News from India's 25 High Courts. Decisions that change the law, affect ordinary litigants, or signal a doctrinal shift — covered from across the country, not only Delhi and Bombay.
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court has set aside a single judge's direction to revise the CLAT-UG 2026 merit list, holding that the Consortium of National Law Universities' two-tier expert review of the answer key cannot be displaced unless a manifes
The Lucknow bench rules that listing a case crime number in the arrest memo is not enough — and holds the State liable after three months of illegal detention.
Justice Ravi Nath Tilhari held that a trial court cannot conduct a 'mini-trial' on title at the numbering stage of an Order 21 Rule 58 CPC claim petition, and pulled up the Anakapalli court for ignoring binding directions in Gorripati Veera Venkata Rao.
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra Government to constitute an Expert Committee within four weeks to audit the working of the Maharashtra Slum Areas Act, 1971, finding that despite five decades of operation and continuous am
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has directed UIDAI to process fresh Aadhaar enrollment for two Pune brothers stranded by a years-long biometric mismatch, and laid down eight systemic directions to prevent genuine residents from being shunted between
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has partly allowed about 100 writ petitions filed by Zilla Parishad employees, quashing suspension orders, FIR proposals and salary-stoppage actions, while permitting the State's State-wide medical re-verification of d
A division bench led by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha dismissed the State's acquittal appeal in the Tadmetla / Chintalnar case, finding the prosecution had failed to identify the accused, produce an FSL report on the seized explosives, or conduct a Test Identific
Justice Tushar Rao Gedela has restrained 45 named and unknown defendants and directed Meta, YouTube and X to take down 73 listed URLs, after the Shark Tank India judge complained of unauthorised merchandise, AI chatbots impersonating him, deepfake pornography
Justice Yarenjungla Longkumer holds that fraud unravels even an unchallenged MACT award: the offending oil tanker was uninsured on the date of the 2011 accident, so the insurer keeps Rs 3,19,250 already withdrawn by the family but is freed of any further payme
Justice Rakesh Kainthla dismissed Dalel Singh's revision against concurrent convictions under Sections 279, 337 and 304A IPC, holding that swerving a bus to save one cyclist while crushing two motorcyclists cannot be sheltered by Section 81 of the Indian Penal
A Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has upheld Para 5.5 of the State's Sub-Scheme for CBSE Affiliated Schools of Excellence, holding that creation of a dedicated CBSE Teachers Sub-Cadre and selection of in-service teachers by written test and c
A division bench at Srinagar held that long-standing Nazool lessees at Kothibagh were lawful occupants governed by the 1981 Government Order, not the struck-down Roshni Act, and directed parity with Hotel Ahdoos within three months.
News from India's 25 High Courts. Decisions that change the law, affect ordinary litigants, or signal a doctrinal shift — covered from across the country, not only Delhi and Bombay.
