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A Division Bench dismissed three connected writ petitions challenging a January 2024 award by Varanasi's Special Land Acquisition Officer, holding the award squarely complied with earlier court directions and Supreme Court precedent.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra held a Section 9 application was time-barred, ruling default under the IBC occurs once and is not a continuing cause of action.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench held that termination for suppressing criminal antecedents fails when the employee had no means of knowing the case existed.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench of Justices J. B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran held that a defendant in a trademark suit retains the right to cross-examine the plaintiff on brand usage, even absent a written statement on record.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Supreme Court division bench restores SEBI's insider trading orders against a jewellery firm's promoters, holding that how trade proceeds are used is simply not relevant.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva set aside Orissa High Court orders that ignored the interest suspense account, restoring the Appellate Tribunal's dues computation.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta ordered a CBI case into a Chhattisgarh custodial death after finding the State covered up injuries and awarded meagre compensation.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench of Justices J. B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran holds that one appeal, properly valued, can challenge both a suit decree and a counterclaim decree arising from a single judgment.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench of the Supreme Court set aside the Himachal Pradesh High Court's conviction, finding it had ignored the final medical report and FSL findings entirely.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held that a Commissioner's Section 69 arrest order must reach the person before arrest, and struck down interim protection given while refusing bail.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Supreme Court bench of Justices K. V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe upheld a direction requiring an award debtor to deposit Rs 3.5 crores pending a Section 34 challenge, preventing unjust enrichment.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A division bench of Justices J. B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran reverses decree for Rs. 24.36 lakh, holding the suit for recovery was barred by limitation.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih quashes a Section 304-B dowry death case against a BSF soldier whose unimpeached official service record placed him in Meghalaya when the death occurred in Meerut.
By SC Desk · 13 Aug 2026
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The Delhi High Court dismissed a transfer petition that relied solely on a trial judge's oral remarks as evidence of bias, finding no adverse adjudication to support the apprehension.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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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.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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Justice Jasmeet Singh held that disputes over NEET-UG 2026 Question 150 raised inferential issues, not manifest errors, placing deference firmly with NTA's expert panel.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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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.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench dismissed writ petitions by two postal employees challenging monthly salary deductions made by a cooperative bank to recover loans they had guaranteed.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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A Bombay High Court Division Bench held that roughly 41 ILS Law College students with 46–54% attendance qualify for the Supreme Court's one-time protection, regardless of year or semester.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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Dismissing an Article 227 petition, the Allahabad High Court held that a memorandum of appeal under the UP Tenancy Act must be valued on the entire decretal liability, including crystallised mesne profits.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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The Madras High Court dismissed a writ appeal seeking disability reservation in government lawyer engagement, holding that contractual engagement of advocates is not an appointment to government service.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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Justice V. Narasingh declined anticipatory bail to the editor of Focus Plus, citing a correspondent's BNSS statement and twenty registered criminal cases against him.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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The Division Bench found that the vacancy against which the appellant was appointed never legally existed, making every rupee drawn from the State exchequer recoverable under the doctrine of restitution.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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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.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that marking an application "Permanently Rejected" on an online portal without reasons violates natural justice and Section 43 of the Electricity Act, 2003.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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The Allahabad High Court held that the Rent Authority's jurisdiction under the UP Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 flows from the statute, not from any written tenancy agreement between the parties.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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The Chhattisgarh High Court refused bail to the former Secretary of the CGPSC, accused of leaking question papers to his own son who was a candidate in the State Civil Services Examination, 2021.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench at Ranchi dismissed an appeal against conviction under Section 302/34 IPC, holding that circumstantial evidence firmly established the appellant's guilt in the deaths of her two young children.
By Manaswi Singh · 13 Aug 2026
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Justice Girish Kathpalia rejected eight-week interim bail for an accused in a minor rape case, finding the jail medical report suspect and current treatment adequate at super-speciality hospitals.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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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.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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A Jabalpur Division Bench set aside life-sentence convictions in a 2009 stabbing case, finding that the trial court used an unrelated FSL report and the deceased's FIR thumb-impression was unreliable.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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The Delhi High Court set aside a trial court's acquittal, convicted the accused of sexual harassment under Section 354A IPC, and directed all district judges to prevent cross-examination that targets a woman's attire or religion.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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The Allahabad High Court set aside two salary-rejection orders, finding they violated natural justice and disregarded binding Division Bench directions on a Class-IV compassionate appointment.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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Four law colleges, shut out of CAP Round 1 despite complying with the court's 30 July directions, won emergency timelines from Bombay HC requiring BCI, DHE, and the State CET Cell to act within 48 hours.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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The Madras High Court directed the State government to constitute Special Investigation Teams in every district to investigate fraudulent motor accident insurance claims, including fake accidents and forged medical records.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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The High Court of Chhattisgarh noted that the state's Draft Committee has finalised the Chhattisgarh Kolahal Niyantran Bill, 2026 and directed authorities to keep enforcing existing noise pollution rules until the legislation is enacted.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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Two accused arrested for assaulting a Tumakuru lodge owner over his establishment's name following an IPL match win bail from the Karnataka High Court.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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The Allahabad High Court dismissed two writ petitions challenging consolidation authority orders that recognised Ramji as adopted son of a widow, entitling him to inherit his adoptive father's landholding.
By Manaswi Singh · 12 Aug 2026
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The Rajasthan High Court held that the University of Rajasthan could not deny reimbursement for a retired employee's COVID-19 treatment at non-recognised Delhi hospitals, including AIIMS and Sri Gangaram Hospital.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The High Court quashed confiscation of 6,150 willow clefts and a truck, holding that conviction must precede confiscation of non-government forest property under the J&K Willow Act.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench held that Section 16-E(10) power cannot be exercised after 29 years of continuous service, regularisation, and promotion, absent any fraud.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The Orissa High Court acquitted an accused convicted under Section 417 IPC, holding that a broken promise to marry cannot constitute cheating unless dishonest intention is proved from the very beginning of the relationship.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Allahabad High Court declared the detention of two adult women by their father unlawful after they converted to Islam, ordering Rs 25 lakh compensation jointly from the father and State.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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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.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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A bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Arun Palli invoked Article 142 to extend extraordinary pension benefits to the widow of a posthumous Shaurya Chakra recipient from the date of his death in 2000.
By SC Desk · 11 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench of the Supreme Court set aside a Karnataka High Court judgment for disposing of an appeal without adjudicating a pending Order XLI Rule 27 application, terming it a jurisdictional error.
By SC Desk · 11 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held that the Allahabad High Court exceeded its judicial review jurisdiction by directing re-evaluation of examination answer scripts as though it were an expert body.
By SC Desk · 11 Aug 2026
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A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran held that Rule 96(10), omitted without a saving clause, ceases to bind pending IGST refund proceedings.
By SC Desk · 11 Aug 2026
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The Allahabad High Court held that a plaintiff's wilful neglect in depositing balance sale consideration for over two decades cannot be rescued by a belated extension-of-time application.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The Bombay High Court quashed an FIR under the Motor Vehicles Act where a student's breath-alcohol reading exceeded the legal limit by just 0.1 mg, finding the margin absorbed by the analyser's own tolerance.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The High Court of J&K and Ladakh held that Army Goodwill School, Wayne, Kupwara, is a self-financed private institution, and a service dispute with its contractual teachers carries no public law element amenable to Article 226.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Allahabad High Court holds that a defendant in a Small Causes Court suit cannot insist as of right that a res judicata plea be decided before the main suit proceeds to trial.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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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.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal clarifies that law graduates from 2009-10 onward who fail the AIBE within two years cannot appear before any court, tribunal, or revenue court, and risk prosecution under Section 45 of the Advocates Act.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Nearly five decades after acquisition, the Allahabad High Court enhanced compensation for a Ghaziabad-border plot situated just eight kilometres from Connaught Place, applying pre-amended Section 25 constraints.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy held that sharing a video with a political opinion about policing does not attract Section 295 IPC, which requires destruction or defilement of a place of worship.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Justice Ashok Kumar Jain allowed a third bail plea in a 2023 murder case and directed a vigilance inquiry into the trial court after the prosecution's star witness denied being an eyewitness following an unexplained 19-month gap between examination-in-chief and cross-examination.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench set aside a Tahsildar's rejection of a Scheduled Caste caste certificate application, holding that a bare website notice stating "lack of evidence" cannot substitute a speaking order.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Disposing a writ petition from a T.Nagar resident, the Madras High Court issued four binding guidelines on how police must conduct enquiries and summon persons named in complaints.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The Rajasthan High Court at Jaipur has stayed Railways construction of a boundary wall near a commercial plot holding a registered JDA lease deed, pending reply from the respondents.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court set aside a writ court order and directed the U.P. Board to grant selection grade to a clerk on ten years of clean service rendered between 1995 and 2005.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Justice Rahul Bharti stayed hotel operations at a Srinagar building allegedly converted from residential use under a 2023 building permit and directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau to collect all NOC records.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Justice Easwaran S. of the Kerala High Court overruled a registry objection and directed the numbering of an election petition filed by Advocate Mathew Kunnappally against five respondents from Kannur.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The Allahabad High Court dismissed RBI's appeal against reinstatement of a dismissed Class-III employee, finding the departmental enquiry procedurally flawed and the charge of forgery unproved.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The Telangana High Court quashed a police notice under Section 94 BNSS to X/Twitter seeking user data of P. Rajgopal, finding the FIR made no reference to him whatsoever.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
High CourtsGauhati HcArticle
Three Hojai residents challenged the Deputy Commissioner's refusal to renew their gun licences; Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi dismissed the writ, holding that no person can claim renewal as a matter of right.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench at Jodhpur has registered a suo motu PIL after IIT Bombay found the High Court building's Central Dome structurally compromised and at imminent risk of collapse, directing top officials to appear personally.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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The Lucknow Bench found that petitioners suppressed a pending divorce case and a blood relationship to obtain interim police protection for their proposed marriage.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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Justice Achal Sachdev dismissed a husband's criminal revision, holding that denial of maintenance forces a wife into destitution and offends the constitutional guarantee of dignity under Article 21.
By Manaswi Singh · 11 Aug 2026
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A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha dismissed a petition seeking to quash an FIR, charge-sheet, and cognizance order in a SC/ST Act case arising from a social media post.
By Manaswi Singh · 10 Aug 2026
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The Lucknow Bench set aside convictions under Section 306 and Section 498-A IPC, holding that a five-month gap in contact fatally undermined the instigation charge.
By Manaswi Singh · 10 Aug 2026
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The Himachal Pradesh High Court held that denying Grant-in-Aid to a Drawing Master who taught in a government school for over 15 years amounted to constitutionally prohibited forced labour.
By Manaswi Singh · 10 Aug 2026
High CourtsPatna HcArticle
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.
By Manaswi Singh · 10 Aug 2026
High CourtsAndhra Pradesh HcArticle
The Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed a father's habeas corpus petition seeking enforcement of an ex parte Family Court custody order, holding the mother's address was fraudulently suppressed.
By Manaswi Singh · 10 Aug 2026
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The Kerala High Court took stock of Kochi's flood preparedness on 6 August 2026, paid tribute to R.Rajesh who drowned saving another, and directed the District Collector's Committee to file a status report by 13 August.
By Manaswi Singh · 10 Aug 2026
High CourtsBombay HcArticle
The Bombay High Court held that equivalence proceedings cannot be initiated when two universities confer the identical Ph.D degree, and quashed Shivaji University's refusal to approve a professor's appointment.
By Manaswi Singh · 10 Aug 2026