Recognition of bravery and eligibility for promotion are separate questions, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held, refusing a police constable Out-Of-Turn Promotion as of right for rescuing two neighbours whose clothes had caught fire and ruling that an off-duty act, however commendable, does not by itself fall within Rule 56(3) of the 1973 Rules. […]
Seven years after filing, a petitioner in Seoni asked to turn his PIL into private petition as the hearing neared its end, and the Madhya Pradesh High Court answered with Rs 10,000 in costs. Calling the move an “abuse of the process of law”, the Court noted that the Patan Kanera irrigation dam had stood […]
Nine years separated the day the plaintiff learnt of the defendants’ entries and the day he applied for certified copies. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that this gap cannot save a 2024 suit against the 1994 Sale Deeds, rejecting it at the threshold because the plaintiff’s own plaint showed that he “slept over […]
Valid cause to live apart does not settle the question of capable wife maintenance on its own: the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that a wife with sufficient cause to live separately is not, for that reason alone, entitled to maintenance if she is found capable of maintaining herself, while upholding Rs 30,000 a […]
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered a housing finance company to unlock a borrower’s home because the Debt Recovery Tribunal lacks presiding officer cover at Jabalpur, holding: “A litigant cannot be made to suffer merely because the Forum created by law is temporarily vacant.” Indore: The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore has told […]
Twelve workers died in the Dewas Fireworks Blast, yet the Madhya Pradesh High Court has released the two men accused of financing and running the illegal unit on bail, saying “mere designation as owner/financer or manager/partner/owner cannot, in every circumstance, automatically establish criminal culpability.” Indore: Mukesh Vij and Anil Malviya, accused in connection with the […]
Aadhaar Not Conclusive Proof Of Age, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held, taking a deceased boy’s age from his postmortem report and raising his parents’ motor accident compensation from Rs 5,45,000 to Rs 8,25,500. Gwalior: A boy’s Aadhaar card said he was past 14; the postmortem report said 13. The Madhya Pradesh High Court […]
Allowing a 14-year-old sexual assault survivor to end her 26-week pregnancy, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has told trial courts to attach a Medical Board report to every such request, noting that “every moment is of considerable significance”. Gwalior: Trial courts in Madhya Pradesh must annex a Medical Board report whenever they forward a request […]
“A mark of honour and neither a bounty nor a dole”: with those words the Supreme Court has restored a widow’s Freedom Fighter Pension after her claim was turned away for delay, laches and estoppel. Such claims, the Court held, are decided on probabilities, and a hypertechnical process diminishes the very honour the scheme confers. […]
