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Justice Balaji Medamalli quashed a 2023 seniority list that pushed a Senior Assistant from rank one to six, holding that long-settled seniority cannot be unsettled without notice or enquiry.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court enhanced motor accident compensation from Rs 41,400 to Rs 1,21,266, ruling that depreciation deductions are impermissible when new parts are purchased to restore a damaged vehicle to road-worthiness.
A three-judge Full Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has held that assigned land bought by a landless poor person before 1977 falls entirely outside the AP Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, with one judge concurring in result but dissenting on the freehold question.
Justice Nyapathy Vijay upheld Adikavi Nannaya University's disaffiliation of a Rajahmundry law college on infrastructure grounds but deferred its effect by two academic years to protect students admitted under court orders.
Justice Harinath N recalled a January 2026 consent order in two writ petitions after finding advocates had misled the court to facilitate a grab of public open space in Kakinada.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed a civil revision against rejection of an unregistered possessory sale agreement as exhibit, holding stamp duty depends on document recitals, not party pleadings.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court ruled that an order dismissing an application to adduce additional evidence at the appellate stage is purely interlocutory, barring revision under Section 397(2) CrPC.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court modified death sentences against two accused in a double murder within weeks of marriage, finding no material to foreclose possibility of reformation and rehabilitation.
Andhra Pradesh High Court quashes criminal negligence prosecution against factory supervisor and occupier, holding that prior conviction under the Factories Act bars a parallel IPC trial on identical facts.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a trial court cannot set a defendant ex parte for non-filing of a written statement once counsel has filed a vakalat, and directed costs of Rs. 25,000 instead of interfering with the trial court's order.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed a wife's appeal against a divorce decree, holding that filing multiple false Section 498-A cases ending in acquittal amounted to mental cruelty against the husband.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a woman living with her mother and brother in the parental home is not an illegal detention warranting a writ of habeas corpus at a boyfriend's instance.
A Division Bench at Amaravati set aside life sentences in a 2015 railway sub-station killing, finding the prosecution advanced inconsistent motives and failed to complete the chain of circumstances.
A Division Bench at Amaravati remanded a temporary injunction order after finding the trial court failed to mark documents, ignored multiple-relief bar under Rule 55, and recorded findings without evidence.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that an unmarked agreement can be sent to a fingerprint expert and that ageing affects ridge quality, making prompt comparison necessary.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed that no construction of the CSI Church in Maanchala village, Mantralayam, shall proceed until the District Collector grants approval under Rule 26 and title over the property is demonstrated.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court disposed of a writ petition challenging a District Registrar's notice, holding that cancellation of a registered sale deed falls outside the Registrar's jurisdiction under the Registration Act, 1908.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a buyer with a registered title deed cannot be denied a domestic electricity connection merely because the layout is declared unauthorised.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that an anticipatory bail order requiring surrender before a Magistrate departs from the statutory scheme under Section 438 CrPC and Section 482 BNSS, and modified the condition.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court set aside a charge-framing order in a POCSO case, holding that the Special Court denied accused persons their statutory right of hearing under Section 251(2) of the BNSS and failed to ascertain whether they intended to file a discharge petition.
The High Court of Andhra Pradesh quashed a second termination order against a fair price shop dealer, finding the enquiry violated natural justice despite a prior court-directed remand.
Justice Ravi Cheemalapati of the Andhra Pradesh High Court held that legal heirs in a rural family cannot be faulted for failing to track an abated appeal they never knew existed.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that an alleged second wife does not qualify as a "relative" of the husband under Section 498A IPC, quashing charges against the petitioner for want of prima facie case.
Justice Ravi Cheemalapati found that neither the decree-holder's execution petition nor the executing court's order identified which head of retirement benefits was to be attached, vitiating the attachment.
