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MP High Court Directs Father To Return Daughters Custody To Mother If He Remarries Or Enters Live-In Relationship

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has granted custody of a four-year-old child to her father, until he remarries or enters into a live-in relationship. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 408]Noting that the child's mother (the wife) was residing with another man and does not wish to return to her husband, the bench of Chief Justice Alpesh Y Kogje and Justice Vivek Jain deemed it appropriate to grant custody to...

MP High Court Seeks Centres Stand On Bar Association Presidents Plea Against Blocking Of His WhatsApp Accounts

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has sought the Union Government's response on a plea filed by the President of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar Association challenging the blocking of his WhatsApp accounts.A bench of Justice Vishal Mishra granted time to Union's counsel, to seek instructions in the matter. The Court also directed the petitioner to forward a copy of the plea to the counsel appearing for Meta Inc., which owns and operates WhatsApp. The matter has been listed for October 12,...

‘Such Appointments Purely Professional In Nature, Cannot Be Categorized As Public Employment’: MP High Court Denies Reservations In Appointment Of Law Officers At Office Of Advocate General

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed a detailed inquiry by a special team to find out who sexually assaulted a minor victim at Bageshwar Dham in District Chhatarpur. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 405]The bench of Justice Ajay Kumar Nirankari also directed an inquiry into the identity of the biological father of the victim's fetus, after the accused-applicant's DNA sample did not match the fetus' DNA.Noting that the victim was 16 years old, the bench observed that in her statements under Sections 180...

PIL Cant Be Used To Unsettle Rights From Registered Transaction In Absence Of Prima Facie Fraud: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation, observing that it cannot be used to unsettle rights arising from a registered transaction, especially in the absence of prima facie fraud or irregularity. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 404]The division bench of Chief Justice Alpesh Y. Kogje and Justice Deepak Khot observed:"A PIL cannot be permitted to unsettle rights flowing...

Removing Street Vendors Not A Solution, Need Proper Plan: MP High Court Seeks Bar Associations Participation To Tackle Jabalpur Court Traffic

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has called upon the Bar Association and other stakeholders to participate in a public interest litigation concerning traffic problems allegedly caused by street vendors and handcarts near Gates 3 and 4 of the Jabalpur District Court.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Alpesh Yeshwant Kogje and Justice Vivek Jain observed that the participation of...

Simhastha Kumbh Road Widening: Plea In MP High Court Challenges Municipal Law For Circumventing Land Acquisition, Compensation Process

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday (October 5) issued notice on a petition challenging the vires of Section 305 of the Madhya Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956, in connection with a road widening project being undertaken ahead of the Simhastha Kumbh.Section 305 of the Act empowers the Municipal Corporation to regulate the line of buildings and order the removal or setting back...

Elderly Male Members Can Be Dependent On Younger Female Member To Handle Family Litigation: MP High Court Debunks Misogynistic Assumption

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that elderly male members of a family can be dependent upon a younger female member to take necessary steps in family litigation. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 403]Holding that any assumption to the contrary would be "inherently gender-biased" and "typically misogynistic", the bench of Justice Anuradha Shukla stated:"The reasoning adopted by the First Appellate...

Motor Accident | Dependants Pecuniary Loss Cant Be Denied Merely Because Family Business Continued After Death: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that dependants cannot be denied pecuniary loss suffered by them due to the demise of the earning member in a motor accident, merely because the pathology establishment the deceased was associated with was continued by another family member. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 401]The bench of Justice Ramkumar Choubey further rejected the presumption that the dependants...