The few important decisions taken by different High Courts are:
Delhi High Court
- Former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram in the appeal filed by Enforcement Directorate against the pre-arrest bail granted to both in the Aircel Maxis case.
- Gave relief to an employee of a Fertilizer PSU who was required to pay three months’ salary in lieu of notice period.
- High Court while upholding the acquittal of a man accused of raping a woman on the pretext of promise to marry. Justice Vibhu Bakhru observed that continuing with an intimate relationship, which also involves engaging in sexual activity, over a significant period of time cannot be said to be induced involuntarily merely on an assertion that another party has expressed its intention to get married.
- Held that ensuring at least one Central School in each Taluka and having common syllabus for all schools is a policy decision that needs to be addressed by the Government.
- Granted relief to two doctors who were denied admissions by NBE for non-production of MBBS degree at the time of counseling.
Gujarat High Court
- High Court while rejecting former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea for suspension of sentence in custodial death case observed that the Court was prima facie satisfied about the conviction of Bhatt.
Karnataka High Court
- Held that Section 5 of the Limitation Act cannot be invoked to condone the delay in filing an appeal against an award under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013.
- Directed the Govt. to complete tree census in Bengaluru by September 30th, 2020.
Kerala High Court
- Directed the State to take appropriate measures to ensure that commuters and Uber drivers are not obstructed from using the Uber applications. Acts of violence affecting the rights of citizens to move freely or to carry on their avocation and affecting their right to life are liable to be treated as serious offence against society.
- Denied Regular bail in PALARIVATTOM FLYOVER SCAM case to the former secretary to Kerela Public Works Department T O Soorja, Managing Director of RDS Projects Sumeet Goyal, former Additional General Manager of Roads and Bridges Development Corporation of Kerala MT Thankachan.
- Held that CCTV footage of a crime is not a ‘material object’ and therefore the accused is entitled to receive a copy of it as per Section 207 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Punjab & Haryana High Court
- Held that a mandamus cannot be issued to the authorities to issue a certificate stating that a person does not belong to any religion, has no caste and is an Atheist.
- Observed that the married couples cannot be deprived of the fundamental right of protection of right and liberty, even if it is a case of invalid or void marriage or absence of any marriage.
Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Held that if the gender of one of the parties in matrimonial dispute is questioned by the other party, the Court may direct such a party to undergo medical examination and plea of violation of privacy shall not be maintainable.
Tripura High Court
- Directed the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress (INC) to file affidavits disclosing the details of public properties in their illegal possession, in relation to which they are claiming the title by way of adverse possession.
Telangana High Court
Reiterated that once a substantially long period has lapsed between involvements of a person in different criminal cases, a rowdy sheet maintained by the police classifying him as the habitual offender cannot survive.