Ram Naresh Rawat v. Ashwini Ray is one of the most quoted and least understood Supreme Court rulings in MP service law. This analysis separates what the Court actually held, permanency gets minimum pay scale, not increments, from the myths built around it, and maps out the regularisation route the judgment itself points to.
The MP High Court's Gwalior Bench resolves a long-standing drafting gap in the MP Municipalities Act, 1961, holding that limitation for an election petition against a Municipal President runs from the date of election at the Council's first meeting, not from any Gazette notification. The Court also imposed costs of Rs. 1,00,000 on a party for raising a maintainability objection it knew to be baseless.
A Division Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court reduced a murder conviction to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and acquitted three co-accused, applying the Stalin totality of circumstances test and the strict evidentiary standard for common intention under Section 34 IPC.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal award that dismissed a genuine compensation claim over a guardian-appointment technicality involving a minor driver, and restored the claim for fresh adjudication at Sidhi.
The MP High Court has set aside a Rs. 30,000 monthly maintenance order after the Family Court failed to explain why it awarded a fifth of the husband's assessed income, remanding the matter with directions on the Rajnesh v. Neha disclosure guidelines and the 25 percent quantum benchmark.
MP High Court Sets Aside Refusal to Refer an Execution Dispute to Arbitration in Jaipaldas Rajdev v. Varsha Agarwal Arbitration Appeal No. 265 of 2025 | Decided 2 September 2026 | MP High Court, Jabalpur Introduction A landlord and tenant settle an eviction suit.…
In Satyabir Singh v. M.P. Industrial Development Corporation Ltd., the High Court of Madhya Pradesh held that seniority alone does not create an automatic right to hold a higher officiating post. The judgment reaffirms that candidates must meet the foundational statutory eligibility criteria, and clarifies that state contractual rules requiring cabinet approval do not apply to autonomous corporate bodies.
The recent landmark decision by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh in Neha Jain Vs. State of M.P. provides a comprehensive look at the strict limits placed on state executive power regarding the removal of democratically elected Municipal Presidents under Section 41-A of the M.P. Municipalities Act, 1961.
In the complex intersection of family law, the right to privacy often clashes with the pursuit of truth. Discover when a Family Court can legally order a DNA test in a divorce petition based on adultery without violating the statutory presumption of legitimacy under Section 112 of the Indian Evidence Act.
In a pivotal 2026 judgment, the High Court of Madhya Pradesh ruled that an eviction suit for a commercial property under statutory grounds does not automatically qualify as a commercial dispute under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Read the comprehensive analysis of Kanhaiya Lal Aswani v. Deepak Manohar Lal Chawala.
