The Calcutta High Court has dismissed the appeal of the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) over a denied stall at the Kolkata Book Fair, holding that the organising Guild does not perform a public function. Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has dismissed an intra-court appeal by the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights […]
Holding the Bihar Government and a stone-block bidder equally responsible for a nine-year delay in executing a mining lease in Sheikhpura, a Division Bench of the Patna High Court set aside forfeiture of the bidder’s Rs 2.90 crore deposit, ordered its refund with 12% interest, and laid down binding timelines for future mining tenders.
Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta High Court has directed the Officer-in-Charge of Muchipara Police Station not to permit Sarad Sangha club to organise Durga Puja at the common area of a G+3 residential building at 133A Raja Rammohan Sarani, Kolkata, without permission of the Flat Owners Association or individual flat owners, on a petition by five flat owners.
The Delhi High Court has dismissed Ashi Agarwal’s writ petition seeking an IIT seat for 2026 on the basis of her JEE (Main) 2025 result, holding that alleged discrepancies in NTA’s audit log raise disputed facts unfit for writ review and that Criterion A4 of the JEE (Advanced) 2026 brochure cannot be relaxed on grounds of sympathy.
Justice Jasmeet Singh of the Delhi High Court has dismissed a writ petition by Shri Sanatan Dharam Ramleela Samiti against the DDA’s cancellation of its booking of Chintoo Park, Naraina for a Ramlila from September 30 to October 25, 2026, holding that maintaining the park as a green space for residents, as earlier directed, outweighs temporary use for the event.
The Patna High Court has held that a writ petition by a widow who says she is neither borrower nor guarantor, challenging a Darbhanga Collector’s 2019 order giving Punjab National Bank possession of a property that includes her dwelling house, is not maintainable because Section 17 of the SARFAESI Act provides an effective remedy before the Debts Recovery Tribunal.
The Karnataka High Court at Dharwad held that the availability of a remedy before the Waqf Tribunal does not bar writ jurisdiction where the challenge is to the legality of the Waqf Board’s own action, and quashed an official memorandum constituting an eleven-month ad-hoc committee in place of the mechanism under Rule 54 of the Karnataka Wakf Rules, 2017.
