https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/bmc-cannot-waive-statutory-tdr-compensation-by-contract-vijay-nagar-apartments/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T14:30:56+05:30 BMC Cannot Contract Away a Landowner's Statutory Right to Amenity TDR, Supreme Court Holds article-300a, brihanmumbai-municipal-corporation, development-control-regulations, mrtp-act, amenity-tdr, delay-and-laches, land-acquisition, property-rights, transferable-development-rights, waiver https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/parvinder-singh-v-directorate-of-enforcement-bnss-section-223-pmla-cognizance/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T13:17:51+05:30 PMLA Cognizance Without Hearing Accused Is Void, Supreme Court Holds Under BNSS Section 223 article-21, bnss-section-223, directorate-of-enforcement, pmla, cognizance, criminal-procedure, fair-trial, right-to-be-heard, special-court 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/high-courts/punjab-haryana-hc/gulab-singh-v-state-haryana-section-138-ni-act-sentence-reduced-proportionate-sentencing/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T21:19:27+05:30 Punjab & Haryana HC Reduces Section 138 Sentence, Flags Rs. 5,000-Per-Day Cost of Liberty as Disproportionate article-14-constitution, ni-act-s-138, compensation-enhancement, criminal-revision, proportionate-sentencing, punjab-haryana-high-court, section-138-negotiable-instruments-act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/shatrughan-kumar-ncb-ndps-cognizance-bnss-section-223-allahabad-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T21:15:27+05:30 Allahabad HC Sets Aside NDPS Cognizance Order for Skipping Mandatory Pre-Cognizance Hearing Under BNSS Section 223 allahabad-hc, bnss-section-223, cognizance-order, lucknow-bench, narcotics-control-bureau, ndps-act, pmla-section-44, pre-cognizance-hearing, section-36a-ndps, special-court https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/reliance-bio-energy-summoning-stayed-allahabad-hc-bnss-528-caaqm-act/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T21:10:44+05:30 Allahabad HC Stays Trial Proceedings Against Reliance Bio Energy Over CAAQM Act Summoning bnss-section-528, caaqm-act-2021, cjm-hapur, reliance-bio-energy, section-14-2, uppcb, allahabad-hc, environment-compensation, quashing-petition, summoning-order https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc/rakesh-kumar-bail-pocso-bnss-482-prosecutrix-married-petitioner-jk-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T21:05:43+05:30 J&K High Court Grants Anticipatory Bail Under POCSO After Prosecutrix Marries Accused, Recants FIR anticipatory-bail, army-personnel, bail-conditions, bnss-section-482, fir-quashment, jammu-kashmir-ladakh-hc, pocso-act, prosecutrix-recantation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/jharkhand-hc/richa-priya-jharkhand-state-bar-council-enrolment-certificate-writ-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T21:00:52+05:30 Jharkhand HC Orders Bar Council to Enrol Law Graduate Whose Certificate Was Withheld After She Joined High Court as Law Researcher advocates-act, bar-council-enrolment, enrolment-certificate, jharkhand-hc, jharkhand-state-bar-council, law-researcher-high-court, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/patna-hc-muzaffarpur-crop-loss-compensation-three-member-committee-sanjay-kumar-v-state-of-bihar/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T21:00:05+05:30 Patna HC Directs Three-Member Committee to Identify Left-Out Muzaffarpur Farmers for Kharif 2025 Crop Loss Compensation bihar, agriculture-department-bihar, article-21-livelihood, crop-loss-compensation, direct-benefit-transfer, kharif-2025, muzaffarpur, patna-hc, three-member-committee, writ-petition-civil https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/patna-hc/pitamber-jha-pay-verification-cell-patna-hc-2026/ LegalRepublic.in en 2026-05-21T20:51:10+05:30 Patna HC Sets Aside Pay Verification Certificate Issued 12 Years After Retirement, Orders Refund bihar-education-department, lalit-narayan-mithila-university, natural-justice, patna-hc, pay-verification-cell, post-retirement-recovery, service-jurisprudence, statutory-pay-fixation-committee, university-employees, writ-petition-civil 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