Does an administrative authority have a duty to implement a final Division Bench judgment not stayed by the Supreme Court when deciding identical claims?

Calcutta HC directs respondent to apply its July 4, 2024 Division Bench ruling—uninterfered by the Supreme Court’s November 18, 2024

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August 28, 2025 | Calcutta High Court

Is a Review Petition Under Order 47 Rule 1 CPC Limited to Errors Apparent on the Record and Not a Forum to Re-argue Merits Already Adjudicated?

Reaffirming Supreme Court Precedents on the Narrow Scope of Review Jurisdiction and Binding Subordinate Courts   Summary Category Data Case

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August 28, 2025 | Calcutta High Court

Does an accused husband’s failure to explain incriminating circumstances under Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act justify conviction on circumstantial evidence?

Affirming the burden under Section 106 in domestic homicide; death sentence commuted under rarest-of-rare principles   Summary Category Data Case

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August 28, 2025 | Calcutta High Court

Can a long-serving contractual employee claim regularisation and post-retiral benefits without a formal absorption order?

High Court of Tripura upholds that administrative errors in records cannot confer regular status; directs payment of undisputed salary arrears

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August 28, 2025 | High Court of Tripura

Can a Minister Direct a Statutory Authority to Withhold a Contractor’s Security Deposit?

Does the High Court reaffirm the limits on ministerial interference by holding such directives improper and establish binding authority for

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August 28, 2025 | High Court of Uttarakhand

Can a Conviction Based Solely on Incomplete Circumstantial Evidence and Uncorroborated Extrajudicial or Co-accused Confession Stand?

The Calcutta High Court, upholding established precedents, held that when a case rests entirely on circumstantial evidence, the prosecution must

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August 28, 2025 | Calcutta High Court

Can a Civil Court Commissioner’s Report, Once Formally Accepted Without Objection, Be Treated as Conclusive Evidence Precluding a Party’s Challenge at Trial?

The Orissa High Court affirms that a Commissioner’s report under Order 26 Rule 9 CPC remains mere evidence and may

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August 27, 2025 | Orissa High Court

Does Section 43D(5) of the UA(P) Act bar bail when a prima facie case of conspiracy and extortion by a banned organisation member is established?

Division Bench of Jharkhand High Court affirms existing precedent on mandatory bail embargo under Section 43D(5) UA(P) Act in PLFI

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August 27, 2025 | High Court of Jharkhand

Can Revenue Records Alone Establish Title in a Civil Suit for Declaration of Property Rights?

Madras HC Reaffirms That Patta, Chitta and Tax Receipts Only Prove Possession, Not Title; Overrules First Appellate Reliance on Them

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August 27, 2025 | Madras High Court

Does a preventive detention order under the J&K PSA fail for non-communication of representation rights, non-supply of materials and mechanical reproduction of police dossier?

The High Court held that a detention order is unsustainable if the detaining authority does not specify the time-limit for

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August 27, 2025 | High Court of Jammu and Kashmir

Can Amendments to Sections 14T and 14M of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act Override Res Judicata and Reclassify Private Trust Lands as the Author’s Land for Vesting?

The Calcutta High Court affirms that sub-sections (5)–(9) of Section 14T (as amended in 1981 and 1986) validly negate lateral

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August 27, 2025 | Calcutta High Court

Are Army Public Schools “State Authorities” under Article 12 for Writ Jurisdiction?

Does the Division Bench’s affirmation that Army Public Schools are directly and substantially part of the Indian Army, and thus

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August 27, 2025 | High Court of Punjab and Haryana