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15/12/2025, 6 days ago

Promotion Cannot Be Withheld Merely Because a Charge-Sheet Was Issued but Not Served, Rules Uttrakhand High Court

Introduction: In WPSS No. 1672 of 2024, the Uttarakhand High Court examined an important issue relating to service jurisprudence and disciplinary proceedings, particularly the stage at which a charge-sheet can lawfully affect an employee’s promotion. The writ petition was filed by a Forest Department employee whose promotion to the post of Forest Range Officer was […]

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15/12/2025, 6 days ago

Gross Receipts Are Not Income: Bombay High Court Stays Entire Tax Demand Against State-Funded Educational Trust

Introduction: In Godavari Shikshan Prasarak Mandal Sindhi v. Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemption), Pune and Others (Writ Petition No. 16464 of 2025), the Bombay High Court delivered an important ruling reaffirming a fundamental principle of income tax law—that only real income can be brought to tax and not gross receipts divorced from expenditure. The Division […]

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15/12/2025, 6 days ago

Typographical Errors in FIRs Cannot Be a Shortcut to Quash Criminal Proceedings, Holds Punjab and Haryana High Court

Introduction: In Mohd. Arif and Others v. State of Haryana and Another, the Punjab and Haryana High Court was called upon to examine the scope of its inherent powers under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the context of an application seeking quashing of a cruelty and dowry harassment FIR. The case […]

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15/12/2025, 6 days ago

Calcutta High Court: Invalid Pension Cannot Be Denied for Permanent Disability Merely for Falling Short of Ten Years’ Service

Introduction: In The Union of India & Ors. v. Gandeti Vasudeva Rao (Ex Sep No.1396744-H), WPCT 152 of 2025, the Calcutta High Court was called upon to decide an important question touching the rights of medically discharged defence personnel to receive invalid pension. The case was adjudicated by a Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice […]

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15/12/2025, 6 days ago

J&K&L High Court Declares Decades of Continuous Daily-Wage Service Cannot Be Reduced to “Casual Labour” to Deny Regularization

Introduction: In U. T. of J&K and Others vs. Kashmir Singh (WP(C) No. 3303/2025), the Division Bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, comprising Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal, delivered a significant judgment reinforcing the constitutional and labour law principles governing regularization of long-serving daily rated workers. The case arose from […]

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15/12/2025, 6 days ago

Supreme Court Upholds Monetary Settlement Over Reinstatement in Long-Pending Assam LDA Appointments

Introduction: In The State of Assam & Ors. v. Mukut Ranjan Sarma & Ors. (Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1204), the Supreme Court of India examined a prolonged dispute arising out of the termination of 40 Lower Division Assistants (LDAs) who were appointed in the year 2001 under a special rehabilitation policy of the Assam Government. […]

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13/12/2025, 1 week ago

Delhi High Court Clarifies That Medical Negligence Without Mens Rea Cannot Trigger Criminal Liability

Introduction: In Venkateshwar Hospital and Another v. State of NCT of Delhi and Another, the Delhi High Court presided over by Justice Amit Mahajan quashed an FIR alleging criminal medical negligence against a private hospital and its senior gynaecologist after a cotton mop was inadvertently left inside a patient’s abdomen during a caesarean section, causing […]

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13/12/2025, 1 week ago

Karnataka High Court Extends Protection from Harassment While CCB Probes Abetment to Suicide Allegations Against Corporate Executives

Introduction: In the significant proceedings before the Karnataka High Court in Subrat Kumar Dash & Others v. State of Karnataka & Another, Criminal Petition No. 14346/2025, the legal landscape surrounding workplace accountability and employer liability was once again placed under judicial scrutiny, with the High Court being apprised that the investigation in the abetment to […]

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13/12/2025, 1 week ago

Patna High Court Holds ‘Deemed Guilt’ Has No Place in Service Law: Punishment on Police Officer Quashed

Introduction: In the recent judgment delivered by the Patna High Court in Bhola Kumar Singh v. State of Bihar and Others, Civil Writ Jurisdiction No. 7478 of 2023, the Court confronted an important issue touching upon the core principles of service jurisprudence, specifically whether a public servant can be punished merely on the basis of […]

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