(121) SHASHI R. JATIA Vs. PRUDENT ARC[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 17 — Maintainability of writ petition against private Asset Reconstruction Company — Alternate statutory remedy — Rule requiring exhaustion of alternate remedy before Debts Recovery Tribunal is discretionary, not absolute — Where challenge goes to the root of the security interest alleging fraud and forgery supported prima facie by forensic an India Law Library Docid # 2455688
(122) PROSECUTRIX Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 227 and 228 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 354C and 376 — Scope of enquiry at stage of framing of charge — Discharge of accused — Court is not required to conduct a mini-trial or meticulously weigh probative value of evidence — Test is whether material taken at face value discloses grave suspicion or prima facie case — Trial Court erred in conclusively rejecting prosecutrix's allegations merely due to non-recovery of the alleged obscene video India Law Library Docid # 2455689
(123) HEMNANI PUBLIC SCHOOL Vs. IPSA GURNANI AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 30(1) — Delhi School Education Act, 1973 — Section 2(o) — National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004 — Unaided linguistic minority institution — Minority Status Certificate — Absence of certificate is not conclusive against minority status — Right under Article 30(1) is established by factum of establishment and administration by a minority — Minority certificate merely declares an existing status rather than creating it — School man India Law Library Docid # 2455691
(124) VIKAS GUPTA Vs. RANJANA AGARWAL ALIAS GUPTA AND ORS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — Sections 84 and 92 — Dismissal of complaint alleging atrocities and insults on account of disability — Continuing offence — Special Court dismissed complaint holding that allegations pertained solely to 2012 when parties cohabited and were stale matrimonial grievances — Held, complaint contained specific averments of continuing harassment, insults regarding petitioner's locomotor disability, and an incident in July 2025 — Allegations extended beyon India Law Library Docid # 2455692
(125) GUDDO AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 4 — Offence of wilful neglect of duty by public servant — Scope — Appellant alleged police officers failed to invoke SC/ST Act provisions, conduct proper investigation, and arrest alleged culprits — Held, mere dissatisfaction with the course or outcome of an investigation, difference of opinion, or failure to add specific penal provisions does not constitute wilful neglect under Section 4 — Section 4 penalis India Law Library Docid # 2455707
(126) SMT. HAZARA KHATUN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 498-A — Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — Sections 3 and 4 — Quashing of criminal proceedings against relatives of husband — General and omnibus allegations — Complainant implicated surviving relatives of the husband on sweeping allegations of dowry demand and harassment without attributing any specific overt act or role — Specific allegations of assault and dowry demand were confined solely to the husband — Prosecution o India Law Library Docid # 2455717
(127) M/S PURV SAINIK SECURITY SERVICE Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND 4 OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability and Entertainability — Contractual monetary claims — Distinction between maintainability and entertainability reiterated — Alternative remedy is a rule of discretion, not an absolute bar — While writ jurisdiction is not ordinarily exercised where claims involve complex disputed questions of fact requiring oral evidence, a writ petition seeking recovery of admitted contractual dues against the State or its instrumentalities is both maint India Law Library Docid # 2455718
(128) GAURAV SRIVASTAV Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND 2 OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 14 — Indian Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 65-B — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125(4) — Maintenance — Admissibility versus reliability of electronic evidence — Husband alleged wife was living in adultery, relying on electronic records and photographs without Section 65-B certification — Held, although Section 14 of the Family Courts Act grants flexibility to receive evidence not strictly admissible under the Evidence Act, mere reception does not India Law Library Docid # 2455722
(129) RAM CHARAN Vs. STATE[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 118 and Section 134 — Evidentiary value of prosecutrix's testimony — Status as injured witness — Conviction for rape of minor — Appellant challenged conviction citing minor contradictions regarding clothing and lack of multiple witnesses — Held, a prosecutrix in a sexual offence is an injured witness, not an accomplice — Her sole credible testimony can sustain conviction without absolute necessity of corroboration — Minor discre India Law Library Docid # 2455724
(130) TAPASH KUMAR BHUYAN Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND 12 ORS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Service Law — Determination of Seniority — Ad hoc Service — Assam Public Service Commission (Limitation of Functions) Regulation, 1951, Regulation 3F — Petitioner was appointed on ad hoc basis in 1994 and subsequently regularized in 2000 through direct recruitment — Seniority reckoned from substantive appointment date rather than initial ad hoc joining — Petitioner contended continuous officiating service ought to count towards cadre seniority — Held, India Law Library Docid # 2455743
(131) SRI SUBHRANEEL BHUYAN Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND 5 ORS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition against private insurance company — Public functions — Distinction between maintainability and entertainability — Held, a writ petition is maintainable against a private insurance company discharging public functions affecting the public. However, maintainability is distinct from entertainability. While High Courts follow self-imposed restrictions in not entertaining petitions for enforcing purely contractual obligation India Law Library Docid # 2455746
(132) NINGTHOUJAM GEOFFREY IAS Vs. LAISHRAM MONICA CHANU AND ANOTHER[MANIPUR HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12 — Quashing of domestic violence proceedings — Inherent powers of High Court — Maintainability — Application filed challenging maintainability of Section 482 Cr.P.C. petition seeking quashing of DV Act proceedings pending before Judicial Magistrate — Held, relying on Supreme Court precedent in Shaurabh Kumar Tripathi v. Vid India Law Library Docid # 2455751
(133) SHRI ABDUL JOLIL SK Vs. THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ petition — School Managing Committee — Challenge to reconstitution — Subsequent events — Petition rendered infructuous — Petitioner challenged orders reconstituting the School Managing Committee of Jawaharlal Nehru Higher Secondary School, Phulbari — During pendency of the petition, the State Government issued a subsequent order approving the reconstitution of a new School Managing Committee — Held, since the School Managing Committee has been ren India Law Library Docid # 2455801
(134) KUSUMLAL SAO Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 201 — Murder and Causing Disappearance of Evidence — Circumstantial Evidence — Last Seen Theory — Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt — In a case resting entirely on circumstantial evidence, all circumstances must be fully established and form a complete chain unerringly pointing towards the guilt of the accused, excluding every other hypothesis — High Court and Trial Court erred in holding that deceased was last seen alive in company India Law Library Docid # 2455904
(135) SURENDRA KIRAR Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 13-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 227 and 228 — Scope of enquiry at stage of framing charge — Discharge — Court is required only to examine whether material on record gives rise to a grave suspicion and grounds for presuming that the accused committed the alleged offence — Probative value of prosecution evidence cannot be meticulously weighed, nor can a mini-trial be held at the threshold stage — Opinion formed under Section 228 is merely tentative, and where material taken at face India Law Library Docid # 2456026
(136) SANJU THAKUR @ NISHANT THAKUR Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 406 and 120-B — Anticipatory Bail — Sale of property during pendency of litigation — Complainant alleged applicant sold a plot despite pending Second Appeal before High Court — Applicant sought pre-arrest bail citing medical ailments, civil nature of dispute, and delay in lodging FIR — Held, allegations and collected material require examination to ascertain dishonest intention and deception — Such as India Law Library Docid # 2456033
(137) DR.RAM KUSHWAHA AND OTHERS Vs. DR.HARI SINGH GAUR VISHWAVIDYALAYA AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Service Law — Regularization — Contractual Employment — Effect of Discontinuance — Appellants were appointed as Contract Teachers for fixed tenures with periodic extensions — Executive Council resolved to regularize their services subject to State approval, but the claim was rejected after the University was converted into a Central University — Contractual engagement ended following dismissal of writ petition, leaving appellants out of service for over 16 years — Held, a claim for regularizatio India Law Library Docid # 2456044
(138) THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Vs. RAKESH SINGH JADON AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 13-10-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Delay by State — Administrative and procedural formalities — State sought condonation of 213 days' delay in filing writ appeal, citing administrative movements between officials, seeking legal opinions, and obtaining sanction — Held, mere movement of files across governmental departments and obtaining legal opinion cannot ipso facto constitute "sufficient cause" — No satisfactory explanation was furnished as to why the appeal was not proc India Law Library Docid # 2456047
(139) RAMNARESH Vs. SURESH KUMAR[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 13-10-2026 Administrative Law — Quasi-judicial authority — Requirement of speaking and reasoned order — Recording of reasons is an indispensable component of natural justice and fair decision-making — Collector set aside a decades-old partition order without addressing material objections regarding delay, maintainability, jurisdiction, and valid partition — Merely stating a conclusion without demonstrating application of mind or providing cogent reasons vitiates the order — Reasons are the heart-beats of c India Law Library Docid # 2456055
(140) DR. PREETI NIGOTIA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Service Law — Assignment of Current Duty Charge — Head of Department — Scope of Judicial Review — Petitioner challenged an administrative order entrusting the charge of Head of Department to Respondent No. 7 — Held, entrustment of current duty charge is an administrative arrangement governed by prescribed rotational instructions — An employee possesses no vested, statutory, or inherent right to claim or stick to a current duty charge — Courts will not India Law Library Docid # 2456059