scorecardresearch
Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicGauhati High Court

Topic: Gauhati High Court

Gauhati HC adjourns plea for CBI probe into delay in notifying Kaziranga ESZ. ‘Similar case pending in SC’

Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court has kept pending a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed on the destruction of wildlife habitat in the Kaziranga National...

‘Candidates have right to privacy, no need to lay life threadbare’ — SC ruling on poll affidavits

In April 2019, Gauhati High Court had set aside Arunachal Independent MLA Karikho Kri for corrupt practice as he failed to declare ownership of three vehicles.

HC judge moves SC against HC order — it all started with 2009 NIA case against Assam terror group

A former NIA court judge now in the Gauhati High Court moved the Supreme Court earlier this month with a petition taking exception to an order passed by 2 judges of HC.

‘Based on suspicion…not supported by evidence’ — Gauhati HC order acquitting 5 in 2004 Assam blast

Trial court in 2019 convicted the 5 in case of bomb blast at Dhemaji College playground, which killed 13 people on the spot, including 10 schoolchildren & injured several others.

Gauhati HC acquits all 6 in 2004 Assam blast that killed 18 people, including 13 students

A division bench of justices Michael Zothankhuma and Mridul Kumar overturned a 2019 order of the Dhemaji district and sessions court.

‘Scam’ in HC complex construction — why Nagaland CM’s ‘right hand men’ were summoned by ED

Special assistant in CMO & 4 contractors allegedly close to CM were called for questioning by ED in February. Matter came to light in April, but reason for ED summons wasn’t known.

Didn’t take care of your parents in old age? For Mizos, it means losing status as legal heir

SC decides property dispute pertaining to inheritance of assets belonging to one P.S. Dahrawka, who had 8 children with wife Kaithuami: Seven daughters and a son. 

Judicial probe into brutal Assam eviction hasn’t begun in 3 months, 1st staffer appointed now

Case in Darrang district's Sipajhar made headlines in September for 'brutality' of Assam Police and images of photographer stomping on body of villager. At least 2 people died.

First ‘Indian’, then ‘foreigner’, Gauhati HC frees Assam woman caught in tribunal flip-flop

Hasina Bhanu was declared a foreigner in March 2021 by a Foreigner’s Tribunal — the same one that in 2016 had found that she was ‘not a foreigner/ illegal migrant of any stream’.

SC Collegium approves appointment of 3 permanent judges for Gauhati HC

Headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana, the collegium approved the names of Justices Soumitra Saikia, Parthivjyoti Saikia and S Hukato Swu in a meeting held on 9 September.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?