Jharkhand High Court News

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday stayed the state government s decision to cancel the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) examination and the Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) examination. It was the cancellation of

The Jharkhand High Court has acquitted a head warden accused of facilitating an undertrial s escape from prison in 2006. The court ruled that internal Jail Manual rules cannot establish criminal liability without concrete proof of intentional facilitation, not

The Jharkhand High Court has said that while the right to protest is a fundamental right, it cannot extend to obstructing court proceedings, assaulting those entrusted with the administration of justice or vandalising court premises. The observation came in re

The Jharkhand High Court recently dismissed a husband s plea for divorce, pointing out that his allegations of cruelty, including claims that she locked the bathroom and disconnected its water supply, and did not allow him to keep a cow in the house, were not

The Jharkhand High Court has directed a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable to pay Rs 30 lakh as one-time permanent alimony to his divorced wife and their son, holding that maintenance must ensure financial security while reflecting the husband s income

Holding that where a wife faces serious cruelty making it unsafe for her to return to her husband, the court can refuse to order her to resume living with him, a bench of Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Sanjay Prasad said that the family court must also see

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with a Jharkhand High Court order granting bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Deoghar treasury fodder scam case and asked the high court to decide his appeal against conviction wi

In an unusual case where a woman was arrested last year after she allegedly forced-fed her mother-in-law poisoned samosas and killed her, the Jharkhand High Court recently granted her bail. Justice Anil Kumar Choudhary was hearing the plea of the woman who had

The Jharkhand High Court acquitted a man who had spent over two decades fighting a conviction under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, after a Forensic Science Laboratory report established that the substance recovered from him was bhang and n

After 14 years of legal battle, a man has won a case in the Jharkhand High Court against Bokaro Steel Plant, which denied him a job appointment on compassionate grounds after his father died. The court held the company guilty of wrongly denying the job benefit