High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a Section 482 petition by a Mangaluru travel agent charged with furnishing fabricated addresses in fifteen passport renewal applications, one of which benefited a person wanted by the Andhra Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad.
The Bombay High Court partly allowed a quashing petition, discharging the wife's mother and brother from a 2017 FIR while refusing to quash proceedings against the wife herself, who had admitted contracting a second marriage while her first was subsisting.
The Rajasthan High Court upheld an Armed Forces Tribunal direction to revise pension of a retired Master Warrant Officer from 01.01.1996, rejecting the government's retrospectivity and delay arguments.
The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench ordered the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Dindigul Rural, to verify a complaint, register an FIR if cognisable offences are disclosed, and preserve digital evidence within four weeks.
Justice Vinod Kumar set aside a Sessions Court bail order, holding that a three-year-old victim's identification of the accused and the place of offence could not be dismissed at the investigation stage.
The Gujarat High Court ruled that once regularisation is granted under Section 6(3) of the 2011 Act, the designated authority cannot invoke Section 8(4) to revoke it.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside the termination of a BSF Constable (GD) who honestly disclosed a pending criminal case, only to be acquitted six days after his dismissal.
Justice Garima Prashad dismissed a criminal revision by a Chartered Accountant husband who claimed unemployment, affirming the Family Court's maintenance award of Rs 20,000 per month to his wife from the date of application.
A Division Bench set aside a Single Judge's order and directed a super-specialty college to return twelve original certificates to a DM/MCh graduate within one week.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court reviewed a Special Investigation Team report on the theft and misappropriation of gold from Sabarimala's Dwarapalakas, naming seven accused and directing expeditious completion of the investigation.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna dismissed a petition by the wife of an accused rapist who allegedly transmitted sexually explicit videos of the complainant to her husband and relatives via WhatsApp.
Karnataka High Court sets aside a Mysuru magistrate's order directing a husband earning ₹60,646 per month to pay ₹20,000 interim maintenance to a wife earning ₹1,00,000 monthly.
Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha granted bail to two Punjab residents arrested for illicit liquor transport and ordered the DGP to reconsider action against an ASI who falsely attributed 19 criminal cases to one applicant.
Justice A. Badharudeen directed the Principal Secretary, Home Department, to produce appointment files in a sealed cover after counsel warned of likely record manipulation.
The Karnataka High Court struck down a Karnataka State Law University circular that required repeater LLB students to appear for revised syllabus subjects their college had never taught.
Justice Manish Choudhury upheld a Rs 52.66 lakh ITC-fraud attachment but referred a conflict between coordinate benches on whether PMLA reason to believe is confidential.
The Gujarat High Court dismissed a PIL seeking disclosure of an IIT Gandhinagar survey of Somnath Temple, imposing Rs 2 lakh exemplary costs for filing with misleading and distorted facts.
The Orissa High Court dismissed the State of Odisha's appeal against a direction to revoke termination of a pharmacist who served over 14 years, holding the non-sanctioned post plea cannot shield the State's own inaction.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court at Amaravati enhanced MACT compensation from Rs 7.28 lakh to Rs 10.06 lakh, adding future prospects and conventional heads even though claimants had not filed a cross-appeal.
The Kerala High Court held that the Kendriya Vidyalaya policy of treating twin girl children as a single admission was a withdrawable privilege, not an enforceable right, and dismissed a father's writ petition seeking Class I admission for his second twin daughter.
Justice Garima Prashad found the Family Court, Bulandshahr had wrongly applied a strict criminal standard of proof to a Section 125 Cr.P.C. maintenance claim, denying relief to a wife and two minor children.
The Allahabad High Court upheld a Family Court order directing a driver-husband to pay maintenance to his wife, rejecting claims of unemployment and the wife's alleged income from sewing work.
Granting bail to a knife-injury accused, Justice Vivek Kumar Singh directed the Additional Sessions Judge, Ghaziabad to explain within seven days why a similarly placed co-accused was treated differently.
Forty-two years after conviction, the Allahabad High Court upholds a Section 376 IPC rape conviction and corrects the trial court's failure to impose a mandatory fine, directing Rs 50,000 as victim compensation.
