In a significant ruling, the Allahabad High Court has clarified that trial courts cannot ignore a subsequent police “final report” merely because cognizance was already taken on an earlier charge sheet. Justice Anil Kumar-X allowed a criminal appeal filed by Sonu and five others, setting aside orders through which charges had been framed against them in an SC/ST Act case.

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In a significant ruling on land use and environmental safeguards, the Supreme Court of India has set aside the change of land use (CLU) granted for a proposed cement grinding unit in Sangrur, Punjab.

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At the Srinagar wing of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, a bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by National Insurance Company Limited. The insurer was seeking to overturn a compensation award granted to a family whose home was damaged during the devastating 2014 floods.

The case originates from a policy taken by late Shad Mohd Bashir, whose residential house at Sarai Payeen, Amira Kadal, Srinagar, had been insured since 2009. Though the policy was renewed annually, the company later claimed that it excluded flood and similar storm-related risks - referred to in technical jargon as “STFI” (Storm, Tempest, Flood, Inundation).