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Moquim had been sentenced to three years in jail by a special court in 2002 for being involved in fraudulently obtaining a loan of over ₹1 crore twice from the ORHDC. This verdict has now been upheld ...

The case dates back to 1996 in which a 16-year-old girl was said to have been raped by her neighbour who then allegedly assured that he would marry her. A trial court held the girl to be major and acq ...

The Court passed the direction to the medicos after finding it difficult to read a postmortem report in a snake bite case.

The Court granted a divorce decree to a man who claimed that his wife denied him physical intimacy for a long time and failed to consummate the marriage.

The Court said the municipality cannot be absolved of its liability to pay compensation on mere contention that there is no provision for it under the Orissa Municipal Act.

A Division Bench of Justices D Dash and G Satapathy applied the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Deepak Aggarwal v Kandeshav Kaushik Ors. and Dheeraj Mor v High Court of Delhi to arrive at the c ...

The Court said such practice reduces the women to "faceless sarpanches" at the grassroots politics and also deprives them of their agency, autonomy and voice in public affairs.

In response to the State's concerns that the speaker had made speeches that were hateful towards a certain religion in the past, the Court said that the freedom of speech could not be curtailed merely ...

The Collegium took into consideration the fact that the Patna High Court lacked representation among Chief Justices of High Courts at present.

The Court made the observation while accepting the apology of a notary public who told the Court that he had issued a marriage certificate because he was ignorant that he did not have the authority to ...

"Due to such extra-legal and subterfuge arrangements by Notaries, parties are made to believe that they are legally married when in fact their marriage do not have even the slightest of legal sanctity ...

The Supreme Court Collegium had, on August 17, recommended the appointment of Advocate Sibo Sankar Mishra and judicial officer Ananda Behera as judges. The same has been cleared by the Central governm ...