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The Patna High Court set aside cognizance taken against a Gopalganj husband under Section 498A IPC, finding the complaint a malicious counter-blast after the complainant's family misidentified a corpse as hers.
Patna High Court holds that unpaid electricity dues create only civil liability, not criminal theft under Section 135, when no meter tampering or disconnection is proved.
The Patna High Court quashed an order cancelling a rural bridge construction contract, holding that the petitioner's concluded agreement could not be annulled without affording it a hearing.
The Patna High Court quashed an undated, unnumbered NHAI notice sent to a Muzaffarpur landowner, calling it an act of irresponsibility by an important government authority.
Patna High Court set aside a Magistrate's cognizance order filled in on a printed proforma, holding that taking cognizance without applying judicial mind is impermissible.
The Patna High Court upheld regularisation of a college counter clerk whose identically situated colleagues had already been regularised, finding no intelligible differentia to justify different treatment.
The Patna High Court set aside a Section 304-A IPC cognizance order against a senior orthopaedic lecturer, holding that no credible medical opinion supported the negligence charge.
The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging the blacklisting of a drug supplier by Bihar's medical procurement body after seven batches of Oral Rehydration Salts failed quality tests.
Patna High Court sets aside a debarment order passed against a Bihar contractor after the corporation continued relying on it even after issuing a work experience certificate.
The Patna High Court set aside the cancellation of a piped water supply tender, holding that the department could not invoke the bid validity extension mechanism and then rely on expiry of original validity to cancel.
Justice Ashok Kumar Pandey granted bail to Ashwani Kumar, accused in the NEET question paper leak case, noting his name appeared only in a co-accused's confessional statement.
The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging the cancellation of a transporting contract, blacklisting, and forfeiture of security by the Bihar State Food and Civil Supply Corporation after an FIR named the petitioner's vehicle in an alleged PDS diversion.
The Patna High Court quashed a Bihar State Madarsa Education Board memo that re-rejected a clerk's appointment after its own appellate authority had already set aside the original cancellation order.
The Patna High Court dismissed a challenge to BREDA's cancellation of a rooftop solar tender, holding that without a specific work order, no enforceable right had accrued to the petitioner-agency.
Justice Alok Kumar Sinha ruled that a teacher's writ petition against suspension and dismissal by a minority aided school is maintainable where statutory approval under the Bihar Non-Government Secondary Schools Act, 1981 was allegedly bypassed.
Justice Purnendu Singh affirmed the trial court's conviction of four accused for voluntarily causing hurt during a 2005 land-dispute assault, while modifying the sentence to time already undergone.
The Patna High Court set aside a life-sentence conviction under Section 302 IPC, finding the sole eye-witness unreliable and the investigation riddled with deliberate or negligent gaps.
The Patna High Court declined to treat a writ petition as PIL, finding its challenge to Adani Power's 2,400 MW Bihar project approval, tariff, and land lease allegations vague and unsupported.
A 2011 direct-recruitment appointment as Director, Extension Education could not be converted into a five-year tenure post by applying a statute notified six years later, the Patna High Court held.
The Patna High Court Division Bench upheld a Single Judge's order quashing a bank employee's removal, finding the disciplinary authority had acted under the Chief Vigilance Officer's dictates rather than its own assessment.
Justice Arun Kumar Jha dismissed a writ plea to quash an FIR alleging a mob assaulted police investigating a false firearm licence report, applying the Bhajan Lal guidelines.
The Patna High Court deprecated the Circle Officer's mid-litigation move to cancel a 60-year-old jamabandi, holding the State's only remedy is a civil suit.
Justice Jitendra Kumar upheld bail refusal for a juvenile murder accused, finding no family guardianship in Bihar and confirmed criminal contacts, while directing the Children Court to conclude trial within nine months.
Patna High Court restrains print, digital and social media from imputing guilt to an accused in a Bihar vigilance case, citing fair trial rights and sub-judice status.
