High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
A permanent employee's explanation was noticed and rejected, the notice for a departmental enquiry was issued but never acted on, and his own admission was treated as proof. The High Court orders reinstatement pending a proper proceeding.
An anti-corruption agency lost its case, took a certified copy, and then spent more than a year routing a proposal through its own hierarchy. The High Court refuses to condone the delay, and with it the appeal.
A Tribunal had allowed dependants who joined on one post to seek appointment on a higher one. The Karnataka High Court quashes those orders, on a rule the Supreme Court settled for exactly this situation.
Nine per cent by one assessment, a hundred per cent functionally, then AIIMS. A Delhi judgment on crash compensation shows how a disability figure turns into money, and where the Tribunal had it wrong.
A widow and her minor daughter were refused protection because the document behind their title had gone. The High Court holds possession admitted by the other side makes a prima facie case on its own.
The Patna High Court will not touch a Rs 29.23 crore demand while the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal is seised of it. It will, however, stop the recovery until somebody decides the interim application.
The appellant said the 2007 sale deed in his relatives' names was really his because his money bought it. The Delhi High Court holds the source of funds is only one factor, and the claim is one the statute forbids.
Having argued that consistency means repeatedly scoring eight penalties or fewer, one appellant could not then call that benchmark arbitrary when it cost him a place. Both appeals are dismissed.
A bank employee dismissed without notice in 2011 challenged the enquiry that produced it. The Patna High Court explains the narrow room a writ court has to disturb either the findings or the penalty.
The allegations were identical, the accused were the same, and they were said to be acting for the same company. The Allahabad High Court clubs the lot into the first FIR and treats the rest as witness statements.
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.
