High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
The Telangana High Court set aside a Union Ministry rejection, holding that Section 5(1)(f) covers children of present Indian citizens, not only former ones.
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna held that a plaintiff's unregistered purchase documents established better possessory title over a J.J. Colony property when the defendant produced no competing documentary evidence at all.
Justice A. Badharudeen upheld the bar under Section 18 of the SC/ST Act, finding prima facie evidence that repeated public humiliation by the accused teacher drove Scheduled Caste student Nithin Raj to suicide.
The Orissa High Court held that a JMFC order dismissing a bail cancellation application remains interlocutory, barring a Sessions Court revision under Section 397(2) CrPC.
The Rajasthan High Court found the ACB failed to communicate grounds of arrest to Dr. Mahesh Joshi in writing, but held habeas corpus could not lie once multiple judicial remand orders had been passed.
Justice N. Tukaramji read down Rule 6 of the BCI Verification Rules 2015, holding that Bar Association membership must be voluntary and non-membership cannot restrict an advocate's right to practise.
Rajasthan High Court dismisses husband's writ petition seeking joint narco-analysis, polygraph and DNA tests to rebut impotency allegations, finding the application belated and legally untenable.
Justice Sudeepti Sharma dismissed a contempt petition as an abuse of process after the very order alleged to have been disobeyed had already been set aside by a Division Bench, and imposed ₹50,000 costs on the petitioners.
Justice Farhan Dubash held that a housing society cannot bypass a final rejection order by filing a second deemed conveyance application before the same Competent Authority under MOFA.
A Rajasthan vacation bench held Tehsildar Tejpal Pareek personally liable for keeping an HIV-positive man confined for 53 days after his sentence was suspended, directing personal compensation and departmental inquiry.
A Telangana High Court Division Bench resolved conflicting Single Judge views on whether brothel customers face trafficking charges, drawing a firm line between Section 370 and Section 370A(2) of the IPC.
The High Court for the State of Telangana declined to quash proceedings against a TV journalist and an advocate accused of abetting a young woman's suicide by facilitating and attending a character-assassinating interview uploaded on YouTube.
The Bombay High Court set aside a 2020 order cancelling a Charity Commissioner's sanction for a trust property transaction, ruling that Section 36(2) permits revocation only on proof of fraud, not on reassessment of the original decision.
The Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench held that compensatory afforestation at a distant location cannot substitute for trees cut from Khamla and directed the Tree Authority to identify nearby plantation sites.
A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru dismissed challenges to Karnataka's Premium Floor Area Ratio scheme, holding it does not violate Articles 14, 21, 300A or 243ZE of the Constitution.
A Kerala High Court Division Bench held that Electro-Homeopathy falls under the Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 and its 2021 successor, overturning a Single Judge's contrary finding.
The Madurai Bench held that SC/ST Act offences require caste to be the motive, acquitted on abetment of suicide, and reduced a life-term POCSO sentence under the constitutional bar on ex post facto punishment.
Orissa High Court disposed of a mandamus petition by a 65-year-old Scheduled Caste woman after police registered an FIR eight months late, citing a misplaced order.
A Division Bench monitoring the SIT probe into gold stripped from Sabarimala's Dwarapalaka idols has set a hard deadline, warning the investigation cannot linger indefinitely.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court set aside a trial court decree dismissing a Rs 25 lakh money suit, holding that adverse findings on unchallenged facts without court questions are perverse.
Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka disposed of a writ petition challenging inaction on a vigilance complaint over alleged price escalation in a Rs 130-crore bunker bed tender for Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas.
The Uttarakhand High Court quashed a 2018 District Magistrate order cancelling a fair price shop licence after the State admitted the order bore no signature of the District Magistrate.
The Jharkhand High Court's Division Bench admitted a PIL questioning whether a 2018 JPSC resolution on disability certificate formats conflicts with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
The Uttarakhand High Court quashed the cancellation of a fair price shop dealer's agreement, holding that a forgery finding based solely on the Panchayat Secretary's denial, without any handwriting expert opinion, is unsustainable.
