https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/manjula-v-da-srinivas-benami-act-plaint-rejection-confiscation-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Supreme Court sets aside Karnataka HC order, declares benami transactions barred and properties liable to confiscation benami-act, civil-appeal, confiscation, cpc-o-7, hindu-succession-act, jb-pardiwala-j, prohibition-of-benami-property-transactions-act, property-law, r-mahadevan-j https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-the-supreme-court-s-nine-judge-verdict-in-puttaswamy/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Privacy Is a Fundamental Right: The Supreme Court's Nine-Judge Verdict in Puttaswamy aadhaar, article-21, basic-structure, constitution-bench, data-protection, fundamental-rights, international-law, judicial-review, proportionality, pwbd-act, right-to-dignity, right-to-privacy https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/sc-section-175-bnss-magistrate-direction-fir-merits/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Supreme Court holds that magistrates cannot direct FIR registration without examining the complaint on merits bnss-s-175, criminal-procedure, fir-procedure, judicial-application-of-mind, lalita-kumari-doctrine, magistrate-jurisdiction, section-156-3-crpc, supreme-court https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/scotus-pwbd-act-compliance-nlu-mapping/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Supreme Court tightens disability rights enforcement, hands NLUs a compliance audit role compliance, constitutional-law, disability-rights, pil, pwbd-act, reservation, sandeep-mehta-j, vikram-nath-j https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/shreya-singhal-v-union-of-india-supreme-court-strikes-down-section-66a-of-the-it-act/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Supreme Court strikes down Section 66A of the IT Act as unconstitutionally vague and a disproportionate curb on free speech article-19-1-a, constitutional-law, intermediary-liability, it-act, j-chelameswar-j, judicial-review, r-f-nariman-j, section-66a, writ-petition-criminal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/allahabad-hc-clat-ug-2026-answer-key-consortium-avneesh-gupta/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Allahabad High Court restores CLAT-UG 2026 answer key, rules judicial review in academic matters is narrow academic-matters, allahabad-hc, answer-key, article-226, clat, constitutional-law, judicial-review, letters-patent-appeal, ran-vijay-singh, siddhi-sandeep-ladda https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/allahabad-hc-orders-release-slaps-10-lakh-cost-on-u-p-for-arrest-without-written-grounds/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Allahabad HC Orders Release, Slaps ₹10 Lakh Cost on U.P. for Arrest Without Written Grounds allahabad-hc, article-21, article-22, bnss-s-47, constitutional-law, criminal-law, crpc-s-50, habeas-corpus, uttar-pradesh, wrongful-arrest https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/andhra-pradesh-hc-order-21-rule-58-claim-petition-numbering-anakapalli/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Andhra Pradesh High Court orders Anakapalli court to number claim petition returned thrice at registration stage access-to-justice, andhra-pradesh-hc, article-227, civil-procedure, civil-revision, cpc, execution-proceedings, order-21-rule-58, registry-objections https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/high-court-on-its-own-motion-vs-state-of-maharashtraslumsact-672737/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Bombay High Court orders performance audit of Maharashtra Slum Act, calls 55-year record into question article-21, bombay-hc, constitutional-law, maharashtra-slum-act, pil, right-to-shelter, specific-relief-act, town-planning, urban-housing, yash-developers https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/rohit-bandu-nikalje-vs-the-regional-officer-uidai-672694/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Bombay High Court orders fresh Aadhaar enrollment for twins stuck in biometric-mismatch limbo, issues eight directions to UIDAI aadhaar, article-21, article-226, bombay-hc, constitutional-law, right-to-privacy, right-to-dignity, uidai, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/santosh-hiraman-lashkare-vs-state-of-maharashtra-672906/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Bombay High Court regulates Maharashtra's pan-State re-verification of disability certificates of Zilla Parishad employees article-226, bombay-hc, maharashtra-government, natural-justice, persons-with-disabilities, rpwd-act-2016, service-jurisprudence, udid, writ-petition-civil, zilla-parishad https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/highcourtorder-1-672962/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Delhi High Court grants ex-parte injunction shielding boAt co-founder Aman Gupta from deepfakes, merch and impersonation ai-impersonation, article-21, commercial-suit, deepfake, delhi-hc, intermediary-liability, order-39-rule-1, personality-rights, publicity-rights, right-to-privacy, section-12a-commercial-courts-act, trademark-infringement https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/gauhati-hc-oriental-insurance-fake-policy-mact-modified/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Gauhati High Court trims insurer's liability after fake motor policy unravels at appeal fraud-on-court, gauhati-hc, mact, motor-accident-claim-appeal, motor-vehicles-act, mv-act-s-173, narayan-singh-2025, oriental-insurance, rajendra-singh, third-party-insurance https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/dalel-singh-672583/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Himachal Pradesh High Court upholds bus driver's 304A conviction, rejects Section 81 'lesser harm' defence criminal-law, criminal-revision, crpc-s-397, himachal-pradesh-hc, ipc-s-279, ipc-s-304a, ipc-s-337, ipc-s-81, probation-of-offenders-act, rash-and-negligent-driving https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/joint-teachers-672832/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Himachal Pradesh HC upholds CBSE sub-cadre scheme; teachers' challenge to written-test deployment dismissed article-14, article-16, article-162, cadre-restructuring, constitutional-law, education-policy, himachal-pradesh-hc, nep-2020, service-jurisprudence, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc/display-89-672713/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 J&K High Court restores Srinagar lessees' 1981 ownership claim, faults Roshni Act detour article-14, constitutional-law, jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc, land-law, legitimate-expectation, letters-patent-appeal, nazool-land, roshni-act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc/jammu-kashmir-hc-charge-allowance-recovery-deputation-lpa-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 J&K High Court upholds quashing of charge-allowance recovery against deputed education officer charge-allowance, deputation, jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc, jk-csr, letters-patent-appeal, recovery-of-payments, regulation-87-csr, service-jurisprudence https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/lpa-no-64-of-2020-672602/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Jharkhand High Court dismisses LPAs by reserved-category aspirants who missed online-form caste-certificate rule article-14, article-16, caste-certificate, jharkhand-hc, jpsc, jssc, letters-patent-appeal, ram-kumar-gijroya, reservation, service-jurisprudence https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/3-3-672706/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Karnataka High Court limits police debit freeze of advocate's bank account to disputed Rs. 60,000 article-19-1-g, article-226, article-300a, constitutional-law, criminal-investigation, cyber-crime, debit-freeze, karnataka-hc, proportionality, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/karnataka-hc-arms-licence-renewal-agricultural-land-quashed/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Karnataka HC quashes refusal to renew firearm licence over lack of agricultural land administrative-law, arms-act-1959, arms-act-s-14, arms-act-s-15, arms-rules-2016, article-226, karnataka-hc, manifest-arbitrariness, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/karnataka-hc-trans-rights-rpc-recruitment-circular-quashed/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Karnataka High Court strikes down State circular barring transgender candidates from RPC recruitment article-14, article-15, article-21, karnataka-hc, nalsa-doctrine, recruitment-rules, service-jurisprudence, transgender-persons-act, transgender-rights, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/hiralal-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-672755/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Madhya Pradesh High Court sets aside organised-crime charge under Section 111 BNS in Indore cyber-fraud case bns-s-111, bns-s-112, bnss, criminal-law, criminal-revision, cyber-fraud, framing-of-charges, madhya-pradesh-hc, organised-crime https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/lokendera-singh-hihore-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-672661/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Madhya Pradesh High Court quashes vindictive suspension of police SHO who raided IAS officer's gambling den alternative-remedy, article-226, madhya-pradesh-hc, mala-fides, mp-cca-rules-1966, police-discipline, service-jurisprudence, suspension, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/mp-hc-gwalior-hillocks-pil-committee/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Madhya Pradesh High Court orders ten-member committee to save Gwalior's hillocks from land mafia afforestation, article-226, environmental-law, gwalior, madhya-pradesh-hc, mp-municipal-corporation-act, pil, public-trust-doctrine, social-audit, urban-governance https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/ms-betul-town-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-672902/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Madhya Pradesh High Court reads Section 5 of the Limitation Act into stamp duty refund applications article-226, article-265, article-300a, constitutional-law, indian-stamp-act, limitation-act, madhya-pradesh-hc, section-5-limitation-act, stamp-duty-refund, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-hc-district-judge-2013-selection-bharathirajan-kannan-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Madras High Court upholds 2013 District Judge selection, dismisses challenge to viva voce and to four sitting Judges' eligibility article-226, avtar-singh, delay-and-laches, district-judge-recruitment, madras-hc, non-disclosure-criminal-antecedents, service-jurisprudence, tamil-nadu-judicial-service, viva-voce-discretion, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/rajadurai-lingam-v-state-672920/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Madras High Court quashes POCSO case against Tamil teacher, calls it scolding turned accusation bhajan-lal-guidelines, bnss-s-528, criminal-law, crpc-s-482, ipc-s-506, madras-hc, pocso, pocso-s-7, pocso-s-8, quashing-petition https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/patna-hc-shyam-bihari-mishra-divorce-adultery-pleadings-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Patna High Court refuses divorce on vague adultery plea, affirms Family Court dismissal in ex parte matrimonial appeal adultery, desertion, ex-parte-decree, family-law, hindu-marriage-act, matrimonial-appeal, patna-hc, pleadings, section-13-hma https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/telangana-hc/54-sri-naralasetty-672887/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Telangana High Court clears the way for Sharjah money decree to be executed in India civil-revision, cpc, execution-of-decree, foreign-decree, private-international-law, reciprocating-territory, section-13-cpc, section-44a-cpc, telangana-hc, uae https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/telangana-hc/telangana-hc-contempt-stay-order-communication-directions/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Telangana HC closes contempt case against Sub-Inspector but issues sweeping directions on communicating stay orders contempt-of-courts-act, contempt-petition, criminal-procedure, judicial-orders-compliance, public-prosecutor, stay-order, telangana-hc, willful-disobedience https://www.legalrepublic.in/tribunals/ngt/ngt-maharashtra-cement-plant-ec-violation-construction-halt/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 NGT halts construction at Maharashtra cement plant for failing to obtain Environmental Clearance for capacity expansion cement-industry, eia-notification, environment, environmental-clearance, maharashtra-pcb, ngt, original-application-ngt, polluter-pays-principle, precautionary-principle https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/cheque-bounce-section-138-ni-act-procedure-india/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 What to do when a cheque bounces — your rights under Section 138 of the NI Act bank-return-memo, section-138-ni-act, legal-notice, lok-adalat, money-recovery, ni-act, summary-trial https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/basic-structure-doctrine-fifty-years-on/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 The basic-structure doctrine, fifty years on: an instrument that outgrew its purpose article-368, basic-structure, constitutional-law, doctrinal-essay, judicial-review https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/master-of-roster-power-judicial-administration-india/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 The master of the roster: a power that grew while no one was watching bench-formation, chief-justice-of-india, four-judges-press-conference, judicial-administration, judicial-independence, master-of-roster, structural-doctrine, supreme-court https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/strict-liability-after-bhopal/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Strict liability after Bhopal: what Rylands couldn't hold absolute-liability, bhopal-gas-disaster, doctrinal-essay, environmental-law, law-of-torts, mc-mehta, strict-liability https://www.legalrepublic.in/dissent/khanna-adm-jabalpur-fifty-years/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 What Khanna saw: the lone dissent that outlived the Court that wrote it adm-jabalpur, article-21, civil-liberties, emergency, h-r-khanna, habeas-corpus, preventive-detention https://www.legalrepublic.in/dissent/subba-rao-sajjan-singh-the-dissent-that-built-kesavananda/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Subba Rao in Sajjan Singh: the dissent that drew the line eight years before Kesavananda did article-368, basic-structure, constitutional-amendments, fundamental-rights, k-subba-rao, sajjan-singh, seventeenth-amendment https://www.legalrepublic.in/legal-buzz/bombay-hc-three-new-judges-may-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Three new judges appointed to Bombay High Court bombay-hc, judicial-appointments, high-court-vacancies, judicial-appointment, molj-notification https://www.legalrepublic.in/legal-buzz/seven-hc-judges-transferred-may-2026-notification/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-12T14:30:04+05:30 Centre notifies transfer of seven High Court judges across five High Courts bombay-hc, calcutta-hc, judicial-appointments, judicial-transfer, madras-hc, molj-notification, punjab-haryana-hc, telangana-hc