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Husband Finding Wife Being Intimate With Paramour Is Grave, Sudden Provocation: Gujarat High Court Upholds 2001 Culpable Homicide Conviction
The Gujarat High Court upheld a 2001 trial court order convicting a husband to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, who assaulted his wife after he found her in a compromising position with another man in the former's house, remarking that this could be considered as "grave and sudden provocation".In doing so the court said that the case falls under Section 304-part II IPC as...
Bombay High Court Asks Maharashtra Govt If Bhima Koregaon Accused Surendra Gadling Can Use Jail Computer To Review Evidence
The Bombay High Court on Thursday sought to know from the Maharashtra Government if it could permit Surendra Gadling, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon - Elgar Parishad case, to access the computer installed in the Taloja Central Prison to review the evidence against him. A division bench of Justice Ajay Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata while refusing Gadling to use his own laptop while in...
MP High Court Sets Aside Rejection Of SSC Candidate Over Domicile Mismatch, Says Technical Error Can't Be Treated As Suppression
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Wednesday (March 25), set aside the rejection of the Staff Selection Commission aspirant, holding that stringent clauses in the advertisement cannot be applied mechanically to penalise a bona fide candidate who possessed a valid domicile certificate but was merely a victim of a data entry error at a cyber kiosk. The bench of Justice Jai Kumar Pillai...
Suspecting Wife's Character Without Instigation Does Not Constitute Abetment To Suicide: Uttarakhand High Court Acquits Husband
The Uttarakhand High Court has held that mere suspicion of a spouse's character and allegations of mental harassment, in the absence of any proximate act of instigation or intentional aiding, do not satisfy the ingredients of abetment of suicide under Sections 306 and 107 of the Indian Penal Code. Holding that the prosecution failed to establish the essential elements of abetment, the Court...
No Mandatory Civil Adjudication Without Bona Fide Title Claim: Gauhati High Court Upholds Criminal Proceedings In Land Grabbing Case
The Gauhati High Court has held that prior determination of civil liability under Section 10(2) of the Assam Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 2010 is not required in every case, and is not attracted where no bona fide plea asserting proprietary right, ownership, or lawful possession over the land is raised. In such circumstances, the Land Grabbing Tribunal can proceed with the criminal aspect...
Father & Daughter Have 'Right To Know' Or It Will 'Trouble' Lives: Allahabad High Court Orders DNA Test In Maintenance Dispute
The Allahabad High Court recently set aside a Family Court order granting maintenance to a minor girl under Section 125 CrPC, while first ordering a DNA test to ascertain her correct parentage, a plea raised earlier by her father (revisionist), but was rejected.A bench of Justice Madan Pal Singh observed that in cases involving peculiar facts and circumstances, both the father and the...
Non-Disclosure Of Complaints Vitiates Enquiry: Gauhati High Court Sets Aside Action Against Gram Pradhan
The Gauhati High Court has held that an enquiry resulting in adverse civil consequences against a Gram Pradhan is vitiated if the complaints and foundational materials on which it is based are not disclosed to him, as such non-disclosure renders the opportunity of hearing illusory and violates both executive instruction 162-A and principles of natural justice.Justice Arun Dev Choudhury,...
Merit Must Prevail For Department Allocation In Combined Recruitment: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that in combined recruitment processes, allocation of departments must be governed by inter se merit and cannot be done in a manner that allows lower-ranked candidates to secure more preferred postings. The Court observed that deviation from merit-based allocation violates the principles of equality and fairness under Articles 14 and 16 of...
Karnataka HC Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Acceptance Of Lokayuktha Police's Closure Report In MUDA Case Against CM Siddaramaiah, Others
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday (March 26) issued notice on a plea moved by Snehamayi Krishna challenging acceptance of a 'B Report'/ Closure Report filed by Lokayuktha police before the trial court in the alleged MUDA land scam lodged against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others. The single judge bench of Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav has issued notice to the respondents in the...
UP Police Now Claims 80% Missing Persons Traced Since 2024; Allahabad HC Notes Previous 'Shocking' Data Was Miscommunicated
The Uttar Pradesh Police, in fresh data submitted before the Allahabad High Court, has claimed that between January 1, 2024, and March 17, 2026, a total of 1,19,070 persons went missing in the state, out of which 95,061 (79.84%) have been successfully traced. Taking this updated data into account, a Division Bench noted that earlier figures, which suggested the UP Police took action in a...
Jharkhand High Court Directs Withholding Of Transport Officer's Salary For Non-Payment Of Employee's Pension, Retiral Dues
The Jharkhand High Court has, in an unusual development, ordered withholding of the salary of the District Transport Officer, Palamau for failure to comply with directions to pay retiral dues, warning that continued non-compliance would result in similar action against the Deputy Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Regional Transport Authority.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Ananda Sen was hearing...
Statutory Authorities Cannot Defeat Appellate Orders Through Delay: Tripura High Court
The Tripura High Court held that statutory authorities are duty-bound to implement binding appellate directions and cannot avoid such obligations through prolonged inaction. It remarked that unexplained administrative delay cannot defeat statutory orders or the rights flowing from them.Chief Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice Biswajit Palit remarked that:“The official respondents are...