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Three Hojai residents challenged the Deputy Commissioner's refusal to renew their gun licences; Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi dismissed the writ, holding that no person can claim renewal as a matter of right.
The Gauhati High Court held that where bail is granted solely on procedural defects in an arrest, the CBI need not obtain a formal bail cancellation order before seeking re-arrest of the accused.
Gauhati High Court dismisses writ challenging land allotment to a third party, holding that mere occupation of Government land creates no enforceable right to settlement under the Assam Land Policy, 2019.
The Gauhati High Court directed Assam to hold Silchar Municipal Corporation elections expeditiously, preferably within two months, after the body ran without an elected council since April 2020.
Seventy-four residents of two PGR villages in Lakhimpur, settled since 1983 as Assam Movement victims, secured a ruling that eviction can follow only after individualised, reasoned orders on each representation.
The Gauhati High Court upheld a tribunal's finding that an IQ of 60, indicating mild intellectual disability, renders a motor accident victim incapable of any gainful employment, warranting 100% loss of earning capacity.
Gauhati High Court holds that a government employee's nomination of another woman as wife in pension papers cannot defeat the statutory family pension entitlement of his legally wedded spouse under the Assam Pension Rules.
The Gauhati High Court refused to entertain a writ petition by the Gauripur Town Kaborsthan Committee against a Circle Officer order cancelling a 2020 mutation, finding a statutory appeal available under Section 147 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886.
Gauhati High Court dismisses tea company's writ petition but holds that Rule 18 of Assam Settlement Rules is confined to government and public-category lands, not private proprietary land.
A PIL filed to compel Mizoram to establish a State Human Rights Commission under the 1993 Act ends after the State appoints a Chairperson and two members in July 2026.
The Kohima Bench found that a government school teacher feigned a medical examination using a stethoscope to touch a minor girl's abdomen, breast, and private parts, satisfying Section 11(ii) of the POCSO Act.
Gauhati High Court intervenes after a Section 21A NOC application for an inter-community land sale in Sribhumi sat unprocessed for over five months, breaching a statutory 30-day deadline.
The Gauhati High Court dismissed three PILs challenging the September 2024 notification extending the Inner Line Permit regime to three Nagaland districts, holding the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation 1873 remains valid law under Article 372.
Gauhati High Court dismisses a quashing petition filed by a retired Deputy Chief Engineer of NF Railway facing trial for disproportionate assets worth 47.53% of known income.
The Gauhati High Court pressed the Mizoram government for current instructions on the Governor's approval to appoint the Chairperson and members of the State Human Rights Commission.
The Gauhati High Court refused to interfere with concurrent revenue authority orders that cancelled a land mutation granted without notice to a co-owner, holding the omission violated Section 52 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886.
Tinsukia fish farmers caught up in Channa barca poaching confusion win relief as the Gauhati High Court rules three ornamental species face no trade bar under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
The Gauhati High Court found the Workmen's Compensation Commissioner committed perversity by ignoring a written admission on the deceased driver's monthly salary, recalculating the award upward.
The Gauhati High Court held that a B.Ed. degree obtained from a recognised university without prior departmental permission cannot be invalidated under Rule 13 of the Assam Civil Service (Conduct) Rules, 1965.
The Gauhati High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging a Foreigners Tribunal declaration, holding that a single OPD prescription did not establish mental illness and that contradictions in evidence were fatal.
The Gauhati High Court quashed Section 145/146 CrPC proceedings where the complainant's own petition before the Magistrate conceded that the petitioner was in possession of the disputed land.
Dibrugarh University must pay subsistence allowance with revisions for twelve years after the Division Bench upheld that an employee was under deemed suspension once his dismissal order was set aside.
Petitioners who failed to challenge the original demolition order under the GMDA Act were told to exhaust the statutory appeal remedy before the District & Sessions Judge, Kamrup.
Division Bench holds that a UGC-regulated private university's termination of a professor remains a contractual matter, not amenable to writ jurisdiction under Article 226.
