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1. 'Each deity has peculiar rituals': Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court

'Each deity has peculiar rituals': Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court New Delhi: The main priest of Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, whose custom of barring entry of menstruating women was struck down in

'Each deity has peculiar rituals': Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court

'Each deity has peculiar rituals': Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court New Delhi: The main priest of Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, whose custom of barring entry of menstruating women was struck down in 2018, on Friday told Supreme Court that the rights and wrongs of modes of idol worship, which is central to Hinduism, is judicially indeterminable when rituals are peculiar to each deity’s manifestation, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Appearing for the ‘thantri’, senior advocate V Giri told a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices B V Nagarathna, M M Sundresh, Ahsanuddin Amanulla, Aravind Kumar, A G Masih, P B Varale, R Mahadevan and J Bagchi that a person who challenges a particular mode of worship, ritual or custom peculiar to a deity is not a worshipper and, hence, courts should not entertain his petition challenging a ritual, unless that militates against public order, morality or health. “Every Hindu deity has characteristics of its own. The rituals and ceremonies followed in a temple would be either unique or at least peculiar to the temples which come under the same category. Rituals are always associated with the concept of the deity,” he said. Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan said the state’s right to enact laws to eradicate social evils and usher in reforms could not be extended to reform a religion, faith or belief.

2. Karnataka High Court upholds cancellation of school’s recognition for producing fake certificate and illegally running madarasa

Karnataka High Court upholds cancellation of school’s recognition for producing fake certificate and illegally running madarasa The Karnataka High Court has upheld the State government’s decision to c

Karnataka High Court upholds cancellation of school’s recognition for producing fake certificate and illegally running madarasa

Karnataka High Court upholds cancellation of school’s recognition for producing fake certificate and illegally running madarasa The Karnataka High Court has upheld the State government’s decision to cancel the recognition of a private school that had been functioning for 20 years. It was recently discovered that the society, which was managing the school, had submitted a fake certificate claiming its registration way back in 1979 in Mumbai under the Maharashtra Societies Registration Act. The State education authorities had found that the society was operating schools in different names under one recognition certificate and crediting fees collected from students to different accounts of an unregistered society besides illegally running a madarasa within the same campus. Following these disclosures, the Education Department on May 30, 2025, had cancelled recognition and the appellate authority in January 2026 had endorsed cancellation of the recognition.

3. SC agrees to hear CBI’s plea against HC order acquitting 4 in custodial-death case

SC agrees to hear CBI’s plea against HC order acquitting 4 in custodial-death case The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea challenging the Kerala High C

SC agrees to hear CBI’s plea against HC order acquitting 4 in custodial-death case

SC agrees to hear CBI’s plea against HC order acquitting 4 in custodial-death case The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea challenging the Kerala High Court’s verdict that set aside the conviction of four accused in a 2005 custodial death case. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued a notice to the accused and posted the matter for hearing on May 19. The case pertains to the death of Udayakumar (28), who was allegedly into police custody in Thiruvananthapuram in September 2005 and was subjected to custodial torture, leading to his death the same day.The post-mortem revealed severe crush injuries to both thighs, which were determined to be the cause of the death.

4. Employees hired without advertisement or interview cannot be regularised: Supreme Court

Employees hired without advertisement or interview cannot be regularised: Supreme Court The Supreme Court has ruled that government employees hired on a contractual or ad hoc basis without any public

Employees hired without advertisement or interview cannot be regularised: Supreme Court

Employees hired without advertisement or interview cannot be regularised: Supreme Court The Supreme Court has ruled that government employees hired on a contractual or ad hoc basis without any public advertisement or interview cannot be made permanent under a State policy [Madan Singh v State of Haryana] A Bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Atul S Chandurkar passed the ruling on April 16 while striking down two notifications issued by Haryana government in 2014 to regularise services of a certain category of employees who had or were about to complete ten years’ of service. The Court said that the Haryana government failed to justify why services of such ad hoc employees, who had not been engaged on the basis of any advertisement or interview, were sought to be regularised. “The claim of being engaged sans an advertisement itself gives rise to doubts as regards the manner of engagement. Absence of any record whatsoever of the manner of engagement does not inspire any confidence in such a process,” the Bench said. However, at the same time, the Court acknowledged the practical reality that many of these employees had been working for years. "A period of almost twelve years has elapsed since the issuance of these two Notifications. It is the specific stand of the State Government that even after excluding the ad hoc employees from Group ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’, who seek benefit of these two Notifications, none of the posts advertised would be aLected. Further, it is informed that such appointees have now gained sufficient experience and are likely to have settled in life with the passage of time," the Court noted. It therefore invoked its power under Article 142 of the Constitution and allowed the employees to continue in service.

5. Clifford Chance advises Sixth Street's Bay Collective on acquisition of Sunderland AFC Women

Clifford Chance advises Sixth Street's Bay Collective on acquisition of Sunderland AFC Women - International - 1 min read Clifford Chance advises Sixth Street's Bay Collective on acquisition of Sunder

Clifford Chance advises Sixth Street's Bay Collective on acquisition of Sunderland AFC Women

Clifford Chance advises Sixth Street's Bay Collective on acquisition of Sunderland AFC Women - International - 1 min read Clifford Chance advises Sixth Street's Bay Collective on acquisition of Sunderland AFC Women Clifford Chance has advised Bay Collective, a women's football ownership platform backed by Sixth Street, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Sunderland AFC Women. Led by Kay Cossington MBE, Bay Collective aims to implement its athlete-first model and expertise to foster success for the club. Global law firm Clifford Chance has advised Bay Collective, a multi club women’s football ownership platform backed by Sixth Street, on its agreement to acquire a majority stake in Sunderland AFC Women. Bay Collective, led by Kay Cossington MBE, former Women’s Technical Director of The English Football Association, plans to bring its athlete-first model, deep women’s football expertise and knowledge, and long-term resources to launch a new era of success for Sunderland Women on and off the pitch. The investment will see Sunderland AFC Women become the second club in Bay Collective’s global platform, alongside Bay FC of the National Women’s Soccer League. They were further assisted by, Private equity: senior associates Craig Grant, Jessica Berkeley and Josh Reynolds, lawyers Adam Clifton, Ariel Cohen and Amanda Teh and trainee Rachel Tong; Commercial team including senior associates Orsolya Gondos and Lourenço Limão Oliveira, lawyers Kamryn Rana and Jennifer Allardice and trainee Nurin Choudhury; Real estate team including partner Alis Pay and senior associate Alex Pennington; Tax team including partner Nicola Hemsley, senior associate Paul Harrington and associate Archie Zverev; IP including associate Molly Margiotta; Regulatory team including partner James Cranston, senior associates Tom Shiel and Ryan Byrne and lawyer Kieran Mathiak;and Employment,…

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