(161) B.L.VERMA (BHUKHAN LAL VERMA) Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 409 — Criminal breach of trust by public servant or godown in-charge — Shortage of fertilizer stock — Applicant posted as godown in-charge entrusted with stock — Stock verification revealed shortage of 39 metric tonnes of Urea fertilizer — Trial court convicted applicant under Section 409 India Law Library Docid # 2448982
(162) SHAMBHU NATH SINGH Vs. VIMAL KOHLI (DEAD) THROUGH LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 14 Rule 1 — Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Omission to frame specific issue on readiness and willingness — Effect — Plaintiff pleaded continuous readiness and willingness to perform obligations and tendered evidence to that effect — Defendant failed to rebut in cross-examination — Both parties went to trial aware that readiness and willingness was a core matter in India Law Library Docid # 2448983
(163) TAMRADHWAJ VERMA Vs. ANKIT DANI AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 96 — Right of appeal by a non-party/stranger — Concept of "person aggrieved" — Scope and principles — Section 96 CPC does not specify categories of persons entitled to appeal — A stranger cannot appeal against a decree unless granted leave as a "person aggrieved" — A person aggrieved must be one whose legal rights are directly and prejudicially affected by the India Law Library Docid # 2448984
(164) DIPAK SARMA Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Public Procurement — Cancellation of Tender — Assam Public Procurement Act, 2017 — Section 26(3) — Absence of communication of reasons — Re-tender on ground of change in construction methodology — Arbitrariness and Malice in Law — Petitioner was adjudged L1 contractor in a tender process floated under ASOM MALA project. State authorities India Law Library Docid # 2449000
(165) DIPTI MADHUKAR SHETH Vs. BORIVALI EDUCATION SOCIETY AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Maharashtra Employees of Private Schools (Conditions of Service) Regulation Act, 1977 — Shikshan Sevak — Status and Statutory Protection under MEPS Act, 1977 — Following the amendment by Maharashtra Act 14 of 2007, the appointment and service conditions of a Shikshan Sevak cease to be a matter of mere contract and are statutorily converted into a status — The definition of "employee" under the Act India Law Library Docid # 2448321
(166) CHHAYA KASHINATH SHINDE Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 — Section 3E — Restriction on transfer of rehabilitation tenements — Scope of expression "or otherwise" — Held, words "sale, gift, exchange, lease or otherwise" are not confined to registered conveyances — Expression "or otherwise" is a word of extension, not limitation, intended to cover indirect arrangements through which an India Law Library Docid # 2448325
(167) MAHENDRA SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 299 — Evidence recorded against absconding accused — Use in subsequent trial — S. 299(1) contains two distinct parts: first, proof of jurisdictional facts (accused absconding and no immediate prospect of arrest) enabling recording of witness evidence in the accused's absence; second, the conditions under which such evidence may be used against the India Law Library Docid # 2448335
(168) V.N.A.S. CHANDRAN Vs. S. VENILA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 20 — Specific performance — Discretionary and equitable relief — Clean hands — Grant of specific performance is discretionary, not automatic even where a valid contract subsists; a plaintiff must approach the Court with clean hands. Where the plaintiff's spouse lodged a criminal complaint seeking recovery of the advance paid, alleging the vendor fraudulently suppressed a India Law Library Docid # 2448336
(169) HIMANSHU CHORDIA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125(4) — Bar of adultery — Effect on interim maintenance — Stage of adjudication — The bar under S. 125(4) applies equally to interim and final maintenance; if a S. 125(4) application demonstrates adultery ex facie or the fact is admitted, interim maintenance stops forthwith. Where proof requires evidence to be led in accordance with law, interim India Law Library Docid # 2448337
(170) NISHA Vs. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL SANGRUR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Disputed questions of fact — Effect of long pendency — Where a writ petition seeking compensation had remained pending for over a decade and a half before being dismissed on the ground of "disputed questions of fact," relegating the claimant to a fresh remedy before the Civil Court after such efflux of time would render the claimant remediless — On this short ground alone, interference with the impugned India Law Library Docid # 2448338
(171) TEHRI HYDRO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. Vs. S.P. SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Court Fees Act, 1870 — Section 8 — Appeal against statutory benefits under Land Acquisition Act — Whether attracts ad valorem court fee — Appeal under Section 54, Land Acquisition Act, 1894 challenging grant of additional amount under Section 23(1-A), solatium under Section 23(2) and statutory interest under Section 28, without disputing market value — Held, such statutory benefits are integral and inseparable India Law Library Docid # 2448339
(172) G. SAMINATHAN AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE, REPRESENTED BY THE SUB-INSPECTOR OF POLICE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 405 and 406 — Criminal Breach of Trust — Entrustment — Refundable security deposit paid under Joint Development Agreement (JDA) — Held, mere payment of refundable security deposit as consideration for GPA does not amount to "entrustment" of property — FIR and chargesheet silent on manner of misappropriation/conversion — Bald, omnibus allegation of dishonest India Law Library Docid # 2448340
(173) M/S SHAKUN & COMPANY (SERVICES) PRIVATE LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. SH. ASHOK DUGGAL[DELHI HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Surrender of tenancy — Handing over possession to one of several co-owner landlords — Tenant Company claimed to have validly vacated premises by handing over keys to Defendant No. 2, who was simultaneously a Director of the tenant Company and a co-owner landlord — Held, such handing over, in the peculiar facts, did not constitute valid surrender to both co India Law Library Docid # 2448358
(174) RAJINDER KUMAR Vs. SEWA RAM (SINCE DECEASED) THR HIS LRS AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Proof of disputed documents — Mere exhibiting insufficient — Marking of a document as an exhibit during trial does not dispense with the requirement of proving its execution in accordance with law — A disputed Ikrarnama/MoU containing signatures of attesting witnesses, none of whom were examined, and whose executant could not recall attestation, registration, or stamp India Law Library Docid # 2448359
(175) PAYAL AGARWAL AND ANOTHER Vs. SAWARMAL AGARWAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Hindu Succession — Partition Suit — Preliminary Decree — Grant of, where uncontested — Petitioners (widow and daughter of deceased) sought preliminary decree for partition of immoveable properties and shares in family companies as per their entitlement upon intestate death of the propositus. Defendant Nos. 1 to 4 neither contested the suit nor filed any written statement denying petitioners' rights. Held, in absence of any denial by principal contesting parties, and petitioners having India Law Library Docid # 2448360
(176) POULAMI TARAFDAR (SAHA) Vs. DIBESH SAHA[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance to child — Direction to keep amount in fixed deposit instead of monthly maintenance — Impermissibility of — Trial Magistrate, instead of granting monthly maintenance to the minor child, directed the husband to keep Rs.11,00,000 as fixed deposit in the child's name with the wife as nominee — Held, a fixed deposit securing future interest India Law Library Docid # 2448361
(177) EASTERN COALFIELDS LIMITED Vs. SHIULY BAURI AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 National Coal Wage Agreement — Clause 9.5.0(ii) — Compassionate appointment to female dependent — Determination of age — Unchallenged entry in nomination form to prevail over subsequent Medical Board assessment — Age of the deceased employee's daughter as recorded in the Service Record/nomination form (9 years as on 01.04.1987), never disputed by the management, showed she had attained 18 years 8 months on the date of her father's death, contrary to the Medical Board's India Law Library Docid # 2448362
(178) VISHNU ASSOCIATES PVT. LTD. Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Alternative remedy — Maintainability of writ despite availability of statutory appeal under S. 44, Orissa Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2017 — Existence of appellate remedy before the Real Estate Appellate Tribunal under Sections 43-44 of the Act does not India Law Library Docid # 2448363
(179) AKSHYA KUMAR NAIK Vs. PAWAN KUMAR AGRAWAL AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Transfer of Property — Proof of title — Non-production of primary document of sale — Effect — Private opposite party claimed title through an unregistered stamp paper sale deed of 1946 for Rs. 100/-, but the deed itself was never produced before any authority or the Court — Held, in the absence of the document, neither the nature of transaction nor its terms could be ascertained, and the claimed sale, being the very foundation of subsequent claims, remained unproved. India Law Library Docid # 2448364
(180) PRANJIT SARMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 UGC Regulations — Prescribed Qualification for Lecturers — Requirement of NET/SLET/PhD — Applicability to lecturers appointed in deficit colleges — Held, Government of Assam had adopted UGC norms prescribing NET/SLET/PhD as essential qualification for lecturers prior to appellants' appointment — Communication dated 01.06.2000 issued before appellants' appointment specifically required lecturers appointed in non-government deficit colleges after implementation of policy to clear India Law Library Docid # 2448345