Judgements

The prayer in this petition is for quashing of an FIR No.52 dated 02.04.2024 (Annexure P-1) registered under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC, 1860 (Sections 465, 468, 471 and 120-B IPC added later on) at Police Station City Nawanshahar, District SBS Nagar along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of a compromise arrived at between the petitioners and respondent No.2.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 139 CRM-M-54974-2025 (O & M) Date of decision: 10.03.2026 AKIL SHAMSHUDDIN SHAIKH ALIAS AKIL SHAIKH

This appeal takes exception to the judgment and order dated 28th February 2024 passed by a learned Single Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Madras by which a bail application preferred by the appellant under Section 439…

1 Nine judges of this Court assembled to determine whether privacy is a constitutionally protected value. The issue reaches out to the foundation of a constitutional culture based on the protection of human rights and enables this Court to revisit the basic principles on which our Constitution has…

Heard Mr. Shekhar Naphade, learned senior counsel for the petitioner, learned Attorney General for India for the Union of India Mr. Vahanvati, Mr. T. R. Andhyarujina, learned Senior Counsel, whom we had appointed as amicus curiae, Mr. Pallav Sisodia, learned senior counsel for the Dean, KEM Hospital…

The cases in this batch raise common issues relating to the identification of ‘creamy layer’ among the Backward Classes in the State of Kerala and the implementation of the Union of India ( 1992 (Suppl) 3, SCC 217).

Constitution of India, 1950:

Article 32-Environmental and air pollution-Control of- Operation of mechanical crushers-Stoppage of-Allotment of sites in the newly set-up crushing zone-Directions issued.

Code of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (Act II of 1974) Sections 125(1) (a) and Explanation (b) thereunder, Section 125 (3) and the Explanation, under the proviso thereto and section 127 (3) (b), scope and interpretation of-Correctness of three Judges.’

In the Directive Principles, however, one finds an even clearer statement of the social revolution. They aim at making the Indian masses free in the positive sense, free from the passivity engendered by centuries of coercion by society and by nature, free from the abject physical conditions that had prevented them from fulfilling their best selves.

There is no better safeguard than the character of the citizen, the character of the legislature, the faith of the people in the representatives and the responsibility of the representatives to the nation.