Writ Petition

Death by electrocution: Delhi High Court orders ₹10 lakh compensation on sympathetic grounds
Writ petitions cannot be filed against X Corp (Twitter): Delhi High Court
Supreme Court restores petition filed in 1987 before Uttarakhand High Court
South Asian University established by SAARC agreement; not State under Article 12: Delhi High Court
Writ petition under Article 226 maintainable even in contract cases if State fails to be fair or practices discrimination: Supreme Court
Availability of alternative remedy not absolute bar on maintainability of Article 226 petition: Supreme Court
Calcutta High Court orders probe against "bogus" petitioner who forged signature of woman to file petition
Bombay High Court quashes order blacklisting second hand sale of BS-IV compliant vehicles beyond Supreme Court deadline
Bombay High Court orders litigant to pay ₹25k costs to Kalamba prison for improving jail library
Don't register writ petition which does not set out specific grounds for relief: Bombay High Court to registry
Writ Petition by Gram Panchayat for protection of public property maintainable: Karnataka High Court
Father-son relation does not confer fundamental right to collect deceased son's preserved sperm: Calcutta High Court
State, through its inactivity, partly responsible for flood of writ petitions before Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court
Writ petition not maintainable against purely private body such as Mahindra Finance: Allahabad High Court
Miffed at adjournment plea after being made to do "homework", Delhi HC suggests name change for counsel
Suspension of Senior Adv Sanjay Hegde's Twitter Account: Writ petition not maintainable, Twitter tells Delhi HC
Writ Jurisdiction under Article 226 cannot replace ordinary alternative remedies, SC [Read Judgment]
Once negligence proved, inter se dispute not a ground for dismissing writ petition: Delhi HC
Calcutta High Court on the Doctrine of Merger
Delhi HC sets aside adjudication by SEBI in the absence of ‘opinion’ by Board
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