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A Gaya landowner's compensation under the National Highways Act has been sent back for reassessment. The Division Bench holds a 2018 notification shifting arbitral powers to the Divisional Commissioner cannot reach back into pending proceedings.
Under the Juvenile Justice Act, release defeats the ends of justice only if detention would itself help the child's development. A Patna High Court judgment sets out what a Board must find before it keeps a child in an observation home.
Justices Rajeev Ranjan Prasad and Sunil Dutta Mishra decline to quash a Section 148 notice issued on a duplicate PAN the jeweller had asked to cancel in 2021.
Bihar cancelled their candidature for failing to join in time. The Patna High Court holds the delay was beyond their control, sets the cancellations aside, and orders them taken on within thirty days.
The defence said oral dying declarations made to a wife, a son and a brother-in-law cannot carry a murder conviction. A Division Bench of the Patna High Court disagrees and affirms a life sentence.
A family quarrel over jamabandi and a sale deed became a forgery prosecution on a complaint filed years after the events. The Patna High Court quashes it as a civil wrong with no element of criminality.
The Board and the Sessions Court both refused, reasoning that he might offend again. Section 12 allows refusal on three grounds, and the Patna High Court holds that was not one of them properly applied.
A contempt petition filed in 2017 over non-compliance with a 2014 order is dismissed as not maintainable before a Single Judge — decided on the doctrine of merger, twelve years after the order it sought to enforce.
A deed of gift to a child, questioned because the registration was never completed, survives a second appeal — on the principle that what remained undone was not the donor's to do.
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.
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.
A Division Bench rejects a challenge to the authority of Audit Commissionerate officers, holding that a decision about the DRI cannot be lifted out of its statutory setting.
The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition by M/s Shubhraj Construction, holding that a signature mismatch between an uploaded and original affidavit was a valid ground for technical disqualification under the NIT.
A Division Bench of the Patna High Court has issued urgent notice to Karnataka's Chief Secretary and DGP after two Bihar residents were allegedly taken away without transit remand or local police intimation.
A husband who saw his wife with another man but made no complaint, lodged no FIR, and produced no corroborating witness failed to satisfy the beyond-reasonable-doubt standard for adultery under the Hindu Marriage Act.
Justice Rajiv Roy extended anticipatory bail to Uttam Kumar, arrested for 81.45 litres of foreign liquor, noting the recovery was from an open field and not from conscious possession.
The Division Bench found the prosecution case to be a concoction lodged for extortion, the victim unaware of the case, and the trial court's reading of POCSO presumptions legally unsound.
The Patna High Court set aside the dismissal of a Bihar Police constable with 38 years of service, finding that the departmental enquiry lacked any blood test, urine test, breath analyser report, or testimony from the alleged victim.
Justice Praveen Kumar dismissed a challenge to cognizance taken for illicit liquor transport, holding that Section 73(e) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act is directory, not mandatory.
Patna High Court set aside the removal of a Mukhiya whose ancestors migrated from Uttar Pradesh 125 years ago, ruling that Bihar's reservation amendment does not govern Panchayat seat reservations.
A Patna High Court single judge declines to follow a coordinate bench's reduced penalty in an MBBS impersonation case, sending the conflict to a Division Bench.
Justice Harish Kumar held Don Bosco Academy's expulsion of a minor student was cryptic, non-speaking and violated natural justice, ordering his reinstatement and a reformative approach to school discipline.
A West Champaran man ranked third on the merit list lost a PDS shop licence because his computer certificate came from an institution in Nepal, not a Government-recognised body in India.
Two government school teachers posted on deputation during pending transfer proceedings secured a Patna High Court order directing their cases to the District Establishment Committee under the Bihar State Teachers Transfer Rules, 2026.
