20 articles tagged with Article 226. Latest first.
A Division Bench set aside a District Magistrate's order refusing parole to a life convict, holding that unsubstantiated apprehension of village unrest is no ground to deny temporary release under the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners Act.
Pabindra Kumar Das served Paschim Bonbhag High School since 1991 against leave and retired vacancies, received no salary after 2005, and later worked as a cook for the school’s mid-day meal programme.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore set aside two termination orders and a demotion order, holding that stigma-based dismissal without a formal departmental inquiry violates natural justice.
A Division Bench found that seven vacant Type-IV quarters exceeded eligible officers on the relevant date, making the petitioner ineligible for HRA under applicable Railway circulars.
Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy quashed CDI Case No.12/1998 after 28 years of unexplained departmental inaction, directing release of all retiral benefits to a 90-year-old retired employee within three months, with 6% interest on any delayed payment.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed a Collector’s order constituting a five-member committee to manage a private Shiv temple, directing the Chief Secretary to implement Supreme Court guidelines on temple management across all districts of the State.
The Srinagar bench dismissed a habeas corpus petition challenging a Public Safety Act detention order, rejecting arguments on mechanical application of mind, non-supply of material, and the constitutional validity of PSA adaptations post-reorganisation.
A Division Bench of Justices Maheshwari and Chandurkar overturns an Allahabad High Court order that had frozen a chargesheet, directing an SIT to probe repeated fraudulent land sales by rival factions of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation of India.
Justice C. Jayachandran held that a District Collector cannot use Section 30(2)(v) of the Disaster Management Act to issue a stop memo against a private developer, and that a 2-to-3 metre dip in groundwater does not satisfy the emergency threshold under Section 26(2).
A division bench led by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu, applying the Wednesbury test, found a reasonably palpable apprehension of political vendetta in the timing of a PPCB raid on Trident Limited and directed that no coercive steps be taken without first granting the company a 30-day window to cure deficiencies.
Justice Milind Ramesh Phadke directed the Settlement Commissioner to wrap up ceiling proceedings under the MP Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 that the Board of Revenue had remanded with a four-month deadline back in 2012 and which have remained pending ever since.
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has partly allowed about 100 writ petitions filed by Zilla Parishad employees, quashing suspension orders, FIR proposals and salary-stoppage actions, while permitting the State's State-wide medical re-verification of disability certificates to proceed as a strictly regulated one-time measure.
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