The Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur has dismissed a State appeal challenging the acquittal of two men accused in a case that arose under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and related IPC provisions. The judgment, delivered by a division bench of Justices Sanjay S. Agrawal and Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal on October 30,…
The Chhattisgarh High Court on October 30, 2025, dismissed an auction purchaser’s challenge to orders of the Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT), Jabalpur, and the Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunal (DRAT), Allahabad, that had set aside a bank auction under the SARFAESI framework. Judge Narendra Kumar Vyas found that the bank’s enforcement steps had not complied with…
The Chhattisgarh High Court on October 30, 2025, set aside part of a motor-accident tribunal’s award by exonerating the National Insurance Company from liability and placing sole responsibility for compensation on the owner of a tractor-trolley involved in a fatal accident. The court confirmed the compensation amount previously awarded ₹4,39,000 plus interest but shifted the…
The Chhattisgarh High Court on October 27, 2025, affirmed a conviction under Section 304-B of the Indian Penal Code in the case arising from the death of 23-year-old Pranjal Rathore, while quashing an earlier conviction for murder under Section 302. The two-judge bench reviewed the trial court’s findings, the medical evidence and family testimony, and…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has refused to disturb a trial court’s acquittal in a case that began with a neighbourhood dispute over household waste. In a short but pointed judgment delivered on October 10, 2025, Justice Radhakishan Agrawal dismissed the State’s appeal in ACQA No. 176 of 2017, upholding the Special Court’s finding that the…
The Chhattisgarh High Court, gave the appellant in an acquittal appeal a narrow but practical route to press his claim, allowing him to withdraw the appeal in the High Court and file a fresh appeal before the sessions judge under the proviso to Section 372 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The order, handed down by…
The Chhattisgarh High Court, upheld convictions in a violent 2020 assault at Bhatapara but substantially reduced the jail sentences imposed by the trial court, directing the immediate release of one accused and commuting the other’s remaining term to the time already served. The judgment, authored by Justice Naresh Kumar Chandravanshi, stems from Criminal Revision Appeal…
The court, presided over by Justice Deepak Kumar Tiwari, rejected the state’s position. Relying on recent Supreme Court guidance and longstanding precedent, the judge found that the excess payments resulted from an error in pay fixation by the authorities, not from any fraud or misrepresentation by Baghel. Because Baghel belongs to a Class-III service category…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur has increased the compensation awarded to the family of Budhyarin Bai, who died after a collision between a motorcycle and a car on January 2, 2023. In an order dated October 6, 2025, Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey found that the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal at Bemetara had under-awarded…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh, increased the compensation awarded in a long-running motor accident claim, finding that the tribunal had under-calculated losses to the deceased’s family and that several dependents were entitled to separate awards for loss of consortium. Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey allowed the claimants’ appeal in part and raised the total award from…