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No ordinary litigant, can’t win cases by hook or crook: Jharkhand High Court imposes Rs 1 lakh costs on State
December 19, 2025 5:20 pm
The court imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh on state officials for filing a civil review petition after finding it to be an attempt to stall proceedings before an executing court.
Abandoning spouse in anger, disgust not desertion: Jharkhand High Court denies divorce to man
December 15, 2025 5:03 pm
Jharkhand High Court Judgement on Desertion Divorce Case: Jharkhand High Court said that the marriage took place on April 30, 2021, and the suit for dissolution for marriage was filed by the husband on September 1, 2022, which was within two years of the marriage due to which the family court rejected the said ground of desertion as alleged by the husband.
Jharkhand High Court commutes death penalty, cites ‘judgment of acquittal’ in division bench’s split decision
December 10, 2025 9:33 am
Justice Rangon Mukhopadhyay ruling, Death penalty negated case: Previously, Justice Rangon Mukhopadhyay opined that the charge against the appellants had not been proved beyond the shadow of all reasonable doubt, whereas Justice Sanjay Prasad held appellants guilty of the offences charged and confirmed the death sentence.
Jharkhand High Court says mother’s ‘mamta’ best suited for offspring, grants custody to woman
December 04, 2025 2:38 pm
Jharkhand High Court in Child Custody Case: The bench reffered to empirical studies that show mother-infant “bonding” begins at the child's birth and that infants frequently show signs of distress when the mother is replaced by a substitute caregiver.
Jharkhand advocate tells HC judge ‘don’t cross the limit’, gets contempt notice
October 17, 2025 5:09 pm
Jharkhand High Court news, Jharkhand High Court lawyer row: The incident took place on October 16 in the court of Justice Rajesh Kumar after advocate Mahesh Tewari completed his submissions for his client facing disconnection of power supply due to non-payment of bills.
After lawyer ‘threatened’ court during hearing, Jharkhand HC takes a stern view, Bar Council chief intervenes
September 27, 2025 7:24 pm
According to the court, the “hooliganism” was witnessed by several members of the bar -- including a senior counsel.
‘Do you want commission in each and every case?’: High Court pulls up NHAI for objecting to compensation for family
August 29, 2025 7:53 pm
The land in question was originally allotted by the Jharkhand government in 1975 to a landless Scheduled Caste family under its settlement policy
Supreme Court asks Jharkhand HC judges to go on leave to pen pending verdicts
August 09, 2025 5:33 am
Friday’s developments are only the latest in what happened in a series of petitions filed before the top court since April this year complaining about the HC sitting over verdicts reserved years ago
Jharkhand HC commutes death sentence in 2018 Gumla rape-murder
July 24, 2025 4:05 am
The case pertains to 2018 rape-and-murder of a toddler in Gumla district on September 23, 2018. The convict, Bandhan Oraon was eventually found guilty and sentenced to death
To avoid paying alimony and child support, man claimed he was unemployed. Then, his wife filed an RTI
July 01, 2025 12:27 pm
The Jharkhand High Court has now granted the woman and her autistic son a total of Rs 90,000 to be paid by the man, who in fact works at an IT firm, each month
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