High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
Justices Prakash Padia and Indrajeet Shukla allowed a writ petition for admitted dues, drawing the line between a petition being maintainable and a court choosing to entertain it.
Justice Santosh Rai set aside a Special Judge's order under Section 173(4) of the BNSS, holding it non-speaking and made without the inquiry the statute requires.
Justice Sandeep V. Marne set aside the Competent Authority's refusal and remanded the application with a direction to issue the deemed conveyance certificate.
Justice N.J. Jamadar held that a copy reaching someone on behalf of the advocate does not discharge the statutory obligation, and declared the petition not time-barred.
Justice Om Prakash Shukla rejected the CPWD's objections to the arbitrator's impartiality, to the merits of three claims, and to the scope of the reference.
Justice Madhu Jain dismissed an appeal under Section 415(2) of the BNSS, setting out when a child witness can be the sole basis of a conviction.
Justice V. Lakshminarayanan issued a mandamus to the Udhagamandalam Municipality, holding the applicant need not wait to be refused before coming to court.
Fifteen years after conviction, the Himachal Pradesh High Court acquits on Section 50 of the NDPS Act — a recovery made in breach of it cannot be relied on at all.
A hotel ledger, a set of recoveries and a father who admitted he never saw the knives. The Karnataka High Court finds no error in an acquittal in a murder case built on circumstances.
Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V.M. upheld a KAAPA detention, rejecting the claim that illegible documents had denied the detenu an effective representation.
Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt allowed a first appeal under Section 96, holding the buyer was ready and willing and that time was not of the essence under an informal receipt.
Justices Ravi Nath Tilhari and Purushottam Kumar Chintalapudi quashed a Goondas Act detention, holding a single vicious ground is enough to vitiate the order.
Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt held the Tehsildar, Sub Divisional Officer and Additional Commissioner were wrong that permission was needed, and quashed an ex parte consequential order too.
Justices Anil K. Narendran and Muralee Krishna S. set aside a PITNDPS Act detention for inordinate delay, while rejecting the argument that bail cancellation had to be tried first.
Justice K. Sreenivasa Reddy set aside the cancellation of a police constable's selection, holding non-disclosure of a criminal case cannot be met with a rigid formula.
Justices Parth Prateem Sahu and Sachin Singh Rajput severed the arbitral award, setting aside pendente lite interest on security deposit guarantees while upholding post-award interest.
Justices Sathish Ninan and P. Krishna Kumar answered a suo motu reference by upholding Section 69 of the Indian Succession Act and rejecting the claim that it conflicts with Section 20.
Justices Anand Pathak and Vinay Saraf held OBCs are adequately represented under Article 16(4), struck down the 2019 Amendment Act, and saved appointments made up to 29 September 2022.
Justice Santosh Rai sets aside an order directing investigation into a night raid alleged by two Scheduled Caste women, holding that Section 175(3) of the BNSS imposes three distinct duties and that the omission "goes to the very exercise of jurisdiction" — and circulates the judgment to every judicial officer in the State.
Justice Shamim Ahmed sets aside an order of the Judicial Magistrate II, Chengalpattu and remands the matter with a direction to order registration of an FIR and a proper investigation, to be completed within eight weeks.
Justice Chandra Shekhar Jha acquits a husband's elderly parents and a third relative convicted under Section 304-B, holding that the evidence does not identify the last demand, who made it, when it was made, or how it stayed connected to the death.
Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev answer a capital reference in the negative and commute two death sentences to life — then order the Director General of Police to inquire into the officers who prepared the inquests, with a report to the Registrar General within three months.
Justice A. D. Maria Clete makes an interim injunction absolute till disposal of the suit, refuses to carve snacks and namkeens out of it, and confines the passing-off limb to blended spices on the defendant's own undertaking.
Justice G. Arul Murugan dismisses the appeal of a man convicted of sexually assaulting a ten-year-old child at the school he ran, and holds that locking the room established wrongful confinement under Section 342 of the Penal Code.
