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The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that an employer cannot appoint an independent inquiry officer for sexual harassment allegations, quashing a university professor's termination order and directing reinstatement.
2026-05-22 · 8 min read
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A PIL challenged the removal of the National Emblem at Itwari Bazar, Betul; the Jabalpur bench directed the Municipal Corporation to reinstall it with full respect after construction work is completed.
2026-05-21 · 3 min read
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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.
2026-05-20 · 6 min read
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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.
2026-05-19 · 7 min read
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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.
2026-05-12 · 4 min read
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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
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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
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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
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Justice Gajendra Singh held that 28 NCRP complaints under investigation cannot satisfy Section 111 BNS’s pre-condition of more than one prior charge-sheet in the past ten years; the trial court was directed to instead consider Section 112 BNS on petty organised crime.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read