A single bench of Justice Amit Seth at the Gwalior bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled on how the age of a road accident victim must be fixed.
An Aadhaar card on its own, the Court said, does not settle how old its holder is.
It went by the postmortem report instead, which it found the safer record, and put the age of the boy who died at 13 at the time of the accident.
The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal had gone by the Aadhaar card and taken the age as 14 years, 7 months and 9 days.
The claimants had appealed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 for higher compensation, and the appeal was allowed in part.
Monthly income was taken as Rs 7,950 under the State Legal Services Authority guidelines, and a multiplier of 15 was used in place of the Tribunal's 18.
The total went up from the Tribunal's award of Rs 5,45,000 to Rs 8,25,500, a rise of Rs 2,80,500.
Age fixed by the Court:13 yearsMonthly income taken:Rs 7,950Multiplier applied:15Compensation held payable:Rs 8,25,500
Why it matters for exams: Aadhaar is issued under the Aadhaar Act, 2016 as proof of identity and not of date of birth, and Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 is the appeal provision against a Tribunal award.
Justice Pavan Kumar Dwivedi of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has set aside a criminal case built against a school student who joined a protest.
The police had booked seven people, the student among them, for gathering outside a police station with banners and slogans.
The charge was disobedience of an order of a public servant under Section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the order in question being one passed by the District Magistrate of Barwani.
The Court pointed out that Section 215 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita allows a court to take cognizance of such an offence only on a written complaint by the public servant concerned.
Here the Station House Officer had acted as the complainant and no written complaint came from the District Magistrate, so the trial court could not take cognizance.
The second charge, under Section 126(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, could not be separated from the first, and the spot map showed the group standing away from the police station building.
The Court therefore quashed the cognizance order, the first information report and the charge-sheet; the petitioner had scored a distinction in four of his five Class 12 subjects.
Citation:2026:MPHC-IND:30816Persons named in the FIR:seven people
Why it matters for exams: Section 215 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita carries forward the bar on cognizance without a public servant's written complaint, the provision that stood as Section 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Justice Himanshu Joshi of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has cancelled a first information report registered against a journalist who runs a news channel on YouTube.
He had put out a report on violence during a Ganesh Visarjan procession at Silwani in Raisen district, in which two people were hurt.
A complaint said the report caused fear and could stir trouble between communities, and a case was opened under Section 196(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
The Court said that provision corresponds substantially to Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code, and that merely carrying news of a violent incident does not make out the offence.
It held that broad claims of fear and tension, with no particular words that promote enmity, do not raise a prima facie case, so letting the proceedings run would be an abuse of the process of law.
Being a journalist gives no immunity where the ingredients of an offence are present, but neither can speech be curbed without legal justification, given the right under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.
The Court leaned on the Supreme Court decisions in Patricia Mukhim and Bilal Ahmed Kaloo, which require a guilty mind and enmity between at least two groups.
Why it matters for exams: Section 196(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is the successor to Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code, and Article 19(1)(a) guarantees freedom of speech and expression.
Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has undone ex parte proceedings taken against a woman in a civil suit pending at Indore.
The case is Ku. Jyoti Singh vs Chetan Lashkari.
She told the Court that her former counsel never kept her posted on what was happening in the trial court, even though she kept asking.
The Court found support for this in the messages exchanged between them and held that a litigant cannot be made to suffer for the negligence of an advocate.
It noted that the lawyer had given her wrong information about the proceedings and had not objected to a status quo order at the first hearing.
Treating the conduct as serious professional misconduct, the Court read it against Section 35 of the Advocates Act, 1961 and the Bar Council of India Rules.
It asked the Bar Council to consider suitable action against the advocate concerned.
Case:Ku. Jyoti Singh vs Chetan LashkariProvision read by the Court:Section 35, Advocates Act, 1961
Why it matters for exams: Section 35 of the Advocates Act, 1961 is the provision under which a State Bar Council punishes professional misconduct, and the Bar Council of India frames the rules of professional conduct.
Madhya Pradesh received nine of the 57 national awards handed out in Swachh Survekshan 2025-26, the largest share won by any state this year. The awards were given at a ceremony in New Delhi on Wednesday. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said the result came from the joint work of sanitation workers, officials, elected representatives and citizens, and praised Indore as a model of cleanliness for the whole country. Swachh Survekshan is the national cleanliness survey of cities held under the Swachh Bharat Mission, which was launched on October 2, 2014. The state has linked its city clean-up to Simhastha-2028 in Ujjain, with plans for better waste processing, sewage treatment plants, public toilets and cleaner rivers.
Awards won by Madhya Pradesh:nineTotal national awards:57Swachh Bharat Mission launched:October 2, 2014
Why it matters for exams: Swachh Survekshan, the Swachh Bharat Mission and its launch date, and the host city of Simhastha are regular general-studies questions.
Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri was declared elected unopposed in the Rajya Sabha bypoll from Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. The nominations of the two other candidates were rejected at scrutiny, which left him as the only one in the field, so no vote was needed. Returning Officer Umesh Sharma made the declaration on the last day for withdrawing nominations. The seat fell vacant when L Murugan resigned from the Upper House. Murugan's term was due to end on April 2, 2030, and the new member serves only the rest of that term. The Rajya Sabha is the Upper House of Parliament; its members from a state are elected by the elected members of that state's legislative assembly.
Elected member:Hardeep Singh PuriVacancy caused by:L MuruganTerm of the seat ends:April 2, 2030
Why it matters for exams: How Rajya Sabha members are elected, their six-year term and the Article that sets up the Council of States are standard Polity questions.
Madhya Pradesh held its Export and FTA Conclave on Thursday, November 5, at the Kushabhau Thakre International Convention Centre in Bhopal, together with the Department of Commerce, Government of India. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav released five tools meant to help firms in the state use the lower tariffs India has won through free trade agreements: the Madhya Pradesh FTA Action Plan 2026–27, an FTA Exporters’ Guide, an FTA Helpdesk, an FTA Module on the MP Trade Portal, and the Madhya Pradesh FTA Accelerator. The action plan picks priority products, clusters and foreign markets. The guide explains each agreement's tariff concessions and product rules, while the helpdesk takes exporters' questions. The accelerator gives training, expert advice and contacts with buyers abroad.
Action plan:Madhya Pradesh FTA Action Plan 2026–27Co-organiser:Department of Commerce, Government of IndiaVenue:Kushabhau Thakre International Convention Centre
Why it matters for exams: What an FTA is, which department handles trade policy and how exporters claim FTA benefits are standard Economy questions.
Chief Minister Mohan Yadav presided over the 49th board meeting of the Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation (MPRDC), held at CM House on Thursday. The state is working on five four-lane, access-controlled greenfield corridors covering 1,398 km at an estimated cost of Rs 63,296 crore. The five are Jabalpur-Ashapur (358 km), Bhopal-Gwalior (320 km), Bhopal-Mandsaur (258 km), Katni-Singrauli (235 km) and Sagar-Satna (227 km). The proposed Highway Fund of the corporation will now be called ‘Viksit Madhya Pradesh Sankalp Path’. The board exempted combine harvesters used for farm work from toll at plazas the corporation runs. The board also cleared 100 per cent divestment of equity in the Jaora-Nayagaon four-lane project built under the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) scheme.
Length of five corridors:1,398 kmEstimated cost:Rs 63,296 croreNew name of the Highway Fund:Viksit Madhya Pradesh Sankalp Path
Why it matters for exams: MPRDC, the BOT model and the meaning of a greenfield project are common questions on infrastructure and state governance.
Chief Minister Mohan Yadav is set to send more than ₹1,831 crore to 1,24,81,550 eligible women on Friday, November 13, from Pichhore in Shivpuri district. The money is the 42nd instalment of the Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Yojana. Under the scheme, women now get ₹1,500 every month by Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) into Aadhaar-linked bank accounts. The scheme began in June 2023 with ₹1,000 a month, which was raised to ₹1,250 in October 2023 and to ₹1,500 from November 2025. Eligible women are married permanent residents of Madhya Pradesh aged at least 21 and below 60; widows, divorced women and women deserted by their husbands are included. Till October 2026, ₹67,230 crore had been paid through 41 instalments. The state has budgeted ₹23,882 crore for 2026-27.
Instalment amount:₹1,831 croreBeneficiaries:1,24,81,550Monthly assistance:₹1,500Budget for 2026-27:₹23,882 crore
Why it matters for exams: State welfare schemes, the state that runs them and the DBT mechanism are frequent questions in PSC and bank exams.
Bagh Print is a traditional hand block print made with natural colours in Bagh, a village in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. It takes its name from the village, which stands on the banks of the Bagh River. The prints carry geometric and floral designs in red and black on a white base, on cotton and silk. The craft came to Bagh in 1962 with a community of Muslim Khatris who moved there from Manawar; their forebears had practised Ajrak printing in Sindh. The dyeing uses alum and Alizarin among other materials, and the printed cloth is washed again and again in the flowing river and dried in the sun. Dhar has chosen Bagh Print as its One District One Product (ODOP), and its block printers are the kind of small exporters Madhya Pradesh's new free trade agreement helpdesk is meant to serve.
District:DharRiver:Bagh RiverCraft arrived in Bagh:1962
Why it matters for exams: Bagh Print, its district and its GI status, and the ODOP scheme are frequent art-and-culture questions on Madhya Pradesh.