High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
Two accused arrested for assaulting a Tumakuru lodge owner over his establishment's name following an IPL match win bail from the Karnataka High Court.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed two writ petitions challenging consolidation authority orders that recognised Ramji as adopted son of a widow, entitling him to inherit his adoptive father's landholding.
The Rajasthan High Court held that the University of Rajasthan could not deny reimbursement for a retired employee's COVID-19 treatment at non-recognised Delhi hospitals, including AIIMS and Sri Gangaram Hospital.
The High Court quashed confiscation of 6,150 willow clefts and a truck, holding that conviction must precede confiscation of non-government forest property under the J&K Willow Act.
A Division Bench held that Section 16-E(10) power cannot be exercised after 29 years of continuous service, regularisation, and promotion, absent any fraud.
The Orissa High Court acquitted an accused convicted under Section 417 IPC, holding that a broken promise to marry cannot constitute cheating unless dishonest intention is proved from the very beginning of the relationship.
Allahabad High Court declared the detention of two adult women by their father unlawful after they converted to Islam, ordering Rs 25 lakh compensation jointly from the father and State.
Justice Manisha Batra granted bail to Karambir @ Karmu, accused of facilitating arms and harbouring killers in a 2022 double murder, citing the limited and indirect role ascribed to him and the remote prospect of an early trial.
The Allahabad High Court held that a plaintiff's wilful neglect in depositing balance sale consideration for over two decades cannot be rescued by a belated extension-of-time application.
The Bombay High Court quashed an FIR under the Motor Vehicles Act where a student's breath-alcohol reading exceeded the legal limit by just 0.1 mg, finding the margin absorbed by the analyser's own tolerance.
The High Court of J&K and Ladakh held that Army Goodwill School, Wayne, Kupwara, is a self-financed private institution, and a service dispute with its contractual teachers carries no public law element amenable to Article 226.
Allahabad High Court holds that a defendant in a Small Causes Court suit cannot insist as of right that a res judicata plea be decided before the main suit proceeds to trial.
The Division Bench held that Haryana's policy permitting in-service doctors to access 40% PG medical seats without prior rural posting is constitutionally valid, provided they execute a five-year rural service bond.
Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal clarifies that law graduates from 2009-10 onward who fail the AIBE within two years cannot appear before any court, tribunal, or revenue court, and risk prosecution under Section 45 of the Advocates Act.
Nearly five decades after acquisition, the Allahabad High Court enhanced compensation for a Ghaziabad-border plot situated just eight kilometres from Connaught Place, applying pre-amended Section 25 constraints.
Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy held that sharing a video with a political opinion about policing does not attract Section 295 IPC, which requires destruction or defilement of a place of worship.
Justice Ashok Kumar Jain allowed a third bail plea in a 2023 murder case and directed a vigilance inquiry into the trial court after the prosecution's star witness denied being an eyewitness following an unexplained 19-month gap between examination-in-chief and cross-examination.
A Division Bench set aside a Tahsildar's rejection of a Scheduled Caste caste certificate application, holding that a bare website notice stating "lack of evidence" cannot substitute a speaking order.
Disposing a writ petition from a T.Nagar resident, the Madras High Court issued four binding guidelines on how police must conduct enquiries and summon persons named in complaints.
The Rajasthan High Court at Jaipur has stayed Railways construction of a boundary wall near a commercial plot holding a registered JDA lease deed, pending reply from the respondents.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court set aside a writ court order and directed the U.P. Board to grant selection grade to a clerk on ten years of clean service rendered between 1995 and 2005.
Justice Rahul Bharti stayed hotel operations at a Srinagar building allegedly converted from residential use under a 2023 building permit and directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau to collect all NOC records.
Justice Easwaran S. of the Kerala High Court overruled a registry objection and directed the numbering of an election petition filed by Advocate Mathew Kunnappally against five respondents from Kannur.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed RBI's appeal against reinstatement of a dismissed Class-III employee, finding the departmental enquiry procedurally flawed and the charge of forgery unproved.
