https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/himachal-pradesh-high-court-parole-villagers-objection-cannot-be-sole-ground-life-convict/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T01:21:09+05:30 A hundred and fifty villagers objected in writing. Himachal Pradesh High Court grants the life convict parole anyway writ of mandamus, parole https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/andhra-pradesh-high-court-teaching-associate-regularisation-assistant-professor-from-initial-appointment/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T01:15:51+05:30 Twenty years of teaching on eleven-month contracts: Andhra Pradesh High Court orders regularisation from the date of first appointment regularisation, umadevi https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/allahabad-high-court-article-22-grounds-of-arrest-challenge-ends-with-section-167-stage/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T01:10:55+05:30 A grounds-of-arrest challenge has a shelf life: Allahabad High Court holds Article 22 cannot be invoked once charges are framed article 22, remand https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/orissa-hc/orissa-high-court-cruelty-divorce-upheld-decree-not-rested-on-irretrievable-breakdown/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T01:05:40+05:30 Both sides told the Court they wanted the marriage over. Orissa High Court still refused to rest the decree on that hindu marriage act, cruelty https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/calcutta-high-court-joint-venture-member-silence-article-227-arbitration-intervention-refused/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T01:00:38+05:30 Asked to clarify whether it had authorised the liquidator, a joint venture partner said nothing. Calcutta High Court holds that silence cost it the point arbitration, joint venture https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-high-court-senior-citizens-rules-daughter-in-law-eviction-shared-household-not-indefeasible/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:55:42+05:30 A daughter-in-law's claim to the shared household is not indefeasible: Delhi High Court upholds a mother-in-law's eviction order eviction, senior citizens https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/telangana-hc/telangana-high-court-tahsildar-cannot-validate-chain-of-sada-sales-against-registered-sale-deed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:50:40+05:30 A Tahsildar validated three unregistered sales in one stroke. Telangana High Court sets it aside for displacing a registered deed without notice article 226, sale deed https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/gauhati-hc/gauhati-high-court-ppf-account-cannot-be-frozen-section-102-crpc-cbi-corruption-case/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:45:39+05:30 A bank account can be frozen in a bribery investigation but a provident fund account cannot: Gauhati High Court orders one of three released prevention of corruption act, provident fund https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-high-court-indore-development-authority-town-planning-scheme-169a-release-four-weeks/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:40:38+05:30 Thirteen years of litigation by a development authority ends with a four-week order to release the land it wanted article 226, land acquisition https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/bombay-high-court-navi-mumbai-recreational-open-space-pil-dismissed-transparency-directions/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:35:56+05:30 Bombay High Court dismisses a Navi Mumbai open-space PIL, then tells the civic authorities they cannot play hide and seek with the public public interest litigation, navi mumbai https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/rajasthan-hc/rajasthan-high-court-refuses-bail-five-accused-kanhaiya-lal-murder-najeeb-distinguished/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:30:39+05:30 Four and a half years in custody is not enough: Rajasthan High Court refuses bail to five accused in the Kanhaiya Lal murder UAPA, speedy trial https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/madras-high-court-ambasamudram-election-petition-order-vii-rule-11-rejection-refused-trial-ordered/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:25:39+05:30 A voter can question nominations the rejected candidates never challenged: Madras High Court sends the Ambasamudram election petition to trial order vii rule 11 https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/karnataka-high-court-aicte-qualification-lecturer-removal-upheld-twelve-lakh-in-equity/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:20:47+05:30 The college was entitled to let him go and should never have hired him: Karnataka High Court orders Rs 12 lakh in equity service jurisprudence, high court writ jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/meghalaya-hc/meghalaya-high-court-section-39-vat-scrutiny-quashed-no-section-35-notice-forty-one-quarters/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:15:54+05:30 Sixteen years of VAT scrutiny collapses on a clause nobody had read closely: Meghalaya High Court quashes notices for forty-one quarters high court writ jurisdiction, jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/patna-high-court-rule-52-5-bihar-minor-mineral-interest-capped-at-two-months/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-06T00:11:10+05:30 Interest runs for two months and then the remedy is cancellation: Patna High Court caps what the mining department can recover on a defaulted instalment letters patent appeal, bihar https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-article-22-breach-re-arrest-needs-judicial-imprimatur-superior-endorsement/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T23:20:43+05:30 Supreme Court holds police who breach Article 22 cannot decide on re-arrest themselves, and orders the judgment sent to every DGP article 22, grounds of arrest https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-de-novo-investigation-sit-2012-rape-murder-karnataka-conscience-of-the-court/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T23:15:53+05:30 Supreme Court orders a fresh investigation into a 2012 rape and murder, barring every officer who handled it before special investigation team, further investigation https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-order-xiv-rule-2-preliminary-issue-limitation-mixed-question-suit-restored/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T23:10:37+05:30 Supreme Court faults all three courts below on preliminary issues and sends a suit filed in 2013 back for trial civil procedure, limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-uapa-charge-sheet-extension-restored-default-bail-set-aside-sufficient-material/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T23:06:00+05:30 Supreme Court restores a charge-sheet extension, holding the High Court read one sentence out of context UAPA, default bail https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-sets-aside-ncdrc-fire-insurance-award-surveyors-reports-brushed-aside/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T23:00:58+05:30 Supreme Court sets aside a Rs 2.4 crore fire insurance award that brushed aside both surveyors' reports surveyor, insurance https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-section-28a-land-acquisition-first-appeal-order-cannot-found-redetermination/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T22:55:56+05:30 Supreme Court holds a Section 28A application cannot be founded on a First Appeal order, rejecting a claim filed 40 years on land acquisition, compensation https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-unrelied-documents-charge-framing-section-91-crpc-inspection-cbi/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T22:50:49+05:30 Supreme Court resolves a document fight without choosing between its own precedents, ordering inspection instead of production criminal appeal, charge framing https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/organ-donation-thota/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T09:10:57+05:30 Organ donation in India — who can donate, and the legal process https://www.legalrepublic.in/the-republic/hohfeldian-rights-sloppy-indian-use/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-05T08:25:56+05:30 Hohfeldian Rights and the Sloppy Indian Use of "Right" https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/orissa-hc/orissa-high-court-promissory-estoppel-does-not-apply-to-natural-resources-pricing-vedanta-bauxite/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-03T23:20:55+05:30 Vedanta wanted bauxite at the price promised in a 2003 MoU. The Orissa High Court holds promissory estoppel does not reach the pricing of a national asset writ petition civil, promissory estoppel https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/karnataka-hc/karnataka-high-court-b-report-procedure-guidelines-magistrates-judicial-academy-kaleido-software/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-03T23:15:48+05:30 A Magistrate rejected a 'B' report without saying why. The Karnataka High Court has written down the procedure and sent it to every Magistrate in the State protest petition, vicarious liability https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-high-court-pocso-section-29-presumption-foundational-facts-conviction-set-aside/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-03T23:11:11+05:30 The POCSO presumption does not start working the moment a case is registered: Delhi High Court sets aside a conviction on foundational facts POCSO, acquittal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-high-court-charge-memorandum-rule-14-3-approval-b-v-gopinath-cci-disciplinary/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-03T23:05:54+05:30 The charge issued was the charge approved, give or take a clerical correction: Delhi High Court upholds a CCI memorandum of charge disciplinary proceedings, competition commission of india https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/delhi-high-court-uapa-bail-funding-allegation-chats-not-traced-to-appellant-five-years-custody/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-03T23:01:28+05:30 Asked what tied the incriminating chats to the appellant, the prosecutor said it would be proved later. Delhi High Court grants bail after five years UAPA, speedy trial https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kerala-high-court-stale-promotion-claim-sixteen-years-after-retirement-laches-selection-grade/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-03T22:55:55+05:30 He accepted the promotion in 2001, worked in it and retired. Sixteen years later he asked for an earlier date, and the Kerala High Court says that is too late promotion, cause of action https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/telangana-hc/telangana-high-court-special-tribunal-order-after-death-nullity-pattadar-pass-books-record-of-rights/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-03T22:51:12+05:30 The appellant had died five months before the order was passed in his favour. The Telangana High Court holds the Special Tribunal's order a nullity writ petition civil, high court writ jurisdiction