A salary-execution petition before the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court turned on two precedents whose citations would not hold up to scrutiny — one untraceable, one patently wrong. Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal used the occasion to lay down that every AI-generated citation must be independently verified before it enters a judicial order, and directed the judgment circulated to all judicial officers in J&K and Ladakh.
Telangana HC DB (CJ Aparesh Kumar Singh and G.M. Mohiuddin J.) dismissed a PIL alleging ward-wise reservation between 70% and 90% in Telangana municipalities, finding the data did not substantiate the claim and reaffirming the horizontal-within-vertical reservation framework.
On 28 March 2018, a three-judge Bench held in Asian Resurfacing of Road Agency v. CBI that interim stays of trial granted by a High Court in civil and criminal proceedings would automatically vacate after six months, unless extended by a speaking order. The rule operated for almost six years before, on 29 February 2024, a five-judge Constitution Bench in High Court Bar Association, Allahabad v. State of UP held it constitutionally unsustainable and overruled it. A digest of both judgments, the practitioner architecture they produced, and the constitutional position that now obtains.