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By Shruti Pathak · 02 Nov 2026

Over seven years in jail, one witness examined: Bombay HC bails POCSO undertrial who wrote from prison

Acting on a letter from jail, Justice Milind N. Jadhav released an accused held since June 2019, whose trial had made no progress for four years, holding that such custody violates the Article 21 right to a speedy trial and expressing no view on the merits.

By Shruti Pathak · 02 Nov 2026

Killed on a highway, not at the plant: Bombay HC holds LPG firm liable as principal employer of dealer driver

Justice Pravin S. Patil upheld a Rs 14,77,950 award with 12 per cent interest against Confidence Petroleum India Ltd for the death of a driver employed by its Gondia distributor, holding that the premises exception in Section 12(4) of the Employees Compensation Act must be read broadly in a beneficial law.

By Rohit Singh · 02 Nov 2026

Husband named on her caste certificate, not father: Patna HC says BPSC cannot push SC doctor into general list

A division bench dismissed the Bihar Public Service Commission appeal and upheld a single judge order directing it to consider a Patna gynaecologist for an Assistant Professor post in the Scheduled Caste quota, holding that the 2017 advertisement never required a married woman to produce a certificate in her father's name.

By Rohit Singh · 02 Nov 2026

Brick wall fell on her, husband said: Patna HC upholds 10-year dowry death term, noting his family had fled

Justice Shailendra Singh dismissed the appeal of a Samastipur man convicted of his wife's dowry death ten months into their marriage, holding that his claim of an accidental wall collapse was unproven and that the demand for Rs 80,000 and a motorcycle had continued until she died with four broken ribs.

Delhi HC sets aside 20-year POCSO sentence: graver offence not proved, five-year term for lesser one stands

Justice Madhu Jain acquitted a neighbour of aggravated penetrative sexual assault and rape of a girl aged under six, holding that the child testimony proved sexual touching but not insertion, and upheld his conviction and five-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault under Section 10 of the POCSO Act.

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Rs 4 lakh mediclaim not deductible: Punjab and Haryana HC lifts award for boy hit by car to Rs 36.15 lakh

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.

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No video, no prejudice: Jammu and Kashmir HC upholds rape convictions on testimony of speech-impaired girl

Justice Rajnesh Oswal held that the failure to videograph the evidence of an 11-year-old with a severe speech impairment, as the proviso to Section 119 of the Evidence Act requires, did not vitiate the trial absent prejudice, upheld the ten-year sentences of two men, and acquitted a third whom the girl herself had exonerated.

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A memo cannot undo a Gazette: Punjab and Haryana HC sets aside stamp duty clawback from land-loser farmers

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.

By Umang Sultania · 02 Nov 2026

Selected in 2008, appointed in 2009: Himachal HC gives direct-recruit engineers their 2008 roster seniority

Justice Jiya Lal Bhardwaj quashed the 2011 seniority list of Assistant Engineers (Civil) in the Irrigation and Public Health Department that placed Public Service Commission recruits en bloc below promotees of 2008, holding that the State could not promote Junior Engineers on 31 December 2008 beyond their quota while the recommended recruits waited.

By Umang Sultania · 02 Nov 2026

Eight years after 23 children died at Nurpur, Himachal HC upholds 15-year age cap on school and college buses

A division bench dismissed 21 writ petitions by schools, educational societies and nursing institutes, holding that the State could bar vehicles older than 15 years from student transport under its permit rule-making power without trespassing on the Centre's power to fix a vehicle's life, and that the cap binds every educational institution.

By Shruti Pathak · 02 Nov 2026

No foetus at autopsy, no pregnancy test: Bombay HC upholds conviction of doctor for death after abortion

Justice Abhay S. Waghwase dismissed the appeal of a retired medical officer against her conviction under Section 304 Part II IPC and the MTP Act, holding that a team autopsy opinion of post-abortal haemorrhage from a uterine perforation could not be discarded merely because no foetal or placental tissue was found.

Nearly five years in custody, 21 of 356 witnesses heard: Delhi HC sends UAPA bail plea back to trial court

A division bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Arun Bhardwaj found merit in the argument that the trial delay may violate Article 21, but left it to the NIA special court to weigh the delay, a key witness and new charges, giving accused no. 24 in a Kashmir terror conspiracy case liberty to seek bail afresh.

By Editorial Desk · 02 Nov 2026

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Quashing a false FIR — how the High Court can stop a malicious case

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The Drafting Committee Knew 'Due Process' Would Have Stopped Preventive Detention — and Voted to Keep Preventive Detention

By Ramesh Singh · 02 Nov 2026

Tribunal gone haywire: Supreme Court undoes five-year-late tariff review, fines Maithan Alloys and SAIL

Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K. Vinod Chandran restore the 2019 Appellate Tribunal order letting DVC recover its bond Sinking Fund through tariff, hold the 2024 review illegal and in breach of Article 141, and impose costs payable within a month.

Section 96(3) bars only parties: Supreme Court lets strangers appeal a consent decree, 11-year delay condoned

Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K. Vinod Chandran hold that the bar on appealing a consent decree binds only the parties to the compromise, uphold Gujarat High Court leave to HUF members and an 11-year condonation, and keep the injunction over the land.

Two conditions slipped into a Railways acceptance letter: Delhi HC restores award Commercial Court threw out

A division bench of Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Bharat Parashar held that a Section 34 court cannot swap the arbitrator reading of the contract correspondence for its own, restored the award declaring the Hazrat Nizamuddin platform contract prematurely terminated, revived the Rs 2.40 lakh EMD refund, Rs 12.09 lakh for irrecoverable advances and Rs 2.

Knew of his first marriage, stayed seven years: Supreme Court discharges Kerala man in rape and bigamy case

Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice R. Mahadevan set aside the Kerala High Court and the trial court, hold that a consensual relationship cannot be recast as rape once it ends, and find no case under Sections 376, 420, 493, 494 and 495 IPC.

Delhi HC refuses pre-arrest bail to doctor whose phone vanished the day he said it held the whole record

Justice Sachin Datta vacated the protection from arrest a postgraduate surgery student had held since August in a rape case, holding that joining the investigation does not earn anticipatory bail, that Section 69 BNS is only a residual provision where force is alleged, and that a missing handset and deleted Instagram chats call for custodial interrogation.

Airline paid AAI in dollars, not rupees: Delhi HC revives Rs 68 lakh refund suit killed over registry defects

Justice Neena Bansal Krishna set aside a district judge finding that the LTU Lufttransport suit, presented two days before limitation expired, was non est because of vakalatnama, court-fee and duplicate-set objections, held that curable registry defects relate back to the original presentation, and decreed Rs 68,24,653.71 with 6 per cent interest from July 2

Delhi HC upholds 2006 tractor dealership award: Section 12(5) cannot undo an arbitrator appointed in 2004

Justice Om Prakash Shukla dismissed a Section 34 challenge by a Sirsa dealer to a Rs 1.3 crore award, holding that the 2015 bar on unilateral appointments does not reach back to a retired judge named by the manufacturer under the contract, that no separate Section 21 notice was needed, and that dues from the letter-of-intent years were arbitrable.

NIA loses UAPA bail appeal: Delhi HC finds special court applied Section 43D(5), did not run a mini-trial

A division bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Arun Bhardwaj dismissed the NIA appeal against the May 2023 bail of Mateen Ahmed Bhat, accused no. 10 in a Jammu and Kashmir terror conspiracy case, holding that an appeal against grant of bail tests only whether the order was illegal, perverse or arbitrary, and that the special court had done the prima fa

Rs 15.92 lakh NSE award against 5 Paisa Capital set aside: appeal panel copied arguments, decided nothing

Justice Aarti Sathe held that the NSE Appellate Arbitral Tribunal, which confirmed a 2019 award making the broker pay a client Rs 15,92,671 over trades placed on a software glitch, reproduced the submissions of both sides verbatim and answered none of eight live questions, a patent illegality under Section 34(2A) that a court cannot cure by supplying finding

High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle

Rs 600 paid in 2007 was registration, not an application: Karnataka HC quashes MUDA disability site order

Justice Suraj Govindaraj held that the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities had no power under Sections 61 and 62 of the 1995 Act to order the Mandya Urban Development Authority to hand a reserved site to a man who had only registered and never applied against a notification, while fixing the reservation for persons with disabilities at 2 per cen

Bombay HC sends a discussion-only term sheet to arbitration: its exclusivity clause had been kept binding

Justice Amit Borkar appointed a retired judge as sole arbitrator over Nisus Finance claims of Rs 16.94 crore against the developers of the Treasure Palms project, holding that an arbitration clause covering any binding provision of a non-binding term sheet prima facie reaches the exclusivity undertaking and the connected Rs 1.62 crore advisory fee, while lea

Sacked in 2001, reinstated: Nagpur bench finds ST backlog hire without advertisement irregular, not void

Justice Pravin S. Patil dismissed petitions by both a Bhandara school management and its teacher against a 2012 School Tribunal order, holding that Pandurang Parate, appointed in 1996 on a clear vacancy to fill a Scheduled Tribe backlog at the insistence of the Education Officer, could not be removed under a non-statutory 1995 circular, while the denial of b

High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle

Karnataka HC: Rs 22,915 crore brand keeps Infosys off software firm comparables, 2013 Revenue appeal dismissed

A division bench led by Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru upheld the Tribunal decision to drop eight companies, including Infosys, Wipro and Tata Elxsi, from the transfer pricing benchmark for Logica Private Ltd for assessment year 2007-08, and backed a 15 per cent related-party filter, holding that size and brand change margins and that none of the Revenue questio

Patna HC shuts writ route for Bihar road contractor who waited eight years to claim unpaid 2014 tender dues

A division bench of Justice Mohit Kumar Shah and Justice Sourendra Pandey dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of a Rohtas contractor, holding that a money claim filed about eight years after part payment in 2015 fails the three-year limitation yardstick the Supreme Court laid down in Bhailal Bhai, and that Article 226 cannot be used to defeat the law of limi

High CourtsMadhya Pradesh HcArticle

MP HC commutes Datia child rape-murder death sentence to life without remission, citing no adverse jail report

A Gwalior Bench of Justice G.S. Ahluwalia and Justice Anuradha Shukla confirmed the conviction of Chhatrapal Rawat for kidnapping, raping and strangling a nine-year-old girl at a village wedding in May 2022, on the evidence of an 11-year-old cousin who saw him carry the sleeping child away and DNA matches across the clothes of both, but held the case was not

Patna HC: Supreme Court shield for Bihar lab staff keeps the demonstrator title, not teacher pay scales

Justice Harish Kumar dismissed a writ petition sent down by the Supreme Court in which laboratory assistants redesignated as demonstrators before 1991 sought teacher pay, holding that the 2017 Durga Prasad Singh direction protects their existing designation, status, rank and pay but cannot confer the status of teacher or benefits that conflict with the 2012

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MP HC revives Rs 70 pay hike recovery from police clerks: Rafiq Masih no shield after 12 years of court stays

A division bench of Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Pradeep Mittal allowed five State appeals and set aside single-judge orders that had quashed recoveries of up to Rs 15.8 lakh from ministerial staff of the Madhya Pradesh Police, holding that employees who kept an erroneous ad hoc increase under court stays from 2006 to 2018 cannot invoke Rafiq Masih, and t

Rs 8.1 lakh GST demand raised two years into liquidation: NCLAT says a late assessment does not reopen claims

Karnataka commercial tax officers assessed Doshion in February 2026 and filed their claim 896 days after the last date fixed by the liquidator. The Principal Bench holds that an assessment after the liquidation commencement date neither restarts the 30-day claim window nor excuses the silence since November 2023.

TribunalsCestatArticle

Same lamps from Spain and China cleared at invoice price: CESTAT quashes Rs 84 lakh duty on Diyas UK imports

After a Supreme Court remand ordering sequential valuation, the Principal Commissioner accepted the declared prices of identical and similar decorative lights from unrelated suppliers in Spain and China yet re-valued the UK consignments by the deductive method. The Tribunal found no attempt to show that the related-party link had affected the price, and set

Eleven days past the 45-day limit, EPFO loses Rs 4.56 lakh PF appeal: RP silence does not stop the clock

The Vilsons Roofing plan paid every admitted provident fund rupee upfront, the Principal Bench found. The unpaid Rs 4,56,121 was the rejected and under-verification slice that EPFO never challenged under Section 60(5), and a CIRP regulation cannot enlarge a period fixed by Parliament.

TribunalsAptelArticle

Rs 40 crore construction guarantee must go back in two weeks, but APTEL refuses Rs 5.74 crore in bank charges

Clause 6 of a bulk power transmission agreement secures construction and nothing else, so a guarantee kept alive for more than a decade after a 1,400 MW Odisha plant was built cannot be held hostage to the letter of credit under Clause 2, the Tribunal held. The generator that never sought a stay, though, bears its own renewal costs.

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Discom gave nine months, the PPA allowed three: APTEL sends Rs 8.40 vs Rs 4.36 solar tariff fight back to KERC

A PPA runs from the date the Commission approves it, not the date it is signed, and a force majeure extension under Article 2.5.4 is capped at three months, the Tribunal held. With nothing on record on whether the 2 MW Tumkur project had crystallised its capital cost by 25 February 2017, the tariff goes back to KERC for a one-month inquiry while liquidated d

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Audit read one balance-sheet column and found Rs 13 lakh of wrong credit: CESTAT frees Kanpur Maruti dealer

Scrap sales and logistics charges are not services, but cancellation fees, insurance commission and mobile-van reimbursements are, the Allahabad bench held, cutting the taxable base from Rs 52 lakh to Rs 12 lakh. It then threw out the Rs 13,00,287 CENVAT demand as built on a half comparison and held that an interpretational dispute could not carry the extend

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Brochure promised five acres, plan showed four: NCDRC finds 4.81, gives Zirakpur RWA Rs 10 lakh not Rs 5 crore

The National Commission had to ask the Punjab government how many square yards make an acre in Zirakpur before it could rule on a one-acre shortfall claim against G.S. Promoters. The answer, two different karams in the same sub-tehsil, left the project at 4.81 acres and the society with notional compensation for the admitted 0.19 acre gap.

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NCDRC closes 34 Jaypee homebuyer cases, the oldest from 2015: remedies now lie in the Adani and Suraksha plans

Resolution plans approved for both Jaiprakash Associates and Jaypee Infratech bind every allottee, the Commission held, rejecting the plea that consumer remedies survive Section 31 of the IBC and sending each buyer to whichever plan lists their tower. Only the right to come back if the plans are not implemented is kept alive.

CEO offer letter dated a day before the deal: NCLAT makes three Corsalite directors pay Wave Global Rs 3 crore

Wave Global Educational Services sold its coaching business to Corsalite for Rs 3 crore in July 2017 and was in liquidation by 2021. The Principal Bench finds the purchaser was the alter ego of its three directors, who took every share within four months, and trims the payment direction to them and Corsalite alone.

Approved 100 per cent in 2022, zero votes in 2024: NCLAT lets IVR Prime creditors go to a third Form G

Vasu Buildcon said a limited remand on the Noida Authority claim could not reopen its CoC-approved plan for IVR Prime IT SEZ. The Principal Bench holds that a plan never approved under Section 31, remitted and then voted down, leaves the CoC free to return to the market. The plea of the suspended director that assignee homebuyers rigged the vote also fails.

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Getting your name on inherited property — the mutation process

By Editorial Desk · 31 Oct 2026

Supreme Court upholds Telangana title to 550 acres at Miyapur, calls rival claims a fraud on the State

Justice M. M. Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma dismiss a batch of appeals against a 2003 Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment, holding that a Nizam-era jagir conferred no title, the 1949 abolition vested Survey Nos. 100 and 101 in the State, and the pahani entries relied on were bogus.

Mansi Finance cheque-bounce ruling never decided the Maharashtra money-lending bar, Supreme Court says

Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice N.V. Anjaria dispose of a clarification plea, holding that the 26 May 2026 judgment did not examine the Tamil Nadu or Maharashtra money-lending Acts and that trial courts must decide any Section 13 bar themselves.

Supreme Court sinks Shreeram Builders award that rewrote a Thane land deal, orders refund at 9 percent

Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva uphold the Bombay High Court setting aside of a majority award that granted specific performance at six times the contract rate, but invoke Article 142 to make the Thanawalas return what the builder paid, with interest.

Supreme Court strikes down Karnataka Act reviving tainted 2011 KPSC recruitment, 2022 appointments to end

Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K. Vinod Chandran hold the 2022 validation Act unconstitutional for nullifying judgments that upheld cancellation of a corruption-tainted selection, and order a fresh recruitment with one-time age relaxation for the untainted appointees and the six appellants.

Bombay HC regularises Model College staff kept on 11-month contracts since 2011, orders UGC pay scale

The Aurangabad Bench held that Maharashtra, which sat on university proposals to sanction posts for over a decade while directing yearly temporary appointments, must treat the posts as deemed approved, regularise the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Ghansawangi and Hingoli Model Colleges, and pay arrears for three years before the petitions were filed.

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Orissa HC sets aside single-judge ruling on SC-ST own-merit promotions over a 2019 data report it never saw

A division bench of Chief Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Murahari Sri Raman allowed 15 writ appeals by SC and ST engineers, revenue inspectors, doctors and health workers, holding that the single judge who quashed the State clarification on own-merit promotion across 64 writ petitions had no occasion to consider the June 2019 report quantifying inadequate

Delhi HC acquits hotel worker in 2000 Vasant Continental ice-pick killing, 22 years after his life sentence

A division bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja set aside the 2004 murder conviction of casual worker Shashi Kumar Nair, finding that the lone eyewitness account of a stabbing at a wedding function attended by up to 200 guests did not inspire confidence, that the extra-judicial confession and dying declaration rested on one unsupported w

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Sikkim HC declares Rs 565 crore defence land award unenforceable, sends rate dispute back to Government

Chief Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque held that the Union cannot seek certiorari against an award passed by its own Collector, but that a composite award combining the Section 23 valuation with Section 30 solatium forecloses the Section 36 revisional power and cannot be enforced. The Rs 150 per sq ft rate for 102 hectares in Lachen, Lachung and Chungthang must n

High CourtsJharkhand HcArticle

Jharkhand HC acquits in-laws convicted of dowry death: standing by and not rescuing is not Section 304B guilt

Nine years after a Dhanbad sessions court sentenced the brother of the husband and his wife to seven years, a division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava found that every witness put the kerosene and the matchstick in the hands of the mother-in-law and the husband alone, that no dowry demand or cruelty was specifically

Bombay HC frees man serving life for 2012 Kandivali child kidnap-murder as every link in the chain fails

A division bench found the last-seen witnesses unreliable, the ransom-call recording unproved, the recovery of the body tainted by a stock panch and the fathers prior disclosure of the spot, and the SIM evidence bare of call records or a Section 65B certificate, and acquitted Manishprasad Gaud of murder, kidnapping and destroying evidence.

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Chhattisgarh HC reinstates CRPF inspector dismissed after enquiry held while he was in jail, no back wages

Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad quashed the 2018 dismissal of Y.K. Soloman, who had asked from Central Jail Ambikapur that his departmental enquiry wait until his murder trial ended and was instead recorded as having no defence, but held that his later acquittal on benefit of doubt gave him no automatic right to his job and left the CRPF free to start a fre

Delhi HC upholds 2006 conviction of EPFO supervisor for Rs 500 bribe, orders surrender after 20 years on bail

Justice Madhu Jain dismissed Rajkumar appeal against his conviction under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act for taking Rs 500 from a provident fund claimant in a January 2003 CBI trap, holding that demand and conscious acceptance were proved by the complainant, the shadow witness, the recovery and pink hand washes, and that an objec

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Allahabad HC grants bail to Azam Khan and son in PAN card forgery case but refuses to stay their convictions

Justice Samit Gopal suspended the sentences of Mohd Azam Khan and Mohd Abdullah Azam Khan, who have spent over four years and three and a half years in custody in a fixed-term case, but held that their criminal antecedents left no justifiable reason to stay the convictions that keep them out of the coming Assembly election, and admitted the revisions for fin

Delhi HC rejects Diwali cleaning excuse, bars Cafe Brown Sugar from adding old invoices to trademark suit

Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav held that documents lying in a plaintiff own godown throughout are not subsequently discovered documents under Sudhir Kumar, that a company cannot step outside Order XI Rule 1(5) CPC by deferring a search of its own records, and that the Diwali cleaning story was untrue and illogical when the first page of the same sales acc

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Jammu and Kashmir HC strikes down water usage charges on hydropower as a tax on electricity generation

A division bench at Srinagar held that the Jammu and Kashmir Water Resources Act, 2010, to the extent it levies water usage charges on hydro projects, imposes a tax on generation that the erstwhile State legislature had no competence to levy, struck it down to that extent and quashed demand notices against thirteen independent power producers.

Delhi HC severs guarantee interest from MMTC yellow peas award, holds a late dissent is not a second award

A division bench of Justice Avneesh Jhingan and Justice Shail Jain partly allowed MMTC Ltd appeal against an ICA majority award in favour of Australian exporter Aust Grain, severing 9 per cent interest on a USD 271,950 performance guarantee that the contract itself said would carry no interest, while rejecting every other objection, including that the dissen

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Jharkhand HC refuses divorce: a wife wanting a separate flat is not cruelty, living apart is not desertion

A division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava upheld the Ranchi Family Court, holding that a husband who admitted he stopped paying rent on the flat where his wife and two daughters lived had proved neither cruelty nor desertion under Section 13(1) of the Hindu Marriage Act.

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Chhattisgarh HC orders Bilaspur college to restore pre-marriage name on degrees: silence in rules is no bar

Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad quashed a governing body resolution of the Government Bilasa Girls Post Graduate College that refused to correct the records of a graduate whose marriage had been annulled, holding under Jigya Yadav that an autonomous college cannot treat the absence of a rule as a prohibition when a Family Court decree, a gazette notificatio

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Allahabad HC calls KGBV contract teaching forced labour, orders UP to create posts within four months

Justice Pankaj Bhatia held at Lucknow that keeping Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya teachers for more than 15 years on 11-month-29-day contracts at an honorarium below semi-skilled wages violates Articles 14 and 23, directed the State to sanction posts and frame service conditions within four months, and ordered Rs 17,000 a month to every KGBV teacher in the

Patna HC refuses probate: literate woman who signed an FIR nine days earlier left thumb marks on her will

Justice Ramesh Chand Malviya reversed a Begusarai probate grant for a 1994 will by which an elderly childless widow left her entire estate to two nieces. Nine days before the will she had signed a police complaint that her signature and mark had been taken on blank papers at a registry office. The will bore only thumb impressions at the top of each page, eve

Himachal HC dates 1986 plaint to 10.15 am by petition-box rule, holds same-day sale deed hit by lis pendens

Justice Rakesh Kainthla dismissed a second appeal pending since 2008 by purchasers who bought part of a Una plot from the vendor on the very day a specific performance suit was filed against her. Reading the High Court Rules on the court petition box, the judge held the plaint was presented by 10.15 am, so both sales were pendente lite, Section 19(b) of the

Himachal HC upholds acquittal in 2 kg charas case: yellow tape at seizure, brown tape in court

A division bench of Justice Vivek Singh Thakur and Justice Bhupesh Sharma dismissed the State appeal against the 2018 acquittal of three men stopped in a Mahindra Xylo at Dohri Diwar, Solan. Both independent witnesses denied seeing the recovery, the police officers contradicted each other on where the secret information was received and where the bag was ope

By Editorial Desk · 30 Oct 2026

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Sexual harassment at work — the criminal-law track

Silent assessment order is no opinion: Supreme Court upholds reopening of Rs 255 crore Sabharwal share sale

Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K. Vinod Chandran hold that a post-assessment investigation report on overvalued shares is tangible material for reopening, and that a bare acceptance of a return forms no opinion to change.

No written grounds, no prejudice: Supreme Court cancels High Court bail in Pokhran espionage case

Justice M.M. Sundresh and Justice Prasanna B. Varale set aside a Rajasthan High Court order freeing a man accused of passing troop movements to Pakistani handlers, holding that a signed arrest memo and an unobjecting counsel met Section 47 BNSS.

Patna High Court could not extend the arbitrator: Supreme Court sends Section 29A power to commercial court

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Atul S. Chandurkar hold that only the court defined in Section 2(1)(e), not the High Court that appointed the arbitrator, can extend an arbitral mandate, while rejecting the bid by South Bihar Power Distribution Company to scrap the sole arbitrator for a three-member panel.

Supreme v Supremo: Supreme Court moves rival SUPREME trademark suits from Indore and Delhi to Ahmedabad

Justice S.V.N. Bhatti and Justice N.V. Anjaria send a Rs 15 lakh suit by Supremo India and a Rs 2 crore suit by Supreme Industries over the SUPREME mark to the City Civil Court, Ahmedabad, a city neither side had chosen.

Assets 51 per cent above known income: Supreme Court upholds Kerala Sub Registrar corruption conviction

Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva dismiss the appeal of V. Gopalakrishnan, holding that once the prosecution proves disproportion the public servant must account for it, and order him to surrender.

No Section 143(2) notice, no reassessment: Supreme Court dismisses revenue appeals in Orissa Mining case

Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva hold that Section 292BB cannot cure a notice that was never issued, and that a Section 142(1) letter during reassessment is no substitute for the mandatory Section 143(2) notice.

Supreme Court will not referee a 24-year-old award execution, asks Law Commission to fix enforcement

A three-judge bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh holds that answering a certified question did not make the Court the supervisor of the Delhi High Court execution of a 2002 Iraqi Dinar award, and asks the Law Commission to study why awards take so long to realise.

Kargil arthritis earns war injury pension: Supreme Court holds Operation Rakshak is a notified operation

Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe dismiss the Ministry of Defence appeal, read Category E(i) of the 2001 policy letter by its plain words, and tell the Government to state what each notified operation carries.

Rape case cannot be quashed on a compromise: Supreme Court revives MP trial after survivor reports coercion

Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K. Vinod Chandran set aside a Madhya Pradesh High Court order that quashed a rape and SC/ST Act case on a settlement, after speaking to the survivor by video and hearing that she was coerced.

Interest-bearing loan to ex-employee for land purchase is not a commercial dispute, Himachal Pradesh HC holds

Justice Sushil Kukreja refused to reject a Rs 6.36 crore mortgage suit by a real estate company, holding that a one-off loan with no mercantile document, made by a company that is not a banker, trader or financier, falls outside Section 2(1)(c)(i) of the Commercial Courts Act even if it carries interest and funded a housing project.

High CourtsGujarat HcArticle

Gujarat HC upholds 2015 acquittal in Sutrapada poisoning case where seized bottle was never sent to FSL

Justice S.V. Pinto dismissed the State appeal against the acquittal of two men accused of forcing a young woman to drink poison in a maize field in April 2014, finding material omissions in her complaint, no eyewitness to the act, a hospital history naming unknown persons, and an aluminium bottle that the police seized but never had analysed.

High CourtsAllahabad HcArticle

Allahabad HC refuses to cancel bail granted by Mahoba trial court on second plea after HC had rejected first

On remand from the Supreme Court, Justice Samit Gopal dismissed the appeals of the brother of a petrol pump employee who died after a glass door was smashed into his neck, holding that the Special Judge had granted bail on detailed orders after two prosecution witnesses were examined and that nothing showed misuse of liberty, tampering or non-cooperation.

High CourtsChhattisgarh HcArticle

Chhattisgarh HC upholds Rs 7.29 crore attachment of Raipur civic body accounts to enforce arbitral award

Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal dismissed the Raipur Municipal Corporation petition under Article 227, holding that a Commercial Court can execute an arbitral award in a commercial dispute of specified value even if no Section 34 challenge was ever pending before it, and that a municipal body enjoys no blanket immunity from execution merely because its funds