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Ori HC | Possession of land taken under Land Acquisition Act cannot be restored to tenure holder even if it is not used for the purpose it was acquired for

Orissa High Court: The Bench of S. Panda and P. Patnaik, JJ., dismissed a petition filed by the petitioner for the cancellation

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Pat HC | Immoral Trafficking: Hotel owner present in room adjacent to rooms from where couples found in semi-naked condition – matter requiring complete trial

Patna High Court: The Bench of Ahsanuddin Amanullah, J. dismissed a hotel owner’s petition assailing dismissal of the application for his discharge,

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Chh HC | Govt. servant cannot make Will of family pension; guiding principles regarding retiral benefits vis-a-vis testamentary disposition recapitulated

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agrawal, J. has held that a Government servant is not entitled to make a Will of the family

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Pat HC | Cut-off date for calculating pensionary benefits of a teacher, to be counted from the date of grant of permission for establishment of school

Patna High Court: The Three-Judge Bench of Ashwani Kumar Singh, Birendra Kumar and Anil Kumar Upadhyay, JJ. dismissed a letters patent appeal

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Del HC | Expenses of the child cannot be equally divided between parents; amount payable by husband under S. 125 CrPC towards maintenance of child increased

Delhi High Court: Sanjeev Sachdeva, J. partly allowed a revision petition against the order of the trial court passed under Section 125 CrPC

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Chh HC | Step-son held duty bound to maintain his step-mother under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agarwal, J. imposed costs of Rs 2000 while dismissing a petition filed by a step-son for setting aside

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HP HC | Court considers plea sympathetically where copy of the order was not supplied to petitioner to be filed in appeal

Himachal Pradesh High Court: The Bench of Surya Kant, C.J. and Sandeep Sharma, J. disposed of a petition with a direction to

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P&H HC | Financial contribution for sale of property not a suggestion of benami transaction

Punjab & Haryana High Court: Appellant had prayed before the Bench of Surinder Gupta, J., that the Will made by mother of

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All HC | Land acquired for air firing/bombing range, having been illegally encroached, would not confer any right on encroachers

Allahabad High Court: This petition was filed before the Bench of Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal and Dr Yogendra Kumar Srivastava, JJ., praying that

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Pat HC | Selection for Angan Bari Sevika based on predominance of caste, without ascertaining number of beneficiaries, defeats the purpose of ICDS Scheme

Patna High Court: The Bench of Madhuresh Prasad, J. dismissed a civil writ petition, challenging cancellation of a lady’s appointment as Angan

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Ker HC | Panayikulam SIMI Camp Case: Five persons convicted by NIA Special Court for holding secret meeting of banned outfit, acquitted by HC

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of A.M. Shaffique and Ashok Menon, JJ. hearing 6 criminal appeals clubbed together, acquitted five persons

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Jhar HC | A person not vigilant of his rights and who acquiesces with situation cannot claim relief that is otherwise available to vigilant man

Jharkhand High Court: The Bench of Aniruddha Bose, C.J. and B.B. Mangalmurti, J. dismissed a petition claiming arrears of pension, post retrial

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Bom HC | ‘Luxurious litigation’ by litigants wanting to ferment their ego needs to be curbed; criminal appeal dismissed with costs where complaint turned dormant

Bombay High Court: V.M. Deshpande, J. dismissed a criminal appeal and imposed costs of Rs 5000 on the appellant for filing the

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Del HC | JJ Board not bound by expert opinion in preliminary assessment, may disagree with the report and not treat CCL as adult

Delhi High Court: Chander Shekhar, J. refused to interfere with the order of the Juvenile Justice Board whereby it had directed that the two

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Ori HC | Election Tribunal exceeds its jurisdiction by travelling beyond the scope of the litigation involved ignoring the pleadings of the parties

Orissa High Court: The Bench of Biswanath Rath, J. entertained the writ petition challenging the order passed by the learned trial Court,

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Guj HC | Criminal proceeding can be quashed where allegations made in complaint do not disclose commission of an offence under Penal Code

Gujarat High Court: The Bench of A.P. Thaker, J., allowed the petition filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code for

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Del HC| Seeds Act not concerned with where and how the seeds are used; Scope explained

Delhi High Court: Dealing with the scope and ambit of the Seeds Act, 1966, Vibhu Bakhru, J held that the Seeds Act

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Ker HC | Petition seeking web-casting of entire election process disposed of opining that ECI taking all steps to ensure free and fair election

Kerala High Court: The Bench of Shaji P. Chaly, J. was seized of a petition seeking directions to ensure the conduct of

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Bom HC | Even where victim turned hostile, conviction for rape upheld on basis of material corroboration of evidence

Bombay High Court: Sadhana S. Jadhav, J. dismissed an appeal filed against the Judgment of the Additional Sessions Judge whereby the appellant was

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Del HC | Divorce granted on grounds of causing wrongful incarceration of husband coupled with irretrievable breakdown of marriage

Delhi High Court: A Bench of Jyoti Singh and G.S. Sistani, JJ. allowed an appeal filed by the husband against the decision of