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Bar  and   Bench 09 April 2026
The Bombay High Court at Goa has quashed the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) notification for the conduct of a byelection at Ponda to fill the legislative assembly seat left vacant following the demise of Congress MLA Ravi Naik on October 15, 2025 (Pritam Harmalkar v. Election Commission...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 06 April 2026
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered the restoration of a recently blocked satirical X (formerly Twitter) account that goes by the name Dr. Nimo Yadav.    Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, however, added that certain tweets flagged as objectionable by the Central government will remain...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 April 2026
In a significant ruling that could have wide implications for redevelopment transactions in Mumbai and other urban centres, the income-tax appellate tribunal (ITAT) has held that a flat received in exchange for surrender of tenancy rights cannot be taxed as income from other sources under...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 April 2026
Warning that the proposed changes could significantly undermine free speech and expand executive control over digital content, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) has expressed strong concerns over the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second...

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KBS Sidhu 02 April 2026
Happy New Financial Year — and Welcome to the New Income Tax Act   1 April 2026 is not merely the start of a new financial year. It is the date on which India’s tax administration crossed a generational threshold. The Income Tax Act, 2025, has come into force today, replacing the...

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Grace Anu  and   Edgar Kaiser (The Leaflet) 02 April 2026
Custodial violence has been a never-ending saga in India. Recent figures from the NHRC reveal that only since the beginning of this year, as of March 15, there had been 170 recorded custodial deaths. During this time, Tamil Nadu has seen a series of 4 custodial tortures leading to death. Under...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 April 2026
The Supreme Court of India told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that it does not maintain judge-specific information about allegations of corruption or misconduct.    Advocate Rukhmini Bobde appeared for the public information officer of the Supreme Court and stated that even collating such...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 March 2026
The BrihanMumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) has cancelled a key tender to lease the Cumballa Hill officers’ quarters, A and B wings, citing administrative reasons, in a development that comes amid growing scrutiny over land monetisation in south Mumbai. In October 2025, activists and...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 24 March 2026
Only persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist faiths can claim Scheduled Caste status and conversion to any other faith like Christianity will result in the converted person losing Scheduled Caste status, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday.   Thus, a Dalit person who converts to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned that the ongoing conflict in West Asia is likely to have prolonged global and domestic consequences, urging the country to remain united, vigilant and prepared to deal with emerging challenges. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the PM says the...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 23 March 2026
  Had Adam Gondvi (1947-2011) been alive, he would say, “In your executive, legislative, judicial and editorial files, Aadhaar number online database may appear rosy, but this data is fake, this is filish.”     In his book Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1909),...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 23 March 2026
  Had Adam Gondvi (1947-2011) been alive, he would say, “In your executive, legislative, judicial and editorial files, Aadhaar number online database may appear rosy, but this data is fake, this is filish.”     In his book Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1909),...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 March 2026
In an order which could have significant ramifications, the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to conduct a comprehensive verification of all persons engaged in hawking activities across Mumbai including those alleged to be foreign nationals or...

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KBS Sidhu 20 March 2026
With its proposed 2026 amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), the Indian government is no longer content with merely tracking foreign contributions. By seeking control over assets created from such funds when licences lapse, it signals a deeper shift in the balance...

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Sometime back, the newspapers carried a photograph of a new highway road of four lanes, which then gets narrowed to two lanes, when it comes to a long bridge across the river. This causes endless chaos when the traffic from four lanes gets to the narrow start of the bridge. How could such a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 March 2026
Updated at 12.30pm on 17 March 2026 to include a clarification from MoPNG.   The West Asia war and the resulting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supply crisis have given the government a powerful new justification for doing what it has been attempting, with mixed legal success, for years:...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 March 2026
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court (HC) has refused to quash a corruption case against an advocate accused of persuading his client to pay a bribe to police officers, holding that the legal profession carries a high ethical responsibility and cannot be used to exploit clients.   In a

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2026
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports highlighting the increasing number of missing persons and the low rate of tracing them in several states, raising serious concerns about possible human rights violations.   In a statement, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2026
Following complaints from transport associations of harassment, bribery demands and unlawful vehicle detention by traffic personnel, Maharashtra's additional director general of police (traffic) has issued a state-wide circular directing officers to end coercive e-challan recovery practices,...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 10 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central government to frame a policy to compensate those who suffer from serious adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccine.   A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta added that the compensation must be provided on a no-fault basis.    "Union of...

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