High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
A Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court disposed of a PIL with nineteen binding directions covering Zero FIR compliance, One-Stop Centre reform, victim compensation timelines, and a ban on the two-finger test.
Justice M. A. Chowdhary dismissed bail and a revision petition filed by a Kupwara man facing repeated sexual assault charges, holding that a post-charge compromise carries no weight in Section 376 IPC matters.
A Division Bench found that a practising advocate was jailed without lawful cause under BNSS preventive provisions and directed the State to pay Rs 75,000, recoverable from the errant officers.
Justice Sandeep Moudgil directed a State-constituted committee to re-examine individual claims of Haryana government employees and pensioners denied medical reimbursement on technical grounds.
The Orissa High Court dismissed an appeal against conviction under Sections 452, 354, 354-A IPC and Sections 10 and 12 of the POCSO Act, upholding a seven-year sentence for sexual assault on a child.
A Division Bench at Amaravati ruled that parties may engage private experts and file their reports, while setting aside a document admitted by memo without following Order XI procedure.
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna quashed the EOW's FIR and the Enforcement Directorate's ECIR against PPK Newsclick Studio, holding that the FDI transactions disclosed no criminal offence under IPC or PMLA.
The Bombay High Court quashed MCOCA proceedings against Mangesh Sawant, finding his name absent from threat calls and transcripts, while dismissing the writ petitions of co-accused Rajan Sujanani and Kishore Vatnani.
The High Court of Andhra Pradesh quashed SC/ST atrocities proceedings against an accused residing in Australia, finding the complaint silent on public visibility and rooted in a money dispute.
Justice Sanjay Dhar held that an evasive denial cannot substitute a clear admission under Order XII Rule 6 CPC when the defendant has taken a categorical stand on the disputed fact.
Rajasthan High Court holds that a negative final report exonerating a candidate of a false rape FIR triggers eligibility under the State's 2019 character-verification circular, not disqualification.
The Bombay High Court has issued Rule and shielded Anil Ambani from prosecution and penalty while his constitutional challenge to the Black Money Act proceeds to hearing.
The Rajasthan High Court dismissed a challenge by Senior Residents who lacked one year of post-MD experience by the 29 January 2025 application deadline for Assistant Professor posts.
A Division Bench found the Kanpur Nagar Nigam's order requisitioning LIC employees for Census 2027 field work prima facie outside the limits of Section 7(c) of the Census Act, 1948.
Only the sibling who proved she lived with and relied on the deceased pensioner qualifies for loss of dependency; the other four adult siblings living separately do not.
The Delhi High Court set aside the trial court's bail refusal, holding that prolonged incarceration and slim trial prospects outweighed the Section 43D(5) UAPA bar for the Kashmiri human rights activist.
A Division Bench held that withholding election documents until the limitation period for an election petition expires would render the statutory right to approach the court illusory.
The Division Bench found that an MD graduate's shifting narratives about a University of Kashmir Gold Medal, combined with a nine-year delay in filing, fatally undermined his writ petition.
A vacation bench at Jodhpur invoked Article 226 jurisdiction after newspaper reports flagged encroachments on Rupsagar Talab, structural failures in Madar Canal, and commercial development near Fatehsagar Lake.
Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan dismissed the interim injunction application, holding HDFC Bank's statements about loan defaults were factually grounded, bona fide, and in public interest.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside two orders rejecting bail to a juvenile, holding that seriousness of the alleged offence is not a statutory ground under Section 12 of the JJ Act, 2015.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur allowed anticipatory bail to a government servant accused under the SC/ST Act, after the State twice failed to produce a CCTV verification report.
Rajasthan High Court quashes a 2008 compensation award, holding that oral testimony alone cannot establish employer-employee relationship under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923.
The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed six writ petitions challenging candidature rejections in a statistical officer recruitment, holding that qualification equivalence cannot be determined by courts or assumed by selecting bodies absent an express rule.
