High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
A suo motu reference for a survivor of sexual assault reached the Indore Bench, was examined, and was decided inside two days. On the one fact that decides everything, the Court took the Board's figure over the file's.
A borrower who told the bank in 2011 that it did not want the rest of its loan later said the loan was never fully disbursed. The Calcutta High Court finds nothing perverse in the Tribunal's refusal to accept that.
The Railway Claims Tribunal held the unborn child was not a bona fide passenger and dismissed the claim. The Allahabad High Court awards a second Rs 8 lakh for a death it treats as separate from the mother's.
The Government Pleader's answer was that the police do not interfere in civil matters. The judge replied that he is seeing a series of such cases, and called for every guideline the Home Department and the DGP have issued.
Discharged in 2020, recharged on the CBI's revision in 2022, two directors of a steel company reach the High Court on a 1998 case. Twenty-eight years on, it separates what each of them is actually alleged to have done.
Nearly four years after a Special Judge released the former Mumbai Police Commissioner and the former head of the National Stock Exchange, the agency's challenge reaches judgment — and fails on the narrowness of its own case.
The criminal court found the trap witnesses contradicted each other and acquitted him. The department, working from the same complaint and the same evidence, compulsorily retired him and docked a quarter of his pension for life.
Contractors on Jal Jeevan Mission water supply schemes said a separately priced supply item in the bill of quantities is a contract of its own, payable in full on delivery. A Division Bench has held that a line item is not a severable obligation.
The Revenue said a stay of assessment extends limitation, and then TOLA extends it again. The Chief Justice's Bench has held the order of those two steps decides the case, and that taken in the right order the Taxation and Other Laws Act was never available at all.
A neighbour took a two-year-old from the street and buried her. The trial court sentenced her to hang. The Division Bench has upheld the conviction on the whole chain of circumstances and substituted thirty years without remission.
For nineteen years Kerala courts have thrown out applications under Order IX Rule 7 as three years too late. Three judges have now held that no period of limitation applies at all, and that the 2007 decision which started it was wrong.
A group of companies objected to their income tax cases going to Bangalore and requested centralisation at Hyderabad instead. Having got it, they challenged the transfer order and the assessments that followed. The High Court was not persuaded.
The State cleared an IT park, took forty per cent of the acquisition cost from the company, notified the land, then accepted the landowners' objections and dropped it. Twenty-two years later the Division Bench has priced the delay.
One colleague who appealed won an exemption the rest had never claimed. When twenty-one others asked to revise their returns, the Commissioner said they had given no reasons. The High Court has read the file and found otherwise.
An arbitral award is not to be read like a judgment, the Court holds, rejecting a challenge built on notices of readiness and an allegation that voluminous evidence was ignored.
A Division Bench quashes the State's insistence on a fresh test, grants permanency within two weeks, and asks the government to end long-term contractual hiring across municipal corporations.
Refusing to interdict proceedings over Rs 927 crore collected from 1,351 homebuyers, the Court holds a complex web of transactions cannot be examined microscopically at the threshold.
Setting aside two Speaker's orders, a Division Bench declares a sitting MLA disqualified from April 2024 for contesting the Lok Sabha on another party's ticket, and holds the seat vacant.
A Division Bench rejects a challenge to the authority of Audit Commissionerate officers, holding that a decision about the DRI cannot be lifted out of its statutory setting.
A revenue authority cannot reopen nineteen-year-old entries on a ground an appellate authority had already rejected, the Court holds, quashing the Collector's cancellation.
Applying the protocol a Division Bench laid down in February, the Court clears a termination beyond the statutory ceiling after fresh verification of the survivor's fitness.
Upholding arrears, mesne profits and 9 per cent interest, the Court refuses to receive documents on appeal that the appellant never tried to file at trial.
