Rajasthan High Court stays the cancellation of a government employee's official housing allotment after finding the charge shifted from unauthorised occupants at an inspection to sub-letting in the final order, without an inquiry report ever being furnished to him.
Hearing a bail application, Rajasthan High Court finds that routinely calling for full case diaries was adding 15-20 days to routine bail matters, and directs the Government Advocate's office to instead obtain a factual report on the FIR within 3-7 days for petty-offence cases.
Karnataka High Court quashes measures enforcing a 2% cess on cinema tickets, holding the underlying 2024 welfare Act had never been validly brought into force through the notification its own Section 1(2) requires.
MP High Court upholds the conviction but commutes to life imprisonment the death sentence of a man found guilty of raping and murdering a two-year-old girl in Shahdol district, holding the case did not meet the "rarest of rare" threshold for capital punishment.
Madhya Pradesh High Court directs the Centre to frame a nationwide policy regulating e-rickshaws within 60 days, holding that a decade of unregulated operation has caused "congestion and anarchy" on Indian roads.
Karnataka High Court holds that a police transfer order issued without the Police Establishment Board's prior approval is not void, since subsequent ratification by the competent Board can cure the procedural defect, including a transfer made before completion of minimum tenure.
Himachal Pradesh High Court directs that a candidate's improved MA marks obtained on revaluation be treated as relating back to her original qualification date, requiring the State to consider her for a lecturer post based on that earlier date.
Madhya Pradesh High Court scraps a state rule paying Class III and IV government employees only 70%, 80% and 90% of the minimum pay scale in their first, second and third probation years, calling the reduced-pay scheme discriminatory and unconstitutional, and orders refunds for amounts already withheld.
Punjab & Haryana High Court denies bail to a man accused of sharing photographs of Ambala's Air Force Station and Rafale jets with a woman operating from Pakistan, holding that even if he was lured by a honey trap, there was no justification for sharing such sensitive images with an unknown foreign contact.
Punjab & Haryana High Court grants regular bail to a woman accused of conspiring to file multiple false rape cases across Punjab and Delhi to extort money from alleged victims, while separately suggesting a national database to track habitual complainants across jurisdictions.
Punjab & Haryana High Court strikes down the retrospectively inserted Section 147A of the Income Tax Act as unconstitutional, holding Parliament could not validate reassessment notices issued by Jurisdictional Assessing Officers when the faceless-reassessment framework under Section 151A remained unchanged.
Punjab & Haryana High Court holds that orders refusing certification to the Punjabi film "Chardikala" were passed by authorities lacking valid delegated power at the time, since the Central Government only delegated CBFC's certification powers to the Chairperson months after the refusal orders were issued.