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Video Conferencing Rules Cover Witnesses Unable to Reach Court Due to Physical Infirmity: Punjab and Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside an order refusing a 72-year-old woman, Daljitinder Kaur @ Daljit Inder Arora, permission to record her evidence through video conferencing. The judgment was delivered by Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa on August 27, 2026. The High Court held that the applicable Punjab and…
Four Men Sentenced to Death for Rape and Murder of Two Minor Sisters Acquitted: Punjab and Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted Arun, Phool Chand, Dukhan and Ram Suhag, who had been sentenced to death for the alleged rape and murder of two minor sisters in Sonipat. A Division Bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara and Justice Ramesh Chander Dimri held that the prosecution failed to establish a legally…
Two Accused Acquitted in Judicial File Theft Case, Strong Suspicion Cannot Substitute Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Punjab and Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside the conviction of Satnam Singh and Balwinder Singh in a case involving the disappearance of a judicial file from the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gurdaspur. The judgment was delivered by Justice Mandeep Pannu on August 26, 2026. The High Court allowed both…
Woman Can Seek Police Protection Against Threats, But Cannot Use It to Evict Ex-Husband from His Property: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has directed the police to provide adequate protection to a woman and her child if there is a genuine threat to their safety, but at the same time clarified that police protection cannot be used as a tool to permanently prevent her former husband from entering property covered by an existing…
Supreme Court Clarifies Limits on Preventive Banishment Powers Under SC/ST Act and Externment Laws: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of India on 31 August 2026 delivered an important judgment in Vijay Kumar Rajpoot alias Vijju versus State of Chhattisgarh & Ors., concerning the legality of an externment order passed under the Chhattisgarh Rajya Suraksha Adhiniyam, 1990. The Bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel…
Husband Cannot Reagitate Settled Matrimonial Dispute to Escape Maintenance Liability: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that a husband cannot reopen a question of marriage that has already been conclusively decided in earlier litigation merely to avoid his obligation to maintain his wife under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Justice Saurabh Banerjee dismissed the husband's revision…
Accused Cannot Use Revision to Introduce Documents at a Belated Stage and Delay Cheque Dishonour Trial Under Section 438(2) BNSS: Delhi Sessions Court
The Court of Additional Sessions Judge-04, West District, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi, has dismissed a revision petition filed by Sanjay Kumar and Pammi Singh against an order refusing them permission to place additional photographs on record as defence evidence. Judge Dheeraj Mittal held that the challenged order was an…
Family Enmity and Prosecution Contradictions Create Reasonable Doubt in Minor Molestation Case, Acquittal Upheld: Madhya Pradesh High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court's Indore Bench has upheld the acquittal of Jwala Singh, a man accused of molesting a minor girl in Shujalpur. Justice Jai Kumar Pillai, while deciding two connected criminal appeals, found that the prosecution case contained important contradictions and unexplained gaps. The Court also…
Article 226 | Certiorari Can Be Used to Quash Tribunal Decisions That Are Grossly Perverse: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that a High Court exercising its certiorari jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India can interfere with an order of a Tribunal or other authority when a finding is unsupported by evidence or documentary material. A Bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Atul S.…
Demanding Repayment of Loan Amount Does Not Constitute ‘Intentional Aid’ for Abetment of Suicide: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has held that a person demanding repayment of money that he had already advanced as a loan cannot, by that fact alone, be treated as having instigated or intentionally aided suicide. Justice S. Karthikeyan granted bail to Sathiyaraj, observing that there was no positive material showing that he…
