LegalRepublic.in https://www.legalrepublic.in India's daily legal news — Supreme Court, High Courts, Tribunals and Commissions en-IN Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:40:17 GMT He told his friends to keep an eye on the men who had arrived, and within an hour one of them was bleeding to death at the gate https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/three-convictions-upheld-for-a-stabbing-at-a-golden-wedding-party-common-intention-inferred/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/three-convictions-upheld-for-a-stabbing-at-a-golden-wedding-party-common-intention-inferred/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:40:17 GMT HC Desk Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Sanjay Prasad dismissed three appeals, held that restraining those who came to help establishes common intention, and rejected an alibi contradicted by the marriage card. High Courts A student entering a four-year course should know at the threshold what it will cost, and the State's seven-year delay is not a reason to change the price halfway https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/professional-course-fees-cannot-be-raised-midstream-fee-fixation-committees-must-be-institutionalised/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/professional-course-fees-cannot-be-raised-midstream-fee-fixation-committees-must-be-institutionalised/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:35:18 GMT SC Desk Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe upheld the Calcutta High Court's refund directions on their own reasoning, and told High Courts to police whether fee fixation committees are actually functioning. Supreme Court The Board proved the new bids were lower than the bidders' own old ones, and never proved they were lower than what the market would pay. Those are not the same conclusions https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/a-bidders-own-earlier-bid-is-not-the-measure-of-market-value-sand-auction-cancellation-quashed/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/a-bidders-own-earlier-bid-is-not-the-measure-of-market-value-sand-auction-cancellation-quashed/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:30:29 GMT SC Desk Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi restored two cancelled sand-mining auctions worth over ₹100 crore a year, refused a remand, and halted the later tender for those two districts. Supreme Court A ₹22.6 crore claim settled at ₹1.34 lakh, and the Revenue's appeal against it died on a clock it started 35 days late https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-62-ibc-limitation-runs-from-pronouncement-not-from-when-the-party-collects-the-copy/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-62-ibc-limitation-runs-from-pronouncement-not-from-when-the-party-collects-the-copy/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:25:23 GMT SC Desk Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and N.V. Anjaria held that “receipt of such order” in Section 62 of the IBC cannot mean the day a litigant chooses to collect a certified copy, and dismissed the appeal 16 days beyond the Court's power to condone. Supreme Court Five days to forward the arrest material did not vitiate the arrest, but twenty months in custody with 98 witnesses to go did earn bail https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/pmla-section-19-immediately-does-not-mean-24-hours-but-twenty-months-custody-earns-bail/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/pmla-section-19-immediately-does-not-mean-24-hours-but-twenty-months-custody-earns-bail/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:20:18 GMT SC Desk Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi rejected the Section 19(2) challenge on practicalities and then granted bail in a ₹6,210 crore money laundering case because process must not become punishment. Supreme Court A trust holding property under a Farman of the Nizam was told it had cited the wrong rule, and lost its objection without anyone comparing the boundaries https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/waqf-trust-in-possession-cannot-be-evicted-on-the-wrong-rule-number-order-xxi-rule-97-inquiry-ordered/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/waqf-trust-in-possession-cannot-be-evicted-on-the-wrong-rule-number-order-xxi-rule-97-inquiry-ordered/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:15:17 GMT SC Desk Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and N.V. Anjaria held the burden had been wrongly fastened on the third-party objector and remanded the execution of an ex parte 2015 decree for a full inquiry. Supreme Court A trial judge said a compromise decree had no evidentiary value, a High Court judge said the gift deed was never disputed, and the suit challenging it was on the file https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/compromise-decree-of-1990-ignored-by-two-courts-litigation-from-1959-family-settlement-closed/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/compromise-decree-of-1990-ignored-by-two-courts-litigation-from-1959-family-settlement-closed/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:10:18 GMT SC Desk Justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva decreed a 2007 suit outright, holding both judgments below rested on fundamental errors, and noted that no respondent appeared despite a status quo order. Supreme Court ₹14,131 crore has already been restored against a ₹6,203 crore loan, and the banks' claim over the United Breweries shares cannot survive that https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/ubl-shares-released-from-kingfisher-recovery-personal-guarantee-is-not-a-charge-over-named-assets/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/ubl-shares-released-from-kingfisher-recovery-personal-guarantee-is-not-a-charge-over-named-assets/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:05:17 GMT HC Desk Justices D.K. Singh and T.M. Nadaf set aside the DRT and DRAT orders and the Recovery Officer's attachment, holding a personal guarantee creates no proprietary security over unlisted assets and no security at all over jointly held shares. High Courts Her five-year-old son was in the room and had burns on both hands, and the prosecution never once recorded what he saw https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/husband-acquitted-after-23-years-dying-declarations-inconsistent-and-the-child-eyewitness-never-examined/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/husband-acquitted-after-23-years-dying-declarations-inconsistent-and-the-child-eyewitness-never-examined/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:28 GMT HC Desk Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja set aside a 2003 life sentence, holding the declarations did not present a consistent account and that a neighbour's unchallenged evidence placed the appellant outside the house. High Courts He telephoned the husband to come home, said he had found her hanging from the fan, and the forensic examination of the fan said otherwise https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/fsl-report-ruled-out-hanging-and-the-friend-who-reported-the-suicide-stays-convicted-of-murder/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/fsl-report-ruled-out-hanging-and-the-friend-who-reported-the-suicide-stays-convicted-of-murder/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:55:18 GMT HC Desk Justices Gita Gopi and L.S. Pirzada dismissed a 97-page appeal against conviction, holding that motive need not be separately proved where the accused's own conduct supplies it. High Courts A ₹43.43 crore demand on Amul for not cross-charging its own head office, and not one finding of why that was fraud https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/section-74-cgst-demand-of-43-crore-on-amul-quashed-for-mechanical-invocation-of-suppression/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/section-74-cgst-demand-of-43-crore-on-amul-quashed-for-mechanical-invocation-of-suppression/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:50:18 GMT HC Desk Justices A.S. Supehia and Vaibhavi D. Nanavati quashed the order in original, holding the exercise would have been revenue-neutral and that Section 74 cannot be a routine formula for bypassing normal limitation. High Courts An eleven-year-old sent out with ₹15 for cow dung cakes, a red bicycle left at the orchard, and a conviction that survives three hostile witnesses https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/conviction-upheld-on-eight-circumstances-and-four-lakh-victim-compensation-directed-in-seven-days/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/conviction-upheld-on-eight-circumstances-and-four-lakh-victim-compensation-directed-in-seven-days/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:45:17 GMT HC Desk Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Anuj Singh dismissed the appeal, held the acquitted co-accused's case was distinct, and ordered the State to pay the parents ₹4,00,000 within seven days. High Courts A memorandum of December 2001 is still being litigated, and the Court has had to decide first which of its own judges should hear it https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/fema-writ-petitions-belong-to-the-revenue-group-matters-released-from-the-roster/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/fema-writ-petitions-belong-to-the-revenue-group-matters-released-from-the-roster/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:40:19 GMT HC Desk Justice Krishna Rao held that foreign exchange falls within the Revenue and Tax Laws group under the Court's own classification rules, released three writ petitions, and extended interim protection to 3 December 2026. High Courts Two digits were missing from the address on the postal receipt, and that is why a 2017 arbitral award is still open to objection https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/missing-premises-number-on-a-speed-post-receipt-means-section-34-limitation-never-started/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/missing-premises-number-on-a-speed-post-receipt-means-section-34-limitation-never-started/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:35:16 GMT HC Desk Justice Ajay Digpaul held the presumption of service under Section 27 of the General Clauses Act cannot be divorced from proper addressing, and refused to disturb the trial court's finding under Article 227. High Courts A sting operation in 2014, a trial that never started because of a jurisdiction fight the force itself won, and a dismissal without any trial at all https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/assam-rifles-dismissal-without-a-garc-trial-set-aside-limitation-was-never-shown-to-have-run-out/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/assam-rifles-dismissal-without-a-garc-trial-set-aside-limitation-was-never-shown-to-have-run-out/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:30:19 GMT HC Desk Justice Kardak Ete held that practical difficulties do not establish impracticability under Rule 20, and that the period during which the Meghalaya High Court's stay operated had not been reckoned with. High Courts The decree says they married in April 2023 and separated in June of that year. She says the wedding was in April 2024 https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/mutual-consent-divorce-decree-set-aside-where-the-date-of-marriage-itself-was-in-dispute/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/mutual-consent-divorce-decree-set-aside-where-the-date-of-marriage-itself-was-in-dispute/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:25:17 GMT HC Desk Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Sanjay Prasad held that even a consent decree is assailable where the consent is in question, and sent the case back to the Family Court for an inquiry into the date of marriage. High Courts She said she would live with her husband anywhere but that one house, and the Family Court looked only at the fact that she had left https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/restitution-of-conjugal-rights-decree-perverse-where-the-wifes-reason-for-leaving-was-never-weighed/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/restitution-of-conjugal-rights-decree-perverse-where-the-wifes-reason-for-leaving-was-never-weighed/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:20:25 GMT HC Desk Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Pradeep Kumar Srivastava set aside a decree of restitution of conjugal rights as perverse, holding that the test of reasonableness was never applied to her defence. High Courts He rented out his vehicle for ₹3.25 lakh and got back neither the rent nor the vehicle, and the High Court sent him to the Magistrate https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/a-writ-is-not-the-route-to-an-fir-the-magistrate-is-and-the-statutory-architecture-is-complete/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/a-writ-is-not-the-route-to-an-fir-the-magistrate-is-and-the-statutory-architecture-is-complete/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:15:27 GMT HC Desk Justice Pramod Kumar Agrawal declined a mandamus to register an FIR, setting out the layered remedies under the CrPC and the BNSS and holding that sanction operates at cognizance and not before it. High Courts Ten farmers tried to attach a Tahsildar's computers and furniture to recover canal compensation, and the executing court dismissed them instead of finding the right debtor https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/enhanced-land-acquisition-compensation-unpaid-since-2008-execution-petitions-restored/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/enhanced-land-acquisition-compensation-unpaid-since-2008-execution-petitions-restored/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:10:17 GMT HC Desk Justice Purushottam Kumar Chintalapudi set aside ten dismissal orders, holding that a reference court's award is a decree and that absence of a proper party does not justify dismissal without inquiry. High Courts Fifty bottles were said to have been counted in a jungle, two were sent to the laboratory, and the tubes were never produced in court https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/nineteen-years-for-two-sample-bottles-excise-conviction-set-aside-illicit-origin-never-proved/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/nineteen-years-for-two-sample-bottles-excise-conviction-set-aside-illicit-origin-never-proved/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:05:18 GMT HC Desk Justice Rakesh Kainthla acquitted a man prosecuted since 2007, holding that the chemical examiner never said the liquor differed from licensed distillery spirit and that two bottles are within the permissible limit. High Courts A friendly loan of ₹75,000, a cheque that bounced, and a challenge to the one thing that makes a compensation order bite https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/a-default-sentence-for-not-paying-compensation-under-section-357-3-is-lawful-cheque-conviction-upheld/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/a-default-sentence-for-not-paying-compensation-under-section-357-3-is-lawful-cheque-conviction-upheld/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:35 GMT HC Desk Justice Rakesh Kainthla dismissed a revision against concurrent convictions under Section 138, holding there is no infirmity in a sentence imposed in default of payment of compensation. High Courts The Union gets its consumer appeal back after a 312-day delay, and pays ₹5,000 to the man who had to come to the High Court without a lawyer https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/orissa-hc/postal-departments-appeal-restored-but-the-senior-citizen-who-argued-in-person-gets-costs/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/orissa-hc/postal-departments-appeal-restored-but-the-senior-citizen-who-argued-in-person-gets-costs/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:55:17 GMT HC Desk Justice A.K. Mohapatra held the State Commission had dismissed the condonation application mechanically, but confined his intervention to the decision-making process and attached a condition to the relief. High Courts Interim compensation for a road-accident victim — without proving anyone's fault https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/no-fault-liability-section-140/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/no-fault-liability-section-140/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:35:23 GMT Editorial Desk Everyday Law Kelsen Without Kelsenians: A Profile of Pure Theory's Strange Indian Career https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/kelsen-without-kelsenians/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/kelsen-without-kelsenians/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:00:23 GMT Ramesh Singh The Republic The Speaker could accept the resignations while disqualification petitions were pending, but he now has two months to decide them https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/speaker-can-accept-resignations-while-disqualification-pending-two-month-mandamus/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/speaker-can-accept-resignations-while-disqualification-pending-two-month-mandamus/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:55:22 GMT HC Desk Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan upheld the acceptance of five MLAs' resignations and issued a time-bound mandamus on the Tenth Schedule proceedings. High Courts Four men shot dead in 1996, thirteen convicted in 2023, and every conviction now set aside over the investigation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/four-killed-in-1996-thirteen-convicted-in-2023-all-acquitted-dgp-committee-ordered/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/four-killed-in-1996-thirteen-convicted-in-2023-all-acquitted-dgp-committee-ordered/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:50:24 GMT HC Desk Justices Rajeev Ranjan Prasad and Kumar Manish allowed five appeals, ordered a three-member police committee on the investigating officer, and asked the Home Department to report in a month. High Courts A GST audit said to be out of time does not get a writ, but the taxpayer gets a month to appeal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/gst-audit-report-challenge-appealable-order-writ-declined-one-month-to-appeal/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/gst-audit-report-challenge-appealable-order-writ-declined-one-month-to-appeal/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:45:19 GMT HC Desk Justices Rajeev Ranjan Prasad and Sunil Dutta Mishra found no jurisdictional error and declined Article 226 relief against an appealable order, preserving the appeal. High Courts Having a daughter the same age proves nothing, and a six-year-old's delayed disclosure was natural https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/section-354-conviction-upheld-child-victim-natural-conduct-revision-dismissed/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/section-354-conviction-upheld-child-victim-natural-conduct-revision-dismissed/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:40:21 GMT HC Desk Justice Rakesh Kainthla dismissed a revision pending since 2014, upholding a conviction under Section 354 IPC and a sentence of one year's simple imprisonment. High Courts A year in jail for a road death is not excessive, and Section 304-A is not a candidate for probation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/section-304a-one-year-sentence-upheld-probation-not-available-road-death/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/section-304a-one-year-sentence-upheld-probation-not-available-road-death/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:35:18 GMT HC Desk Justice Rakesh Kainthla dismissed a revision from 2014, upholding convictions from a 2009 accident at Nahan and declining to reduce the sentence. High Courts Once the liability is admitted, paucity of funds is no answer, and a writ for contractual dues will be entertained https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/admitted-contractual-dues-paucity-of-funds-no-defence-article-226-writ-allowed/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/admitted-contractual-dues-paucity-of-funds-no-defence-article-226-writ-allowed/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:30:19 GMT HC Desk Justices Prakash Padia and Indrajeet Shukla allowed a writ petition for admitted dues, drawing the line between a petition being maintainable and a court choosing to entertain it. High Courts A complaint against police officers needed the Section 175(4) safeguards, and the order that skipped them is gone https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/section-175-4-bnss-complaint-against-police-order-set-aside-non-speaking/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/section-175-4-bnss-complaint-against-police-order-set-aside-non-speaking/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:25:17 GMT HC Desk Justice Santosh Rai set aside a Special Judge's order under Section 173(4) of the BNSS, holding it non-speaking and made without the inquiry the statute requires. High Courts A society was denied its land because the developer was in insolvency and wanted two more floors; both grounds fail https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/deemed-conveyance-cannot-be-refused-because-the-developer-is-in-insolvency/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/deemed-conveyance-cannot-be-refused-because-the-developer-is-in-insolvency/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:20:19 GMT HC Desk Justice Sandeep V. Marne set aside the Competent Authority's refusal and remanded the application with a direction to issue the deemed conveyance certificate. High Courts The clock under Section 34 never started, because the arbitrator never delivered a signed award to the party https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/limitation-under-section-34-runs-only-from-delivery-of-signed-award-to-the-party/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/limitation-under-section-34-runs-only-from-delivery-of-signed-award-to-the-party/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:15:19 GMT HC Desk Justice N.J. Jamadar held that a copy reaching someone on behalf of the advocate does not discharge the statutory obligation, and declared the petition not time-barred. High Courts An award over the Commonwealth Games athletic track survives eleven years of challenge under Section 34 https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/commonwealth-games-athletic-track-award-upheld-section-34-challenge-dismissed/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/commonwealth-games-athletic-track-award-upheld-section-34-challenge-dismissed/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:10:18 GMT HC Desk Justice Om Prakash Shukla rejected the CPWD's objections to the arbitrator's impartiality, to the merits of three claims, and to the scope of the reference. High Courts A suggestion of tutoring is not proof of it, and a six-year-old's consistent account carried the conviction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/child-witness-testimony-upheld-pocso-conviction-tutoring-not-established/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/child-witness-testimony-upheld-pocso-conviction-tutoring-not-established/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:05:20 GMT HC Desk Justice Madhu Jain dismissed an appeal under Section 415(2) of the BNSS, setting out when a child witness can be the sole basis of a conviction. High Courts Assignment is a government act, not a sale, so Rule 7(2) is no answer to an Ooty building permit on patta land https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/ooty-building-permit-assignment-is-not-conveyance-rule-7-2-no-bar/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/ooty-building-permit-assignment-is-not-conveyance-rule-7-2-no-bar/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:21 GMT HC Desk Justice V. Lakshminarayanan issued a mandamus to the Udhagamandalam Municipality, holding the applicant need not wait to be refused before coming to court. High Courts He was offered a third choice the statute does not contain, and the consent memo named the offence before anyone had searched him https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-high-court-ndps-section-50-third-option-search-acquittal-charas/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-high-court-ndps-section-50-third-option-search-acquittal-charas/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:55:18 GMT HC Desk Fifteen years after conviction, the Himachal Pradesh High Court acquits on Section 50 of the NDPS Act — a recovery made in breach of it cannot be relied on at all. High Courts Both last-seen witnesses turned hostile and denied their own statements. The State asked the High Court to convict anyway https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/karnataka-high-court-state-appeal-against-acquittal-dismissed-last-seen-witnesses-hostile/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/karnataka-high-court-state-appeal-against-acquittal-dismissed-last-seen-witnesses-hostile/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:50:20 GMT HC Desk A hotel ledger, a set of recoveries and a father who admitted he never saw the knives. The Karnataka High Court finds no error in an acquittal in a murder case built on circumstances. High Courts One arbitration clause named Delhi and Goa, and the Delhi High Court had no business appointing the arbitrator https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/arbitration-clause-named-delhi-and-goa-juridical-seat-held-to-be-goa/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/arbitration-clause-named-delhi-and-goa-juridical-seat-held-to-be-goa/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:45:18 GMT SC Desk Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi held the juridical seat was Goa on a holistic reading of the franchise agreement, and set aside the Section 11(6) appointment. Supreme Court A compromise decree he was never party to turned up in the Tahsildar's records, and that is due diligence enough to amend https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/order-vi-rule-17-amendment-allowed-compromise-decree-found-in-tahsildar-records/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/order-vi-rule-17-amendment-allowed-compromise-decree-found-in-tahsildar-records/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:40:20 GMT SC Desk Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan allowed an amendment the trial court and the Orissa High Court had refused, subject to costs of Rs 25,000. Supreme Court Railways threw out a bid for not producing the original of a payment made online, and the Court called it an impossibility https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/bid-rejected-for-original-of-an-electronic-payment-perversity-contract-awarded/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/bid-rejected-for-original-of-an-electronic-payment-perversity-contract-awarded/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:35:22 GMT SC Desk Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran set aside the rejection as perverse and directed that the railway contract be awarded to the bidder who was shut out. Supreme Court Two non-signatories whose partnership depends on the disputed retirement deed are veritable parties to the arbitration https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/non-signatories-held-veritable-parties-to-arbitration-worli-partnership-asset/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/non-signatories-held-veritable-parties-to-arbitration-worli-partnership-asset/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:30:17 GMT SC Desk Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran modified a Section 11 order, holding on a prima facie view that the outcome would substantially affect the absent parties' rights. Supreme Court A lecturer out of work since 1999 cannot be absorbed into an aided post, so the Court used Article 142 and gave him Rs 10 lakh https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/lecturer-out-of-work-since-1999-article-142-rs-10-lakh-no-absorption/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/lecturer-out-of-work-since-1999-article-142-rs-10-lakh-no-absorption/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:25:19 GMT SC Desk Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu set aside the direction to absorb him, held the State partly to blame for its own silence, and moulded the relief in money. Supreme Court The disability pension judgment of February cannot be read as entitling every ex-serviceman to arrears https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/girish-kumar-disability-pension-judgment-clarified-not-every-case/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/girish-kumar-disability-pension-judgment-clarified-not-every-case/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:20:21 GMT SC Desk Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Alok Aradhe clarified their own common judgment, which the Union said was being applied to 49 Air Force and Army cases it never covered. Supreme Court Living together without marriage — what the law says in India https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/live-in-relationship-status-india/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/live-in-relationship-status-india/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:35:24 GMT Editorial Desk Everyday Law Online shopping fraud — your two-track remedy https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/online-shopping-fraud/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/online-shopping-fraud/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:41:08 GMT Editorial Desk Everyday Law An officer who burnt a piece of the seizure and called it charas did not prove what the substance was https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/ndps-charas-identified-by-burning-not-proof-two-acquitted-after-twenty-two-years/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/ndps-charas-identified-by-burning-not-proof-two-acquitted-after-twenty-two-years/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:20:57 GMT SC Desk Justices Sandeep Mehta and Manmohan acquitted two men sentenced to eight and ten years under the NDPS Act, holding the identity of the contraband was never established. Supreme Court Hindi translators cannot claim promotion under the rules that existed when the vacancies arose https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/rajbhasha-adhikari-promotion-old-rules-no-vested-right-raj-kumar-applied/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/rajbhasha-adhikari-promotion-old-rules-no-vested-right-raj-kumar-applied/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:16:00 GMT SC Desk Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Ujjal Bhuyan set aside High Court orders directing BSNL to consider officiating Rajbhasha Adhikaris under the pre-2005 promotion rules. Supreme Court An unproved allegation about a father's habits was not enough to undo a sale, and the trial court's decree is restored https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/partition-suit-alienation-legal-necessity-trial-court-decree-restored/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/partition-suit-alienation-legal-necessity-trial-court-decree-restored/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:10:58 GMT SC Desk Justices Augustine George Masih and Sandeep Mehta set aside a Karnataka High Court decree in a partition suit, holding the first appellate court ignored the evidence on record. Supreme Court A claimant who lives in Chittoor and was injured in Tirupati cannot file his claim in Chennai https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/motor-accident-claim-territorial-jurisdiction-section-166-chennai-to-chittoor/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/motor-accident-claim-territorial-jurisdiction-section-166-chennai-to-chittoor/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:05:56 GMT SC Desk Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar upheld the transfer of a motor accident claim, holding Section 166(2) cannot be read beyond its plain language. Supreme Court The 53 kg stone said to have killed the man was never recovered and never shown to the doctor https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/laterite-stone-never-recovered-never-shown-to-doctor-murder-convictions-set-aside/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/laterite-stone-never-recovered-never-shown-to-doctor-murder-convictions-set-aside/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:01:15 GMT SC Desk Justices M.M. Sundresh and Prasanna B. Varale set aside murder convictions from 2004, holding the chain of circumstances had substantial gaps and two views were possible. Supreme Court He reached the bodies within two hours and said nothing about two men with sticks looking for them https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/witness-who-said-nothing-that-night-acquittal-affirmed-himachal-double-murder/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/witness-who-said-nothing-that-night-acquittal-affirmed-himachal-double-murder/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:55:56 GMT SC Desk Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi dismissed the State's appeal, holding recoveries made three days after arrest looked stage-managed and the key witness was untrustworthy. Supreme Court Even with both sides consenting, a Section 37 appeal cannot be handed to the arbitral tribunal as a Section 17 application https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-37-appeal-cannot-be-remitted-to-arbitral-tribunal-as-section-17-application/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-37-appeal-cannot-be-remitted-to-arbitral-tribunal-as-section-17-application/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:50:59 GMT SC Desk Justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B. Varale set aside that part of a High Court order, holding appellate jurisdiction under Section 37 belongs exclusively to the Court. Supreme Court The pages said to be too blurred to answer were read in court, and found perfectly legible https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kaapa-detention-upheld-illegible-documents-claim-rejected-on-perusal/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kaapa-detention-upheld-illegible-documents-claim-rejected-on-perusal/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:45:58 GMT HC Desk Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V.M. upheld a KAAPA detention, rejecting the claim that illegible documents had denied the detenu an effective representation. High Courts A 1980 sauda receipt, a suit dismissed in 2002, and a first appeal decided in 2026 in the buyer's favour https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/specific-performance-1980-sauda-receipt-first-appeal-allowed-after-forty-six-years/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/specific-performance-1980-sauda-receipt-first-appeal-allowed-after-forty-six-years/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:40:59 GMT HC Desk Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt allowed a first appeal under Section 96, holding the buyer was ready and willing and that time was not of the essence under an informal receipt. High Courts Two of the three cases were from outside the District Magistrate's own district, and the detention order never explained why that mattered https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/goonda-detention-quashed-grounds-outside-district-bail-conditions-not-considered/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/goonda-detention-quashed-grounds-outside-district-bail-conditions-not-considered/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:35:56 GMT HC Desk Justices Ravi Nath Tilhari and Purushottam Kumar Chintalapudi quashed a Goondas Act detention, holding a single vicious ground is enough to vitiate the order. High Courts Three revenue orders refusing to mutate a 2010 sale deed are set aside, and so is a fourth passed behind the buyers' backs https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/mutation-refused-three-revenue-orders-set-aside-article-227-bhoomiswami/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/mutation-refused-three-revenue-orders-set-aside-article-227-bhoomiswami/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:31:06 GMT HC Desk Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt held the Tehsildar, Sub Divisional Officer and Additional Commissioner were wrong that permission was needed, and quashed an ex parte consequential order too. High Courts The delay in issuing the detention order was never explained, and that alone undid it https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/pitndps-detention-set-aside-inordinate-delay-bail-cancellation-no-substitute/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/pitndps-detention-set-aside-inordinate-delay-bail-cancellation-no-substitute/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:25:56 GMT HC Desk Justices Anil K. Narendran and Muralee Krishna S. set aside a PITNDPS Act detention for inordinate delay, while rejecting the argument that bail cancellation had to be tried first. High Courts Twelve years after his selection was cancelled, a constable gets the job back with seniority but no arrears https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/constable-selection-restored-non-disclosure-no-one-size-fits-all-formula/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/constable-selection-restored-non-disclosure-no-one-size-fits-all-formula/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:21:10 GMT HC Desk Justice K. Sreenivasa Reddy set aside the cancellation of a police constable's selection, holding non-disclosure of a criminal case cannot be met with a rigid formula. High Courts Interest on a bank guarantee that was never encashed is cut out of the award, and the rest of it stands https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/chhattisgarh-hc/secl-arbitration-award-severed-pendente-lite-interest-bank-guarantee-set-aside/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/chhattisgarh-hc/secl-arbitration-award-severed-pendente-lite-interest-bank-guarantee-set-aside/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:16:02 GMT HC Desk Justices Parth Prateem Sahu and Sachin Singh Rajput severed the arbitral award, setting aside pendente lite interest on security deposit guarantees while upholding post-award interest. High Courts A Christian's Will is still revoked by his marriage, and a Hindu's is not, and that difference survives Article 14 https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/section-69-indian-succession-act-marriage-revokes-will-christians-upheld/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/section-69-indian-succession-act-marriage-revokes-will-christians-upheld/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:11:01 GMT HC Desk Justices Sathish Ninan and P. Krishna Kumar answered a suo motu reference by upholding Section 69 of the Indian Succession Act and rejecting the claim that it conflicts with Section 20. High Courts Madhya Pradesh's increase of OBC reservation from 14 to 27 per cent is struck down, and the 1983 report it rested on is held too old to carry it https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-obc-reservation-27-percent-amendment-act-2019-struck-down/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-obc-reservation-27-percent-amendment-act-2019-struck-down/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:06:00 GMT HC Desk Justices Anand Pathak and Vinay Saraf held OBCs are adequately represented under Article 16(4), struck down the 2019 Amendment Act, and saved appointments made up to 29 September 2022. High Courts Once the Settlement Commission has spoken, the Assessing Officer cannot reopen the same years https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/settlement-commission-finality-assessing-officer-cannot-reopen-section-245d/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/settlement-commission-finality-assessing-officer-cannot-reopen-section-245d/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:01:27 GMT SC Desk Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and N.V. Anjaria dismissed the Revenue's appeal, holding that a settlement order is revisited only through Section 245D(6) and not by a fresh reassessment notice. Supreme Court Two accomplices propping each other up is not corroboration, and a diary put the officer on a train https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/rpf-security-commissioner-acquitted-approver-corroboration-diary-entry/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/rpf-security-commissioner-acquitted-approver-corroboration-diary-entry/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:55:58 GMT SC Desk Justices Dipankar Datta and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh acquitted a Railway Protection Force officer in both CBI prosecutions, holding approver evidence needed corroboration from someone outside the transaction. Supreme Court The POCSO presumption shifts the onus, it does not tilt how a court reads the evidence https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/pocso-presumption-sections-29-30-cannot-tilt-appreciation-of-evidence-acquittal/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/pocso-presumption-sections-29-30-cannot-tilt-appreciation-of-evidence-acquittal/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:51:05 GMT SC Desk Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N.V. Anjaria set aside a ten-year sentence under Section 6 of the POCSO Act, holding the presumption falls away once the prosecution case is found empty. Supreme Court A truck taken away in the night cost the financier Rs 10 lakh, and the RBI was told its circulars exist only on paper https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/truck-repossessed-without-notice-rs-10-lakh-compensation-rbi-directed/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/truck-repossessed-without-notice-rs-10-lakh-compensation-rbi-directed/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:46:04 GMT SC Desk Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Alok Aradhe held the repossession and sale violated Articles 14 and 21, ordered compensation and costs, and directed the RBI to secure compliance. Supreme Court Making industrial methanol bitter and blue was no answer to a hooch tragedy, and the rules fell under Articles 14 and 19 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/maharashtra-poisons-rules-methanol-bitterant-colourant-struck-down-articles-14-19/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/maharashtra-poisons-rules-methanol-bitterant-colourant-struck-down-articles-14-19/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:41:05 GMT SC Desk Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran struck down Rules 18A and 18B of the Maharashtra Poisons Rules and sent fifteen regulatory suggestions to every High Court and Chief Secretary. Supreme Court A deposit is not a payment: the award-debtor pays interest until the money actually reaches the creditor https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/deposit-is-not-payment-arbitral-award-interest-law-commission-reference/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/deposit-is-not-payment-arbitral-award-interest-law-commission-reference/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:35:58 GMT SC Desk Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Alok Aradhe upheld interest running until release of a conditional deposit, and asked the Law Commission to examine how courts hold such money. Supreme Court A Section 92 suit gets no interim protection before leave, but a court may grant leave without notice when it is urgent https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-92-cpc-no-interim-orders-before-leave-high-court-conflict-settled/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-92-cpc-no-interim-orders-before-leave-high-court-conflict-settled/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:31:13 GMT SC Desk Justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan resolved a conflict among six High Courts, holding a civil court cannot pass preservatory orders while a leave application under Section 92 is pending. Supreme Court The Union could not show how the 2008 Entitlement Rules were made, and its appeals against disabled soldiers failed https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/union-appeals-disabled-soldiers-entitlement-rules-2008-suspect-legality/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/union-appeals-disabled-soldiers-entitlement-rules-2008-suspect-legality/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:25:57 GMT SC Desk Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Alok Aradhe held that the 2008 Entitlement Rules substantially reproduce the 1982 scheme, and dismissed a batch of 271 appeals on delay and on merits. Supreme Court Three things a magistrate must do before ordering an investigation — and an order that did none of them https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/section-175-3-bnss-three-requirements-order-directing-investigation-set-aside-guidelines/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/section-175-3-bnss-three-requirements-order-directing-investigation-set-aside-guidelines/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:21:10 GMT HC Desk Justice Santosh Rai sets aside an order directing investigation into a night raid alleged by two Scheduled Caste women, holding that Section 175(3) of the BNSS imposes three distinct duties and that the omission "goes to the very exercise of jurisdiction" — and circulates the judgment to every judicial officer in the State. High Courts “Civil in nature” is not a reason to refuse an FIR — a magistrate who held a mini trial exceeded his jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/magistrate-cannot-conduct-mini-trial-refuse-fir-on-ground-dispute-is-civil-chengalpattu/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/magistrate-cannot-conduct-mini-trial-refuse-fir-on-ground-dispute-is-civil-chengalpattu/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:16:06 GMT HC Desk Justice Shamim Ahmed sets aside an order of the Judicial Magistrate II, Chengalpattu and remands the matter with a direction to order registration of an FIR and a proper investigation, to be completed within eight weeks. High Courts Four questions a dowry death prosecution has to answer — and a case that answered none of them https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/dowry-death-acquittal-what-was-the-last-demand-who-made-it-and-when-section-304b/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/dowry-death-acquittal-what-was-the-last-demand-who-made-it-and-when-section-304b/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:11:12 GMT HC Desk Justice Chandra Shekhar Jha acquits a husband's elderly parents and a third relative convicted under Section 304-B, holding that the evidence does not identify the last demand, who made it, when it was made, or how it stayed connected to the death. High Courts Two severed hands, eight altered records, and a death sentence that cannot stand https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/death-reference-answered-in-negative-altered-inquest-records-dgp-inquiry-ordered/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/death-reference-answered-in-negative-altered-inquest-records-dgp-inquiry-ordered/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:01:47 GMT HC Desk Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev answer a capital reference in the negative and commute two death sentences to life — then order the Director General of Police to inquire into the officers who prepared the inquests, with a report to the Registrar General within three months. High Courts ANNAPOORNA against ANNAPURNA: an injunction is made absolute, and an undertaking shapes its edges https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/annapoorna-annapurna-interim-injunction-made-absolute-snacks-namkeens-blended-spices/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/annapoorna-annapurna-interim-injunction-made-absolute-snacks-namkeens-blended-spices/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:01:44 GMT HC Desk Justice A. D. Maria Clete makes an interim injunction absolute till disposal of the suit, refuses to carve snacks and namkeens out of it, and confines the passing-off limb to blended spices on the defendant's own undertaking. High Courts Age sixty-one and a position of trust are not mitigation — a school correspondent's conviction is confirmed https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/school-correspondent-conviction-confirmed-sexual-assault-wrongful-confinement-locked-room/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/school-correspondent-conviction-confirmed-sexual-assault-wrongful-confinement-locked-room/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:56:00 GMT HC Desk Justice G. Arul Murugan dismisses the appeal of a man convicted of sexually assaulting a ten-year-old child at the school he ran, and holds that locking the room established wrongful confinement under Section 342 of the Penal Code. High Courts The notice said subletting and so did the order — an industrial plot eviction survives Article 227 https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/midc-eviction-upheld-illegal-subletting-order-did-not-travel-beyond-show-cause-notice/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/midc-eviction-upheld-illegal-subletting-order-did-not-travel-beyond-show-cause-notice/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:51:07 GMT HC Desk Justice Aarti Sathe declines to interfere with an eviction from a Wagle Industrial Estate plot, distinguishing a tax case in which the authorities had changed grounds between the show cause notice and the final order. High Courts You cannot sue for partition while leaving the Will that defeats you unchallenged https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/partition-suit-rejected-order-vii-rule-11-will-left-unchallenged-limitation-expired/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/partition-suit-rejected-order-vii-rule-11-will-left-unchallenged-limitation-expired/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:46:10 GMT HC Desk Justice Neena Bansal Krishna upholds the rejection of a partition suit under Order VII Rule 11, holding that a plaintiff who has known of the Wills since 2014 needed a declaration and the limitation for one had long expired. High Courts A girl who vanished in 2002, a life sentence in 2013, and an acquittal in 2026 https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/findings-perverse-circumstantial-chain-incomplete-acquittal-after-twenty-four-years/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/findings-perverse-circumstantial-chain-incomplete-acquittal-after-twenty-four-years/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:41:12 GMT HC Desk Justices Abdul Moin and Pramod Kumar Srivastava hold the circumstances relied on by the prosecution do not form a complete chain, call the trial court's findings perverse, and order the release of a man who has been in jail throughout. High Courts The divorce stands, but it comes with Rs 20 lakh — a wife with no other income gets permanent alimony https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/divorce-decree-affirmed-permanent-alimony-of-rs-20-lakh-in-four-instalments-jamshedpur/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/divorce-decree-affirmed-permanent-alimony-of-rs-20-lakh-in-four-instalments-jamshedpur/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:36:02 GMT HC Desk A Division Bench of Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Sanjay Prasad affirms a decree dissolving a 2003 marriage and modifies it by awarding a lump sum of Rs 20,00,000, payable in four equal instalments within twelve months. High Courts