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Section 12(5) can only be waived by an express written agreement made after the dispute arises. The Delhi High Court holds that nothing else will do — not pleadings, not counter-claims, not silence.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsJammu Kashmir Ladakh HcArticle
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court holds the agency had standing to be heard — the trial court could not shut it out after ruling its application maintainable — and then refuses the charges it asked for.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadhya Pradesh HcArticle
Charged in Bhopal, and charged again in Indore over the same children, the petitioner said he was being prosecuted twice. The Madhya Pradesh High Court holds that each incident of penetrative sexual assault is a distinct offence.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsHimachal Pradesh HcArticle
Twenty-nine years after a reserved-post appointment obtained on a false caste certificate, the Himachal Pradesh High Court separates the offence of forging a document from the offence of using one, and sets aside half the conviction.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsCalcutta HcArticle
A market committee billed an oil manufacturer Rs 1.74 crore for producing rice bran oil. The Calcutta High Court strikes the product out of the Schedule and orders every rupee refunded with 12% interest in a fortnight.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadhya Pradesh HcArticle
An urgency clause in 2002, an award in 2004, no compensation ever paid, and the landowners still in possession. The Madhya Pradesh High Court holds the acquisition lapsed under both the old Act and the new.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsHimachal Pradesh HcArticle
Six men have been in Model Central Jail since 2021 on a murder and atrocities case that has barely begun. The Himachal Pradesh High Court asks who the delay belongs to, and enlarges them on bail.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
That is why the Delhi High Court believes it. A life sentence for a 1995 murder is quashed on a finding of juvenility, the conviction left standing, and a man who had already served nearly eight years is released.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
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Thirteen years after conviction, the Delhi High Court sets it aside: an MLC history that contradicted the charge, a forensic report that found no blood on clothes said to be soaked in it, and an age proved by a school register nobody could vouch for.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
A bribe for releasing a judo coach's kit allowance, and a defence built on the sequence of events. The Delhi High Court finds the demand continued after the work was done, and upholds the conviction.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
Sixteen years after the FIR, the Delhi High Court refuses to quash an order on charge over forged supply certificates — those weaknesses go to appreciation of evidence, not to whether a trial should happen.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
The Delhi High Court dismisses an appeal against a decree for possession, holding that a claim of title from a date and adverse possession from the same date cancel each other — and that long occupation, without more, stays permissive.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadras HcArticle
He complained to the police repeatedly and got nothing but reference numbers. The Madras High Court upholds the order sending him back to them with a court behind it.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadhya Pradesh HcArticle
The revenue record showed a well and the department's own witness admitted the land was irrigated. The Madhya Pradesh High Court revalues it at Rs 10.5 lakh a hectare and removes the 20% development deduction.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsGujarat HcArticle
A victim's appeal under Section 413 BNSS against a Juvenile Justice Board's acquittal, and a reminder from the Gujarat High Court that a possible view cannot be overturned merely because another was available.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
Seven years' debarment for unfair means, upheld by nobody who compared two documents. The Delhi High Court says a court must test the allegation candidate by candidate — and this one collapses on a MAC address.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
The Delhi High Court holds that Section 93 of the CGST Act lets proceedings begin after death, not merely finish — and upholds the provision. It then asks the Department to justify, rupee by rupee, the Rs 15.40 lakh it has been holding since 2020.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
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On a question Indian courts had never settled, and on which four foreign courts split two-two, the Court holds that a valid termination notice ends a bareboat charter on its own — and vacates the arrest of the M.V. Nereus Progress at Tuticorin.
By SC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
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Once an arbitral tribunal exists, interim protection belongs to it. The Supreme Court appoints a sole arbitrator in the Kinetic Green–Saera Electric dispute and clears both orders below out of his way.
By SC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
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Two railway witnesses admitted they never searched the dead man's pockets. The Supreme Court restores the Tribunal's award to his parents and directs the Railways to pay within thirty days.
By SC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
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A conviction cannot rest on half a witness. Seventeen years after the FIR, and after six years already served, the Supreme Court sets aside a rape conviction that two courts had built on evidence one of them had already rejected.
By SC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsHimachal Pradesh HcArticle
A time-barred debt cannot support a Section 138 conviction — but limitation runs from when the last instalment fell due, not from when the borrowing began. The Himachal Pradesh High Court works through the dates.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsHimachal Pradesh HcArticle
The Himachal Pradesh High Court sets aside a cheque-bounce conviction affirmed on appeal, holding that the trial and appellate courts simply never engaged with the one witness who rebutted the presumption.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 27 Sept 2026
High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle
The same two judges, on the same day, upheld one detention under the same Act and quashed this one. The difference is what the State did with the ordinary law before reaching for the extraordinary.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsTelangana HcArticle
The Payment of Wages Act assumes an employer and an employee. Where the man guarding the pipeline was engaged by contractors and not by the department, the Assistant Commissioner of Labour had nothing to adjudicate.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsAllahabad HcArticle
A toddy tapper knocked down in 2017 was valued by the Tribunal at Rs 5,000 a month. On an oral cross-objection with no appeal of their own, his family walk away with Rs 11.43 lakh.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsGauhati HcArticle
The Gauhati High Court affirms the conviction of three men for the rape and murder of two minor girls, and declines to confirm the death sentence — because the prosecution led no evidence at all on whether they could be reformed.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsHimachal Pradesh HcArticle
The witness had said so on affidavit and was never asked about it in the box. The Himachal Pradesh High Court holds that the objection came far too late, and upholds the cheque-bounce conviction.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsHimachal Pradesh HcArticle
The bar in the Registration of Money Lenders Act stops a civil suit and the execution of a decree. It says nothing about a cheque-bounce complaint — and a revision filed in 2014 is decided on that footing twelve years later.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsCalcutta HcArticle
A conviction for aggravated penetrative sexual assault is affirmed and the sentence trimmed to the time already served plus remission. Then the Division Bench turns to a line in the West Bengal scheme nobody had applied.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle
A writ court cannot sit as an appellate authority over a detaining officer's satisfaction. It can only ask whether the relevant material was considered — and the Karnataka High Court finds that it was.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle
Thirty-nine years after the first notification, the Karnataka High Court has set aside a Single Judge's order quashing the acquisition of about an acre and a half next to a DRDO artificial intelligence laboratory in Bengaluru.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsPunjab Haryana HcArticle
Convicted of preparing to commit dacoity on a night in 2006, he has been in the criminal process for two decades. The conviction stands; the three-year term comes down to two.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsAllahabad HcArticle
Nineteen years after a fertiliser buyer was stabbed on the road home, the State's appeal against the acquittal of two men is dismissed summarily — a power the High Court holds it keeps even after granting leave.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsAllahabad HcArticle
Faced with a claim that the widow's marriage was bigamous and therefore void, the Court answers on standing rather than on Section 11 — the man who lived there had no locus to raise it, and the husband never did.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadhya Pradesh HcArticle
Fifty trees felled, a pathway blocked, an assault unregistered — three unrelated grievances, one bench, one day, and the same answer about a remedy nobody had tried.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle
A permanent employee's explanation was noticed and rejected, the notice for a departmental enquiry was issued but never acted on, and his own admission was treated as proof. The High Court orders reinstatement pending a proper proceeding.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadhya Pradesh HcArticle
An anti-corruption agency lost its case, took a certified copy, and then spent more than a year routing a proposal through its own hierarchy. The High Court refuses to condone the delay, and with it the appeal.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle
A Tribunal had allowed dependants who joined on one post to seek appointment on a higher one. The Karnataka High Court quashes those orders, on a rule the Supreme Court settled for exactly this situation.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
Nine per cent by one assessment, a hundred per cent functionally, then AIIMS. A Delhi judgment on crash compensation shows how a disability figure turns into money, and where the Tribunal had it wrong.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsAllahabad HcArticle
A widow and her minor daughter were refused protection because the document behind their title had gone. The High Court holds possession admitted by the other side makes a prima facie case on its own.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 26 Sept 2026
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High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
The appellant said the 2007 sale deed in his relatives' names was really his because his money bought it. The Delhi High Court holds the source of funds is only one factor, and the claim is one the statute forbids.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
Having argued that consistency means repeatedly scoring eight penalties or fewer, one appellant could not then call that benchmark arbitrary when it cost him a place. Both appeals are dismissed.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsAllahabad HcArticle
The allegations were identical, the accused were the same, and they were said to be acting for the same company. The Allahabad High Court clubs the lot into the first FIR and treats the rest as witness statements.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadhya Pradesh HcArticle
A suo motu reference for a survivor of sexual assault reached the Indore Bench, was examined, and was decided inside two days. On the one fact that decides everything, the Court took the Board's figure over the file's.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsCalcutta HcArticle
A borrower who told the bank in 2011 that it did not want the rest of its loan later said the loan was never fully disbursed. The Calcutta High Court finds nothing perverse in the Tribunal's refusal to accept that.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsAllahabad HcArticle
The Railway Claims Tribunal held the unborn child was not a bona fide passenger and dismissed the claim. The Allahabad High Court awards a second Rs 8 lakh for a death it treats as separate from the mother's.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsAndhra Pradesh HcArticle
The Government Pleader's answer was that the police do not interfere in civil matters. The judge replied that he is seeing a series of such cases, and called for every guideline the Home Department and the DGP have issued.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
Discharged in 2020, recharged on the CBI's revision in 2022, two directors of a steel company reach the High Court on a 1998 case. Twenty-eight years on, it separates what each of them is actually alleged to have done.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
High CourtsDelhi HcArticle
Nearly four years after a Special Judge released the former Mumbai Police Commissioner and the former head of the National Stock Exchange, the agency's challenge reaches judgment — and fails on the narrowness of its own case.
By HC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
A ground raised for the first time in revision, on a precedent about how defence evidence is taken, sent a completed Section 138 trial back to the defence-evidence stage. The Supreme Court calls it the ingenuity of the lawyer.
By SC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
A litigant arguing his own case was told his appeal did not lie, after a different judge had admitted it. The Supreme Court upheld the rejection, explained why that is not inconsistency, and gave him a month to start again.
By SC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
Two courts held that only the Chief Security Officer could have appointed him, so a subordinate could not remove him. The Supreme Court went to the Battalion Order and found they had the appointing authority wrong.
By SC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
The power to put a life sentence beyond the reach of remission belongs to the constitutional courts alone. A Sessions Court used it, the High Court did not notice, and the Supreme Court has substituted twenty-five years.
By SC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
Rather than order a retrial, three judges sent the principal witness back for further cross-examination seven years on. The conviction survived it. The death sentence did not.
By SC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
A CBI investigation found the case against the father was not maintainable. By then he had lost his child. The Supreme Court has quashed the FIR and written safeguards that go to every criminal court and every police station in India.
By SC Desk · 25 Sept 2026
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The Orissa High Court held a challenge to an award both time-barred and filed in the wrong court. It was filed forty-four days after the award, and the respondent's own senior counsel conceded the limitation finding was wrong.
By SC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
Two judges who heard the challenge to the 2023 Election Commission appointments law for five days could not agree on whether five more are needed. Between them they wrote 66 pages, and the papers now go to the Chief Justice.
By SC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
A Family Court and the Delhi High Court both gave sole custody to a father who earns Rs 17,000 a month and is facing prosecution. The Supreme Court has stayed both, expunged the High Court's remarks on the FIR, and let the mother take the children abroad.
By SC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle
The criminal court found the trap witnesses contradicted each other and acquitted him. The department, working from the same complaint and the same evidence, compulsorily retired him and docked a quarter of his pension for life.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsKerala HcArticle
Contractors on Jal Jeevan Mission water supply schemes said a separately priced supply item in the bill of quantities is a contract of its own, payable in full on delivery. A Division Bench has held that a line item is not a severable obligation.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsMadras HcArticle
The Revenue said a stay of assessment extends limitation, and then TOLA extends it again. The Chief Justice's Bench has held the order of those two steps decides the case, and that taken in the right order the Taxation and Other Laws Act was never available at all.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsPunjab Haryana HcArticle
A neighbour took a two-year-old from the street and buried her. The trial court sentenced her to hang. The Division Bench has upheld the conviction on the whole chain of circumstances and substituted thirty years without remission.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsKerala HcArticle
For nineteen years Kerala courts have thrown out applications under Order IX Rule 7 as three years too late. Three judges have now held that no period of limitation applies at all, and that the 2007 decision which started it was wrong.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsTelangana HcArticle
A group of companies objected to their income tax cases going to Bangalore and requested centralisation at Hyderabad instead. Having got it, they challenged the transfer order and the assessments that followed. The High Court was not persuaded.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsKarnataka HcArticle
The State cleared an IT park, took forty per cent of the acquisition cost from the company, notified the land, then accepted the landowners' objections and dropped it. Twenty-two years later the Division Bench has priced the delay.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
High CourtsPunjab Haryana HcArticle
One colleague who appealed won an exemption the rest had never claimed. When twenty-one others asked to revise their returns, the Commissioner said they had given no reasons. The High Court has read the file and found otherwise.
By HC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
Supreme CourtArticle
The Himachal Pradesh High Court quashed a Rs 23 crore PMGSY award on a public interest petition and ordered a re-tender within a month. The Supreme Court has given the contractor three months to finish instead.
By SC Desk · 24 Sept 2026
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