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Saif Ali Khan’s ancestral property
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Madhya Pradesh HC sets aside 25-year-old Trial Court order concerning Saif Ali Khan’s ancestral property; Remands matters for fresh trial

The original partition suits were filed by the heirs of the deceased Nawab’s elder brother against Saif Ali Khan’s grandmother who inherited the vast personal estate of the late Nawab, her grandfather, when she took the throne.

Published on July 7, 2025July 11, 2025By Sonali Ahuja
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP High Court affirms JJ Act’s jurisdictional primacy over NIA Act in trials involving juveniles

“A person cannot be a juvenile for one purpose and an adult for other purpose. The Courts lean strongly against any construction which tends to reduce a statute to a futility.”

Published on May 28, 2025June 2, 2025By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Advocate General can represent any autonomous body/Corporation of State or charge independent professional fees: MP High Court

The Court did not find “any illegality prima facie in the case of engaging lawyers by the autonomous body i.e. MPNRC and paying the professional fees as per their norms.”

Published on April 8, 2025April 16, 2025By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

‘Judicial forum not for harassing a person, but to protect rights of parties’; MP High Court quashes JMFC order for FIR registration

“It is expected from a litigant to approach the court with all bonafides and without any ill-motive.”

Published on November 27, 2024December 4, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Internal Complaints Committee obligated to attempt Conciliation to settle sexual harassment case before starting inquiry: MP High Court

“The enquiry is nothing but an eye wash because the same was conducted without following any procedure which had to be mandatorily followed.”

Published on November 21, 2024November 26, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP High Court refuses to quash MP Vivek Tankha’s defamation case against Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

“Indisputably, the public good is a question of fact. Good faith has also to be established as a fact. Ergo, to prove good faith so as to constitute offence of Section 499 of IPC, trial is necessary.”

Published on November 5, 2024November 13, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP High Court quashes FIR under Section 370 IPC and JJ Act against Christian Missionary over Adoption of Children

The Court held that “the prosecution of the petitioner is sugarcoated with ill-intention and made to belittle his image in the society.”

Published on October 9, 2024October 17, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP High Court quashes Rape case lodged by Honey trap racket operator

The Court held that while delay in reporting rape is not always material, in the present case, it is crucial due to the complainant’s history and the timing of her allegations.

Published on July 10, 2024July 17, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Failed Long-term relationships not ground for filing Rape FIRs: Madhya Pradesh High Court

‘In a young age when relationship develops, they naturally carry impression that they will get married. However, sometimes it fails, and the girl, considering herself to be betrayed and deceived, cannot lodge the FIR saying that rape has been committed with her.”

Published on July 9, 2024July 17, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP High Court stays Som Distilleries’ licence suspension in Child Labour case

The petitioner’s license was suspended based on inspection by the National Child Protection Commission disclosing employment of 59 minor children.

Published on July 8, 2024July 10, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Waqf Tribunal has no jurisdiction to decide pre-Waqf Act suits pending before civil courts: MP High Court

Section 7(5) of the Waqf Act, 1995 states that the Wakf Tribunal does not have jurisdiction over matters that were already the subject of a suit or proceeding in a civil court before the commencement of the Act.

Published on July 1, 2024July 3, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP/MLA Court’s bailable warrants against former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP State President, stayed

Madhya Pradesh High Court noted petitioners’ contentions that they were busy with election-related responsibilities and thus couldn’t submit the personal undertaking for permanent exemption.

Published on April 8, 2024April 17, 2024By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Madhya Pradesh High Court quashes FIR in contractual dispute due to ‘lack of specific allegations and delay in lodging complaint’

Madhya Pradesh High Court emphasised that a purely civil dispute should not be converted into a criminal prosecution.

Published on December 6, 2023December 8, 2023By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Temporary Appointees cannot claim regularization based on past performance or long service: Madhya Pradesh High Court

Madhya Pradesh High Court held that “in the terms and conditions of the appointment it is clearly mentioned that the employee would not be having any right to claim regularization”.

Published on July 3, 2023July 4, 2023By Ritu
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Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Madhya Pradesh High Court quashes FIR lodged under Section 377 IPC against Former Minister Raghavji

The present case is “nothing but the assimilation of personal and political antipathies, more precisely, a politically oriented-animosity, which makes the petitioner’s prosecution malicious.”

Published on June 21, 2023June 23, 2023By Ritu
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