High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
Justice Madhav Jamdar sets aside externment orders against an SDPI office-bearer, holding that leading morchas against Union government decisions cannot justify externment under the Maharashtra Police Act.
Justice Alok Mahra directs Haridwar police to assess threat and protect a married couple, relying on Lata Singh v State of U.P. after a counsellor's report backed the wife's stand.
Two CRPF Inspectors denied promotion to Assistant Commandant after a forearm tattoo made them medically unfit failed to persuade the Delhi High Court to order re-examination.
The Jaipur Bench, monitoring compliance with Supreme Court directions on stray dogs, ordered affidavits from the State, Union of India and Animal Welfare Board of India, clarifying the order covers all of Rajasthan.
Dismissing a Navodaya Vidyalaya teacher's plea, the Chhattisgarh High Court held that voluntarily declining promotion four times bars a claim to time-bound financial upgradation.
Division Bench declines to direct restoration of a voter's deleted name, holding the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision already offers a remedy under the Representation of the People Act.
Justice Nikhil S. Kariel allows successive regular bail to the alleged primary accused in an assault arising from a dispute over feeding stray dogs, imposing a six-month district entry ban.
Justice Arun Kumar Jha dismissed a writ plea to quash an FIR alleging a mob assaulted police investigating a false firearm licence report, applying the Bhajan Lal guidelines.
Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava dismisses a revision against a trial court order adding Sections 328 and 302/34 IPC to a Section 306 case, citing the court's independent satisfaction.
Jodhpur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court rejects the State's public-utility defence for a road laid on land recorded as Gair Mumkin Nadi, asking for an expert feasibility report on elevating the structure.
Justice Subramonium Prasad confines the MP's suit to defamation after personality rights arguments were withdrawn, and restrains six explicit AI-generated videos out of fifty-two examined.
Justice Naresh Kumar Chandravanshi holds that a teacher's son cannot be denied compassionate appointment for missing a TET deadline the pandemic itself postponed.
Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya dismisses former minister Sunder Sham Arora's plea for de novo investigation by an independent agency in a Vigilance Bureau bribery case.
Division Bench dismisses TV Today's appeal against a Single Judge order awarding Rs 5 lakh for broadcasting details identifying a child sexual abuse complainant.
A Division Bench called a PIL seeking mandamus against police to recall its own bail and sentence-suspension order, and to shift a criminal appeal to the MP/MLA Court, "shocking".
Gujarat High Court declares a Deesa road reservation lapsed after finding the Nagarpalika revised its Development Plan years after the statutory ten-year window had closed.
A Nagpur student's plea calling the Sikh turban exemption from helmet rules unconstitutional class legislation was dismissed by the Nagpur Bench.
Justice Ananda Sen holds the State Disability Commissioner exceeded jurisdiction by adjudicating a land title dispute between two families in Chatra district, unrelated to any disability.
Division Bench holds that a UGC-regulated private university's termination of a professor remains a contractual matter, not amenable to writ jurisdiction under Article 226.
Justice Sudesh Bansal dismissed a challenge to Ritu Banawat's 2023 Bayana assembly win, finding no substantial defect in her Form-26 affidavit, but penalised her for evading court summons for ten months.
Justice Kshitij Shailendra dismisses a supervisory petition, holding that stamp duty and court fees are distinct obligations and that the right to seek engrossment survives throughout the twelve-year execution window.
The Bombay High Court's Kolhapur Bench held that Section 207 CrPC, which governs document supply after a charge sheet, cannot be read into Section 50 obligations at the time of arrest.
The Gujarat High Court dismissed a regular bail application filed by an advocate accused of forging documents to fraudulently transfer agricultural land belonging to a UK-based overseas citizen.
Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha dismisses the State's revision, holding that confiscation of a Scorpio vehicle under Section 47-A required proof that seized bottles actually contained liquor exceeding five bulk litres.
