24 articles tagged with Writ Petition Civil. Latest first.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has upheld Para 5.5 of the State's Sub-Scheme for CBSE Affiliated Schools of Excellence, holding that creation of a dedicated CBSE Teachers Sub-Cadre and selection of in-service teachers by written test and counselling is a valid policy choice that does not violate Articles 14 or 16.
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.
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.
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.
A division bench of the Karnataka High Court has quashed a 2025 State circular that excluded transgender candidates from applying to constabulary posts under the Reserve Police Constabulary recruitment, holding that the circular was inconsistent with NALSA and with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
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