[ High Courts ]
The Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur enhanced compensation under the Fatal Accident Act after a man died touching a snapped AVVNL wire, holding the trial court's award wholly symbolic and oblivious to the family's prolonged displacement.
2026-05-22 · 6 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran holds that penalty for failing to demonstrate declared generation capacity is a civil strict-liability obligation, distinct from gaming.
2026-05-21 · 9 min read
[ The Republic ]
M.C. Mehta gave India a rule of absolute liability that walked away from Rylands v Fletcher. Forty years on, the rule has no limiting principle, no statutory home, and an enforcement record that rides on it as if it were settled law.
2026-05-12 · 22 min read