Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 870 : 2025:CGHC:55587 The Chhattisgarh High Court on November 14, 2025, granted anticipatory bail to Tikeshwar Lahre, who had sought protection from arrest in a case arising from a reported shortage of paddy at the Kosir Paddy Society. The court, headed by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha, heard submissions from…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 869 The Chhattisgarh High Court has set aside an acquittal and restored a conviction in a cheque dishonour case, delivering a judgment that underlines the courts’ expectation that accused persons rebut statutory presumptions with clear evidence. In ACQA No. 1007 of 2024, decided on 14 November 2025, Justice Sanjay…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 868 : 2025:CGHC:55503-DB The Chhattisgarh High Court has allowed an appeal and dissolved a marriage that had endured more than a decade of separation, while directing the husband to pay ₹20,00,000 as permanent alimony. In a judgment delivered on 14 November 2025, a division bench of Justices Rajani Dubey…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 867: 2025:CGHC:55450 A single-judge bench of the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur has set aside a motor accident tribunal’s rejection of a compensation claim and sent the case back for fresh consideration, finding that the claimant’s petition should not have been dismissed as a hit-and-run matter. The judgment,…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 1310 The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that a counterclaim cannot be used by one defendant against another in the same suit. The Court explained that Order VIII Rule 6A of the Code of Civil Procedure allows a counterclaim only against the plaintiff and only when it arises from a…
The Supreme Court Bar Association has approached the Supreme Court of India seeking national guidelines to protect the privacy and dignity of women and girls in workplaces and educational institutions. The petition, filed under Article 32, asks the Court to step in after repeated reports of coercive and degrading practices where women were forced to…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (SC) 1307 The Supreme Court has brought an end to a temple dispute that lasted close to a century between two Kuruba families in Andhra Pradesh. The judgment, delivered on November 11, 2025, upheld an Andhra Pradesh High Court ruling that had overturned an executing court’s order in favor of…
The Chhattisgarh High Court on November 13, 2025, took a measured step to address safety and basic amenities at the new Composite Building of the District Collectorate in Bilaspur after a suo motu public interest petition highlighted problems there. The court recorded a personal affidavit from the Secretary of the Public Works Department, who said…
Case Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 866 : 2025:CGHC:55275-DB The Chhattisgarh High Court has quashed criminal proceedings arising from a Raigarh FIR under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code after the parties reached an out-of-court settlement and dissolved their marriage by mutual consent. The two-judge bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 865 : 2025:CGHC:55385-DB The Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday set aside a fresh tender issued by the Nagar Panchayat of Gharghoda after finding that the municipal body had failed to follow basic procedural fairness before replacing an existing contractor. In an order dated November 13, 2025, a division bench…