[ High Courts ]
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.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
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).
2026-05-12 · 4 min read
[ High Courts ]
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.
2026-05-12 · 4 min read