https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/vasantha-v-state-tamil-nadu-anticipatory-bail-set-aside-2026-insc-513/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T17:52:10+05:30 Supreme Court Sets Aside Anticipatory Bail Granted to Son and Daughter-in-Law Who Allegedly Cheated 75-Year-Old Mother madras-hc, maintenance-and-welfare-of-parents-and-senior-citizens-act, abuse-of-process, anticipatory-bail, ipc-s-420, criminal-procedure, custodial-interrogation, family-property-dispute, senior-citizens https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/dr-manoj-kumar-rawat-v-state-of-up-principal-appointment-waitlist-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T17:51:23+05:30 Waitlisted Principal Cannot Use Family Hardship to Force Change of Posting Under Old UP Education Act kamlesh-kumar-sharma-v-yogesh-kumar, section-13-4, up-education-service-selection-commission-act-2023, up-higher-education-services-commission-act-1980, ejusdem-generis, locus-standi, principal-appointment, repeal-and-savings, service-jurisprudence, waitlist https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/susanta-kumar-dalai-v-state-of-odisha-vigilance-discharge-corruption-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T17:51:12+05:30 Vague Group Allegations Without Individual Role Cannot Sustain Trial, Supreme Court Discharges Forest Officer article-14, odisha-forest-act, anti-corruption, section-227-crpc, section-482-crpc, criminal-misconduct, discharge-petition, forest-officer, parity-principle, timber-corruption https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/medical-negligence-legal-heirs-estate-claims-section-306-succession-act-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T17:41:33+05:30 Doctor's Death Mid-Case Does Not Extinguish Estate Claims in Medical Negligence Proceedings consumer-protection-act-1986, ncdrc, order-xxii-cpc, section-306-indian-succession-act, actio-personalis-moritur-cum-persona, consumer-protection, estate-claims, legal-heirs, medical-negligence, tortious-liability https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/amit-katyal-haryana-fir-clubbing-brahma-city-krrish-world/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T16:05:02+05:30 Supreme Court Clubs Haryana FIR With Delhi EOW Case in Brahma City Real Estate Dispute brahma-city, crpc-section-173, economic-offences-wing, fir-clubbing, krrish-realtech, t-t-antony, double-jeopardy, multiple-firs, real-estate-fraud, writ-petition-criminal https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/odisha-arto-promotion-raj-kumar-2021-rules-supreme-court/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T14:05:02+05:30 No Vested Right to Promotion Under Superseded Rules, Supreme Court Tells Odisha Transport Officers article-309, dpc, odisha-transport-service, raj-kumar, supreme-court-2026, cadre-restructuring, executive-instructions, promotion, service-jurisprudence, vested-rights https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-stray-dogs-institutional-areas-abc-rules-article-142-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T11:04:41+05:30 Stray Dogs Cannot Claim Right to Re-entry in Schools and Hospitals, Supreme Court Holds animal-birth-control-rules-2023, article-142, article-21, high-court-monitoring, nhai, prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals-act-1960, institutional-premises, public-safety, stray-dogs, suo-motu-jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/syed-iftikhar-andrabi-nia-bail-uapa-section-43d5-article-21/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T09:24:05+05:30 Supreme Court Grants Bail Under UAPA, Reaffirms Section 43-D(5) Cannot Override Article 21 article-21, jammu-and-kashmir, k-a-najeeb, ndps-act, national-investigation-agency, section-43-d-5, uapa-bail, narco-terrorism, prolonged-incarceration, speedy-trial https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/jennifer-messias-v-leonard-g-lobo-partition-decree-execution-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T10:19:22+05:30 Partition Decree That Cannot Be Divided by Metes and Bounds Is Directly Executable, Supreme Court Holds cpc, order-20-rule-18-cpc, supreme-court-2026, civil-appeal, execution-proceedings, final-decree, mesne-profits, partition-decree, preliminary-decree, property-law https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/punjab-haryana-hc/khilu-ram-proclaimed-offender-order-set-aside-punjab-haryana-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T19:45:02+05:30 Punjab & Haryana HC Sets Aside 2002 Proclaimed Offender Order Against Man Who Moved to Gujarat Unaware of Pending Trial crm-m-2026, ipc-section-304a, proclaimed-offender, proclaimed-person-declaration, punjab-haryana-hc, quashing-petition, section-82-crpc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/gauhati-hc-grade-iv-employee-35-years-salary-regularisation-paschim-bonbhag-school-wpc-142-2024/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T19:35:02+05:30 Gauhati HC Directs Assam Education Department to Consider Case of Grade-IV Employee Who Worked 35 Years Without Regular Pay article-226, gauhati-hc, grade-iv-employee, honorary-appointment, legitimate-expectation, mid-day-meal, regularisation-of-service, salary-arrears, secondary-education-assam, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/modon-urang-murder-conviction-upheld-gauhati-hc-police-eyewitness-dao-killing/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T19:10:02+05:30 Gauhati HC Upholds Life Sentence in Tea Garden Dao Killing, Accepts Police Officer as Sole Eyewitness assam, chance-witness, criminal-appeal, gauhati-hc, article-39a, murder-conviction, police-eyewitness, section-302-ipc, section-357a-crpc, tea-garden-homicide https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/rajasthan-hc/hari-ram-v-chunni-devi-adoption-deed-cancellation-rajasthan-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T18:55:02+05:30 Adoption Deed Without Giving-and-Taking Ceremony Has No Legal Sanctity, Rajasthan HC Affirms adoption-deed-cancellation, civil-second-appeal, concurrent-findings-of-fact, fraud-and-misrepresentation, giving-and-taking-ceremony, hindu-adoptions-and-maintenance-act-1956, rajasthan-hc, section-100-cpc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/ps-ganesh-kumar-anticipatory-bail-chittoor-judiciary-defamation-fir-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T18:45:02+05:30 Andhra Pradesh HC Disposes Anticipatory Bail Plea of Court Employee Accused of Circulating Defamatory Petition Against District Judiciary andhra-pradesh-hc, anonymous-petition, anticipatory-bail, arnesh-kumar-guidelines, bnss, bns, chittoor, defamation, judicial-officer, section-482-bnss https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/aarpee-infra-projects-writ-dismissed-no-live-cause-of-action-tender-debarment-patna-hc-2025/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T17:50:02+05:30 Patna HC Dismisses Contractor's Writ as Non-Maintainable: No Live Cause of Action Where Petitioner Never Bid Despite Interim Protection article-226-maintainability, cause-of-action, civil-writ-jurisdiction, debarment-blacklisting, judicial-review-tender-matters, patna-hc, public-health-engineering-department-bihar, tender-disqualification, writ-jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/jagarnath-thakur-v-state-of-bihar-premature-release-life-convict-14-years-patna-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T17:45:02+05:30 Patna HC Rejects 1984 Letter as Basis for Deferring Life Convict's Premature Release to 2029 bihar, bihar-prison-manual-2012, criminal-appeal, life-imprisonment, patna-hc, premature-release, remission-board, section-433a-crpc, section-57-ipc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/akhilesh-nimawat-termination-quashed-natural-justice-mp-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T15:55:02+05:30 MP High Court Quashes Termination of Permanent Worker Done Without Departmental Inquiry article-226, departmental-inquiry, labour-law, madhya-pradesh-hc, misconduct-stigma, natural-justice, permanent-worker, termination-of-service, writ-petition https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/uttarakhand-hc/mursaleen-vs-state-uttarakhand-ndps-bail-ante-dated-arrest-memo-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T15:50:02+05:30 Arrest Memo Bearing FIR Number Before FIR Was Lodged Renders NDPS Seizure Suspicious: Uttarakhand HC Grants Bail fir-fabrication, ndps-act, ante-dated-arrest-memo, bail-section-483-bnss, procedural-sanctity-ndps, section-50-ndps, smack-recovery, uttarakhand-hc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/siya-singh-bsrtc-back-wages-lpa-827-829-2025-patna-hc/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T14:43:58+05:30 Patna HC Division Bench Restores Rs 11.70 Lakh Back Wages to BSRTC Conductor, Sets Aside Single Judge Order That Nullified Unchallenged Labour Court Award back-wages, bihar-orissa-public-demands-recovery-act, bihar-state-road-transport-corporation, certificate-officer, industrial-disputes-act-section-33c2, labour-court-award, letters-patent-appeal, no-work-no-pay, patna-hc, reinstatement https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/punjab-haryana-hc/hukam-singh-haryana-ivl-angioplasty-medical-reimbursement-cwp-28175-2023/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T14:42:23+05:30 P&H HC Orders Full Reimbursement for IVL Angioplasty, Rejects Haryana's Hyper-Technical Denial of Life-Saving Cardiac Procedure angioplasty, coronary-artery-disease, haryana-government-employees-health-policy, health-right, intravascular-lithotripsy, medical-reimbursement, package-rate, punjab-haryana-hc, welfare-state, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/kandarpa-kanta-sarma-nf-railway-hra-writ-dismissed-gauhati-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T14:42:15+05:30 Gauhati HC Dismisses Railway Employee's HRA Claim, Orders Return of Amount Already Paid article-226, cat, gauhati-hc, government-accommodation, house-rent-allowance, judicial-review-limits, north-east-frontier-railway, railway-board-circular, railway-employees, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/hotel-brideway-esic-writ-dismissed-alternate-remedy-section-75/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T14:21:56+05:30 Gauhati HC Dismisses Hotel's ESI Writ, Directs Resort to Employees' Insurance Court Under Section 75 alternate-remedy-doctrine, article-226-writ-jurisdiction, employees-insurance-court, employees-state-insurance-act-1948, gauhati-hc, section-45a-contribution-determination, section-45aa-appeal, section-75-esi-act, social-security-law, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/orissa-hc/bhabagrahi-das-orissa-hc-disciplinary-proceeding-quashed-1998-retiral-benefits/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T14:16:24+05:30 Orissa HC Quashes 1998 Disciplinary Proceeding Against Retired Employee, Orders Retiral Benefits article-226, ocs-cc-and-a-rules, departmental-inquiry, disciplinary-proceedings, inordinate-delay, orissa-hc, retiral-benefits, service-jurisprudence, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gujarat-hc/himanshu-parmar-gujarat-hc-rti-msu-baroda-reservation-information-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T14:15:13+05:30 Gujarat HC Dismisses RTI Writ Over MSU Baroda Appointment Data, Holds Correctness of Information Not Adjudicable Under RTI Act gujarat-hc, gujarat-information-commission, msu-baroda-reservation, public-information-officer, reservation-policy-gujarat, rti-act-2005, rti-correctness-of-information, section-19-8-b-rti-act, section-2f-rti-act, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kerala-hc-pocso-conviction-upheld-rahiman-walayar-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T11:50:02+05:30 Kerala HC Upholds 15-Year Sentence in POCSO Case; Rejects Challenges to Unsigned FIS and Victim's Age Proof child-sexual-assault, criminal-appeal, first-information-statement, kerala-hc, palakkad, pocso-act, section-376-ipc, section-5m-pocso, victim-testimony, walayar-police-station https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/calcutta-hc-post-revision-composition-section-325-ipc-functus-officio-section-482-crpc-goutam-saha/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T11:32:40+05:30 Calcutta HC Allows Post-Revision Composition After Converting Conviction from Section 326 to Section 325 IPC, Holds Section 482 Power Survives Functus Officio Bar calcutta-hc, composition-of-offence, criminal-revision, functus-officio, inherent-powers, post-conviction-settlement, section-325-ipc, section-326-ipc, section-362-crpc, section-482-crpc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/gulshan-pahuja-criminal-contempt-six-months-imprisonment-delhi-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T11:00:02+05:30 Delhi HC Sentences Contemnor to Six Months' Simple Imprisonment for Scandalising the Court, Finds No Remorse contempt-of-courts-act-1971, contempt-petition, contempt-of-court, delhi-hc, gulshan-pahuja, scandalising-the-court, section-12-contempt, section-19-contempt, section-2c-contempt, sentencing https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/jagdeep-singh-v-state-nct-delhi-burning-effigy-section-307-ipc-discharge-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T10:54:19+05:30 Throwing Burning Effigy at Security Room Is Not Protest, Delhi HC Upholds Section 307 IPC Charge ipc-s-307, burning-effigy-protest, criminal-revision, delhi-hc, demosprudence, discharge-application, mischief-by-fire, section-285-ipc, section-307-ipc, section-436-ipc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/varun-arora-bail-denied-dmat-share-fraud-delhi-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T10:40:02+05:30 No bail to Computer Operator Who Allegedly Forged Signatures to Transfer Shares of Clients Into His Own Account bns-section-318, dmat-fraud, delivery-instruction-slip, regular-bail, delhi-hc, financial-fraud, share-forgery https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kerala-hc-homoeopath-advocate-enrolment-registration-cancellation-manju-gowreesankaram/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T09:25:49+05:30 Kerala HC: Homoeopath Must Cancel Medical Registration Before Enrolling as Advocate advocate-enrolment, advocates-act-1961, article-19-1-g, bar-council-of-kerala, bar-council-of-kerala-rules-1979, dual-profession, homoeopathy-registration, kerala-hc, kerala-state-medical-practitioners-act-2021, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/rajan-babu-murari-thantri-bail-dismissed-kerala-hc-pocso-astrologer-minor-victim/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-20T09:24:45+05:30 Kerala HC Dismisses Bail of Astrologer Accused of Sexual Assault on 16-Year-Old During Ritual Pretext astrologer-accused, bail-dismissed, bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-2023, kerala-hc, kollam, pocso-act, premeditated-offence, regular-bail, section-483-bnss, sexual-assault-minor https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/rajasthan-hc/rajasthan-hc-magistrate-single-order-final-report-protest-petition-devesh-sharma/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T21:20:02+05:30 Rajasthan HC holds Magistrate Must Not Pass Separate Orders on Final Report and Protest Petition cognizance, criminal-misc-petition, final-report-negative, functus-officio, magistrate-procedure, protest-petition, rajasthan-hc, section-173-crpc, section-200-crpc, section-202-crpc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/rajendra-prasad-sharma-vs-state-mp-private-temple-collector-management-writ-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T21:10:02+05:30 MP High Court: State Has No Role in Managing Private Temples, Collector Cannot Be Named Manager in Revenue Records article-226, collector-revenue-records, deity-juristic-person, madhya-pradesh-hc, private-temple-management, pujari-utthan-evam-kalyan-samiti, shebait-rights, state-interference-religion, temple-land, writ-petition https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-stays-tamil-nadu-cyber-crime-wing-twitter-url-blocking-notice-free-speech/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T19:25:04+05:30 Madras HC Stays Tamil Nadu Cyber Crime Wing's Omnibus Twitter Blocking Notice, Orders URL Restoration article-19-free-speech, cyber-crime-wing, intermediary-guidelines, madras-hc, political-speech, section-69a-it-act, section-79-it-act, shreya-singhal, twitter-url-blocking, writ-petition https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/rajasthan-hc/rajasthan-hc-section-223-bnss-public-servant-complaint-tek-chand-prashant-kaushik/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T19:25:02+05:30 Rajasthan HC Holds Section 223 BNSS Safeguards Apply Before Section 175(3) Is Invoked criminal-revision, pre-cognizance-safeguards, public-servant-prosecution, rajasthan-hc, sc-st-act, bnss-s-175, section-223-bnss https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/shambhu-singh-v-state-up-section-133-crpc-public-nuisance-allahabad-hc-2025/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T19:15:02+05:30 Petitioner's Own Admission of Street's Existence Seals Section 133 CrPC Encroachment Order, Rules Allahabad HC allahabad-hc, article-227, criminal-revision, encroachment-removal, kushinagar, nuisance, public-pathway, section-133-crpc, section-137-crpc, sub-divisional-magistrate https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/calcutta-hc-ews-certificate-financial-year-aai-recruitment-deepak-kumar-wpa-8642-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T18:50:04+05:30 Calcutta HC Dismisses Writ Seeking Acceptance of EWS Certificate for Wrong Financial Year in AAI Recruitment airports-authority-of-india, calcutta-hc, ews-certificate, ewscertificate-financial-year, poonam-dwivedi-v-state-of-up, recruitment-eligibility, wpa-8642-2026, writ-of-mandamus https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-hc-quashes-defamation-complaint-fir-contents-newspaper-publication-surinder-sharma-rajesh-kalia/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T18:50:02+05:30 HP High Court Quashes Defamation Complaint: Filing a Police Complaint and Publishing FIR Contents Are Both Protected defamation, fir-publication, himachal-pradesh-hc, joint-complaint, media-law, quashing-petition, section-120b-ipc, section-202-crpc, section-482-crpc, section-500-ipc https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-crpf-constable-divorce-adultery-circumstantial-evidence-cma-2264-2022/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T18:06:21+05:30 Madras HC Grants Divorce to CRPF Constable, Holds Circumstantial Evidence Sufficient to Prove Adultery Under Section 13(1)(i) HMA adultery-divorce, circumstantial-evidence, civil-miscellaneous-appeal, crpf-constable, dissolution-of-marriage, family-court-villupuram, family-courts-act, hindu-marriage-act, madras-hc, section-13-1-i https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kerala-hc-lpg-customer-transfer-policy-2025-dismissed-all-india-lpg-distributors-federation/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T18:03:36+05:30 Kerala HC Dismisses LPG Distributors' Challenge to Oil Companies' 2025 Customer Transfer Policy article-14, article-19, article-31c, article-39, customer-transfer-policy, kerala-hc, legitimate-expectation, lpg-distributorship, oil-marketing-companies, estoppel https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/allahabad-hc-maintenance-revision-enhancement-section-127-crpc-huda-khanam-2025/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T17:56:41+05:30 Allahabad HC: Revision Is Not the Route to Enhance Maintenance; Approach Trial Court Under Section 127 CrPC allahabad-hc, criminal-revision, family-court-rampur, maintenance-enhancement, muslim-personal-law, revisional-jurisdiction, section-125-crpc, section-127-crpc, section-146-bnss, triple-talaq https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/rajasthan-hc/rajasthan-hc-nata-marriage-no-defence-bigamy-divorce-dismissed-laxmilal-parvati/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T16:55:02+05:30 Rajasthan HC Dismisses Divorce Plea of Husband Who Took Second Wife Under 'Nata' Custom, Calls Practice Legally Untenable bigamy, clean-hands-doctrine, cruelty-desertion, divorce-petition, hindu-marriage-act, nata-marriage, rajasthan-hc, section-11-hma, section-13-hma, section-5-hma https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kerala-hc-transman-oocyte-cryopreservation-art-act-hari-devageeth/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T16:00:02+05:30 Kerala HC Directs ART Bank to Cryopreserve Transman's Oocytes, Leaves Constitutional Challenge to Section 21(g) Open art-act-2021, article-21, section-21g-art-act, transgender-persons-protection-of-rights-act-2019, gender-identity, kerala-hc, oocyte-cryopreservation, reproductive-rights, transgender-rights, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/abdul-rashid-sheikh-engineer-rashid-interim-bail-father-demise-nia-delhi-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T15:50:06+05:30 Delhi HC Grants Engineer Rashid Interim Bail Until 2 June to Perform Father's Last Rites in Srinagar abdul-rashid-sheikh, baramulla-mp, national-investigation-agency, nia-case-2-2018, bnss-s-528, uapa, bail-conditions, delhi-hc, engineer-rashid, interim-bail https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/sa-enterprises-vs-indian-overseas-bank-account-freezing-allahabad-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-19T14:57:04+05:30 Bank Cannot Freeze Account on Its Own Suspicion: Allahabad HC Orders De-Freezing, Imposes ₹50,000 Cost on Indian Overseas Bank allahabad-hc, article-21-constitution, bank-account-freezing, banking-law, de-freezing-of-bank-account, indian-overseas-bank, pmla, right-to-livelihood, section-12-pmla, writ-petition-civil