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Justice Garima Prashad found the Family Court's maintenance quantum unjust and its effective date manifestly erroneous, remanding the matter for fresh adjudication within six months.
The Supreme Court found Kerala's affidavit on FIR non-registration thoroughly unsatisfactory and directed the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ernakulam, to appear personally on 15 May 2026.
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 th
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 with
A division bench led by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha dismissed the State's acquittal appeal in the Tadmetla / Chintalnar case, finding the prosecution had failed to identify the accused, produce an FSL report on the seized explosives, or cond
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 whic
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
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 be
Justice L. Victoria Gowri at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has quashed a POCSO prosecution against a school teacher, holding that a classroom scolding cannot be converted into a sexual offence and that the child herself, examin
A division bench of the Patna High Court has dismissed a husband's appeal seeking divorce, holding that a vague allegation of adultery without naming the alleged paramour, without specific dates and places, and without impleading him cannot
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
A division bench of the Jharkhand High Court, led by Chief Justice M.S. Sonak with Justice Rajesh Shankar, has dismissed twenty Letters Patent Appeals filed by SC, ST, BC-I and BC-II candidates who failed to enter the particulars of their S
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 mat
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 b
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 au
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 B
Justice Tushar Rao Gedela has restrained 45 named and unknown defendants and directed Meta, YouTube and X to take down 73 listed URLs, after the Shark Tank India judge complained of unauthorised merchandise, AI chatbots impersonating him, d
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra Government to constitute an Expert Committee within four weeks to audit the working of the Maharashtra Slum Areas Act, 1971, finding that despite five decades of operati
A division bench dismissed the J&K Board of School Education's intra-court appeal, holding that an officer asked to perform the plenary duties of a higher post outside his cadre had to be compensated — whether the payment was labelled charg
A division bench at Srinagar held that long-standing Nazool lessees at Kothibagh were lawful occupants governed by the 1981 Government Order, not the struck-down Roshni Act, and directed parity with Hotel Ahdoos within three months.
Justice Rakesh Kainthla dismissed Dalel Singh's revision against concurrent convictions under Sections 279, 337 and 304A IPC, holding that swerving a bus to save one cyclist while crushing two motorcyclists cannot be sheltered by Section 81
Justice Ravi Nath Tilhari held that a trial court cannot conduct a 'mini-trial' on title at the numbering stage of an Order 21 Rule 58 CPC claim petition, and pulled up the Anakapalli court for ignoring binding directions in Gorripati Veera
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 displa
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 unimpea
Justice Juvvadi Sridevi held that no willful disobedience was made out where a Sub-Inspector filed a charge sheet without knowledge of a stay, but used the occasion to lay down a ten-point protocol binding both petitioners and the Public Pr
A division bench of the Telangana High Court has held that a Federal Court of Sharjah decree directing repayment of about AED 9.71 lakh is a conclusive judgment under Section 13 of the CPC and executable in India under Section 44A, rejectin
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 dispro
Justice Yarenjungla Longkumer holds that fraud unravels even an unchallenged MACT award: the offending oil tanker was uninsured on the date of the 2011 accident, so the insurer keeps Rs 3,19,250 already withdrawn by the family but is freed
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 inconsi
The Lucknow bench rules that listing a case crime number in the arrest memo is not enough — and holds the State liable after three months of illegal detention.
