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June 05, 2025

Will Cannot Operate Without Probate; Claim Under Time-Barred Unprobated Will Not Legally Tenable: Rajasthan High Court Quashes Impleadment of Claimants

By: sayum

“The Will was redundant… Respondent Nos.8, 9 and 10 had no semblance of any interest in the suit property” — Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur struck down the impleadment of...

June 05, 2025

One Day Absence Can't Justify Ten Increment Penalty: Punjab & Haryana High Court Reduces Disproportionate Punishment on Constable

By: sayum

“Punishment Must Be Proportionate to Misconduct”— In a strongly worded judgment Punjab & Haryana High Court struck down a departmental penalty imposed on a police constable as grossly disproportionate, holding...

June 05, 2025

ID Act | Article 19(1)(g) Includes the Right to Shut Down One’s Business, But the State Cannot Evade Responsibility by Administrative Apathy: Supreme Court

By: sayum

If the Government Sleeps on Closure Requests, Employers Cannot Be Held Hostage to Inaction”, Supreme Court of India rendered a judgment of far-reaching significance in the case Harinagar Sugar Mills...

June 05, 2025

Policewomen Are Not Immune to Cruelty — But Criminal Law Cannot Be a Tool for Vengeance: Supreme Court Quashes FIR in Matrimonial Dispute

By: sayum

“Limitation Is Not a Technical Escape — It Protects Citizens From Perpetual Uncertainty of Prosecution”, In a critical ruling delivered on June 4, 2025, the Supreme Court of India quashed...

June 05, 2025

Who Pulled the Trigger? When Bullet's Path Defies Prosecution’s Story, Doubt Must Go to Accused: Supreme Court Acquits Man of Murder

By: sayum

“Suspicion, However Grave, Cannot Substitute Proof in Criminal Trials”: On June 4, 2025, the Supreme Court of India setting aside the conviction of a medical student accused of murdering his...

June 05, 2025

No Appeal Should Leave the Accused Worse Off Than Before: Supreme Court Slams High Court for Convicting in Suo Motu Revision

By: sayum

“Revisional Power Cannot Be Used to Convert Acquittal into Conviction Without State Appeal”, In a decisive and sharp ruling on June 4, 2025, the Supreme Court set aside a conviction...

June 05, 2025

Strong Prima Facie Case of Fraud and Misrepresentation Made Out: Calcutta High Court Upholds Injunction in Partition Suit Over Mumbai Property

By: Deepak Kumar

“The Partition Deed and Declaration are vitiated by fraud; the plaintiff, a major coparcener, was wrongly projected as a minor and excluded from the settlement.” - In a detailed and...

June 05, 2025

Court’s Power To Amend Decree Is Not Frozen In Time — It Must Correct Legal Course When Justice So Demands: Allahabad High Court Allows Amendment of Partition Decree

By: Deepak Kumar

“Once an endowment is made to a Deity, ownership stands transferred to the Deity and unless and until the endowment is set aside, the Deity remains the owner of endowment...

June 05, 2025

Abusing Someone Does Not Amount to Criminal Intimidation Unless It Creates Alarm or Fear: Bombay High Court Clears Conviction Under Section 506 IPC

By: Deepak Kumar

“The Word ‘Bhadkhau’ Cannot Be Construed as Criminal Intimidation in Absence of Intent to Threaten or Alarm” - In a detailed and legally nuanced judgment, the Nagpur Bench of the...

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