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A Division Bench set aside a 12-year sentence, holding that a dying declaration recorded by an unauthorised police officer, riddled with time contradictions and unsupported by both key witnesses, could not safely ground conviction.
Justice Vikram Aggarwal has asked Chandigarh to file an affidavit and required parties to address the maintainability of a quashing petition after the petitioner's anticipatory bail was already rejected.
Justice Mandeep Pannu dismissed a husband's revision after the Family Court, Fatehabad awarded maintenance to his wife and minor son, ruling that an alleged void marriage cannot automatically bar Section 125 Cr.P.C. claims.
The High Court dismissed the appeal of a dera head convicted under Section 376 IPC, held the victim's solitary testimony credible, and awarded Rs 6 lakh compensation after over two decades.
Upholding conviction on all counts, the High Court commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment with a mandatory 50-year minimum and enhanced fines directed as compensation to the victim's family.
The Division Bench found that co-accused who supplied the flag, cans and money had already secured bail, making continued detention of the slogan-painter difficult to sustain under UAPA.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court set aside a Railway Claims Tribunal order and held that a passenger who jumped from a moving train amid a fire rumour died in an untoward incident under Section 124-A of the Railways Act.
Justice Sumeet Goel held that the Section 45 PMLA proviso lifts the twin conditions for women accused but does not confer automatic bail, then granted bail on the facts.
Justice Manisha Batra dismissed the second bail petition of DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar, arrested by CBI in a bribery trap, citing witness tampering risk and recorded conversations.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the Union of India's challenge, holding that a soldier who died of cardiac arrest on the first day of casual leave was still in service and entitled his widow to special family pension.
Justice Manisha Batra granted bail to Karambir @ Karmu, accused of facilitating arms and harbouring killers in a 2022 double murder, citing the limited and indirect role ascribed to him and the remote prospect of an early trial.
The Division Bench held that Haryana's policy permitting in-service doctors to access 40% PG medical seats without prior rural posting is constitutionally valid, provided they execute a five-year rural service bond.
Granting bail to three men accused of supplying illegal firearms for an organised crime syndicate, Justice Sanjay Vashisth directed Haryana's Home Department to file an affidavit on its policy response to gang networks in Palwal, Faridabad, and Gurugram.
Justice Sumeet Goel quashed two cheque-bouncing convictions from 2019 following a mediation settlement, applying revised Supreme Court guidelines on compounding costs and waiving them entirely.
Justice Sanjay Vashisth granted bail to the husband arrested for assaulting his pregnant wife, citing completed investigation, simple injuries, and over three months of incarceration.
Justice Virinder Aggarwal refused regular bail to Amit Kumar, a serving police official, whose vehicle allegedly struck an e-rickshaw and ran over a 25-year-old woman after he drove with 115 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood.
A Division Bench led by the Acting Chief Justice held that Punjab and PSPCL were bound by the Central DA pattern they had adopted and could not stagger accrued arrears over 42 instalments without interest.
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 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.
Justice Manisha Batra found prima facie evidence that the petitioner-advocate shifted court forums, summoned irrelevant witnesses, and manipulated bank officials to legalise forged documents targeting a Delhi-based trust's land.
A practicing lawyer's PIL over a prolonged lawyers' strike in Punjab prompted the High Court to issue administrative directions reforming the Legal Aid Defence Counsel system.
The High Court set aside life sentences awarded to two convicts in a 2006 double strangulation case, finding the prosecution's last-seen witnesses unreliable and the circumstantial chain incomplete.
Justice Sanjay Vashisth quashed a private complaint against nine Gram Panchayat members who transferred land for a 66 KV sub-station, finding no criminality and imposing costs on the complainant.
Justice Virinder Aggarwal granted regular bail to Amritpal Kaur, arrested in a drone-dropped heroin case, after finding her arrest prima facie violated Article 22(1) and Section 52(1) of the NDPS Act.
