High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
The Division Bench found that the Union of India had repeatedly relaxed the three-year central deputation rule for other IAS officers but withheld the same benefit from Khemka without any differentiating reason.
A Kerala High Court Division Bench held that the Malabar Devaswom Board's indefinite appointment of an Executive Officer displaced the hereditary trustee's rights and violated the temple's 1966 scheme.
Advocate Bhavishya Shakya has addressed an open letter to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court urging suo motu cognizance of the Malviya Nagar fire, judicial oversight of the investigation, and a city-wide audit of lodging establishments.
Justice Niral R. Mehta held that freezing an entire salary account over two small credit entries of ₹500 and ₹600 was disproportionate and violated Article 21.
The High Court held that a Sub-Registrar must either register or refuse a document; seeking clarifications from superior authorities and advising parties to wait is outside the Registration Act, 1908.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court holds that the right to challenge an illegal arrest by habeas corpus ends once a court takes cognizance on the charge sheet, resolving a conflict between two lines of Supreme Court authority.
Justice Gannamaneni Ramakrishna Prasad directed Adoni Municipality to issue show-cause notices and remove temporary sheds blocking a 33-foot colony road, rejecting the Commissioner's proposal to allot alternate sites to encroachers.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a homeowner cannot resist construction of public toilets on GVMC land near their compound wall, while directing the corporation and its PPP partner to maintain hygiene.
A Division Bench of the J&K and Ladakh High Court dismissed a landowner's appeal seeking compensation for land rendered unusable by a 220 KV transmission line, holding that aerial right of way belongs to the State.
The Rajasthan High Court held that once a complainant denies both handwriting and signatures on a document, he cannot later claim the document has no nexus with the transaction.
The High Court of Sikkim disposed of SPSC's writ petition after the Commission agreed to furnish the consolidated merit list, subject to a social media restriction on the RTI applicant.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore enhanced maintenance by directing a father to pay over Rs 46 lakh in educational expenses for two daughters pursuing medicine and engineering abroad and in India.
Justice Farjand Ali held that a party cannot lose a statutory right of appeal because its advocate failed to remove a procedural defect within the stipulated time.
The J&K and Ladakh High Court dismissed a former Congress leader's plea to exchange proprietary land for encroached Kahcharaie land, holding that the 2020 amendment to Section 133(2) of the Land Revenue Act removed that power entirely.
Seven foreign crew members of the sunken vessel MSC Elsa 3, stranded in Kochi, asked the Kerala High Court to release their passports and let them leave India.
Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj held that invoking preventive detention immediately after bail was granted, without exhausting ordinary criminal law remedies, rendered the order punitive and constitutionally unsustainable.
Punjab & Haryana High Court found that Prerit Goel suppressed his Vanuatu citizenship when obtaining a Look Out Circular quashing order, and dismissed his travel-abroad application with Rs. 50,000 costs.
The Madras High Court set aside the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board's appointment of a Mutawalli for a Triplicane Dargah, holding that no jurisdiction arises without a statutory survey and gazette notification under the Waqf Act.
Justice Farjand Ali dismissed a quashing petition filed by a serving Forest Guard accused of deploying a dummy candidate in the 2020 Forest Guard Recruitment Examination, finding prima facie material warranting continued investigation.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upholds notifications directing all affiliated private schools to adopt Board-published textbooks for Classes VI to VIII, dismissing a trust's challenge.
Justice C.S. Dias stayed proceedings in a Fort Kochi crime after finding that the Aircraft Act, 1934 was repealed from 1 January 2025 and the accused were charged under a law no longer in force.
The Indore Bench granted anticipatory bail to a partner of Sugar and Spice Production firm accused of cheating a financier of Rs 52 lakh for the Hindi film "Koka Kola", now titled "Lucky".
The Uttarakhand High Court quashed FIR No. 18 of 2025 registered at P.S. Mussoorie, finding the dispute over Modi Bhawan essentially civil in nature with both parties already pursuing separate suits.
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.
