A Division Bench found ECI's existing Manual and Draft Electoral Roll extracts sufficient to address exclusion fears, rejecting mandamus for a separate facilitative mechanism.
The Kerala High Court upheld a 20-year sentence, holding that kissing a child's penis twice satisfies Section 3(d) of the POCSO Act without requiring oral sex or deeper penetration.
Justice Sanjay Dhar upheld a Public Safety Act detention order against Bilal Ahmad Lone, rejecting claims of continuous custody, non-supply of material, and vague grounds of detention.
Justice Sandeep Marne lays down a cause-of-action test to determine whether court fees under the Maharashtra Court Fees Act must be paid per petitioner or per petition in joint writ petitions.
The Bombay High Court dismissed a brother's second appeal, holding that while a coparcener may orally relinquish ancestral property rights, the burden of proving such relinquishment rests squarely on the party asserting it.
Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa set aside a Trial Court order dismissing a 72-year-old arthritis patient's application to record evidence via video conferencing, citing Rule 8.15 of the High Court's own Video Conferencing Rules.
Six years after the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench recorded his arguments in the Indore Development Authority case, a Senior Advocate and former MP Advocate General has won a writ for unpaid fees.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a criminal revision against conviction under Sections 279, 337 and 338 IPC, refusing sentence reduction to a school bus driver whose reckless driving overturned the bus and injured several children and teachers.
The Chhattisgarh High Court set aside an execution order directing payment of back wages to a retired CISF constable, holding the Executing Court had travelled beyond the decree passed in second appeal.
The High Court found that the inquiry report showed cheating material in a washroom but no evidence the student actually used it during his BNS examination.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court has held that SBI's 2020 policy capping MMGS-II placements at 10% of batch strength does not alter any vested right of 2019-batch Trainee Officers.
Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal found that the Chief Executive Officer collected house tax from the petitioners for eight years, then initiated eviction proceedings without resuming the original lease grant.
Justice Mandeep Pannu set aside concurrent convictions under Section 380 and 201 IPC, holding that a missing judicial file and the accused's presence in court raised suspicion but fell short of proof beyond reasonable doubt.
The Jharkhand High Court upheld the restoration of tribal land to a Scheduled Tribe purchaser, ruling that an unauthorised 1970 sale of Adivasi land violated Section 46 of the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act.
Allahabad High Court quashes a 1980 Board of Revenue order, holding that a hereditary tenant's judicially recognised rights cannot be extinguished by later revenue entries describing tenancy land as a public-utility tank.
The Orissa High Court found that the 'Grounds of Arrest' column on the arrest memo contained only a vague phrase, violating Article 22(1) and Sections 47 and 48 of the BNSS, 2023.
Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy allowed 28 writ petitions, holding that children born and raised in Puducherry in the mother's community are entitled to SC, MBC, or OBC origin certificates.
A Kerala High Court Division Bench has settled a decade-long split, holding that customers who visit brothels are criminally liable under Sections 5 and 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.
Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal dismissed a Section 482 petition, holding that competing factual versions over the NH-40 road contract investment cannot be resolved at the quashing stage.
The Rajasthan High Court directed that lists of encroachers on government land in the Ramgarh dam catchment area be published in Rajasthan Patrika and Dainik Bhaskar, giving encroachers 15 days to vacate.
The High Court set aside the conviction of a prison warden under Section 222 IPC, holding that Jail Manual disciplinary rules cannot substitute for proof of criminal intent.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna found that Whitefield Police Station took a man into custody before the Section 35(3) BNSS notice period had even expired, calling this a repeated pattern of unlawful conduct.
Justice Uday Kumar dismissed a Section 482 CrPC petition seeking to quash a chargesheet under Sections 498A and 376 IPC, holding that disputed chronological facts must go to trial.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench enforced Supreme Court directions requiring 30% reservation for women in the Sultanpur Bar Association's executive elections, quashing the notified poll process.
