High Courts
Conflicting Time Limits In E-Auction Catalogue Must Be Harmonised To Uphold Transaction, Not Void It: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that where two conditions of an e-auction catalogue prescribe conflicting time limits for payment by the highest bidder, they must be interpreted harmoniously in a manner which upholds the transaction rather than voids it. The dispute turned on two conditions of the catalogue issued by the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA)...
P&H High Court Explains When Second Anticipatory Bail Plea Can Succeed
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has explained that although a second or successive anticipatory bail petition is maintainable in law, it can succeed only where the applicant demonstrates a substantial change in circumstances. A mere superficial or ostensible change, including the subsequent creation of a document, would not suffice, Justice Sumeet Goel held.The bench thus dismissed a...
Passing Erroneous Quasi-Judicial Order Without Mala Fides, Corruption Not Misconduct: Rajasthan High Court
The Rajasthan High Court has set aside the disciplinary proceedings and the penalty imposed on a retired officer of the Rajasthan Administrative Service, who was accused of passing a wrongful decree in a tenancy suit and erroneous exercise of jurisdiction, opining that an alleged erroneous quasi-judicial order was not misconduct.The bench of Justice Mukesh Rajpurohit observed that...
Police Protection Can't Be Used To Enforce Church Possession Rights Not Adjudicated By Civil Court: Kerala High Court In Malankara-Jacobite Dispute
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (August 13) held that police protection cannot be used to enforce a claimed right to possession of church properties where that right has not been adjudicated by a competent civil court.Allowing seven writ appeals arising from the Malankara-Jacobite church dispute, the Division Bench of Dr Justice A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Preetha A.K. set...
Calcutta High Court Seeks State's Response On Plea Alleging Police Action To Remove Loudspeakers From Mosques
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Government to take instructions on a PIL alleging that police officers across the State have been pressuring mosques to remove loudspeakers used for Azaan, with the petitioner claiming that such action has affected nearly 4,000 mosques.A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Atarup Banerjee while hearing the plea, questioned the absence of specific particulars in the petition and observed that an...
Burden On State To Prove Land Is Irrigated Before Declaring It Surplus Under Ceiling Act: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that a finding that a tenure-holder's land is irrigated for the purposes of Section 4-A of the U.P. Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960 must rest upon the Khasra entries of Fasli years 1378, 1379 and 1380, and where the State fails to produce those records, a declaration of surplus land founded on such a finding is a finding based on...
Prior Sanction Required If Cognizance Taken After 2018 PC Act Amendment, Even If Chargesheet Filed Earlier: Rajasthan High Court
The Rajasthan High Court has held that requirement of taking prior sanction under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (the “Act”) gets attracted even in a case where the offence was committed before the relevant amendment in 2018, but cognizance was yet to be taken in the case. The bench of Justice Kuldeep Mathur observed that the amended Section 19 created a statutory...
CBI Challenged Discharge In Liquor Policy Case Within 4 Hours, Without Appreciating 500-Page Order: Kejriwal, Sisodia Move Delhi High Court
Aam Aadmi Party leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia have approached the Delhi High Court seeking dismissal of the plea filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against their discharge in the corruption case related to the alleged liquor policy scam.The AAP leaders have filed their applications in the CBI's criminal revision petition which is pending adjudication before a single bench of Justice Manoj Jain. Raising preliminary objection to the maintainability of the revision...
Unregistered Holographic Will With Minor Corrections Not Suspicious Circumstance If Testator's Signature Undisputed: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has held that minor corrections, interpolations, use of different ink and non-registration of a holographic Will cannot, by itself, constitute suspicious circumstances when the testator's handwriting and signature are undisputed and the document indicates that the testator consciously applied his mind while making the bequests. [2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 384]It was contended...
Delhi High Court Issues Notice On 107-Yr-Old Central Secretariat Club's Plea Against Derecognition, Eviction; No Interim Relief For Now
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice on a plea filed by the Central Secretariat Club challenging the Union Government's decision to withdraw its recognition and evict it from its premises.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma sought response of the Central Government and directed that a short reply be filed in the matter. The Club is represented by Senior Advocate Diya Kapur and Advocate Nakul Gandhi. During the hearing today, Kapur said that the derecognition order is bad in law and was...
Ruling Party Lodging Criminal Cases Against Opposition Leaders A 'Disturbing Feature' Of Indian Politics: AP High Court
The registration of criminal cases against opposition leaders by ruling party governments, and vice versa, has become a disturbing feature of Indian politics, the Andhra Pradesh High Court observed while quashing an FIR against Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and former Minister Ponguru Narayana in Amravati Land Pooling case. The court held that the FIR was vitiated by mala fides and...
