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Wednesday, September 16, 2026 New Delhi Edition

Judgment Highlights

Landmark rulings, constitutional decisions and tribunal orders shaping Indian law.

Bench: All Acting Chief Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Pradeep Mittal (Division Bench) Chairperson Justice AK Goel Chief Justice Lisa Gill and Justice Ninala Jayasurya Chief Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Justice Advait Sethna (Division Bench) Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana Chief Justice S. A. Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan (Division Bench) Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan (Division Bench) Division Bench Division Bench (Bombay High Court) Division Bench (Karnataka High Court) Division Bench (Madhya Pradesh High Court) Division Bench (Madras High Court) Division Bench (Punjab & Haryana High Court, Suo Motu) Dr. Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati and Justice Rekha Borana Five-Judge Constitution Bench Justice A. S. Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata (Division Bench) Justice Ajay Digpaul Justice Ajay Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata Justice Aman Chaudhary Justice Amit Bansal Justice Anand Sharma Justice Anand Venkatesh Justice Anand Venkatesh and Justice K. K. Ramakrishnan (Madurai Bench) Justice Anil Khetarpal and Justice Shail Jain (Division Bench) Justice Anoop Chitkara and Justice Harmeet Singh Deol JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA, AND JUSTICE SUKHVINDER KAUR Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand Justice Baljinder Singh Sandhu Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Vinod Kumar (Division Bench) Justice C. Saravanan Justice C. V. Karthikeyan and Justice R. Sakthivel (Division Bench) Justice Chandra Prakash Shrimali Justice Chavan (Bombay High Court) Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy Justice Deepak Sibal and Justice Rupinderjit Chahal (Division Bench) Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu Justice Firdosh P. Pooniwalla and Justice R. I. Chagla (Division Bench) Justice G. K. Ilanthiraiyan Justice G. R. Swaminathan and Justice M. D. Sumathi (Division Bench) Justice Ganesh Ram Meena Justice Gauri Godse Justice Girish Kulkarni and Justice Neela Gokhale (Division Bench) Justice H. T. Narendra Prasad Justice Harkesh Manuja Justice Harpreet Singh Brar Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi and Justice Minderjeet Yadav Justice Inderjeet Singh and Justice Sandeep Taneja Justice Inderjeet Singh and Justice Sandeep Taneja (Division Bench) Justice J. B. Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra Justice J.J. Munir and Justice Siddharth Nandan Justice Jasmeet Singh Justice Joymalya Bagchi Justice M. Dhandapani and Justice N. Dilip Kumar (Division Bench) Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak and Justice Sibo Sankar Mishra Justice Milind N. Jadhav Justice Milind N. Jadhav and Justice Nandesh S. Deshpande Justice Munnuri Laxman and Justice Chandra Shekhar Sharma (Division Bench) Justice Murali Shankar Justice Nandesh S. Deshpande Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja (Division Bench) Justice Nitin Borkar Justice P. T. Asha and Justice N. Mala (Division Bench) Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Shree Chandrashekhar Justice R.I. Chagla and Justice Farhan P. Dubash Justice Ravi Chirania Justice Rekha Palli Justice S Karthikeyan (Madurai Bench) Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Manmohan Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh Justice Sanjeet Purohit Justice Sanjeev Narula Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh and Justice Neeraj P. Dhote Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh and Justice Neeraj P. Dhote (Division Bench, Nagpur Bench) Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh and Justice Neeraj P. Dhote (Division Bench) Justice Shubha Mehta Justice Sudesh Bansal Justice Sumeet Goel Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Justice Tushar Rao Gedela Justice V. Lakshminarayanan Justice Vikram Aggarwal Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj and Justice Sukhvinder Kaur Justice Vivek Agarwal and Justice Avanindra Kumar Singh (Division Bench) Justices Oka & Agarwal Principal Bench, National Green Tribunal Single Judge (Bombay High Court) Single Judge (Madras High Court) Single Judge (Punjab & Haryana High Court) Supreme Court of India
Rajasthan High Court

Hearing a matter through its Paperless Module 2.0, Rajasthan High Court finds the main petition had never been uploaded — only the stay petition had — and directs that a comprehensive, accountability-fixing Standing Order covering all case types be placed before the Chief Justice.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court holds that confiscation proceedings under mining law and a criminal complaint under the Motor Vehicles Act are legally distinct, so a magistrate cannot order a seized vehicle released without first calling for a report from the Mining Department.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court directs the Bar Council of Rajasthan to dispose of all pending advocate-enrolment applications by September 9, 2026, holding that delays traced to the Bar Council's own election process were adversely affecting law graduates' right to livelihood.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court disposes of a PIL on leopard-habitat protection in Jawai by declaring a 1-km interim regulatory zone around notified conservation boundaries — a precautionary screening distance, not a permanent no-construction line, pending a full state policy.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court dismisses a quashing petition and imposes ₹50,000 costs on a man who presented himself as an advocate before trial courts without bar enrolment, holding that no person may practise as an advocate without enrolment under the Advocates Act.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court sets aside a Family Court order and grants divorce in a 22-year marriage, holding that the wife's denial of cohabitation since 2005 combined with a since-failed Section 498-A complaint against the husband amounted to cruelty.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court quashes an FIR filed nearly four years into a marriage alleging the husband used drugs and black magic to induce it, holding the marital-rape exception under IPC barred the core allegation and the delay pointed to changed circumstances, not a concealed crime.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court upholds the compulsory retirement of a government Ayurvedic dispensary in-charge, rejecting his argument that a subordinate compounder was solely responsible for irregular sickness-certificate entries.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court upholds a trial court's decision to condone a nearly five-year delay in filing a written statement, holding that the timeline under Order VIII Rule 1 CPC is directory, not mandatory, in non-commercial suits.

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court holds that discovery and production of documents under Order XI CPC cannot be invoked merely for convenience when the evidence sought is otherwise reasonably accessible to the litigant through public channels.


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