https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/drug-adulteration-complaint/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T09:01:25+05:30 Complaining about fake or adulterated medicines https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/civil-contempt-is-not-criminal-jurisdiction-and-ram-kishan-fauji-referred-to-a-larger-bench/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:40:17+05:30 Not many people can afford to travel to Delhi: the Court doubts whether a writ petition with criminal roots can be stripped of its intra-court appeal letters patent appeal, access to justice https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/sub-inspector-worked-unpaid-since-2022-because-his-university-left-his-name-off-a-list/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:35:16+05:30 A clerical error by a university the police were investigating left a Sub-Inspector working without salary for four years service jurisprudence, salary arrears https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/chhattisgarh-hc/teacher-recruitment-advertisement-quashed-for-reviving-a-reservation-notification-already-struck-down/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:30:20+05:30 A notification struck down in 2022 was used to reserve two-thirds of 5,772 teaching posts in 2023, and the advertisement has now been quashed article 16, reservation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/chhattisgarh-hc/removal-of-nagar-panchayat-president-under-section-41a-is-not-an-indirect-election-challenge/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:25:17+05:30 He said the land sales predated his election so the State was really unseating him, and the Court pointed to what he did after taking office alternative remedy, licence https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/three-firs-from-one-housing-society-feud-quashed-as-a-weaponised-civil-dispute/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:20:16+05:30 Thirteen years of a housing society quarrel produced three criminal cases, and the High Court has ended all of them on the same morning abuse of process, quashing of fir https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/nmcs-own-inspectors-found-no-deficiency-and-the-medical-college-still-lost-two-academic-years/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:15:18+05:30 It was penalised for not filing a fresh application while the very question whether it needed to was pending in court proportionality, medical education https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/three-convictions-upheld-for-a-stabbing-at-a-golden-wedding-party-common-intention-inferred/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:10:17+05:30 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 murder, injured witness https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/professional-course-fees-cannot-be-raised-midstream-fee-fixation-committees-must-be-institutionalised/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:05:18+05:30 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 article 14, education law https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/a-bidders-own-earlier-bid-is-not-the-measure-of-market-value-sand-auction-cancellation-quashed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T16:00:29+05:30 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 judicial review, article 14 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-62-ibc-limitation-runs-from-pronouncement-not-from-when-the-party-collects-the-copy/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:55:23+05:30 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 insolvency and bankruptcy code, limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/pmla-section-19-immediately-does-not-mean-24-hours-but-twenty-months-custody-earns-bail/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:50:18+05:30 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 bail, article 21 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/waqf-trust-in-possession-cannot-be-evicted-on-the-wrong-rule-number-order-xxi-rule-97-inquiry-ordered/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:45:17+05:30 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 execution proceedings, specific performance https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/compromise-decree-of-1990-ignored-by-two-courts-litigation-from-1959-family-settlement-closed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:40:18+05:30 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 family, non application of mind https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/ubl-shares-released-from-kingfisher-recovery-personal-guarantee-is-not-a-charge-over-named-assets/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:35:17+05:30 ₹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 debt recovery tribunal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/husband-acquitted-after-23-years-dying-declarations-inconsistent-and-the-child-eyewitness-never-examined/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:30:28+05:30 Her five-year-old son was in the room and had burns on both hands, and the prosecution never once recorded what he saw dying declaration, acquittal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/fsl-report-ruled-out-hanging-and-the-friend-who-reported-the-suicide-stays-convicted-of-murder/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:25:18+05:30 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 circumstantial evidence, murder https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/section-74-cgst-demand-of-43-crore-on-amul-quashed-for-mechanical-invocation-of-suppression/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:20:18+05:30 A ₹43.43 crore demand on Amul for not cross-charging its own head office, and not one finding of why that was fraud limitation, show cause notice https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/conviction-upheld-on-eight-circumstances-and-four-lakh-victim-compensation-directed-in-seven-days/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:15:17+05:30 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 circumstantial evidence, hostile witness https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/fema-writ-petitions-belong-to-the-revenue-group-matters-released-from-the-roster/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:10:19+05:30 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 tax law https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/missing-premises-number-on-a-speed-post-receipt-means-section-34-limitation-never-started/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:05:16+05:30 Two digits were missing from the address on the postal receipt, and that is why a 2017 arbitral award is still open to objection arbitration, limitation 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/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T15:00:19+05:30 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 judicial review, prevention of corruption act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/mutual-consent-divorce-decree-set-aside-where-the-date-of-marriage-itself-was-in-dispute/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T14:55:17+05:30 The decree says they married in April 2023 and separated in June of that year. She says the wedding was in April 2024 hindu marriage act, mutual consent divorce https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/restitution-of-conjugal-rights-decree-perverse-where-the-wifes-reason-for-leaving-was-never-weighed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T14:50:25+05:30 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 family, family court 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/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T14:45:27+05:30 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 alternative remedy, bharatiya nagarik suraksha sanhita https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/enhanced-land-acquisition-compensation-unpaid-since-2008-execution-petitions-restored/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T14:40:17+05:30 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 execution proceedings, land acquisition https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/nineteen-years-for-two-sample-bottles-excise-conviction-set-aside-illicit-origin-never-proved/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T14:35:18+05:30 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 acquittal, burden of proof 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/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T14:30:35+05:30 A friendly loan of ₹75,000, a cheque that bounced, and a challenge to the one thing that makes a compensation order bite cheque dishonour, negotiable instruments act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/orissa-hc/postal-departments-appeal-restored-but-the-senior-citizen-who-argued-in-person-gets-costs/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T14:25:17+05:30 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 article 227, consumer law https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/no-fault-liability-section-140/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T09:05:23+05:30 Interim compensation for a road-accident victim — without proving anyone's fault https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/kelsen-without-kelsenians/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-15T08:30:23+05:30 Kelsen Without Kelsenians: A Profile of Pure Theory's Strange Indian Career https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/speaker-can-accept-resignations-while-disqualification-pending-two-month-mandamus/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T15:25:22+05:30 The Speaker could accept the resignations while disqualification petitions were pending, but he now has two months to decide them anti defection, tenth schedule https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/four-killed-in-1996-thirteen-convicted-in-2023-all-acquitted-dgp-committee-ordered/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T15:20:24+05:30 Four men shot dead in 1996, thirteen convicted in 2023, and every conviction now set aside over the investigation police accountability, acquittal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/gst-audit-report-challenge-appealable-order-writ-declined-one-month-to-appeal/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T15:15:19+05:30 A GST audit said to be out of time does not get a writ, but the taxpayer gets a month to appeal article 226, alternative remedy https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/section-354-conviction-upheld-child-victim-natural-conduct-revision-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T15:10:21+05:30 Having a daughter the same age proves nothing, and a six-year-old's delayed disclosure was natural criminal revision, sentencing https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/section-304a-one-year-sentence-upheld-probation-not-available-road-death/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T15:05:18+05:30 A year in jail for a road death is not excessive, and Section 304-A is not a candidate for probation motor vehicles act, rash and negligent driving https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/admitted-contractual-dues-paucity-of-funds-no-defence-article-226-writ-allowed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T15:00:19+05:30 Once the liability is admitted, paucity of funds is no answer, and a writ for contractual dues will be entertained article 226, unjust enrichment https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/section-175-4-bnss-complaint-against-police-order-set-aside-non-speaking/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:55:17+05:30 A complaint against police officers needed the Section 175(4) safeguards, and the order that skipped them is gone criminal procedure, police accountability https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/deemed-conveyance-cannot-be-refused-because-the-developer-is-in-insolvency/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:50:19+05:30 A society was denied its land because the developer was in insolvency and wanted two more floors; both grounds fail society https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/limitation-under-section-34-runs-only-from-delivery-of-signed-award-to-the-party/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:45:19+05:30 The clock under Section 34 never started, because the arbitrator never delivered a signed award to the party arbitration, limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/commonwealth-games-athletic-track-award-upheld-section-34-challenge-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:40:18+05:30 An award over the Commonwealth Games athletic track survives eleven years of challenge under Section 34 arbitration, government contracts https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/child-witness-testimony-upheld-pocso-conviction-tutoring-not-established/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:35:20+05:30 A suggestion of tutoring is not proof of it, and a six-year-old's consistent account carried the conviction criminal appeal, pocso act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/ooty-building-permit-assignment-is-not-conveyance-rule-7-2-no-bar/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:30:21+05:30 Assignment is a government act, not a sale, so Rule 7(2) is no answer to an Ooty building permit on patta land land law, town planning https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-high-court-ndps-section-50-third-option-search-acquittal-charas/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:25:18+05:30 He was offered a third choice the statute does not contain, and the consent memo named the offence before anyone had searched him acquittal, himachal pradesh high court, section 50 ndps https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/karnataka-high-court-state-appeal-against-acquittal-dismissed-last-seen-witnesses-hostile/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:20:20+05:30 Both last-seen witnesses turned hostile and denied their own statements. The State asked the High Court to convict anyway circumstantial evidence, hostile witnesses, section 302 ipc https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/arbitration-clause-named-delhi-and-goa-juridical-seat-held-to-be-goa/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:15:18+05:30 One arbitration clause named Delhi and Goa, and the Delhi High Court had no business appointing the arbitrator arbitration, jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/order-vi-rule-17-amendment-allowed-compromise-decree-found-in-tahsildar-records/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:10:20+05:30 A compromise decree he was never party to turned up in the Tahsildar's records, and that is due diligence enough to amend civil procedure, amendment of pleadings https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/bid-rejected-for-original-of-an-electronic-payment-perversity-contract-awarded/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:05:22+05:30 Railways threw out a bid for not producing the original of a payment made online, and the Court called it an impossibility judicial review, public procurement https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/non-signatories-held-veritable-parties-to-arbitration-worli-partnership-asset/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T14:00:17+05:30 Two non-signatories whose partnership depends on the disputed retirement deed are veritable parties to the arbitration arbitration, retirement https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/lecturer-out-of-work-since-1999-article-142-rs-10-lakh-no-absorption/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T13:55:19+05:30 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 article 142, compensation https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/girish-kumar-disability-pension-judgment-clarified-not-every-case/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T13:50:21+05:30 The disability pension judgment of February cannot be read as entitling every ex-serviceman to arrears limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/live-in-relationship-status-india/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-14T09:05:24+05:30 Living together without marriage — what the law says in India