Prevention of Food Adulteration Act

The petitioners challenged a 2016 Maharashtra tender for supplying ready‑to‑cook food to Anganwadi centres, alleging that the tender’s conditions – mandatory use of extrusion technology, a turnover threshold of Rs 1 crore and requirement of automated production units – were arbitrary and excluded Mahila Mandals and sel…

The case concerned a senior judicial officer, R.R. Parekh, who was dismissed from service after two disciplinary inquiries found him guilty of misconduct for awarding sentences below the statutory minimum under Section 135 of the Customs Act, allegedly motivated by corrupt or oblique motives. The High Court had revisit…

The case concerned the regulation of street vendors (hawkers) in Mumbai and across India, where the petitioners sought relief from harassment and demanded implementation of the National Policy on Urban Street Vendors, 2009. The Supreme Court examined whether the earlier embargo on High Courts hearing hawker matters sho…