High Courts
'Adopted Son-In-Law' Status Unknown To Law: Rajasthan High Court Rejects Compassionate Appointment Plea
The Rajasthan High Court has held that adoption creates a legally recognised relationship only between an adoptive parent and an adopted son or daughter, and that there is no legally recognised category of an “adopted son-in-law”.A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Sanjeet Purohit thus dismissed a special appeal filed by a man seeking...
Patna High Court Directs CBI Probe Into Missing Man After Alleged Detention, Custodial Violence By Excise Officials, Slams Police Inaction
The Patna High Court has transferred to the CBI the investigation into the disappearance of a man who allegedly went missing after being detained and brutally assaulted by Excise Police officials in Bhojpur district.A Division Bench of Justice Rajeev Ranjan Prasad and Justice Alok Kumar Sinha said that the case presented “rare and exceptional” circumstances warranting transfer of the...
UP Secondary Education Act | Appointment Against Fraudulently Created Short-Term Vacancy Can't Be Regularised: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that Section 33-F of the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board Act, 1982 cannot be invoked to claim substantive appointment where the short term vacancy against which the teacher was appointed was itself fraudulently created.Section 33-F provides for regularisation of appointments made against short term vacancies, entitling teachers appointed...
Messi Event Fiasco: Calcutta High Court Extends Aroop Biswas' Interim Protection Till November 30, Allows Probe To Continue
The Calcutta High Court has extended till November 30 the interim protection from coercive action granted to former West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas in connection with the disruption during Lionel Messi's event at Salt Lake Stadium in December 2025.Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya passed the order while hearing Biswas' plea seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings against him.The...
'Ruining Career Of Aspirants More Heinous Than Murder': Chhattisgarh High Court Denies Bail To Ex-CGPSC Secretary In Exam Paper Leak Case
The Chhattisgarh High Court has rejected the bail plea of former Secretary of the Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC) Jeevan Kishor Dhruv, observing that prima facie material indicated his involvement in a conspiracy to leak confidential question papers to allegedly benefit his son who was subsequently selected as Deputy Collector.“Having considered the entire fact situation of...
Punjab & Haryana High Court Declines Ex-DIG IPS Bhullar's Second Bail Plea In CBI Trap Bribery Case
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declined regular bail to Harcharan Singh Bhullar, a suspended DIG of Ropar Range, Punjab Police, in a CBI case alleging demand of illegal gratification, holding that the absence of recovery from the accused himself is of little consequence where the co-accused is alleged to have accepted the bribe on his behalf. [2026 LiveLaw (PH) 267]Justice Manisha...
Mere Ownership Of Land Where Transformer Is Installed Insufficient To Prosecute For Electrocution Death: Karnataka High Court
Clarifying the criminal liability for electrocution deaths, the Karnataka High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a doctor who was charge-sheeted for the death of a labourer due to electrocution on her agricultural land. [2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 289]The single judge bench of Justice Anant Ramanth Hegde held that mere ownership of property where a transformer is installed cannot...
Jharkhand High Court Upholds Mother's Life Sentence For Killing 4 & 2-Year-Old Sons, Says 'Instead Of Protecting, She Devoured Them'
The Jharkhand High Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a woman for the murder of her two minor sons, aged four and two years.A Division Bench of Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay and Justice Arun Kumar Rai found that the circumstances on record pointed towards the woman's involvement in the killings. The Court dismissed her appeal against a 2021 trial court judgment convicting her...
'Right To Electricity Part Of Article 21': AP High Court Quashes Permanent Rejection Of Mill's Application For Power Connection
Holding that the right to electricity is an integral and inextricable part of Article 21 of the Constitution, the Andhra Pradesh High Court set aside the permanent rejection of a flour mill owner's application for a new electricity connection and directed the distribution licensee to process it as per the Electricity Act provisions. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 184]The Court held that even if...
Delhi High Court Asks Supreme Court, High Court Judges To Share PAN Details Amid Dispute Over Taxability Of Judicial Allowance
The Delhi High Court has directed Private Secretaries of Supreme Court and High Court judges who have filed their income tax returns under the new tax regime, pursuant to the Court's earlier interim order concerning the taxability of judicial allowances, to furnish details including their PAN and return particulars to the Income Tax Department.The division bench of Justices Dinesh Mehta...
LiveLaw Rajasthan High Court Weekly Round-Up: August 3 - August 9, 2026
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 315 - 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 319Nominal IndexSanjay Choudhary v the State of Rajasthan & Ors.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 315Dinesh Chourasiya v State of Rajasthan & Ors, and other connected petitions; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 316Bhim Singh Meena v State of RajasthanSuo Motu: In Re Illegal Registration of Municipal Properties (incl. Judges' Bungalows, Geeta Bhawan,...