High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Amit Sharma held that a plea of mental illness under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act and the Dhariwal ruling needs material, and that judicial review does not reopen the evidence in a departmental inquiry.
Justice Alok Kumar quashed a Circle Officer order of 5 March 2024 against Patna residents told to clear alleged public land. It said nothing on the objections they filed under an earlier High Court order, and a summary order without reasons cannot take property under Article 300A.
A division bench led by Chief Justice V. Kameswar Rao dismissed a Letters Patent Appeal by a Bihar police constable removed in 2018. She wrote No on her verification form while a 2017 FIR was pending, and her December 2024 acquittal came too late to help.
A division bench led by Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad upheld a Ranchi Family Court judgment refusing a husband divorce under Section 13(1A)(ii). He took no step to enforce his own conjugal-rights decree, and nothing showed the wife knew of it or meant to end the marriage.
A division bench led by Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad upheld a Dhanbad Family Court judgment refusing a husband divorce on cruelty and mental disorder. His only medical paper, a US discharge slip, recorded altered mental status, and no doctor was examined.
A division bench led by Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad set aside a Palamau Family Court judgment that refused a wife divorce, holding that pilgrimages, photographs and a husband later offering to take her back do not cancel cruelty proved through the whole course of the marriage.
Justice Rakesh Kainthla held that the Bilaspur court was wrong on territorial jurisdiction, but refused to disturb a 2011 acquittal because the complainant never proved he was the proprietor of the payee firm.
Justice Rakesh Kainthla allowed two second appeals from Theog and decreed a land suit, holding that both courts wrongly shut out signed papers and a 1980 statement because they were not put to the landowner in cross-examination.
A division bench dismissed a writ appeal by Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences against the refusal to recall a 2023 order that counted a former Deputy Registrar's compulsory retirement years as duty, saying the suppression ground was available earlier.
Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan declined to use the Section 536(2) Companies Act power for the daughter and son of Mantri Realty promoters, citing unregistered agreements with no execution date, unproven authority to sign for the company and a payment trail that does not reconcile.
Justice Madhu Jain upheld the conviction, rejecting claims of tutoring, delay, a missing DNA profile and a loan-dispute motive, but held that the sentence is governed by Section 6 as it stood in June 2016, with a minimum of ten years.
A division bench refused to review its 2023 ruling that a workman's reinstatement and back wages award stood outside Ferro Alloys Corporation's approved resolution plan, saying the company was rearguing points already decided.
Justice Vakiti Ramakrishna Reddy held that a landlord must first prove the Rs 10 stamp-paper agreement he relied on, and that an appellate court cannot fill the gap by comparing signatures with its own eyes or by treating a denial of tenancy as wilful default. The Rent Controller order dismissing the eviction petition is restored.
Justice Milind N. Jadhav quashed the FIR, charge-sheet and process against three pilots and a ground-staff employee who sent Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000 per transfer to an EPFO assistant, holding that money reaching a public servant does not by itself show intent to bribe or any conspiracy.
Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja set aside life sentences from 2002, holding that the sole eyewitness was unreliable and that the disclosure, the recoveries and a matching blood group could not complete the chain of circumstances.
A division bench quashed a PITNDPS detention against a Hojai man facing three NDPS cases, holding that the unexplained gap after the police proposal broke the live link to his alleged activity and that the authority never weighed whether he would get bail.
A Division Bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Vinod Kumar refused to disturb a single judge ad interim order, holding that Clause 8 of the shareholders agreement bars even the tabling of a Reserved Matter without written consent from Resilient.
A division bench upheld the murder conviction of Jitendra Rana for the 2011 stabbing of Keenan Santos and Ruben Fernandez and rejected the sudden-fight plea, but acquitted two co-accused of murder for want of common intention and held the trial court could not impose a term for the remainder of natural life.
A division bench of Justice G. S. Kulkarni and Justice Neela Gokhale allowed the NIA appeal against the Special Judge order in the Antilia explosives-car and Mansukh Hiran murder case, holding that the Special Judge ignored the Section 43D(5) test and that five years in custody was no ground for bail.
Justice P. Murugan of the Madurai Bench refused to set aside the 10 September 2026 remand of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, an Inspector and two junior personnel, holding that a Section 91 BNSS bond is no substitute for bail once a murder charge is framed. He told the Sessions Court to finish the trial within nine months.
A division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Akhil Kumar held that bail in pending cases does not stop preventive detention under the Jharkhand Control of Crimes Act, 2002, and that an unproved claim that the jail blocked his representation could not carry the petition.
A Division Bench dismissed a challenge by Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana to a 2009 assessment under Section 4(8) of the AP VAT Act on Rs 241.57 crore it collected from consumers. The order records that the company kept ownership and control of the poles, transformers and cables, yet holds that, viewed as a whole, the transaction transfers t
Justice Praveer Bhatnagar, sitting at Jaipur, dismissed an appeal by an Assistant Sub-Inspector convicted over a 2007 trap, holding that demand and acceptance were proved by recordings, trap witnesses and chemical tests even after the complainant resiled.
Justice Milind N. Jadhav granted bail to Vikky Sanjay Mahadule, arrested on 26 July 2020, after the prosecutor asked the court to rule on long incarceration and leave the merits alone. The order cites a Mumbai Central Prison report of overcrowding at over five to six times capacity.
