Digi - Legal Insights

No locus standi to challenge MHADAs e-tender when petitioner lacks registered agreement and enforceable rights under Article 226.

No legal bar on use of additional languages like Urdu on municipal signboards alongside Marathi; language use cannot be restricted solely on religious or political grounds.

Direction to restore land to pond set aside where delay in filing petition and public interest in existing park outweighed original use.

High Courts must ensure construction of separate, accessible washroom facilities in all judicial premises for all persons.

Sale agreement liable for stamp duty; document rightly impounded.

No separate notification required if slum is already censused; no legal infirmity in project.

Access to proper washrooms is a fundamental right under Article 21, and all courts must ensure hygienic facilities for judges, lawyers, litigants, and staff.

Substantive rights under eligibility certificate cannot be revoked without notice.

Right to claim a refund crystallizes at time of execution of Cancellation Deed; subsequent amendments to Stamp Act cannot retrospectively bar claim.

Reopening settled rebate claims barred by res judicata; no illegality in demand notice.

Registered title v. unregistered interest-Later registered sale prevails over earlier unregistered equitable mortgage.

Regulatory penalties under Consumer Act not covered by IBC moratorium.

A High Court judgment cannot be declared illegal under Article 32; the proper remedy is recall or appeal under Article 136.

Criminal proceedings should not be quashed at a preliminary stage when doubts exist regarding the necessity of sanction under Section 197 CrPC.

Allegations vague and lodged after considerable delay; FIR quashed.

Substantial injury caused to public exchequer; quashing refused.

Conviction set aside due to weak circumstantial evidence and absence of a reliable extra-judicial confession.

Procedural lapses, including parallel investigations and lack of forensic examination, prejudiced accused, warranting commutation of death sentence.

In death penalty cases, circumstantial evidence must meet a stricter standard; failure to exclude all reasonable doubts makes sentence unsustainable.

Long incarceration and lack of antecedents justify bail when the trial is unlikely to conclude soon.