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Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa dismissed an appeal by Tata AIG seeking to deduct a mediclaim payout from a Rewari tribunal award, and raised the compensation for a 14-year-old student injured in 2014 from Rs 22.2 lakh to Rs 36,14,991 by assessing his income at the skilled minimum wage and adding future prospects and marriage prospects.
Justice Kuldeep Tiwari set aside two Haryana Revenue Department letters of 2019 and 2021 that treated the stamp duty and registration fee waiver for farmers buying replacement land as lapsed from 1 January 2014, along with every Section 47-A notice issued on their strength, across 113 writ petitions.
Justice Sumeet Goel held that further detention was not warranted, and imposed eight conditions including a monthly affidavit that the accused has committed no fresh offence.
Convicted of preparing to commit dacoity on a night in 2006, he has been in the criminal process for two decades. The conviction stands; the three-year term comes down to two.
A neighbour took a two-year-old from the street and buried her. The trial court sentenced her to hang. The Division Bench has upheld the conviction on the whole chain of circumstances and substituted thirty years without remission.
One colleague who appealed won an exemption the rest had never claimed. When twenty-one others asked to revise their returns, the Commissioner said they had given no reasons. The High Court has read the file and found otherwise.
Applying the Supreme Court's decision in Sarla Gupta, the Court holds an accused has no right to copies of un-relied material at the charge stage, and departs from its own earlier view.
Justice Sumeet Goel dismissed a petition to cancel regular bail in a travel-services fraud case, holding that seriousness of offence alone cannot justify setting aside a bail order.
Justice Vikram Aggarwal disposed of a writ petition seeking protection for a Muslim couple, directing the SSP Ludhiana to act on their representation without ruling on the marriage's validity.
Justice Alok Jain rejected a writ seeking police protection for two married petitioners living together, finding no specific threat and calling the petition an abuse of legal process.
A Division Bench held that the rigours of Section 45 of the PMLA cannot bar interim bail when an accused is medically unfit and has been in custody for over five years.
Allowing a wife's petition to shift divorce proceedings from Hisar to Sonepat, Justice Harkesh Manuja held that an offer to bear travel expenses is not an inflexible answer to a transfer application.
Justice Sumeet Goel held that concealing four prior FIRs in a sworn petition forfeit equitable relief, dismissing the anticipatory bail plea on suppression alone without examining merits.
Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa set aside a Trial Court order dismissing a 72-year-old arthritis patient's application to record evidence via video conferencing, citing Rule 8.15 of the High Court's own Video Conferencing Rules.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a criminal revision against conviction under Sections 279, 337 and 338 IPC, refusing sentence reduction to a school bus driver whose reckless driving overturned the bus and injured several children and teachers.
Justice Mandeep Pannu set aside concurrent convictions under Section 380 and 201 IPC, holding that a missing judicial file and the accused's presence in court raised suspicion but fell short of proof beyond reasonable doubt.
Justice Sumeet Goel rejected pre-arrest bail for an accused named in an FIR alleging cheating and human smuggling, holding custodial interrogation necessary to unravel the broader conspiracy.
Without any finding of connivance or wilful default by the sureties, the District Magistrate could not mechanically recover the entire Rs 2,00,000 surety bond amount, Justice Manisha Batra held.
Justice Vikas Suri upheld concurrent findings restoring possession of a Ludhiana house to the legatee under a registered Will, rejecting the intestate succession argument raised by the dispossessing defendants.
The High Court held that non-recovery of a railway ticket cannot alone deny compensation, and that a cancelled murder FIR cannot substitute for evidence of accidental death.
