Latest Himachal Pradesh Hc updates from LegalRepublic.in.
Justice Rakesh Kainthla dismissed a quashing petition targeting a 2016 vigilance FIR, holding that delay alone cannot defeat a Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution where no actual prejudice is shown.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court found removal from service disproportionate where the constable's superior was himself punished for orchestrating the same misconduct.
A Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld concurrent findings that a security guard's termination without Section 25-F compliance was illegal, rejecting the college's contractor-engagement defence.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court directed the District Legal Services Authority, Kullu to inspect rave party sites at Kasol and ordered the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police to file personal affidavits.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court dismissed the State's appeal, holding that a teacher awarded the Indira Gandhi NSS Award by the President was entitled to two years of salary increment under the 2015 notification.
A Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has held, prima facie, that Ex-officio Members — MLAs — have no right to vote in elections for President and Vice President of Municipalities under HP law.
Justice Sandeep Sharma quashed FIR No. 467 of 2020 against Mars Bottlers proprietor Manik Kumar, finding Section 39 prosecution unsustainable for batch-labelling errors, while compounding the two-box permit violation.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court dismissed a criminal revision against an SDM's order directing co-owners to remove an obstruction on a customary village path in Khasra No.720, Kinnaur.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court quashed an FIR and a Section 156(3) CrPC order because the complainant approached the Director General of Police instead of the local Station House Officer first.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court quashed an FIR and a Magistrate's Section 156(3) order because the complainant approached the Director General of Police instead of the local Station House Officer first.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court dismissed a Letters Patent Appeal by a former HPSEB employee who sought seniority as Clerk from her 1991 ad hoc promotion, holding the stop-gap arrangement carried no legal right.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court dismissed the State's appeal, holding it vicariously liable for a contractor's failure to erect warning signs on a damaged National Highway stretch, causing a fatal accident.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court held that service on a higher post in multiple spells still counts for increments under FR 26, and that denying the benefit violated Article 14.
