https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/calcutta-hc-adani-sabeer-bhatia-video-interim-injunction-takedown/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T01:00:45+05:30 Calcutta HC blocks Sabeer Bhatia video on Adani till 31 January, orders takedowns on YouTube, X and Instagram intermediary liability, defamation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-hc-arbitral-award-no-merger-execution-24-years-time-barred/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:55:44+05:30 Arbitral awards do not merge in court orders: MP High Court throws out execution filed 24 years after award limitation act, arbitration https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-hc-balwinder-singh-molestation-appeal-remitted-uncharged-incidents-evidence/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:50:44+05:30 Himachal HC sends 2006 molestation appeal back: evidence of two uncharged incidents was never admissible criminal revision, indian evidence act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-hc-asi-bribe-conviction-set-aside-unseized-phone-recording-lokayukt/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:45:45+05:30 Bribe case built on an unseized phone recording collapses; Madhya Pradesh HC acquits Alirajpur ASI prevention of corruption act, electronic evidence https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc/jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc-amity-tenant-cheating-fir-quashing-refused/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:40:44+05:30 Tenant who allegedly posed as Amity official loses bid to quash cheating case in Jammu and Kashmir HC quashing petition, cheating https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-nise-nice-dr-reddys-trademark-opposition-appeal-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:35:44+05:30 NISE and nice sound alike, but Madras HC lets neonatal equipment mark stand against Dr Reddys registration https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-hc-dupal-singh-charas-bail-refused-grounds-of-arrest-prospective/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:30:46+05:30 No bail for driver of car with 1.853 kg charas; grounds-of-arrest rule does not reach pre-Mihir Shah arrests section 37 ndps, grounds of arrest https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-hc-spasmo-proxyvon-wrong-ndps-section-conviction-upheld/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:25:44+05:30 Charged under the wrong NDPS section, convicted anyway: Himachal HC upholds Spasmo-Proxyvon verdict hostile witness, ndps act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/patna-hc-panel-advocate-uco-bank-fraud-cognizance-quashed-legal-opinion/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:20:44+05:30 Panel lawyer who told UCO Bank to verify title itself cannot be tried for the fraud that followed: Patna HC bhajan lal guidelines, legal profession https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-kn-nehru-review-dismissed-recruitment-fir-state-withdraws-challenge/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:15:45+05:30 Madras HC dismisses K.N. Nehru review of recruitment-scam FIR order; State withdraws its own challenge contempt petition, review petition https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-iti-machinery-suit-tamil-nadu-cooperative-union-time-barred/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:10:44+05:30 Rs 2.58 crore ITI machinery suit against Tamil Nadu Co-operative Union dismissed as time-barred limitation act, government contracts https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/chhattisgarh-hc/chhattisgarh-hc-margdarshan-sansthan-frozen-account-registrar-60-days/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:05:46+05:30 College account frozen since 2021: Chhattisgarh HC gives Registrar 60 days to decide who runs the society article 226, natural justice https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-hc-minor-rape-survivor-29-week-pregnancy-termination-allowed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-28T00:00:46+05:30 Delhi HC lets 17-year-old rape survivor end 29-week pregnancy, says 24-week limit does not bind the court article 21, reproductive rights https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kerala-hc-legal-benefit-fund-court-fee-hike-not-retrospective-vat-appeals/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:55:52+05:30 Kerala HC: doubled court fee on tax appeals applies only where the dispute began after 1 April 2016 vested rights, tax law https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-hc-shoghi-bus-heroin-conviction-upheld-sentence-cut-15-months/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:50:43+05:30 Heroin found on a bus seat: Himachal HC keeps the conviction but cuts three years to 15 months sentencing, ndps act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/gujarat-hc-gst-refund-limitation-apl-04-upload-panila-chem/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:45:45+05:30 Gujarat HC orders refund of Rs 5.41 lakh GST penalty the State held for two years after losing the appeal article 265, tax law https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/jharkhand-hc-lukuiya-more-ambush-nia-bail-maoist-lookout/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:42:29+05:30 Jharkhand HC grants bail to alleged Maoist lookout held six years in Lukuiya More police ambush case UAPA, bail jurisprudence https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/andhra-pradesh-hc-assigned-house-site-mortgage-decree-execution-restored/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:35:44+05:30 Mortgage decree stalled by a 1983 patta: Andhra Pradesh HC revives execution, orders ruling on saleability civil revision, CPC https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-letter-of-credit-discounting-not-payment-leather-suit-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:30:44+05:30 Discounting a letter of credit is not payment by the debtor: Madras HC dismisses Rs 5.19 crore leather suit commercial suit, limitation act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/gauhati-hc-fancy-bazar-demolition-order-stayed-section-342-notice/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:25:43+05:30 Gauhati HC stays GMC order to demolish Fancy Bazar building, finds no sign of Section 342 notice on record stay order, natural justice https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/gujarat-hc-juvenile-bail-mephedrone-section-12-jj-act-surat/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T23:20:44+05:30 Gujarat HC bails teenager in Rs 26.86 lakh mephedrone case, says Surat courts misread the chargesheet ndps act, juvenile justice act https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-six-years-undertrial-acquitted-agra-murder-case-compensation-uttar-pradesh/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:40:44+05:30 Six years jailed on surmise: Supreme Court makes Uttar Pradesh pay an acquitted undertrial Rs 6 lakh circumstantial evidence, wrongful incarceration https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/atibir-industries-sbi-arc-loan-settlement-rs-125-crore-supreme-court/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:35:45+05:30 Supreme Court ends Atibir Industries loan fight at Rs 375 crore, Rs 125 crore above what the ARC paid SBI banking law, IBC https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-order-21-rule-97-objector-original-hakkupatra-bengaluru-site-decree-set-aside/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:26:00+05:30 Original Hakkupatra beats a photocopy: Supreme Court gives Bengaluru site to objector, sets aside 1999 decree CPC, execution proceedings https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/coc-cannot-withdraw-approved-resolution-plan-bank-of-india-kamal-pasha-supreme-court/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:25:53+05:30 Lenders cannot pull back a resolution plan they approved because the debtor got richer, Supreme Court holds corporate insolvency resolution process, IBC https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-electricity-theft-reconnection-section-126-assessment-gujarat-discoms/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:16:00+05:30 Power theft bills must follow the Section 126 assessment route, Supreme Court rules against Gujarat discoms special court, electricity act 2003 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-fraud-overrides-res-judicata-peenya-housing-society-land-acquisition-quashed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:15:51+05:30 Fraud beats delay: Supreme Court quashes 1988 Bangalore land acquisition, orders plots back to owners land acquisition, fraud https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-telangana-wakf-board-injunction-mafi-inam-land-qutub-shahi-mosque-restored/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:10:44+05:30 A 1989 gazette no one challenged in time: Supreme Court restores Wakf Board injunction over 16 acres property, wakf act https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-textile-cess-dyeing-bleaching-powerloom-fabric-not-manufacture/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:05:43+05:30 Dyeing and bleaching powerloom cloth is not manufacture, Supreme Court holds in textile cess appeal civil appeal, tax law https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-rti-cooperative-bank-records-registrar-access-no-prior-inquiry/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T21:00:45+05:30 Registrar need not open an inquiry first: Supreme Court frees co-operative bank records for member under RTI right to information act, registrar https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/hit-and-run-compensation-scheme/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T09:11:06+05:30 When the vehicle that hit you cannot be traced — the compensation route https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-hc-connaught-place-shop-refund-suit-vexatious-six-defendants-deleted-costs/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:57:10+05:30 Rs 6.93 crore refund suit over a Connaught Place shop is vexatious, Delhi HC finds; six defendants struck off abuse of process, costs https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-hc-certified-copy-award-starts-section-34-limitation-anjana-sulabh-syntex/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:51:12+05:30 Fetching a certified copy yourself starts the Section 34 clock, even if the tribunal never served the award arbitration, limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-hc-1937-rs-70-sale-delivery-of-possession-unregistered-deed-veerpur-panchayat/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:45:43+05:30 A Rs 70 land sale from 1937 survives a 40-year fight: unregistered deed no bar when possession was delivered transfer of property act, registration act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-madurai-rso-26-15-plan-marked-pathway-patta-land-article-300a-upheld/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:40:44+05:30 Pathway inside patta land stays with the State: Madurai bench upholds Revenue Standing Order 26(15) property law, article 300a https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/patna-hc-jamui-child-killing-life-sentence-set-aside-section-313-saree-never-seized/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:35:45+05:30 Life sentence in Jamui child killing set aside: saree never seized, no stone found, four-question Section 313 circumstantial evidence, benefit of doubt https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-hc-ndps-bail-congolese-cocaine-capsules-standing-order-chain-of-custody/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:31:23+05:30 Four years and five months in jail, 29 witnesses to go: Delhi HC bails Congolese cocaine accused speedy trial, section 37 ndps https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-ganesan-bribe-trap-acquittal-demand-not-proved-sanction-invalid/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:23:33+05:30 Rs 7,500 trap case collapses: Madras High Court acquits agriculture officer, demand not proved criminal appeal, prevention of corruption act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-hc-shalimar-village-specific-performance-refused-earnest-money-refund-section-74/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:23:29+05:30 Buyer who never proved he had the Rs 25.85 lakh balance loses Shalimar plot but keeps his Rs 4.15 lakh specific performance, specific relief act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/gujarat-hc-reassessment-sanction-one-day-late-section-151-proviso-prospective/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:15:44+05:30 One day past three years: Gujarat High Court quashes Surat reassessment sanctioned by the wrong officer limitation act, tax law https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-hc-sam-industries-indore-land-arbitration-non-signatory-brothers/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:10:44+05:30 Forgery plea no bar to arbitration, but two brothers who never signed the Indore land deal stay out arbitration, forgery https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-full-bench-first-appeals-order-41-rule-11-hearing-before-notice/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:05:44+05:30 Madras High Court Full Bench: Registry cannot issue notice in first appeals before the Bench hears them civil procedure, judicial administration https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-hc-order-13a-summary-judgment-unavailable-non-commercial-suit-connaught-place-trust/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-27T00:00:44+05:30 Delhi HC refuses summary judgment in 26-year-old Connaught Place eviction suit that was never commercial CPC, eviction suit https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/allahabad-hc-lucknow-apex-construction-mathura-road-award-compound-interest-modified/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-26T23:55:44+05:30 Allahabad High Court strips compound interest from Rs 1.57 crore Mathura road award, keeps 14 per cent rate arbitration, compound interest https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/patna-hc-sudarshan-ram-treasury-officer-discharge-refused-1992-salary-bill-case/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-26T23:50:44+05:30 Patna High Court refuses to discharge treasury officer in 1992 salary-bill case, orders trial in six months speedy trial, discharge application https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-hc-tawal-singh-bargi-constable-bribe-trap-acquitted-after-21-years/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-26T23:45:44+05:30 MP High Court acquits Bargi constable 21 years after Rs 1,000 bribe conviction over notes found on the ground criminal appeal, prevention of corruption act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/allahabad-hc-lucknow-up-electronics-forensic-lab-award-section-37-appeal-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-26T23:40:45+05:30 Rs 8.99 crore forensic lab award stands as Allahabad High Court rejects dead-partner and cartel pleas arbitration, government contracts https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/bigamy-prosecution/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-26T09:06:07+05:30 When a second marriage is a crime in India https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/75-years-of-ak-gopalan/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-26T08:01:10+05:30 75 Years of A.K. Gopalan (1950 → 2025): The Judgment Maneka Buried and Puttaswamy Resurrected