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No Test Identification Parade, FSL finding no petrol traces, a hostile principal witness, and an irrelevant Section 144 order led the Division Bench to affirm the trial court's acquittal.
The Division Bench held that PSPCL's award to the L-1 bidder was patently arbitrary because multiple mandatory type test certificates were absent at the time of bid and even after the purchase order was placed.
Acting on a suo motu PIL, the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed that the Gurugram District Judgeship be shifted forthwith to the Tower of Justice complex, even before formal environmental and fire clearances are received.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court held that the first proviso to Section 223 of the BNSS, mandating a pre-cognizance hearing, does not apply to SFIO complaints before Special Courts under the Companies Act, 2013.
Justice Nidhi Gupta dismissed a writ petition seeking an e-admit card for the Assistant District Attorney exam, holding that the petitioner's own carelessness in not completing the application upload process was not a ground for court intervention.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court directed the State of Haryana to expedite completion of the Gurugram court building, noting it lacks statutory environmental clearances and court functioning is disrupted.
Justice Virinder Aggarwal granted regular bail to Sandeep Kumar, finding no prima facie basis to treat a security-cover letter addressed to him as an official secret under the 1923 Act.
The High Court found that Lovkesh Kumar was picked up at 5.38 a.m. on 11 August 2024 but shown arrested only after midnight, casting doubt on the prosecution's account.
Justice Sumeet Goel declined pre-arrest bail under Section 482 BNSS, holding that corruption by a police officer misusing investigative authority demands custodial interrogation and cannot be resolved at bail stage.
Shiv Kumar was 16 years old when convicted under IPC Sections 363, 366-A and 376. A 2025 age enquiry proved he was below 18 on the date of the offence in 1999, entitling him to the lighter sentencing regime of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.
The court found passport records, immigration data, and WhatsApp video calls with close relatives sufficient to conclude that Devinder Kaur is alive and residing in Canada.
Justice Subhas Mehla held that dressing a pet dog in Krishna's attire for Janmashtami, posted as a WhatsApp status, disclosed no offence under Section 298 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
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.
Justice Vikram Aggarwal found the Will riddled with suspicious circumstances, including a four-year-old beneficiary said to have "served" the testator, and an original document that could not be traced.
Justice Kuldeep Tiwari held that IIT Ropar acted with "lightning speed" to accept a PhD student's resignation without addressing her harassment complaints, making the resignation non-voluntary.
Punjab & Haryana High Court sets aside two concurrent decrees, holds the State cannot perfect title over private land by adverse possession and directs compensation at fair market price.
A Division Bench applied the twin-prong test under Section 43-D(5) of the UAPA to deny bail to an accused who allegedly supplied weapons used in the killing of Comrade Balwinder Singh Sandhu.
Ten petitioners who failed the HCS preliminary examination challenged seven disputed questions; Justice Jagmohan Bansal found no glaring error and declined to substitute expert opinion.
Justice Deepak Gupta dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of an advocate accused of fabricating a Punjab and Haryana High Court bail order and cheating complainants of over ₹10.92 lakh.
Justice Harpreet Singh Brar held that the pro-rata methodology introduced by EPFO's 2024 internal e-mail and 2025 circular has no basis in the Employees' Pension Scheme, 1995 and cannot override statutory rules.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court held that a bomb explosion aboard the Janta Express in 1992 constitutes an 'accident' under Section 124 of the Railways Act, 1989, making the Union of India liable to pay compensation to the families of five deceased passengers.
Justice Harkesh Manuja holds that the Reference Authority under Section 64 of the 2013 Act retains full independent power to assess market value beyond Section 26 parameters.
The club occupies 132 acres of prime public land and pays just 0.255% of assessed rent; Justice Kuldeep Tiwari dismisses its 14-year-old challenge to a CIC order.
Justice Sudeepti Sharma dismissed a contempt petition as an abuse of process after the very order alleged to have been disobeyed had already been set aside by a Division Bench, and imposed ₹50,000 costs on the petitioners.
