Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 853 The Chhattisgarh High Court has refused to disturb a lower appellate court’s decision in a long-running Koriya district land dispute, affirming that the plaintiff is the rightful owner of the disputed parcel and rejecting the contention that the case was time-barred. The single-judge bench of Justice Parth Prateem…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has set aside a recovery order of ₹4,25,586 issued against retired Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sushila Tekam, calling the action “wholly arbitrary and unsustainable.” Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad, in a judgment dated October 31, 2025, ruled that recovery of excess salary paid due to an official error cannot be made…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 852 The Chhattisgarh High Court has dismissed the second application for regular bail filed by Hariom Pal, an accused in a 2024 narcotics case involving the seizure of 33.7 kilograms of ganja. Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha passed the order on November 3, 2025, while directing the trial court to…
From 01 November 2025 to 07 November 2025 1. Life Sentence Upheld for Murder of 12-Year-Old Girl Citation: 2025 Local Law (CG) 851Case: CRA No. 143 of 2025, Jawahar Chandra vs State of Chhattisgarh A Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru affirmed the conviction of Jawahar Chandra for murdering…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (NCDRC) 7 The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has partly allowed Max Life Insurance’s appeal against a 2021 order of the Gujarat State Consumer Commission in a long-running dispute over surrender value calculations for a lapsed whole-life policy. The NCDRC, presided over by Justice A.P. Sahi with Member Bharatkumar Pandya,…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (NCDRC) 6 The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has affirmed a finding of medical negligence against Geetanjali Medical College & Hospital, Udaipur, and its ENT specialist Dr A.K. Gupta for operating on a 16-year-old without a pre-operative CT scan, but has reduced the compensation from about ₹16.84 lakh to…
The Supreme Court on Friday asked Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami and the West Bengal government to respond to a petition filed by his wife seeking a monthly interim maintenance of ten lakh rupees for herself and their daughter. She has challenged a Calcutta High Court order from July that increased the trial court’s award to…
The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a judgment that could reshape how property transactions are recorded and verified in India. The ruling came in Civil Appeal tagged with Diary No. 12674/2024 and Diary No. 18064/2024. The case, Samiullah v. State of Bihar and Others, was heard by a Bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Joymalya…
The Supreme Court has held that an arrest becomes unlawful if police fail to give the accused written grounds of arrest at least two hours before being produced before a Magistrate. The ruling came in Mihir Rajesh Shah v. State of Maharashtra (Criminal Appeal No. 2195 of 2025), decided on November 6 by Chief Justice…
The Supreme Court has made it clear that a Magistrate’s power to order a police investigation under Section 156(3) of the Criminal Procedure Code cannot be undone because of minor wording errors. The Court restored an FIR that the Karnataka High Court had quashed and directed the police to finish the investigation without delay. A…