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The Kerala High Court has held that when an accused is arrested outside the territorial jurisdiction of the case and produced before the nearest Magistrate for transit remand, the constitutional and statutory safeguards governing arrest must be complied with before such production. The Court ruled that the grounds of arrest must be communicated not only

At first glance, Jyothy Labs v. Dabur looks like a fairly straightforward trademark dispute over the use of “NEEM” on toothpaste packaging. But beneath the favourable factual matrix lies a shakier doctrinal foundation, particularly on essential-feature protection, the descriptive–suggestive divide, and passing off. In this post, Harsh Kashyap examines how the Bombay High Court reached

The Constitution empowers the State to make laws, regulate conduct, maintain public order and pursue legitimate social objectives. But constitutional power is not unlimited. Even when the State acts for a lawful purpose, the means adopted cannot be excessive, arbitrary or more restrictive than necessary. This principle lies at the heart of the doctrine of

This post has been co-authored with Charan Ashok. Charan is a fifth-year B.A., LL.B (Hons) student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The Delivery of Books Act, 1956 (“DB Act”), one of India’s most forgotten statutes, has been amended via the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act 2026. The said Amendment Act

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

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

“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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