National Law University (DNLU), Jabalpur, delivered a special address to the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University on September 3, 2026. Addressing the students, Justice Vivek Rusia spoke about the opportunities offered by
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While upholding the age old maxim that, “Be you ever so high, the law stands above you”, we see that none other than the Delhi High Court in
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In light of the Copyright Office’s refusal to register Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI-generated artwork, holding that DABUS cannot be recognised as its author, Vikram Raj Nanda and Sumukhi Subramanian unpack the decision. They examine what it gets right on originality, authorship and ownership, and where its reasoning on human creative control and AI disclosure leaves
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