[ High Courts ]
High Courts
High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
[ Allahabad Hc ]
Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: August 16 to 22, 2026
[ Allahabad Hc ]
Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: August 23 to 29, 2026
[ Allahabad Hc ]
Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: October 11 to 17, 2026
[ Delhi Hc ]
No DVAT reimbursement for Larsen and Toubro: Delhi HC upholds nil award in ₹4.45 crore Metro dispute
Justice Om Prakash Shukla held that the high and low voltage panels Larsen and Toubro bought through Areva for the Delhi Metro moved under a contract built around DMRC specifications, so the sales were inter-State and in the course of import, and no Delhi VAT was ever payable.
[ Madras Hc ]
63 Moons Rs 231 crore suit against DHFL auditor rejected: remedy for prospectus fraud lies in IBC Section 66
Justice K. Kumaresh Babu held that once DHFL went into insolvency, a Section 35 Companies Act claim against its statutory auditor Chaturvedi and Shah became an action in rem whose fruits belong to the whole committee of creditors, and struck the firm out of the Chennai commercial suit.
[ Delhi Hc ]
Delhi High Court restrains Menarini scar serum sold as ACNE SCAR, one letter away from Mankind mark ACNESTAR
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav found that ACNE + SCAR on the HEXILAK pack was used as a product name rather than a description, that a house mark is no answer to infringement, and that the two marks are near identical in sound. The defendants have two months to recall stock but may keep selling the serum under another name.
[ Rajasthan Hc ]
Off the panchayat roll, heard on a Sunday, refused: Rajasthan HC will not reopen a voter list mid-election
Justice Nupur Bhati sat on a holiday to hear a Balotra couple whose names were deleted from a gram panchayat electoral roll, and held that once the election programme of 3 October was out, a direction to restore them would disturb the process in a way Article 243-O is meant to prevent.
[ Delhi Hc ]
MIAL loses Sahara lease appeal as Delhi HC holds a judgment that copies the award is not non-speaking
A division bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Bharat Parashar upheld a 2023 award rejecting the Mumbai airport operator claim to the lessor interest in a 30,047 square metre Sahara lease, holding that reproducing an award is not proof of non-application of mind, even as it flagged gaps in the reasoning below.
[ Delhi Hc ]
Three arbitrators quitting over fees did not end the ₹3,515 crore NHAI-IRB arbitration, Delhi HC rules
Justice Sachin Datta held that the simultaneous recusal of a tribunal headed by a former Supreme Court judge was a withdrawal from office under Section 15, not a termination under Section 32, rejected the reliance placed by the IRB companies on Harshbir Singh Pannu, and appointed Justice Rajesh Bindal as presiding arbitrator.
[ Delhi Hc ]
Delhi High Court refuses to quash peace-bond notice to AISA president Neha over Mandi House protest
Justice Subramonium Prasad held that at the show-cause stage a writ court asks only whether the Executive Magistrate had any material and applied his mind to it, and that a police kalandara backed by three general diary entries and six FIRs was not nil material. He directed the State to hand over everything it relies on and told the magistrate not to demand
[ Rajasthan Hc ]
Six-year ICAR window is no shield: Rajasthan HC keeps seven private agri colleges out of JET counselling
Hearing the batch on a Sunday with the fee deadline a day away, Justice Nupur Bhati held that Clause 8.4 of the 2022 policy gives colleges time to get accredited but does not excuse the separate conditions for extending a temporary NOC, which every one of the seven had been found to breach.
[ Karnataka Hc ]
Tenfold NH-206 compensation gap unacceptable, says Karnataka High Court, but landowners must start again
Justices Anu Sivaraman and T. P. Vivekananda set aside both the Deputy Commissioner arbitral award that raised compensation for Ramashettihalli land to the Edenahalli rate and the District Court order that quashed it, holding that neither could stand and that Section 37 does not let the court fix the value itself.
[ Tripura Hc ]
Tripura High Court suspends BSF Security Force Court sentence pending writ after 403 days in custody
Justice Biswajit Palit ordered the release on bail of a dismissed BSF man serving two years rigorous imprisonment, holding that although review of a Security Force Court verdict under Article 226 is narrow, the length of his detention justified suspending the sentence until the writ is decided.
[ Chhattisgarh Hc ]
A 1986 CBI case over NTPC Korba bills ends forty years on, with the acquittal of two directors upheld
Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal found that the payments the CBI called cheating were reconciled, adjusted and recovered with penal interest by NTPC itself in 1982-83, that the truck owners who said their vehicles never went to Korba had no personal knowledge, and that nobody from NTPC ever complained.
[ Patna Hc ]
Acquitted of the 1993 Barh court cash theft, dismissed all the same: Patna HC upholds removal of a court peon
Justice Dr. Anshuman held that an acquittal in a criminal case is by itself no ground to disturb a departmental dismissal that rests on evidence led before the inquiry officer, closing a dispute that began when Rs 1.33 lakh of salary money vanished from a Nazarat locker.
[ Delhi Hc ]
Delhi High Court quashes SFIO probe into Educomp, eight years after an order that gave no reasons
Justice Amit Mahajan held that the Corporate Affairs Ministry order of 17 August 2018 merely reproduced Section 212(1)(c) of the Companies Act, and that the Oversight Committee minutes offered to prop it up rested on a news article, a letter from an MP and inspection reports that had found no fraud. The 2022 prosecution complaint falls with it.
[ Madras Hc ]
Quarry owners lose challenge to Tamil Nadu Green Fund: 10 percent levy is a regulatory fee, not a tax
A Madurai Bench of Justices M. Dhandapani and N. Dilip Kumar upheld Rules 35-A to 35-H of the Tamil Nadu Minor Mineral Concession Rules, holding that a district-ring-fenced fund for restoring abandoned quarries is within Section 15 of the MMDR Act and does not duplicate the District Mineral Foundation.
[ Gujarat Hc ]
Live-in deed signed and later cancelled by consent: Gujarat High Court upholds acquittal in rape case
Justices Ilesh J. Vora and R. T. Vachhani dismissed a survivor appeal against acquittal, holding that two written deeds affirming free consent, the testimony of her own father and uncle, and the failure to seize the original agreements left the false promise of marriage case unproved.
[ Bombay Hc ]
The GST order was posted under a tab where orders do not go, so the appeal clock never started
Justices M.S. Karnik and Sandesh D. Patil revived a GST appeal dismissed as time-barred, holding that Section 107(1) runs from communication of the order, not from an upload to the Additional Notices and Orders section.
[ Telangana Hc ]
Its case had been centralised after a search, so the company said only one officer could send it notice. The Court disagreed
Acting Chief Justice P. Sam Koshy and Justice Narsing Rao Nandikonda held that an officer notified under Rule 12E can issue a scrutiny notice even where the case stands centralised with a different assessing officer.
[ Bombay Hc ]
The directors sent the man with the gas cutters, the complaint said, and that one word did not make them trespassers
Justice Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale upheld the discharge of two directors from a trespass case, holding that criminal and house trespass need the offender at the spot and that common intention must be pleaded, not presumed.