High Court judgments and orders from across India, with the legal point made clear.
Justice Alok Jain dismissed twin anticipatory bail petitions, holding custodial interrogation essential to unravel a cross-border drug network and financial trail implicated by NCB Amritsar.
Justice Santosh Rai set aside a 1987 conviction under Section 392 IPC, holding that a 42-day delayed identification parade unsupported by independent witnesses or recovery could not sustain conviction.
Hundreds of CCTV cameras across Meghalaya police stations lie non-functional; the High Court finds the State's affidavit incomplete and directs a comprehensive account.
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan granted bail to sitting MLA G.V. Markandayan, arrested for alleged criminal threats against the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister in a public meeting speech at Kovilpatti.
Justice Uday Kumar quashed a cheque-bouncing prosecution against a man whose father had died three years before the instruments were drawn, finding Section 141 structurally inapplicable to a sole proprietorship.
The High Court found that all three last-seen witnesses withheld their accounts until after the bodies were identified, and the recovered weapons lacked disclosure statements or blood-group linkage to the deceased.
The High Court of Chhattisgarh set aside a two-year debarment imposed on a Ratlam firm by South East Central Railway, holding that no show-cause notice proposing blacklisting was ever issued.
Justice Manoj Jain dismissed the criminal appeal of former MLA Naresh Balyan, holding that voice recordings, confessional statements and property evidence showed sufficient nexus with the Kapil Sangwan organised crime syndicate.
The Lucknow Bench upheld convictions of two women for burning a daughter-in-law to death, finding the Magistrate-recorded dying declaration reliable despite inconsistencies in a parallel Section 161 statement.
Disposing of a writ against a demolition order, Justice Vinod Diwakar expanded scope to address the absence of crowd science in Mathura's disaster planning framework.
Justice Sumeet Goel dismissed a protection petition where one partner was a 16-year-old minor, holding that extending judicial protection would implicitly sanction a live-in arrangement the law forbids.
Orissa High Court set aside a JMFC order that declined to decide whether a cheque-dishonour case was premature, holding the trial court defied a binding direction from a superior court.
A Division Bench set aside a Single Judge order that had quashed seizure of a Rs. 1.97 crore SUV re-registered at a fraction of its value, evading over Rs. 78 lakh in road tax.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed a challenge to a Rent Tribunal order that barred a third party from joining eviction proceedings to contest the landlord's title under the UP Tenancy Act, 2021.
The Srinagar Bench held that closing an NDPS investigation for want of admissible evidence itself demonstrates the Investigating Officer's bona fides, not malafide.
Himachal Pradesh High Court holds that a cheque returned as “88-Old Cheque” following the Oriental Bank of Commerce-Punjab National Bank merger does not bar a Section 138 complaint; the question of sufficient funds must go to trial.
The court held that Section 7 of the Foreigners Act binds only the "keeper" of premises, not trustees or board members without a direct operational role.
Justice Arif S. Doctor found publications labelling the reconstructed Ashirwad bungalow as haunted or cursed prima facie defamatory of its current owner and violative of his Article 21 rights.
A pillion rider cannot be held contributorily negligent for the conduct of the two-wheeler's rider; the Kerala High Court raised total compensation and revised the interest period.
A Karnataka High Court Division Bench has dismissed writ appeals filed by NICE and KIADB, affirming that landowners may challenge decades-long failure to pass compensation awards even after acquisition legality attained finality in the Supreme Court.
A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Arun Bhansali dismissed a PIL filed by an advocate seeking enforcement of a 2008 Full Court resolution on court sitting hours, holding the petition misconceived.
Justice Madhav J. Jamdar quashed a one-year externment order against Firoz Abdul Wahab Khan, ruling that FIRs for participating in political agitations do not satisfy Section 56 of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951.
The Jammu & Kashmir High Court dismissed a habeas corpus petition challenging a PSA detention order, holding that opening fire on police personnel in a public setting squarely disrupts public order, not merely law and order.
A Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court upheld the Family Court's refusal of divorce, finding the husband had not proved cruelty or desertion under the Special Marriage Act.
