High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench directed authorities to clear illegal encroachments from a wide civic belt, including the Qaiserbagh Telephone Exchange, within five weeks, with natural justice safeguards.
The Karnataka High Court at Dharwad quashed a Siruguppa MLA's communication seeking to relocate an approved Tungabhadra lift-irrigation project away from Ibrahimpur and Mannur villages.
Justice N.J. Jamadar held that transferring interim custody of a girl raised since infancy by a non-guardian stranger would harm her welfare, even though her biological parents retain legal rights.
The Karnataka High Court modified a family court's visitation schedule that required a 10-year-old to travel 475 kilometres each way between Bengaluru and Honnavar every second weekend.
The Orissa High Court dismissed a PIL filed by an advocate challenging the Deputy Chief Minister designation in Odisha, holding the title purely descriptive and the issue already settled by the Supreme Court.
The Lucknow Bench set aside a six-month externment from District Gonda, finding that one surviving FIR from 2020 cannot establish the habitual criminality required under the U.P. Control of Goondas Act, 1970.
A Division Bench dismissed a Kanpur slaughterhouse operator's writ after finding that a Food Safety registration certificate cannot authorise operations exceeding the petty food business threshold under the FSS Act, 2006.
Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal has stayed recovery of over Rs 6.41 crore in damages imposed under the Public Premises Act after a Saharanpur mosque was evicted and demolished within days.
The Dharwad Bench held that the Board bypassed mandatory Karnataka Wakf Rules by appointing an ad-hoc panel on a minister's recommendation instead of vesting management in the District Waqf Officer.
A Division Bench held that a civil judge's resignation, withdrawn on 21 December 2022 before the Governor approved it on 31 December, could not validly terminate her employment.
Dismissing a criminal revision, the Calcutta High Court upheld conviction under Section 401A of the KMC Act and ruled post-conviction regularisation cannot erase criminal liability.
The Delhi High Court held that P.B. Agro LLP could not challenge an FDA Mumbai show cause notice before it, even though the company and FSSAI are based in Delhi.
The Karnataka High Court directed the Director of Municipal Administration to fix a software mapping defect that was blocking sale deed registrations for 13 flats held under a Nirantara Patta perpetual lease in Belagavi.
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a murder accused's writ petition challenging an administrative notification that transferred his sessions trial to another court mid-way through the prosecution evidence.
A Division Bench held that the rigours of Section 45 of the PMLA cannot bar interim bail when an accused is medically unfit and has been in custody for over five years.
The Allahabad High Court kept a suspension order in abeyance and directed a departmental enquiry to conclude within 15 days, saying charges cannot be examined at the writ stage.
The High Court of Karnataka confirmed a Family Court divorce decree, found cumulative cruelty proved, and sharply reduced permanent alimony to Rs 50 lakh given the wife's independent medical income.
Karnataka High Court quashes FIR, charge sheet and cognizance order against Vijay Tata in the Ambidant Ponzi case, finding no admissible evidence and M/s Sanchaya not arraigned as accused.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur ordered arrest warrants against two respondents in a contempt petition after they acknowledged notices but refused to engage counsel or file any compliance report.
The Karnataka High Court quashed a trial court's memorandum of facts recorded after a spot inspection conducted prematurely, before any evidence was led and while a temporary injunction application was pending.
The Lucknow Bench declined to direct the Family Court to expeditiously decide an execution case, finding the petitioner had multiplied parallel maintenance proceedings without pursuing divorce or restitution.
A Division Bench dismissed a writ petition challenging cattle market licences, holding that the Nagar Panchayat's regulatory authority under the UP Municipalities Act includes the power to licence animal markets.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court reversed a Single Judge's order, holding that the proviso to Section 23 of the RTE Act saved a teacher's appointment and that the Committee of Management acted with malice in law.
The Madurai Bench dismissed a writ petition by a Tamil Nadu judicial ministerial employee who argued that a later conversion of her charge memo should relate back to erase an earlier promotion bar.
