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 https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/waqf-board-must-answer-interrogatories-order-xi-rule-1-waqf-tribunal-kozhikode/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:55:38+05:30 The Waqf Board must answer the questions: interrogatories ordered because they can shorten the litigation tribunals https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/steel-bars-set-off-criminal-case-quashed-pre-eminently-civil-dispute-section-420/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:50:39+05:30 A deposit left behind by a previous owner, a set-off, and fourteen years of criminal process abuse of process, cheating https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/law-perhaps-not-developed-on-correct-lines-recovery-of-excess-payment-rafiq-masih/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:45:39+05:30 “The law, perhaps, has not developed on correct lines”: the Court turns a critical eye on its own rule against recovering overpaid salary article 142, unjust enrichment https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/telangana-hc/revised-layout-restored-open-space-10-12-per-cent-rolling-hills-villa-owners/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:35:53+05:30 Moving the park is not the same as taking it away: a revised villa layout is restored on the numbers judicial review, town planning https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/iti-instructors-regularisation-from-date-posts-sanctioned-arrears-capped-ten-years/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:31:09+05:30 Twelve instructors win permanency after twenty-one years — with arrears for only the last ten service jurisprudence, regularisation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/life-sentence-converted-to-section-304-part-ii-three-years-surrender-after-25-years-on-bail/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:31:05+05:30 Life imprisonment becomes three years — and the appellants must surrender after twenty-five years on bail criminal appeal, sentencing https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/section-10-cpc-applications-frivolous-vexatious-costs-rs-25000-each-commercial-division/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:26:16+05:30 Not a party to the earlier suit, and not litigating under the same title: two stay applications cost Rs 25,000 each civil procedure, costs https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/sub-registrar-is-a-victim-fir-forgery-sale-deed-not-quashed-on-compromise/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:26:12+05:30 The Sub-Registrar is a victim, not a bystander: a forged sale deed cannot be compromised away quashing petition, forgery https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/section-84-multi-state-cooperative-societies-act-arbitrator-multiple-references-no-disqualification/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:26:09+05:30 Appointed for many disputes from one bank: an arbitrator under Section 84 is not disqualified by volume arbitration, writ jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/rs-25000-compensation-on-rs-15000-cheque-not-excessive-section-138-ni-act/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T19:20:39+05:30 Rs 25,000 on a Rs 15,000 cheque is not excessive — the interest and the lawyer had to be paid for too cheque dishonour, negotiable instruments act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/managing-trustee-discharged-drugs-and-cosmetics-act-no-averment-beyond-designation/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T02:10:59+05:30 Thirty-four years after a cataract operation went wrong, a hospital's managing trustee is discharged quashing petition, vicarious liability https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/himachal-pradesh-hc/acquittal-reversed-passenger-on-apple-boxes-rash-driving-section-304a-fagu-curve/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T02:05:40+05:30 Letting a man ride on the apple boxes was itself the negligence: an acquittal is reversed after nineteen years rash and negligent driving, acquittal appeal https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/kerala-hc/rule-120-ksr-not-absolute-bar-pension-arrears-beyond-three-years-head-of-office-duty/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T01:55:44+05:30 The three-year bar on pension arrears is not absolute — and the Head of Office had his own duty to perform article 227, retiral benefits https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/calcutta-hc/slst-protest-fir-quashed-section-332-ipc-not-attracted-park-street-case/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T00:45:42+05:30 “Being punished for the protest”: an FIR against job seekers outside the MLA Hostel is quashed in full quashing petition, writ jurisdiction https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/rule-4-original-side-rules-written-statement-120-days-referred-to-larger-bench/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T00:40:46+05:30 Three Division Benches said 120 days is the end of it — a fourth has asked a Larger Bench to decide civil procedure, limitation https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/delhi-hc/advocate-restored-to-roll-proviso-section-26-1-advocates-act-fraud-must-secure-enrolment/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-11T00:36:00+05:30 Restored to the roll and censured in the same judgment: the fraud must be what got you enrolled advocates act, legal profession https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/allahabad-hc/dowry-fir-quashed-omnibus-allegations-particularity-bns-section-85-allahabad/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-10T20:41:08+05:30 Precise figures, no particulars: an FIR that named sums but not who demanded them is quashed matrimonial dispute, dowry prohibition act https://www.legalrepublic.in/high-courts/bombay-hc/arrest-vitiated-written-grounds-of-arrest-section-47-bnss-article-22-aurangabad/ LegalRepublic.inen 2026-10-10T20:31:20+05:30 Arrest vitiated: a notice naming the crime number and the sections is not the grounds of arrest article 22, grounds of arrest