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Legal Current Affairs · 31 October 2026
3 judgments from the Supreme Court and Himachal Pradesh High Court and Jharkhand High Court, explained for judiciary aspirants: the law behind each ruling, past exam questions on the same point, and practice MCQs.
Supreme Court A legislature can change the law, not the verdict: SC strikes down Karnataka's Act reviving the tainted 2011 KPSC batch Courts at every level had upheld the cancellation of a recruitment found riddled with corruption. A decade later the State passed a law reinstating the selection. The Supreme Court explains the one thing a validating Act can never do. 
Himachal Pradesh High Court The plaint beat the sale deed by a morning: Himachal HC uses the petition-box rule to fix the hour of lis pendens A specific-performance suit was filed in Una on 3 June 1986. The same day, the seller's attorney sold part of the land to someone else. Forty years later the High Court settled which came first, using a 1930s rule about when the court's petition box is opened. 
Jharkhand High Court Watching is not the offence: Jharkhand HC acquits the husband's brother and his wife in a Dhanbad dowry death Every witness said the mother-in-law poured the kerosene and the husband struck the match. Against the husband's elder brother and his wife, the only accusation was that they watched and did not help. The High Court explains why that cannot sustain a dowry-death conviction. 