50 Years After State Acquired Land, Patna High Court Says Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Entitled To Compensation Under 2013 Act

The Patna HC has held that former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is entitled to compensation under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 for land acquired by the State in 1976, after finding that the Collector had no jurisdiction to initiate proceedings under Section 4(h) of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 without...

Precedents Barring Recovery Of Excess Payments Have Not Considered Section 72 Contract Act: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has recently observed that not a single precedent has remarked on the applicability of Section 72 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 in the line of decisions dealing with recovery of excess payments.A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu made the observation while dismissing appeals by teachers whose Academic Grade Pay benefits were withdrawn after they...

Public Tender| Experience Of Building A Road Can't Be Equated With Internal Development Works Of A Township: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that experience of building and maintaining a road cannot be equated with experience of internal development works in a township, and that such experience was an essential condition of the tender from which no deviation was permissible.The bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Kunal Ravi Singh held“If the authority were to treat work experience...

Where Agreement To Sell Fixes No Date For Performance But Ties It To A Future Event, Limitation Runs From Notice Of Refusal: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that where an agreement to sell fixes no date for performance and instead makes execution of the sale deed dependent on the happening of a future event, the second part of Article 54 of the Limitation Act, 1963 applies, and time begins to run only when the plaintiff has notice that performance has been refused.Article 54 of the Limitation Act, 1963 provides...

State Can Devise Own Palm Oil Pricing Formula, But Must Be Based On Relevant Data: AP High Court

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has held that the State Oil Palm (Regulation of Production and Processing) Act 1993, empowers the State Government to fix the minimum price of oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) using its own methodology. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 252] The court said that the Government need not follow the pricing formula recommended by the Commission for Agricultural Costs and...

Entitlement To Family Pension Flows From Service Rules, Not General Law Of Succession: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a court dealing with an application for a succession certificate under Section 372 of the Indian Succession Act cannot finally decide who is entitled to family pension, gratuity and other retiral benefits of a deceased employee. It held that such entitlement flows from the service rules governing the benefit and must be decided by the competent...

Second Appeal Against Same Stamp Duty Order Not Maintainable After Earlier Appeal Withdrawn: Allahabad High Court

Smt. Manmeet Kaur v. State of U.P. through its Additional Chief Secretary Stamp and Registration Lucknow and 2 others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 845

Waqf Tribunal Can't Exercise Supervisory Powers Over Waqf Board: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has held that State Waqf Tribunal's powers are adjudicatory in nature and thus it cannot exercise supervisory powers over the State Waqf Board concerning the management of a Waqf trust. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 284]The court was hearing the Muttawali (manager) of Junagadh Suryawad Memon Jamat, a Trust, who had challenged an order of the Gujarat State Waqf Tribunal...

Telangana High Court Restrains Defamatory Content Against Union Minister's Son Bandi Bageerath In Rape Case

The Telangana High Court in an interim order has restrained over 50 news channels, media platforms as well as unknown persons from publishing, circulating and broadcasting allegedly defamatory, speculative, AI generated and unverified information pending investigation in a rape FIR against Bandi Sai Bageerath.Bageerath, son of Minister of State for Home Affairs and BJP leader Bandi Sanjay...

Freedom Of Religion Does Not Entitle Christian Community To Seek Specific Plot For Housing Cemetery: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the right to freedom of religion, including the right to perform last rites in accordance with religious beliefs, does not entitle a community to claim a specific plot of land belonging to a local body for establishing a cemetery. A Bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Indrajeet Shukla made the observation while dismissing a writ petition filed by...

Trial Court Can't Order Status Quo On Property Without Prima Facie Finding On Who Was In Possession Before Suit: AP High Court

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has set aside a temporary injunction protecting a plaintiff's alleged possession of property under a Rs. 1.5 crore sale agreement, holding that the trial court failed to record reasons establishing a prima facie case, balance of convenience and irreparable loss. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 243]It also declined to grant status quo without determining who was in...

Kerala High Court Sets Aside Order Allowing Co-Education In Girls' School; Says Rival Claims Of Nearby Boys' School Be Heard

The Kerala High Court recently set aside a Single Bench order directing the Erattupetta Municipality Secretary to grant approval for introducing co-education scheme in Muslim Girls' Higher Secondary School, Erattupetta— a girls-only school. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 574]The Division Bench of Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice Muralee Krishna S. was considering a writ appeal filed by the manager...