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 https://www.legalrepublic.in/everyday-law/online-shopping-fraud/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T09:11:08+05:30 Online shopping fraud — your two-track remedy https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/ndps-charas-identified-by-burning-not-proof-two-acquitted-after-twenty-two-years/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:50:57+05:30 An officer who burnt a piece of the seizure and called it charas did not prove what the substance was acquittal, ndps act https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/rajbhasha-adhikari-promotion-old-rules-no-vested-right-raj-kumar-applied/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:46:00+05:30 Hindi translators cannot claim promotion under the rules that existed when the vacancies arose service jurisprudence, promotion https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/partition-suit-alienation-legal-necessity-trial-court-decree-restored/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:40:58+05:30 An unproved allegation about a father's habits was not enough to undo a sale, and the trial court's decree is restored partition suit, property https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/motor-accident-claim-territorial-jurisdiction-section-166-chennai-to-chittoor/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:35:56+05:30 A claimant who lives in Chittoor and was injured in Tirupati cannot file his claim in Chennai motor vehicles act, motor accident claims https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/laterite-stone-never-recovered-never-shown-to-doctor-murder-convictions-set-aside/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:31:15+05:30 The 53 kg stone said to have killed the man was never recovered and never shown to the doctor circumstantial evidence, acquittal https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/witness-who-said-nothing-that-night-acquittal-affirmed-himachal-double-murder/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:25:56+05:30 He reached the bodies within two hours and said nothing about two men with sticks looking for them circumstantial evidence, interested witness https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-37-appeal-cannot-be-remitted-to-arbitral-tribunal-as-section-17-application/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:20:59+05:30 Even with both sides consenting, a Section 37 appeal cannot be handed to the arbitral tribunal as a Section 17 application arbitration, jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/kaapa-detention-upheld-illegible-documents-claim-rejected-on-perusal/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:15:58+05:30 The pages said to be too blurred to answer were read in court, and found perfectly legible habeas corpus, preventive detention https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/specific-performance-1980-sauda-receipt-first-appeal-allowed-after-forty-six-years/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:10:59+05:30 A 1980 sauda receipt, a suit dismissed in 2002, and a first appeal decided in 2026 in the buyer's favour specific performance, specific relief act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/goonda-detention-quashed-grounds-outside-district-bail-conditions-not-considered/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:05:56+05:30 Two of the three cases were from outside the District Magistrate's own district, and the detention order never explained why that mattered preventive detention, public order https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/mutation-refused-three-revenue-orders-set-aside-article-227-bhoomiswami/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T01:01:06+05:30 Three revenue orders refusing to mutate a 2010 sale deed are set aside, and so is a fourth passed behind the buyers' backs article 227, mutation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/pitndps-detention-set-aside-inordinate-delay-bail-cancellation-no-substitute/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:55:56+05:30 The delay in issuing the detention order was never explained, and that alone undid it habeas corpus, preventive detention https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-hc/constable-selection-restored-non-disclosure-no-one-size-fits-all-formula/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:51:10+05:30 Twelve years after his selection was cancelled, a constable gets the job back with seniority but no arrears service jurisprudence, non disclosure https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/chhattisgarh-hc/secl-arbitration-award-severed-pendente-lite-interest-bank-guarantee-set-aside/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:46:02+05:30 Interest on a bank guarantee that was never encashed is cut out of the award, and the rest of it stands arbitration https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/section-69-indian-succession-act-marriage-revokes-will-christians-upheld/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:41:01+05:30 A Christian's Will is still revoked by his marriage, and a Hindu's is not, and that difference survives Article 14 article 14, personal law https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madhya-pradesh-hc/madhya-pradesh-obc-reservation-27-percent-amendment-act-2019-struck-down/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:36:00+05:30 Madhya Pradesh's increase of OBC reservation from 14 to 27 per cent is struck down, and the 1983 report it rested on is held too old to carry it reservation https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/settlement-commission-finality-assessing-officer-cannot-reopen-section-245d/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:31:27+05:30 Once the Settlement Commission has spoken, the Assessing Officer cannot reopen the same years section 80ib https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/rpf-security-commissioner-acquitted-approver-corroboration-diary-entry/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:25:58+05:30 Two accomplices propping each other up is not corroboration, and a diary put the officer on a train prevention of corruption act, approver evidence https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/pocso-presumption-sections-29-30-cannot-tilt-appreciation-of-evidence-acquittal/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:21:05+05:30 The POCSO presumption shifts the onus, it does not tilt how a court reads the evidence acquittal, pocso act https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/truck-repossessed-without-notice-rs-10-lakh-compensation-rbi-directed/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:16:04+05:30 A truck taken away in the night cost the financier Rs 10 lakh, and the RBI was told its circulars exist only on paper right to livelihood, reserve bank of india https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/maharashtra-poisons-rules-methanol-bitterant-colourant-struck-down-articles-14-19/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:11:05+05:30 Making industrial methanol bitter and blue was no answer to a hooch tragedy, and the rules fell under Articles 14 and 19 article 19, delegated legislation https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/deposit-is-not-payment-arbitral-award-interest-law-commission-reference/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:05:58+05:30 A deposit is not a payment: the award-debtor pays interest until the money actually reaches the creditor civil procedure, arbitration https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/section-92-cpc-no-interim-orders-before-leave-high-court-conflict-settled/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-13T00:01:13+05:30 A Section 92 suit gets no interim protection before leave, but a court may grant leave without notice when it is urgent civil procedure, interim relief https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/union-appeals-disabled-soldiers-entitlement-rules-2008-suspect-legality/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:55:57+05:30 The Union could not show how the 2008 Entitlement Rules were made, and its appeals against disabled soldiers failed burden of proof, limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/section-175-3-bnss-three-requirements-order-directing-investigation-set-aside-guidelines/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:51:10+05:30 Three things a magistrate must do before ordering an investigation — and an order that did none of them criminal procedure https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/magistrate-cannot-conduct-mini-trial-refuse-fir-on-ground-dispute-is-civil-chengalpattu/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:46:06+05:30 “Civil in nature” is not a reason to refuse an FIR — a magistrate who held a mini trial exceeded his jurisdiction criminal procedure, criminal revision https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/dowry-death-acquittal-what-was-the-last-demand-who-made-it-and-when-section-304b/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:41:12+05:30 Four questions a dowry death prosecution has to answer — and a case that answered none of them benefit of doubt, dowry death https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/death-reference-answered-in-negative-altered-inquest-records-dgp-inquiry-ordered/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:31:47+05:30 Two severed hands, eight altered records, and a death sentence that cannot stand sentencing, murder https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/annapoorna-annapurna-interim-injunction-made-absolute-snacks-namkeens-blended-spices/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:31:44+05:30 ANNAPOORNA against ANNAPURNA: an injunction is made absolute, and an undertaking shapes its edges commercial suit https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/madras-hc/school-correspondent-conviction-confirmed-sexual-assault-wrongful-confinement-locked-room/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:26:00+05:30 Age sixty-one and a position of trust are not mitigation — a school correspondent's conviction is confirmed pocso act, sentencing https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/midc-eviction-upheld-illegal-subletting-order-did-not-travel-beyond-show-cause-notice/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:21:07+05:30 The notice said subletting and so did the order — an industrial plot eviction survives Article 227 article 227, eviction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/partition-suit-rejected-order-vii-rule-11-will-left-unchallenged-limitation-expired/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:16:10+05:30 You cannot sue for partition while leaving the Will that defeats you unchallenged partition suit, limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/findings-perverse-circumstantial-chain-incomplete-acquittal-after-twenty-four-years/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:11:12+05:30 A girl who vanished in 2002, a life sentence in 2013, and an acquittal in 2026 circumstantial evidence, acquittal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/divorce-decree-affirmed-permanent-alimony-of-rs-20-lakh-in-four-instalments-jamshedpur/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:06:02+05:30 The divorce stands, but it comes with Rs 20 lakh — a wife with no other income gets permanent alimony matrimonial dispute, maintenance https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/wife-appeal-allowed-marriage-dissolved-maintenance-left-open-for-the-children/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T23:01:27+05:30 She asked for the divorce and nothing else — the Court grants it and tells her the children can still claim desertion, special marriage act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/contractor-granted-twelve-per-cent-interest-on-delayed-payments-kuttiyadi-kseb-rfa/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T22:56:01+05:30 Delays from 1988, a suit in 1996, a decree in 2005 and interest finally awarded in 2026 civil first appeal, damages https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/cidco-impleadment-refused-agent-of-the-state-section-113-3a-mrtp-land-acquisition-appeals/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-12T22:51:08+05:30 Paying the compensation does not make you a party — CIDCO is refused impleadment in land acquisition appeals land acquisition, mrtp act