(141) ASHOK KUMAR TIWARI Vs. VIVEK KUMAR CHATURVEDI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-08-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Civil contempt — Child custody order — Non-compliance alleged — Exercise of parens patriae jurisdiction in contempt proceedings — Contempt petition filed by maternal grandparents alleging non-compliance with earlier judgment directing handover of custody of minor child to father (natural guardian) — Held, though the proceeding was a contempt case, upon interaction with India Law Library Docid # 2448853
(142) SHABU KN ACHARY Vs. DHARAMPAL PREMCHAND LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 18 Rule 4 and Section 138 — Cross-examination — Permissibility of questions in absence of written statement of defendant on record — Trademark infringement suit — Suit for permanent injunction and damages instituted by plaintiff-respondent alleging infringement of its trade dress/trademark "BABA" — Defendant's written statement not taken on record — India Law Library Docid # 2448854
(143) AJIT DHRITLEHRE AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Chhattisgarh Excise Act — Section 34(2) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Grant of bail — Habitual offender — Applicant No. 1 implicated in illicit liquor trade based on co-accused's memorandum statement — No direct liquor recovery from applicant — Applicant had multiple criminal antecedents, India Law Library Docid # 2448955
(144) SHANKAR DAS DHIRHI Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Service Law — Recovery of Excess Payment — Gratituity — Excess payment of public money — Right of State to recover — Petitioner challenged recovery of excess gratuity paid upon retirement — Held, mere administrative error does not extinguish employer's right to recover public money — Excess payment received without authority of law carries an obligation to refund to prevent unjust enrichment — India Law Library Docid # 2448956
(145) THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS Vs. SHRAWAN KUMAR KASHYAP AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Limitation Act, 1908 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Writ Appeal filed by State — Delay of 646 days — Administrative procedures and departmental sanctions — State sought condonation of delay claiming time was lost in departmental formalities and administrative approvals — Held, routine departmental procedures without plausible explanation or cogent reason do not constitute sufficient cause to India Law Library Docid # 2448957
(146) DAYARAM KHAIRWAR @ SHUBHAM KHAIRWAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 14A(2) — Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Grant of regular bail — Inordinate delay in trial — Violation of Article 21 — Appellant detained for over four years — Cross-examination of prosecutrix remained incomplete for over three years without fault of accused — Held, right to a speedy India Law Library Docid # 2448958
(147) X NIL Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 — Section 3(2), Explanation 2 — Reproductive autonomy — Minor rape victim — Writ petition seeking medical termination of 18-week pregnancy resulting from sexual assault — Court held that reproductive autonomy, bodily integrity, and dignity are integral facets of right to life under Article 21 — Forcing a victim to carry India Law Library Docid # 2448959
(148) SMT. SARITA AND OTHERS Vs. SANAT KUMAR SURYAWANSHI[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — "Sufficient cause" — Scope and applicability — Gross delay of 956 days in challenging Family Court's maintenance order — Discretion to condone delay must be exercised judiciously upon satisfactory proof of "sufficient cause" — Rules of limitation are based on public India Law Library Docid # 2448960
(149) THE STATE OF ASSAM Vs. MANGAL PAIK BISWANATH[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Criminal Law — Circumstantial Evidence — Standard of Proof — Heinous Offence — Murder and Rape of Minor — Conviction based solely on circumstantial evidence requires a complete and unbroken chain of proved circumstances excluding every reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence — Suspicion, however grave, or the heinous nature of crime cannot take the place of legal proof — Prosecution must travel the full distance India Law Library Docid # 2448991
(150) RUMI BARUAH SONOWAL Vs. THE UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor Accident Claim — Contributory Negligence — Proof Required — High Court held that merely because two vehicles are involved in a collision, an inference of contributory negligence cannot automatically be drawn against both drivers in equal proportion — Contributory negligence cannot be attributed India Law Library Docid # 2448992
(151) SALEHA KHATUN Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ Jurisdiction — Non-Registration of FIR — Availability of Alternative Statutory Remedy — Maintainability — High Court ought not to entertain a writ petition under Article 226 seeking directions for registration of an FIR or for a fair investigation without the aggrieved party first exhausting the statutory remedies provided under criminal procedure law — Article 226 cannot be used as a forum India Law Library Docid # 2448993
(152) SRI CHANDRA MOHAN JHA Vs. SRI ALOK GHOSH[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Sections 16(c), 20, 21, 22, and 23 — Specific performance of contract for sale — Onus to prove due execution — Burden of proof — Plaintiff filed a suit seeking specific performance of an agreement for sale, alleging payment of advance money and delivery of possession — Defendant denied execution of agreement and receipt of money — Plaintiff and his witness admitted in cross-examination that they had not seen defendant sign agreement — Mere production of original agree India Law Library Docid # 2448994
(153) MADHURI KUMARI AND OTHERS Vs. MUKTI NARAIN SINGH AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 58 — Binding effect of admissions in pleadings — Declaration of title suit — Admissions made by defendants in their written statement stand on a higher footing than evidentiary admissions and constitute a waiver of proof. Where defendants unequivocally admitted in pleadings that suit property was Bakast land exclusively India Law Library Docid # 2449264
(154) MUGAL RAM @ MANGAL RAM AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 149 — Unlawful assembly — Vicarious liability — Applicability — Four named accused persons arrived at informant’s residence following a dispute over a tied cow, while villagers assembled independently regarding PDS grievances — Assembly of five or more persons sharing a common object was absent — Vicarious liability under Section 149 IPC India Law Library Docid # 2449265
(155) YOGESH KUMAR SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 415 & 420 — Cheating — Breach of contract — Non-payment of balance consideration money — Absence of fraudulent intention at inception — Complaint filed alleging non-payment of balance consideration money under land agreement — Held, every breach of contract does not amount to cheating unless dishonest intention existed at the time of making initial promise — Payment of India Law Library Docid # 2449266
(156) MUKESH KUNWAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 203, 397 and 401 — Revisional Jurisdiction — Scope of Remand — Magistrate dismissed complaint under Section 203 — Revisional court set aside dismissal observing sufficient material existed to take cognizance and remanded the matter — Magistrate subsequently took India Law Library Docid # 2449267
(157) KISLAY KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 409, 406, 120(B), 467, 468 and 471 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Malicious prosecution — Settling personal scores — Petitioner, a bank manager, lodged an FIR against complainant for defalcation of PACS funds, leading to complainant's arrest and charge-sheeting — Complainant subsequently filed a counter India Law Library Docid # 2449268
(158) SHEKH KALIM Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 — Sections 26, 27, 29 and 30(3) — Compensation calculation — Calculation of statutory interest under Section 30(3) — High Court held that per Sections 27 and 29, total compensation includes market value of land along with value of attached assets — 12% per annum interest under Section 30(3) India Law Library Docid # 2449269
(159) AJAY KUMAR Vs. THE CHIEF REGIONAL DIRECTOR HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD.[PATNA HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — LPG Distributorship — Allotment conditions — Execution of partnership deed without prior approval — Petitioner executed a registered partnership deed with a third party without prior consent of the respondent-Corporation, violating mandatory Clause 5.3 of the Letter of Intent — Petitioner subsequently executed a deed of cancellation dissolving the partnership — India Law Library Docid # 2449270
(160) SHISHIR GUPTA IAS PRESENTLY POSTED AS DISTRICT COLLECTOR SHOPIAN Vs. UFAIRA GULZAR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (SRINAGAR BENCH)] 07-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125(3), Section 421(1)(b) & Section 431 — Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, Svt. 1996 — Section 91 — Maintenance order — Execution and enforcement — Issuance of levy warrant to District Collector — Scope of authority of Judicial Magistrate —Judicial Magistrate issued a levy warrant to the District Collector under Section 421(1)(b) CrPC —Held — Once a warrant for levy of fine for recovery is issued to the Collector under Section 421(1)(b) CrPC, pro India Law Library Docid # 2449478