IPL Betting Case | Parity Can't Be Applied Mechanically To Quash Proceedings Against Co-Accused: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court refused to quash a cheating FIR against a man over alleged betting in IPL matches, noting that the accused's plea for parity with co-accused against whom FIR was quashed, cannot be applied mechanically when the evidence against the accused needs independent evaluation. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 322]The counsel for the petitioner had argued that the FIR and...

SARFAESI Action For Debt Below ₹20 Lakh? P&H High Court Stays Dispossession From Sole Residential House

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notice of motion and directed that borrowers shall not be dispossessed from their residential house till the next date of hearing, in a petition challenging recovery proceedings initiated under the SARFAESI Act, 2002 by a Non-Banking Financial Company in respect of a secured debt of less than ₹20 lakh.Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri and Justice...

Teacher-Student Ratio Norms Under RTE Act Can't Be Invoked To Challenge Teachers' Transfer Policy: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that teachers have no inherent right of transfer under any statute, and that such rights as they have in the matter arise only from the transfer policy itself.It held that a district-wise Pupil-Teacher-Ratio (PTR) list prepared by the State only to work its policy for inter-district transfer of basic school teachers has nothing to do with the mandate of The...

Bombay High Court Pulls Up CIDCO For 'Obstinate Approach' To Avoid Land Acquisition Compensation Payment

The Bombay High Court has expressed its displeasure at the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (CIDCO) for attempting to avoid payment of compensation to the petitioners. The Court treated the assurance of payment given by the CIDCO as an undertaking given to the Court and directed the State authorities to disburse the amount to the petitioners.A Division Bench...

Commercial Auction | Buyer Must Inspect Site Before Bidding; Can't Later Object Over Location Or Construction Impediments: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an investor must be conscious of entire transaction when a commercial plot is bought on “as is where is” basis. It held that physical verification of the site is reasonably expected of a prudent person when plot is being bought through auction.The bench of Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Justice Kunal Ravi Singh held,“When the commercial plots...

Conflicting Time Limits In E-Auction Catalogue Must Be Harmonised To Uphold Transaction, Not Void It: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that where two conditions of an e-auction catalogue prescribe conflicting time limits for payment by the highest bidder, they must be interpreted harmoniously in a manner which upholds the transaction rather than voids it. The dispute turned on two conditions of the catalogue issued by the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA)...

P&H High Court Explains When Second Anticipatory Bail Plea Can Succeed

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has explained that although a second or successive anticipatory bail petition is maintainable in law, it can succeed only where the applicant demonstrates a substantial change in circumstances. A mere superficial or ostensible change, including the subsequent creation of a document, would not suffice, Justice Sumeet Goel held.The bench thus dismissed a...

Passing Erroneous Quasi-Judicial Order Without Mala Fides, Corruption Not Misconduct: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside the disciplinary proceedings and the penalty imposed on a retired officer of the Rajasthan Administrative Service, who was accused of passing a wrongful decree in a tenancy suit and erroneous exercise of jurisdiction, opining that an alleged erroneous quasi-judicial order was not misconduct.The bench of Justice Mukesh Rajpurohit observed that...

Police Protection Can't Be Used To Enforce Church Possession Rights Not Adjudicated By Civil Court: Kerala High Court In Malankara-Jacobite Dispute

The Kerala High Court on Thursday (August 13) held that police protection cannot be used to enforce a claimed right to possession of church properties where that right has not been adjudicated by a competent civil court.Allowing seven writ appeals arising from the Malankara-Jacobite church dispute, the Division Bench of Dr Justice A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Preetha A.K. set...

Calcutta High Court Seeks State's Response On Plea Alleging Police Action To Remove Loudspeakers From Mosques

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Government to take instructions on a PIL alleging that police officers across the State have been pressuring mosques to remove loudspeakers used for Azaan, with the petitioner claiming that such action has affected nearly 4,000 mosques.A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Atarup Banerjee...

Burden On State To Prove Land Is Irrigated Before Declaring It Surplus Under Ceiling Act: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a finding that a tenure-holder's land is irrigated for the purposes of Section 4-A of the U.P. Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960 must rest upon the Khasra entries of Fasli years 1378, 1379 and 1380, and where the State fails to produce those records, a declaration of surplus land founded on such a finding is a finding based on...

Prior Sanction Required If Cognizance Taken After 2018 PC Act Amendment, Even If Chargesheet Filed Earlier: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that requirement of taking prior sanction under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (the “Act”) gets attracted even in a case where the offence was committed before the relevant amendment in 2018, but cognizance was yet to be taken in the case. The bench of Justice Kuldeep Mathur observed that the amended Section 19 created a statutory...