https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/section-66-2-pmla-information-makes-fir-registration-obligatory-special-team-enquiry-set-aside/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T14:11:02+05:30 When the Enforcement Directorate hands the State a report under Section 66(2), that report is the preliminary enquiry — and the police must register the FIR writ of mandamus, prevention of corruption act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/basement-buyer-keeps-society-membership-and-the-secretary-in-an-unauthorised-flat-is-deprecated/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T14:05:59+05:30 The society's secretary lives in an unauthorised flat himself, wanted the basement owner to pay for the TDR that saved it, and then argued the basement deserved nothing transferable development rights, unauthorised construction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/whether-every-promoter-allottee-dispute-under-rera-is-non-arbitrable-referred-to-a-larger-bench/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T14:01:08+05:30 Is a builder-buyer arbitration clause worth anything after RERA? The question goes to a larger Bench rather than to a thirty-eighth answer arbitration, rera https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/a-bus-stopped-with-stones-in-1985-convictions-of-2010-affirmed-in-2026-under-section-149/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:55:58+05:30 They let the other passengers off the bus first, then shut the doors on the ones they had come for unlawful assembly, common object https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/government-cannot-wait-for-the-advisory-board-before-deciding-a-detenus-representation/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:51:01+05:30 Three representations went unanswered until the Advisory Board had reported, and that alone made the detention bad in law article 22, preventive detention https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/the-service-birthmark-was-erased-by-the-time-the-pay-anomaly-arose-postal-appeals-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:46:04+05:30 Promotee or direct recruit stopped mattering once they were all Senior Accountants, and the pay gap that opened afterwards has to be closed service jurisprudence, central administrative tribunal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/cross-objection-is-maintainable-in-a-section-260a-income-tax-appeal/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:41:02+05:30 Section 260A says nothing about cross-objections, and the Court has held that silence does not take the right away code of civil procedure, tax law https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/one-third-undivided-share-excluded-from-e-auction-until-the-loan-documents-are-tested/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:35:59+05:30 She says she never took the loan and her signatures were forged, and the house was going to auction as a whole article 300a, forgery https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/a-minority-award-of-six-crore-and-a-nil-majority-award-the-plausible-view-survives/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:31:16+05:30 One arbitrator would have given the contractor ₹6.22 crore and two gave him nothing, and Section 34 does not let a court pick arbitration, government contracts https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/they-left-him-lying-on-the-road-and-the-eyewitness-account-did-not-survive-that/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:25:59+05:30 The eyewitness delayed reporting it and would not let the police lift the body, and 637 days later the State sought leave to appeal acquittal, hostile witness https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/education-department-took-different-positions-on-minority-status-tribunal-appeal-restored/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:21:02+05:30 The Education Department told the Tribunal the school was not a minority institution and its own records said it was natural justice, termination https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/a-surrender-deed-cannot-defeat-a-divorced-wifes-right-of-residence-section-39-transfer-of-property-act/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:16:03+05:30 A brother surrendered his share in the family house, and the one room his divorced wife lives in stayed where it was transfer of property act, maintenance https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/executive-engineers-power-under-section-95a-mhada-upheld-nineteen-tenant-petitions-dismissed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:11:01+05:30 Fifty-seven of eighty-three tenants have already signed and moved out, and the rest say the conditions were never met eviction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/six-years-in-custody-and-the-trial-has-not-begun-because-the-case-property-is-awaited/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T13:05:59+05:30 Arrested in October 2020, and the trial has still not started because the court is waiting for the Muddemal bail, speedy trial https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/a-death-certificate-one-day-wrong-is-not-cheating-or-forgery-prosecution-quashed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-16T12:25:58+05:30 She gave her mother's date of death as the 21st when it was the 20th, and that put her in a criminal court for two years quashing of proceedings, forgery 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