High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held that a practising Homeopath's continued registration under the 2021 Act rendered her Form No.6 declaration factually incorrect, making her enrolment application invalid.
The Jharkhand High Court refused to admit a second appeal challenging an ex-parte decree, finding proper notice was served and the appellants' sale deed referenced a different plot entirely.
A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court held that properties allotted to a father under a family partition of his own father's self-acquired land do not acquire ancestral character, defeating a daughter's coparcenary claim.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held that a petition seeking declaration of marriage and property rights cannot be filed before a Family Court when the alleged husband had died before the petition was instituted.
The J&K High Court held that a pre-emption suit filed under the J&K Right to Prior Purchase Act could not survive once the legislature repealed that Act before a decree was passed.
The Madurai Bench held that an Agricultural Officer who deferred joining a promoted post until he completed 20 years of service could not claim Special Grade benefits he was not otherwise entitled to.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court's Division Bench at Jabalpur held that an enabling constitutional provision under Articles 15(6) and 16(6) does not automatically entitle EWS candidates to age relaxation absent a state statutory framework.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court allowed a writ petition by an 80-year-old ex-serviceman whose assigned land remained on the Section 22-A prohibited properties list despite two government memos and a prior court order directing its removal.
A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that a divorce-linked maintenance decree is enforceable against a deceased husband's estate, but the right to seek enhancement under Section 37(2) dies with him.
The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed a writ petition by an outsourced Forest Department worker whose engagement was ended after he visited an accused in an illicit tree-felling case and disclosed sensitive official information.
The Patna High Court set aside a three-year blacklisting of a food-grain transporting agent by BSFC, finding the punitive action rested on a tender clause that did not exist in the original NIT.
Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj dismissed a regular bail petition, finding the accused's alleged role in a scheme that extracted Rs 28.5 lakhs by falsely claiming access to judges was not peripheral.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand declined to quash a Section 376 IPC FIR on the basis of a compromise between the prosecutrix and the accused, holding that rape proceedings cannot be extinguished by private settlement.
The Kerala High Court dismissed an appeal by a madrassa teacher convicted of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old student, confirming sentences totalling 20 years under the POCSO Act and Section 377 IPC.
A Division Bench set aside the DGCA's suspension of an Air India pilot's ATPL licence, holding that no show-cause notice, hearing, or reasoned order was issued before the drastic action.
The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench held that Article 21 dignity extends to mortal remains and authorised State authorities to conduct last rites of Akash Delison after his family declined to receive the body.
The Kerala High Court upheld a brown sugar conviction under Section 21(b) of the NDPS Act, ruling Section 50 inapplicable where contraband was recovered from a plastic bag, not a body search.
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court dismissed DTC's appeal, holding that failure to check a conductor's cash and multiple enquiry lapses meant misconduct was never proved.
A daughter who has waited over a decade for a Junior Assistant post under the Compassionate Employment Scheme wins a direction from the Kerala High Court to force a cadre review and seniority-based appointment.
The Madras High Court dismissed a PIL by an AIADMK advocate demanding a CBI inquiry into four MLAs who resigned and joined TVK, finding no tangible material beyond suspicion.
Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka held that freezing a savings account on informal cyber-crime portal alerts, without a competent statutory order or notice, is arbitrary and violates natural justice.
The Madurai Bench confirmed conviction under Section 302 IPC after holding that an injured professor's dock identification was reliable without a test identification parade, and that hostile student witnesses had been won over.
The Calcutta High Court held that Order 23 Rule 1 CPC does not prevent disciplinary authorities from issuing a fresh charge memo after withdrawing a procedurally defective one before the Tribunal.
The Uttarakhand High Court set aside a Sessions Judge's order directing FIR registration against a Circle Officer and SHO under Section 4 of the SC/ST Act, ruling that an administrative inquiry recommendation is mandatory before any such direction.
