High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani set aside the Special Court's order restoring attached assets to the insolvency professional and appointed a monitoring committee to verify all 1,650 Greenopolis homebuyers.
Justices Rajeev Ranjan Prasad and Sunil Dutta Mishra decline to quash a Section 148 notice issued on a duplicate PAN the jeweller had asked to cancel in 2021.
The trial court dismissed the partition suit. The Jharkhand High Court decrees it, holding that payments to suppliers prove nothing without documents showing what they were for.
An earlier order in his favour had become final. The Allahabad High Court holds that finality does not authenticate a forged document, or create a post that never existed.
The Supreme Court excluded 15 March 2020 to 28 February 2022 from every limitation period. The Delhi High Court holds that exclusion enlarges time over and above what the statute gives — and a suit filed 19 months later was in time.
Land acquired for an Air Force station in 1943, a decree for specific performance in 2008, and a sale deed executed by a court commissioner in 2015. The Karnataka High Court restores the revenue authorities' orders.
A question in the Legislative Assembly produced four reports and two orders against fifteen teachers the government had approved and paid for years. The Allahabad High Court sets them aside and says any fresh inquiry cannot begin with the answer already written.
The Rajasthan High Court upholds the cancellation of seven leases over industrial land at Kota, holding that the fraud lay not in any single false statement but in the promise of revival and everything the buyer did afterwards.
A Rs 1,347 crore termination payment claim turned on whether a contractual cost cap could be displaced by one party's notification. The Delhi High Court upholds the setting aside of the award.
A fixed-price contract that expressly allowed adjustments for labour, materials and fuel. The Delhi High Court sets aside the rejection of a price variation claim as patently illegal, and leaves the parties to a fresh arbitration on quantum.
Section 12(5) can only be waived by an express written agreement made after the dispute arises. The Delhi High Court holds that nothing else will do — not pleadings, not counter-claims, not silence.
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court holds the agency had standing to be heard — the trial court could not shut it out after ruling its application maintainable — and then refuses the charges it asked for.
Charged in Bhopal, and charged again in Indore over the same children, the petitioner said he was being prosecuted twice. The Madhya Pradesh High Court holds that each incident of penetrative sexual assault is a distinct offence.
Twenty-nine years after a reserved-post appointment obtained on a false caste certificate, the Himachal Pradesh High Court separates the offence of forging a document from the offence of using one, and sets aside half the conviction.
A market committee billed an oil manufacturer Rs 1.74 crore for producing rice bran oil. The Calcutta High Court strikes the product out of the Schedule and orders every rupee refunded with 12% interest in a fortnight.
An urgency clause in 2002, an award in 2004, no compensation ever paid, and the landowners still in possession. The Madhya Pradesh High Court holds the acquisition lapsed under both the old Act and the new.
Six men have been in Model Central Jail since 2021 on a murder and atrocities case that has barely begun. The Himachal Pradesh High Court asks who the delay belongs to, and enlarges them on bail.
That is why the Delhi High Court believes it. A life sentence for a 1995 murder is quashed on a finding of juvenility, the conviction left standing, and a man who had already served nearly eight years is released.
Thirteen years after conviction, the Delhi High Court sets it aside: an MLC history that contradicted the charge, a forensic report that found no blood on clothes said to be soaked in it, and an age proved by a school register nobody could vouch for.
A bribe for releasing a judo coach's kit allowance, and a defence built on the sequence of events. The Delhi High Court finds the demand continued after the work was done, and upholds the conviction.
Sixteen years after the FIR, the Delhi High Court refuses to quash an order on charge over forged supply certificates — those weaknesses go to appreciation of evidence, not to whether a trial should happen.
The Delhi High Court dismisses an appeal against a decree for possession, holding that a claim of title from a date and adverse possession from the same date cancel each other — and that long occupation, without more, stays permissive.
Bihar cancelled their candidature for failing to join in time. The Patna High Court holds the delay was beyond their control, sets the cancellations aside, and orders them taken on within thirty days.
He complained to the police repeatedly and got nothing but reference numbers. The Madras High Court upholds the order sending him back to them with a court behind it.
