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(61) BABLI YADAV AND OTHERS Vs. INDURAM SAHU AND ANOTHER[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Motor accident claim — Determination of income — Minimum wages — Tribunal assessed monthly income of 27-year-old deceased at Rs. 8,600/- — High Court held that income should be taken as Rs. 8,860/- per month in accordance with the Chhattisgarh Minimum Wages Notification issued by the Labour Commissioner — Applying 40% future prospects, 1/4th deduction for personal expenses, and multiplier of 17, compensation enhanced from Rs. 21,03,620/- to Rs. 21,17,812/
India Law Library Docid # 2452440

(62) M/S. KRITI COMMOSALES LLP AND OTHERS Vs. CANARA BANK AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 17 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Alternative statutory remedy — Auction purchaser seeking refund of sale consideration with interest alleging fraud and defective title of borrower — Held, SARFAESI Act provides a complete statutory mechanism and an efficacious alternative remedy under Section 17 for an aggrieved person — Extraordinary wr
India Law Library Docid # 2452443

(63) RAIS UDDIN PURKAIT AND ANOTHER Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Gas Cylinders Rules, 2016 — Rule 2(7) — Maintainability of writ petition — Alternative statutory remedy — Locus standi — Original selectee challenged the withdrawal of Letter of Intent (LOI) and rejection of distributorship process — Availability of an alternative remedy does not bar writ jurisdiction where the impugned administrative action is arbitrary and violates constitutional guarantees under Articles 14, 19(1)(g), and 21, as well as provisions o
India Law Library Docid # 2452444

(64) RABERT ANTHONY BARLA @ ROBERT ANTHONY BARLA Vs. ZUBIN A. KUJUR AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Revenue Law — Mutation Proceedings — Scope and Jurisdiction — Fiscal purposes — Mutation entries are summary in nature, meant solely for updating revenue records and collecting land revenue from persons in possession. Such proceedings do not confer, extinguish, or determine title, ownership, or succession rights. When a serious dispute of right, title, and interest arises between the parties, revenue authorities cannot adjudicate the controversy and must relegate the parties to a competent civil
India Law Library Docid # 2452445

(65) ARUN DAS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Section 6 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 164 — Appreciation of child victim's evidence — Conviction can be sustained on the solitary testimony of a prosecutrix only if it inspires confidence, is unblemished, and is of sterling quality — Material contradictions existed between victim's Section 164 statement and trial testimony regarding place of occurrence and sequence of events — Deposition recorded merely four months after the i
India Law Library Docid # 2452446

(66) MAWKHAR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SHILLONG AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA AND OTHERS[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 25, 26 and 226 — Administrative Law — Religious affairs — Scope of executive interference — Deputy Commissioner issued orders interpreting the Presbyterian Church of India Constitution and halting the administration of Holy Sacraments by an outside Synod — Held, while the State is empowered to maintain public order, preventive jurisdiction cannot be transformed into an adjudication of ecclesiastical or denominational rights — Executive authority cannot act
India Law Library Docid # 2452447

(67) NANDAN SINGH FARTIYAL Vs. DEVKI DEVI[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance — Quantum assessment — Revisionist-husband challenged the Family Court's order awarding Rs. 7,000/- per month maintenance to respondent-wife — Husband derived rental income of approximately Rs. 25,000/- per month from a shop — Wife owned and possessed 12 bighas of gifted agricultural land yielding an assessed annual income of about Rs. 50,000/- — Considering the respective financial positions, available income sources, and day-to-d
India Law Library Docid # 2452448

(68) SUBZAR AHMAD GANIE Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 15-09-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 22(5) — Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Preventive detention — Vagueness of grounds — Detenue described as an Over Ground Worker associated with terrorists — Grounds of detention must disclose basic facts and particulars, not merely detached conclusions — A vague assertion labelling an individual as an Over Ground Worker without specifying overt acts, dates, or the manner of conduct does not constitute adequate communication of grounds — Deprivat
India Law Library Docid # 2452450

(69) AMRAPALI BOSE Vs. SUBRA GHOSH[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 406, 415, 418, 420, 506 and 120B — Quashing of complaint — Civil dispute given criminal colour — Flat purchase transaction — Complainant filed criminal proceedings against director and employee of developer company for recovery of money after approaching Consumer Forum — Petitioners were not signatories to agreement for sale and were merely present when assurance of refund was given — Criminal procedure cannot
India Law Library Docid # 2452451

(70) SRI AGASTI CHARAN GHOSH Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973 — Section 23 — West Bengal Panchayat (Gram Panchayat Administration) Rules, 2004 — Rules 26 and 30 — Unauthorized construction — Deemed sanction — Building erected on agricultural land without prior conversion to homestead land — Gram Panchayat withheld permission — Appellant claimed deemed sanction under Rule 30 due to lack of timely response — Held, Rule 26 statutorily mandates withholding permission until land classification is altered by competent authority —
India Law Library Docid # 2452452

(71) JAI SINGH Vs. AJAY KUMAR AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 and Section 173 — Rash and negligent driving — Identity of driver — Proof and evidence — Appellant-owner contended that an engaged driver was operating the offending vehicle at the time of the accident and not him. The High Court held that apart from a bare assertion, no evidence was adduced by the appellant to support his plea. Consistent eyewitness testimony established that the appellant-owner himself drove the vehicle rashly and negligently, striking th
India Law Library Docid # 2452454

(72) ROSHAN LAL (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS Vs. RITA DEVI[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 26 Rule 9 — Suit for permanent prohibitory injunction and possession — Demarcation of land — Validity of Local Commissioner report — Trial Court decreed plaintiff's suit for possession of 9 Marlas of encroached land based on Local Commissioner's report and Tatima — Defendant challenged demarcation alleging lack of proper measurement and bias — Held, Local Commissioner carried out demarcation in accordance with instructions of Financial Commissioner and Hi
India Law Library Docid # 2452455

(73) OM PARKASH Vs. CHAND AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Summoning of additional accused — Test and standard of evidence — Petitioner alleged specific roles in FIR attributing gandasi and knife blows to respondents, supported by medico-legal report — Investigating agency declared respondents innocent and placed them in column 12 — Injured victim and doctors testified in court corroborating allegations — Magistrate summoned respondents, but Sessions Court reversed it — Held, more than a prima facie c
India Law Library Docid # 2452530

(74) DAVANAPALLI MALLESH Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8(c), 20(a)(i), 27(b) and 37(1)(b) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 480 and 483 — Regular bail — Cultivation of cannabis plant — Non-weighment of seized plant — Accused was arrested for allegedly cultivating a single cannabis plant — Investigating agency merely measured the plant's height without ascertaining its weight — Rigours of Section 37(1)(b) of the NDPS Act are not attracted as no commercial quantity is
India Law Library Docid # 2452536

(75) BALJINDER KAUR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 106 and 281 — Fair and impartial investigation — Transfer of investigation — Accused named in FIR fled abroad despite non-bailable warrants — Police exonerated named accused solely based on an unverified, secondary phone-recorded video lacking original footage, date, or time, and nominated another person — Complainants faced threats — Potential connivance of local police created serious doubts regar
India Law Library Docid # 2452539

(76) RENU DESWAL Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 — Section 28(1)(a) — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Competence to file complaint — Multi-member Appropriate Authority — Section 28(1)(a) explicitly authorizes institution of a complaint by an officer duly authorized by the Appropriate Authority — Complaint need not be signed jointly by all members of the multi-member statutory body — Where the State pleaded that the Authority deliber
India Law Library Docid # 2452540

(77) CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER, RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION Vs. RAJINDER SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166 and 168 — Negligence — Contributory negligence — Overloading of vehicle — Head-on collision between bus and tempo — The mere fact that a tempo was carrying multiple passengers does not establish contributory negligence in the absence of specific evidence proving an act or omission contributing to the accident. Evidence of an independent eyewitness corroborated by injured passengers and a prompt FIR established the rash and negligent driving of the bus driv
India Law Library Docid # 2452545

(78) CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER, RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION Vs. RAJINDER SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Negligence — Contributory negligence — Collision between bus and tempo — Appellant contended that tempo was overloaded and liability should be apportioned 50:50 — Held, the mere fact that several passengers were travelling in a vehicle or that the vehicle did not overturn does not establish contributory negligence absent specific evidence showing an act or omission contributing to the collision — Eye-witness testimony corroborated by injured occupants supported the fin
India Law Library Docid # 2452546

(79) PROMPT PUBLICITY & VCARE SOLUTIONS Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE & CGST-JODHPUR[CUSTOMS, EXCISE & SERVICE TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL, NEW DELHI] 15-09-2026
Finance Act, 1994 — Section 73(1) — Extended period of limitation — Suppression of facts with intent to evade payment of service tax — Assessee failed to report taxable receipts earned through an unregistered proprietary firm and misdeclared gross turnover in ST-3 returns while wrongfully availing threshold exemption — Assessee pleaded oversight and clerical mistake — Held, intentional non-disclosure of actual receipts and operation of an unregistered firm established clear intent to evade tax —
India Law Library Docid # 2452549

(80) M/S. TASHA GOLD PVT LTD Vs. THE PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, (ADJUDICATION)- NEW DELHI[CUSTOMS, EXCISE & SERVICE TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL, NEW DELHI] 15-09-2026
Customs Act, 1962 — Section 2(33), Section 111 — Exemption Notification No. 50/2017-Cus — Import of Gold Dore Bars under DGFT license — Strict interpretation of exemption notifications — Importer failed to comply with Condition 40 requiring packing lists and assay certificates from mining companies, weight of 5 kg or above, and purity not exceeding 95% — Exemption notifications must be strictly construed and conditions strictly fulfilled, with any ambiguity resolved in favour of Revenue — Failur
India Law Library Docid # 2452550

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