Know thy Judge

Former Judge of Uttaranchal High Court, Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra was recently elevated as the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court. At his swearing-in ceremony, Justice Mishra stated that his priority will be to impart justice to the poor and downtrodden while expediting old cases.

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Jharkhand High Court concurred with the Trial Court’s decision and held that the prosecution has proved the charge beyond all shadow of doubt which cannot be said to suffer from an error.

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Jharkhand High Court refused to disturb the findings of Trial Court and Appellate Court in a title suit for succession by an adopted son, whose adoption was questioned on the ground of customary provisions of Santhals.

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While dealing with an appeal in a Title suit for partition, Jharkhand High Court considered the admissibility of disputed relationship of a mother and son through witnesses lacking ‘special means of knowledge’ as required under Section 50 of the Evidence Act, 1872.

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Jharkhand High court held that amarried woman cannot invoke section 376(2)(n) of the IPC, after establishing a relationship with man other than her husband

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    Jharkhand High Court: Anubha Rawat Choudhary, J., while dismissing the writ petition dealing with a service matter preferred by the

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Jharkhand High Court: Rajesh Shankar, J., while dismissing the present writ petition primarily for want of territorial jurisdiction held that even if

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Jharkhand High Court: Rajesh Shankar, J., while dismissing the present writ petition primarily for want of territorial jurisdiction held that even if

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    Jharkhand High Court: S.N. Pathak, J., allowed the writ petition directing Central Coalfields Limited (‘CCL') to modify the monetary compensation

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President appoints Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, to be an Additional Judge of the Jharkhand High Court, for a period of two years with

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Jharkhand High Court: Sujit Narayan Prasad, J., addresses a very pertinent question of whether the Jharkhand Lokayukta Act, 2001 provides power for

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Supreme Court Collegium has, on reconsideration, resolved to reiterate its earlier recommendation for the elevation of Shri Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, Judicial Officer

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Appointment of Two Judges [Patna High Court] President appoints Nawneet Kumar Pandey and Sunil Kumar Panwar to be the Judges of Patna

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Jharkhand High Court: The Division Bench of Ravi Ranjan, CJ., and Sujit Narayan Prasad, J., addressed the disturbing incident pertaining to death

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Jharkhand High Court: Kailash Prasad Deo J. allowed the appeal and directed respondent-Railway to pay a sum of Rs 8 Lacs in

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Elevation of 5 Judicial Officers as Judges in Jharkhand High Court Supreme Court Collegium has approved the proposal for elevation of the

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Jharkhand High Court: A Division Bench of Dr Ravi Ranjan, CJ and Sujit Narayan Prasad, J., took suo motu cognizance to monitor

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Jharkhand High Court: The Division Bench of Dr Ravi Ranjan, CJ and Sujit Narayan Prasad, J., directed State to decide to conduct

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Jharkhand High Court: In an interesting case Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J., had held that the 10% reservation to Economically Weaker Sections cannot

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Jharkhand High Court: S.N.Pathak, J., held that the employees of Telco Recreation Club cannot claim parity in pay and other benefits at