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(761) RAKESH M H Vs. B KARE RANGAPPA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation — Enhancement — Personal injury — Claimant sustained multi-ligamentous knee injury, crush injury to finger with fractures, and orbital fracture with head injury, hospitalised nine days — Tribunal's award under pain and suffering, loss of income during laid-up period, and loss of amenities held inadequate given severity and duration of injuries — Compensation enhanced from Rs 15,000 to Rs 75,000 (pain and suffering), Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 (lo
India Law Library Docid # 2448007

(762) N S GANGHARIA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Service Law — Seniority — Ante-dated promotion — Availability of vacancy as determinant — Petitioner claimed parity in seniority (w.e.f. 06.06.2000) with three officers whose promotions were ante-dated despite being in Low Medical Category at the relevant time — Held, ante-dating was granted to those officers because vacancies existed for them as on the relevant date, unlike petitioner whose vacancy arose later; unchallenged promotions of third parties cannot be collaterally questioned; belated
India Law Library Docid # 2448115

(763) BAURIBANDHU SAHOO Vs. PRATAP KISHORE SAMAL AND ANOTHER[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(1) — Compensation — Settlement pending appeal — Where parties had amicably settled a compensation claim before Lok Adalat could take up the matter but the Tribunal in the interim passed a nil award, and the settled sum is accepted by the claimant with the insurer leaving it to the Court's discretion, compensation fixed at the agreed consolidated sum in the interest of justice. [Paras 4–5]
India Law Library Docid # 2448248

(764) NURSHAD AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 452, 324, 506(i) r/w 34 — Identification of accused in multi-accused assault — Standard required to fasten criminal culpability — Where more than one accused is involved, victim or eyewitness must identify each specifically by deposing the particular overt act done by each, after pointing him out at the dock — General assertion that named accused "committed the offence" without such specific identification is insufficient — Mere delayed production of weapons, wi
India Law Library Docid # 2448580

(765) NISHAD Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 307 — Ingredients and proof — Non-fatal injury not determinative — Proof of medical certificate through witness familiar with author's handwriting — Medical certificate need not necessarily be proved only through its author — Proof through a person familiar with the author's handwriting and signature is legally permissible where uncontested — For conviction under S.
India Law Library Docid # 2448581

(766) JOJO JOSE Vs. THE CHIEF SECRETARY GOVERNMENT OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 32, 226 — Transfer of investigation to CBI — Standard for exercise of extraordinary power — Power to transfer investigation to an independent agency such as CBI must be exercised sparingly and only in rare and exceptional cases — mere allegations against local police, without more, do not suffice — Such transfer is warranted only where necessary to instil public confidence, where the incident carries national/international ramifications, or to do complete j
India Law Library Docid # 2448588

(767) M P JACKSON Vs. THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Banking Regulation Act, 1949 — Section 36AAA — Supersession of Co-operative Bank's Board — No opportunity of hearing required — Statutory scheme excludes natural justice — Unlike S. 36AA (which expressly provides opportunity of representation before removal of individual officers), S. 36AAA contains no such provision for supersession of the Board, evidencing legislative intent to exclude audi
India Law Library Docid # 2448589

(768) SALAHUDHEEN Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 03-07-2026
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 187(2) — Default bail after cancellation of earlier bail — Significance of expression "or his bail has been cancelled" — Deliberate legislative departure from S. 167(2) CrPC by insertion of this expression indicates that the statutory obligation on the investigating agency to complete investigation within the prescribed period continues even where an accused's earlier bail is cancelled and he is re-committed to custody — Cancellation of bail res
India Law Library Docid # 2448590

(769) SAEED AHMAD ABDUL WAHID CHAUDHARY Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Maharashtra Police Act, 1951 — Section 56(1)(a) and 1(b) — Externment Order — Petitioner protested against Government decisions by organizing agitations/morchas/dharnas — FIRs mainly under Section 188 IPC for such protests held without permission — Such actions do not cause alarm, danger, or harm to person or property, nor is there belief of engaging in offences involving force or
India Law Library Docid # 2447300

(770) GODREJ PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT LTD. Vs. R.K.RAMANI, AND JAYANTI RAMANI[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 34 — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 and 14 — Condonation of delay — State Commission returned complaint for want of pecuniary jurisdiction, directing filing before District Commission within one month — Complainant filed fresh complaint before District Commission with application for condonation of delay of 76 days (actual delay 1192 days) — District
India Law Library Docid # 2447301

(771) SUMIT LAHU BORKAR AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Administrative Law — Legitimate Expectation — Public authorities must act with fairness, transparency, and predictability to avoid arbitrary decisions — A candidate has a legitimate expectation that a selection process initiated under existing rules will be completed under those same rules, especially when significant steps have been taken.
India Law Library Docid # 2447302

(772) HEPZIBA AND OTHERS Vs. K.SARATHKUMAR AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Compensation for damage to vehicle — Tribunal fixed compensation at Rs. 1,00,000/- based on estimate and approximation, as claimant failed to substantiate repair costs with material evidence — High Court found no perversity in this finding
India Law Library Docid # 2447336

(773) RAJ PAL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302, 498-A r/w S. 34 — Dowry death/cruelty and murder — Reliance on dying declarations — Multiple, inconsistent dying declarations of deceased wife — Sustainability of conviction — Deceased sustained 100% burn injuries and gave three different accounts of the occurrence: (i) to hospital staff, recorded in the MLC, that she was burnt accidentally while cooking; (ii) orally to a visiting relative, that she was set afire by a named sister-in-law with
India Law Library Docid # 2447229

(774) SALEEM @ KALUA Vs. THE STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 161 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 432, 433, 433-A — Premature release/remission policies — Haryana Policy dated 12.4.2002 and Policy dated 13.8.2008 — Question whether 2002 Policy traceable to Art. 161 or to Ss. 432/433 CrPC — Held, 2002 Policy, being in pari materia with the 1993 Policy (already held to be an exercise of the
India Law Library Docid # 2447230

(775) INDIACAN EDUCATION PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Territorial jurisdiction of Court — Arbitration Clause silent on seat/venue — Held, where the arbitration clause does not specify the seat, venue or place of arbitration, territorial jurisdiction of the Court under S. 11 is to be determined by recourse
India Law Library Docid # 2447231

(776) PRADEEP SHARMA Vs. THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Regular Bail — Forgery of Will, rent receipts and lease documents to grab immovable property — Accused sons of deceased priest allegedly forging Will of original owner and rent receipts of tenants to claim ownership/mutation of temple property and evict tenants — Contention that
India Law Library Docid # 2447232

(777) KARAN CHOPRA Vs. STATE AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Transnational child custody — Maintainability — Petition seeking production and repatriation of minor child retained in India in defiance of foreign court's order — Objection that petition amounts to seeking enforcement of a foreign decree under garb of habeas corpus — Held, petition under Art. 226 for habeas corpus concerning a minor is not rendered non-maintainable merely because its factual backdrop overlaps with consequences flowing from a foreign court's order — Writ court's jurisdiction to
India Law Library Docid # 2447233

(778) K.PONMUDI Vs. UMA ANANDAN[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) — Sections 196(i)(a), 299, 302 — Hate Speech — Offence — Elements of hate speech under Section 196(i)(a) require promoting disharmony or enmity between different groups based on religion, race, language, caste, or community.
India Law Library Docid # 2447337

(779) TVL LATHA FUELS Vs. THE STATE TAX OFFICER AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Taxation — Assessment Orders — Challenge — Writ petitions filed to quash assessment orders based on breach of natural justice and duplication of issues.
India Law Library Docid # 2447339

(780) M/S. COCO CRAZE COIRS Vs. THE STATE TAX OFFICER[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026
Administrative Law — Principles of Natural Justice — Reasonable Opportunity to be Heard — Tax demand order issued without affording the petitioner a chance to present their case infringes the fundamental right to a fair hearing.
India Law Library Docid # 2447340

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