High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
The Madurai Bench found that local police ignored the organiser's complaint, skipped video evidence, and filed a hurried final report after advocates attacked a public hearing on illegal quarrying.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court held that a bomb explosion aboard the Janta Express in 1992 constitutes an 'accident' under Section 124 of the Railways Act, 1989, making the Union of India liable to pay compensation to the families of five deceased passengers.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a life sentence under Section 376 IPC and POCSO, finding the child victim's rape allegation was a step-by-step improvement unsupported by medical evidence or the father's own deposition.
Justice G. Satapathy held that apprehending an accused in Andhra Pradesh and driving him to Odisha without producing him before the nearest Magistrate violated Article 22(2) and Section 58 of the BNSS.
The Rajasthan High Court set aside the cancellation of a compassionate appointment made solely on the basis of a Rs. 100 fine under the Rajasthan Public Gambling Ordinance, holding the offence does not involve moral turpitude.
Justice Sandeep Marne held that bringing policemen to interrogate a bank officer and filing complaints with outside authorities were not perverse findings by the Enquiry Officer, restoring the charges against the dismissed clerk.
A Division Bench at Jodhpur suspended the sentence of a murder convict whose severe neurological disorder, cardiac history, and repeated prior interim releases on medical grounds made continued incarceration unjustifiable.
The Jodhpur Bench held that a Magistrate who disagrees with a negative Final Report must record cogent reasons; mere reliance on a protest petition will not suffice.
Justice Tejas Karia directed the Union to issue IT Act notifications within 24 hours to remove content falsely depicting judges and ministers at a London badminton championship.
The Orissa High Court set aside a Magistrate's order that cancelled an interim JCB release without hearing the petitioner, holding it violated natural justice and Section 362 CrPC's bar on review.
Justice Ninala Jayasurya held that APEPDCL had no jurisdiction to invoke Clause 22.3.3.3 of its Terms and Conditions of Supply when the meter was functioning but recording less due to melted wires.
The Manipur High Court quashed a preventive detention order under the NSA after the detaining authority imposed a three-week time limit on the detenu's right to make representations, violating Article 22(5).
Holding that the arrest memo substantially complied with Article 22(1), the Orissa High Court dismissed three CRLMCs but directed the DGP to issue a statewide circular on written grounds of arrest.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court's Division Bench has issued notice in a writ petition filed by YSRCP against the Union of India, directing counters from respondents by 13 August 2026.
Finding the complainant had filed ten FIRs against different men since 2011 and deliberately avoided service, the Bombay High Court quashed a 2019 Section 376 FIR registered at Sahar Police Station.
Rejecting the police's rain-slip defence and finding a prima facie cognizable offence, Justice Jitendra Kumar directed registration of FIR against the then SHO, Murar, Buxar, and CID investigation.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a Section 302 IPC summoning order, holding that motive and Rs.35,000 possession surfaced for the first time during complaint inquiry, not in the FIR or protest petition.
Justice Harkesh Manuja holds that the Reference Authority under Section 64 of the 2013 Act retains full independent power to assess market value beyond Section 26 parameters.
The club occupies 132 acres of prime public land and pays just 0.255% of assessed rent; Justice Kuldeep Tiwari dismisses its 14-year-old challenge to a CIC order.
The Lucknow Bench found the last-seen evidence unreliable, a key witness withheld, and the chain of circumstances incomplete against the sole surviving appellant.
The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench directed Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University to accept an LLM dissertation delayed by pregnancy and childbirth, holding that motherhood cannot be treated as academic default.
Justice V. Gopala Krishna Rao found no substantial question of law in a defendant's challenge to a partition decree covering two ancestral properties in Kakinada, dismissing the second appeal at the admission stage.
Where a buyer fails to pay instalments as agreed, the seller may deduct 10 per cent of advance money before refunding the balance, the Patna High Court held.
The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench allowed a pregnant woman's termination plea, directed DNA preservation of foetal tissue for a Section 69 BNS investigation, and disposed of the original police-harassment writ.
