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Legal Current Affairs · 2 November 2026
3 judgments from the J&K and Ladakh High Court and Punjab & Haryana High Court and Patna High Court, explained for judiciary aspirants: the law behind each ruling, past exam questions on the same point, and practice MCQs.
J&K and Ladakh High Court Not videographed, still believed: J&K HC upholds rape convictions on the testimony of a speech-impaired child An eleven-year-old who could barely be understood by strangers testified through an interpreter, and the court did not record it on video, as the 2013 proviso requires. The High Court kept two convictions and acquitted the third accused. The reasoning raises a question it does not fully answer. 
Punjab & Haryana High Court A memo cannot undo a Gazette: P&H HC stops Haryana clawing back stamp duty from land-loser farmers Farmers whose land was acquired bought replacement farmland duty-free, on certificates the State itself issued. Years later two departmental letters told the Collectors to recover the duty. In 113 writ petitions the High Court explains the hierarchy of state instruments. 
Patna High Court Caste is by birth, the certificate only says so: Patna HC stops BPSC moving an SC doctor to the general list An SC woman doctor scored 29 marks, enough for the reserved list but not the general one. The Commission put her in the general list because her certificate named her husband. The Division Bench found no such condition in the advertisement, and explained why a certificate's wording cannot change a candidate's caste. 