(521) T.SELLAMMAL Vs. PICHAIYAMMAL AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 6 — Daughters' coparcenary rights — Supreme Court in Vineetha Sharma's case held that daughters are coparceners by birth with equal rights as sons, irrespective of whether the father was alive on the date of the amendment (September 9, 2005) or the date of marriage. India Law Library Docid # 2447855
(522) CAPITAL GREENS FLAT BUYER ASSOCIATION Vs. DLF UNIVERSAL LTD. AND ANOTHER[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 14-07-2026 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Sections 71 and 72 — Execution Proceedings — Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Execution can be sought under the 2019 Act even if original complaints were filed under the 1986 Act, as the execution proceedings are governed by the law in force at the time of execution. India Law Library Docid # 2447860
(523) SHEN LONG BIO-TECH (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF GST AND CENTRAL EXCISE[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Finance Act, 2017 — Section 104 — Retrospective exemption from service tax on long-term lease of industrial plots — Refund claim — Assessee entitled to refund of service tax paid on upfront charges for industrial plots leased for 30 years or more, as per retrospective exemption under Finance Act, 2017. India Law Library Docid # 2447845
(524) V.BALASUNDARAM AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Review Petitions — Filed by third parties seeking to review a previous High Court order — Leave obtained from the Court — Review petitions dismissed as grounds raised were not sustainable and did not establish any error apparent on the face of the record. India Law Library Docid # 2447846
(525) G.S. MATIYANI AND SONS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Government Contracts — Tender — Technical evaluation — Non-responsive bid — Experience certificate without year-wise bifurcation — Bidder's experience certificate failed to disclose financial year-wise quantities as mandated for eligibility under Cl. 2.2A(d) of bid conditions — Held, discretion of Bid Scrutiny Committee to seek clarification under Cl. 21.1 limited to historical documents (audited accounts, tax clearance, PAN) and does not extend to core eligibility criteria — Documents submitted India Law Library Docid # 2447975
(526) MOHD IMRAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Service Law — Recovery of alleged excess payment — Retiral dues — Effect of subsequent quashing order — Recovery orders against petitioners for excess payment following promotion had earlier been set aside in connected writ petitions with direction against recovery — Recovery from petitioners' retiral dues, effected before the said judgment, held illegal being contrary to the binding decision — Respondents directed to refund recovered amounts within two months. [Paras 5, 7] India Law Library Docid # 2447976
(527) EIPROCON INTERNATIONAL (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER, STATE GOODS AND SERVICE TAX AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Goods and Services Tax — Revocation of cancellation of registration — Quantification of tax liability — Petitioner's application for revocation rejected for non-deposit of reversed ITC; petitioner contended no order quantifying tax liability existed — Supplementary affidavit disclosed order dated 09.07.2025 passed under S. 74 quantifying liability, rendering petitioner's contention factually incorrect — Writ disposed of without interference, with liberty to challenge the quantification order and India Law Library Docid # 2447977
(528) KAMLESH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Service Law — Equal pay for equal work — Contractual Data Entry Operators — Parity with U.P.N.L.-engaged staff — Petitioners, contractual Data Entry Operators under Samagra Shiksha, claimed parity in remuneration with similarly designated staff engaged through U.P.N.L. — Earlier representation held not maintainable being made through Union rather than individually — Petitions disposed of granting liberty to file fresh individual representations, to be decided within eight weeks in accordance wit India Law Library Docid # 2447978
(529) JAGNARAYAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Pension — Rules 58, 59, Bihar Pension Rules, 1950 — Regularized Work-Charged Service — Non-Consideration — Retiree's claim for revised retiral benefits treating full service from initial joining rejected without addressing his subsequent regularization or the applicability of Rules 58 and 59. Held, Rule 59 is an enabling exception to Rule 58, under which continuous temporary/officiating service exceeding fifteen years is liable to be treated as pensionable even absent confirmation on a substanti India Law Library Docid # 2448089
(530) SURYDEV RAY Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Public Distribution System — Compassionate Licence — Educational Qualification — Rejection of application for grant of Fair Price Shop licence on compassionate ground to a non-matriculate dependent of a deceased licensee challenged as discriminatory, contending the matriculation requirement under Clause 9(v) of the PDS Control Order, 2016 applies only to fresh appointments. Held, following a covered precedent, the Control Order does not exempt compassionate cases from the prescribed minimum educ India Law Library Docid # 2448090
(531) SHEKH YUNUS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Writ Jurisdiction — Disputed Question of Fact — Rival Claims Between Institutions — Petitioner sought a declaration regarding the genuineness of his Madrasa's code as against an allegedly duplicate/fake Madrasa using an identical code with a different address. Held, disputes concerning the genuineness and validity of two institutions bearing rival claims to title/registration require oral and documentary evidence and cannot be adjudicated in writ jurisdiction; such disputes are properly resolved India Law Library Docid # 2448091
(532) HAREKRISHNA PANDA @ HARE KRUSHNA PANDA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA (VIG)[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 — Sections 7(a), 13(1)(b) — CrPC, S. 482/BNSS, S. 528 — Quashing — Delay in investigation — Inherent jurisdiction to quash is to be exercised sparingly, only where allegations, taken at face value, disclose no offence or continuation amounts to abuse of process; explanation regarding source of intercepted cash and adequacy of documents furnished are matters for investigation/trial, not for quashing — Delay of over seven years in completing investig India Law Library Docid # 2448241
(533) SASHI BHUSAN PATEL Vs. MS. ASWATHY S, I.A.S., SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL AND MASS EDUCATION & ORS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Section 12 — Wilful disobedience — Substantial compliance — Contempt jurisdiction is not to be invoked for every instance of delayed or imperfect compliance but only where disobedience is wilful, deliberate and contumacious; delay attended by a bona fide request for clarification on mode of implementation is administrative inertia, not contumacious defiance — Where the original order stood modified and the modified order was substantially complied with through a co India Law Library Docid # 2448242
(534) NARAYAN JANI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 NDPS Act, 1985 — Section 37 — Bail — Commercial quantity — Successive bail application without change in circumstance — Renewal of bail prayer before trial court barely a month after refusal by High Court, without any change in circumstance, coupled with accused's non-surrender after grant of interim bail necessitating apprehension via NBWA, reflects adversely on conduct relevant to securing attendance at trial — Twin conditions under S. 37 NDPS Act not satisfied where allegations involve transp India Law Library Docid # 2448243
(535) PRAMOD MAJHI Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Bail — Dacoity with murder — Non-disclosure of criminal antecedents — High Court Rules, Chapter XVIII, Rule 5(2)(a)-(b) — Mandatory disclosure of criminal antecedents in bail applications under the amended Rules of the High Court of Orissa, 1948 was not made by the petitioner, who was shown to have seven prior cases including offences under the Arms Act and IPC — With 20 out of 21 charge-sheet witnesses already examined and trial at its fag end, coupled with suppression of antecedents, bail decl India Law Library Docid # 2448245
(536) DEEN DAYAL GUPTA Vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 14-07-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Sections 147, 148, 143(1), 143(3) — Reopening of assessment — Notice under Section 148 was issued on the ground that income had escaped assessment due to the assessee carrying on money-lending business without a licence under the Rajasthan Money Lending Act, 1963, and disallowing interest expenditure claimed — The original assessment under Section 143(3) had accepted the India Law Library Docid # 2448480
(537) MR. AJITH P.R Vs. UNION OF INDIA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 14-07-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 111 — Freezing of bank accounts on suspicion of money-mule activity — Revised guidelines for banks pending RBI SOP — Earlier guidelines permitting automatic de-freezing after three months where police failed to respond held susceptible to misuse by mule-account holders — Guidelines revised to require the bank, upon unsatisfactory or absent explanation from account holder, to lodge written complaint with jurisdictional SHO, who must register FIR under S. 11 India Law Library Docid # 2448584
(538) DAULAT Vs. NARENDRA PARMAR AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 13-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 6 Rule 17 and Order 7 Rule 11 — Amendment vs. Rejection of Plaint — A pending application for amendment of pleadings under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC should generally be decided before an application for rejection of the plaint under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC, especially if the amendment seeks to address defects India Law Library Docid # 2447518
(539) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. BALI RAM NO. 850808321[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 — Section 47 — Non-discrimination in government employment — Employee acquiring disability during service — Mandatory obligation on employer to shift employee to alternate post with same pay and service benefits, or, failing that, to accommodate on supernumerary post till superannuation — Respondent, a India Law Library Docid # 2447570
(540) H.D.F.C. BANK LIMITED Vs. KISHORE K. MEHTA (DEAD) THR. LRS.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 — Section 9(2) — "Decree or order" — Whether includes a recovery certificate issued by a Debts Recovery Tribunal under the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (pre-2016 amendment) — Held, no — Insolvency Act, being weighed with grave civil consequence of "civil death", must be strictly construed — Expression "decree or order" must bear the India Law Library Docid # 2447571