The High Court of Chhattisgarh has allowed a second appeal in a decades-old land dispute from Janjgir-Champa district and ruled that the Shikari community is not a Scheduled Tribe in Pamgarh tehsil. The court set aside a first appellate court order that had wrongly treated the Shikari caste as a Scheduled Tribe and upheld special…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh has set aside the Chhattisgarh government’s decision to remove and disqualify the President of the Sarangarh Municipal Council, holding that the action was arbitrary, discriminatory, and taken in violation of the law. A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal allowed a writ appeal…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh has confirmed the life imprisonment of three men convicted for the gang rape and murder of a woman in Balod district. The court said that DNA evidence, if properly collected and supported by other material, is enough to prove guilt even when there are no eyewitnesses. A division bench led…
February 03, 2026 – The High Court of Chhattisgarh has dismissed a second appeal in a land dispute that had continued for nearly five decades, holding that mere possession of land based on an unproved agreement to sell does not create ownership rights. The Court also clarified that permissive possession can never become adverse possession….
The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that elderly parents have the right to take back property gifted to relatives if, after the transfer, they are neglected or denied basic care. The Court made it clear that this right exists even if the gift deed does not clearly mention a duty to maintain the senior citizens….
The High Court of Chhattisgarh has allowed a writ appeal and ruled that several Sub Engineers appointed under the Panchayat and Rural Development Department were not legally eligible to hold their posts because they did not have the required educational qualifications on the prescribed cut off date. The case relates to a 2011 recruitment process…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has refused to appoint an arbitrator in a major dispute between Tata Projects Limited and the Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society, holding that the dispute relates to a works contract that must be decided only by the state arbitration tribunal. The decision was delivered by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha on February 3,…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh has ruled that a will cannot be accepted as valid only because it is very old or registered. The Court said that even a 30-year-old will must be properly proved according to law. The decision came in a second appeal filed by Rampyare and Shivshankar, who claimed ownership of agricultural…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has once again underlined that daughters have the same coparcenary rights as sons in ancestral property, ruling that alleged oral partitions cannot be used to deny women their lawful share under the Hindu Succession Act. The judgment was delivered in a second appeal filed by Amrika Bai, who had challenged earlier…
Bilaspur : The Chhattisgarh High Court has refused to interfere with a government tender for supplying school and office furniture, saying courts have only a limited role in examining tender conditions, especially when procurement is done through the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal. A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar…