[ High Courts ]
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has directed UIDAI to process fresh Aadhaar enrollment for two Pune brothers stranded by a years-long biometric mismatch, and laid down eight systemic directions to prevent genuine residents from being shunted between offices without a written, time-bound remedy.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Deepak Khot has quashed a 2014 order that refused a stamp duty refund purely on limitation and held that, absent an express bar, Section 5 of the Limitation Act applies to refund applications under Section 45(2) of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899.
2026-05-12 · 4 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Jai Kumar Pillai of the Indore bench has set aside the suspension of an Indore SHO who registered an FIR naming an IAS officer's farmhouse as the venue of a large gambling raid, finding the order arbitrary, devoid of prima facie material, and tainted by malice in law.
2026-05-12 · 5 min read
[ High Courts ]
Treating illegal encroachment and excavation of Gwalior's hillocks as an existential public-trust question, a division bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has set up a Collector-led, expert-and-citizen committee to fence, afforest and audit every hillock in and around the city.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court has set aside a single judge's direction to revise the CLAT-UG 2026 merit list, holding that the Consortium of National Law Universities' two-tier expert review of the answer key cannot be displaced unless a manifest error is shown on the face of the record.
2026-05-11 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and Mummineni Sudheer Kumar dismissed three writ petitions challenging the 2013 direct recruitment of 23 District Judges (Entry Level), holding that the Selection Committee's discretion was unimpeachable on the material placed and that allegations of suppressed antecedents and inadequate practice against four serving District Judges did not bear scrutiny.
2026-05-11 · 7 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum held that Section 14(2) of the Arms Act, 1959 forbids refusal of a licence on the ground that the applicant does not own property, and that the bar applies with equal force at the renewal stage.
2026-05-11 · 3 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum held that a complete debit freeze of an advocate's account, imposed by a Madhya Pradesh cyber crime station communication without an FIR or material linking the whole balance to a cognizable offence, is disproportionate; the lien now stands confined to the disputed amount.
2026-05-11 · 4 min read