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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 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 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 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 Girish Kulkarni and Justice Neela Gokhale (Division Bench) Justice H. T. Narendra Prasad 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 Jasmeet Singh Justice Joymalya Bagchi Justice M. Dhandapani and Justice N. Dilip Kumar (Division Bench) Justice Milind N. Jadhav 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 Ravi Chirania Justice Rekha Palli 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 (Division Bench, Nagpur Bench) Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh and Justice Neeraj P. Dhote (Division Bench) Justice Shubha Mehta Justice Sudesh Bansal Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Justice Tushar Rao Gedela Justice V. Lakshminarayanan Justice Vikram Aggarwal Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta 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

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.

Rajasthan High Court

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.

Madhya Pradesh High Court

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.

National Green Tribunal — Principal Bench

NGT directs Bhopal's Collector and Divisional Forest Officer to jointly survey and demarcate all recorded forest land using GIS/GPS and satellite imagery, and to remove illegal encroachments within three months where no lawful impediment exists.

High Court of Punjab and Haryana

In a suo motu case on opioid dependence among prisoners, Punjab & Haryana High Court directs Haryana to file a further affidavit clarifying whether trained counsellors are actually available in every jail, after its affidavit went silent on ground-level implementation.

Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court declines to let wrestler Vinesh Phogat compete in the trials for the 2026 Senior World Wrestling Championships despite her missing qualifying events due to pregnancy and childbirth, holding that carving out an individual exemption at the interim stage would risk unequal treatment among athletes.

Delhi High Court

Acting on data showing thousands of fraudulent GST registrations obtained by misusing stolen PAN and Aadhaar details, Delhi High Court directs GST authorities nationwide not to grant any fresh registration without biometric Aadhaar authentication.

Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court holds a school Managing Committee cannot deny a reinstated teacher's back wages based on an unproven allegation of certificate fraud that was never actually adjudicated, and grants the teacher 50% relief.

Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court declines to entertain a challenge by Congress leaders to a Special Intensive Revision requirement that voters previously deleted from electoral rolls declare themselves "first-time applicants," holding the challenge should instead be filed as a public interest litigation.

Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court records an undertaking by two Cockroach Janta Party members to take down social media posts against senior advocate and BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia — including an AI-generated post falsely attributing remarks to him — after observing that "attacking without verifying" was not right.

Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court directs Delhi Police to decide within a week a fresh application by the Kshatriya Karni Sena to hold a September 20 protest at Jantar Mantar against newly notified UGC equity regulations.

Madras High Court

Madras High Court declines to stay Tamil Nadu's move to a fully digital system for driving licences and vehicle registration certificates from September 13, issuing notice instead on a Bangalore firm's challenge to the transport department's communication.


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