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    Allahabad High Court directs DGP to consider mandatory audio-video recording of witness statements under Section 180 BNSS
    Allahabad High Court asks UP DGP to consider making audio-video recording of witness statements under Section 180 BNSS mandatory.
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    Allahabad High Court Bar Association Asks Awadh Bar To Help Restrain Justice Deshwal From Judicial Work

    The Allahabad High Court Bar Association has written to the Awadh Bar Association seeking its help to have Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal restrained from judicial work over his October 28 and 29 orders.

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    Allahabad High Court Lucknow Bench building, illustrating the order on maintenance litigation and Family Court workload
    The Allahabad High Court declined to fast-track a maintenance execution case, citing the burden that multiplied litigation places on Family Courts.
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    Allahabad High Court Alters Acid Attack Conviction, Holds Section 326A IPC Burns Must Have Lasting Impact

    Acid Attack Conviction altered to Section 324 IPC by Allahabad HC, which held that burns under Section 326A IPC must leave a lasting impact on the body part.

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    Supreme Court of India, which sought a Registry note on why the CAPF officers' contempt case was struck off the cause list despite a judicial order
    Supreme Court relists CAPF officers' contempt plea against Union Home Secretary for September 30 at 2 PM
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    Supreme Court Allows FIR Quashing After Compromise, High Court Need Not Send Parties To Trial Court

    FIR quashing after compromise need not wait for a compounding application in the trial court, the Supreme Court has held, where the High Court itself has recorded a voluntary settlement verified by its Registrar.

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    Patna High Court, which quashed a Magistrate's cognizance order and the prosecution of two agnates under Sections 448, 341, 323 and 506 IPC amid an ancestral property dispute
    Patna High Court holds an FIR with no date, a far-fetched kidnapping link and a property feud backdrop cannot sustain a prosecution
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    Patna High Court Says Contractor Cannot Use Writ To Recover Time-Barred Dues After Eight-Year Delay

    About eight years: that is how long a contractor waited before asking a writ court to help him recover time-barred dues, and a Division Bench of the Patna High Court has held that the wait was far too long. Patna: The Patna High Court has dismissed a Letters Patent Appeal by a Rohtas contractor seeking […]

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    Patna High Court, which directed a Gaya PDS dealer to approach the Divisional Commissioner against the ceasing of her licence, with delay to be condoned and a decision within three months
    Patna High Court says the statutory remedy must be availed first but orders the delay condoned and a reasoned order within three months
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    Patna High Court Says One Time Settlement Bid Cannot Revive Unit Already Auctioned To Third Party

    Offering a bank draft under a One Time Settlement scheme does not buy back a unit that has already been sold, the Patna High Court has held, giving a defaulting borrower no enforceable right to restoration of his auctioned factory. Patna: The Patna High Court has dismissed a writ petition by the proprietor of a […]

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    Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, which quashed the chargesheet against the sub-inspector parents of the accused in the Kavin Selvaganesh murder case
    Madras High Court holds cell tower data cannot establish presence or the content of conversations
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    Madras High Court Orders Collector To Relocate Periyar Statue Near Kandiyur Temple Within Four Weeks

    The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Thanjavur District Collector to safely shift a Periyar statue standing near the Brahmasirakandeeswarar Temple at Kandiyur to another location within four weeks.

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    Delhi High Court refuses to recall complainant for cross-examination in a cheque dishonour case, holding witnesses cannot be recalled routinely
    Delhi High Court refuses to recall complainant for cross-examination in a cheque dishonour case, holding witnesses cannot be recalled routinely
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    Delhi High Court Sets Aside 20-Year POCSO Sentence, Retains Five-Year Term As Penetration Not Proved

    The Delhi High Court partly allowed Vishnu Prasad’s appeal, retaining a five-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault while setting aside the penetrative-offence convictions. The child’s compensation remains unchanged.

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    Punjab and Haryana High Court, which sought a status report on the police probe into violence at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara
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    P&H High Court Refuses CBI Plea To Shift Gurugram School Murder Trial Out Of Children’s Court

    Who may try a juvenile directed to be tried as an adult? Not a Special CBI Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled: the Gurugram school murder trial will stay with the Children’s Court at Gurugram. Chandigarh: Dismissing a petition that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed in 2018, the Punjab and […]

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