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 (CG) 851 The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the life sentence of Jawahar Chandra for the murder of a 12-year-old girl from Janjgir-Champa, closing the door on his appeal and confirming the trial court’s findings on homicide and destruction of evidence. A division bench led by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 850 The Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur has set aside a 1998 acquittal and convicted 11 men for the 1994 murder of a villager in Mahasamund district, ordering them to serve life imprisonment. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru delivered the judgment…
Citation : Local Law (CG) 849 The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld a Single Bench order directing the State to issue appointment letters to candidates selected in the Chhattisgarh State Civil Services Examination-2021 who are not named in the CBI charge sheets and against whom no adverse material presently exists. A Division Bench of Chief…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 848 The High Court of Chhattisgarh has affirmed a 2018 trial court decision dismissing a suit for specific performance over agricultural land in Rajnandgaon, holding that the alleged 2003 sale agreement was doubtful and that subsequent buyers were protected as bona fide purchasers. Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas delivered the…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 847 The High Court of Chhattisgarh has dismissed at the admission stage a second appeal filed by Ashok Kumar Ubrani, effectively affirming the title of the late Rameshwar Prasad Tiwari’s legal representatives over a 0.12-acre plot at Torwa, Bilaspur (Khasra No. 450). Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas pronounced the judgment…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 846 The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur set aside the conviction of Farida Mirza in a 2018 narcotics case, holding that the prosecution failed to establish beyond reasonable doubt that all seized packets contained ganja and that key procedural safeguards under the NDPS Act were not followed. Justice…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) concerning the dumping of fly ash in an abandoned stone mine in Korba district, emphasizing that authorities must ensure the natural water body formed at the site remains undisturbed. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru passed…