(801) KARTIKBHAI JASHUBHAI PATEL Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Discharge Application — Limitation — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), Section 250(1) — The sixty-day period for preferring a discharge application is procedural and does not extinguish the right to seek discharge if the delay is satisfactorily explained — Courts retain discretion to condone delay upon sufficient cause being shown, especially when the India Law Library Docid # 2440915
(802) RASIKBHAI MARGHABHAI PATEL AND OTHERS Vs. COLLECTOR, AHMEDABAD AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1960 — Section 65 — Application for Non-Agricultural (NA) use permission — Rejection of application on the ground of pending civil suits — Held, the Collector's power under Section 65 is limited to ascertaining if the applicant is an "occupant" of the land based on revenue records and if the land is assessed for agriculture — The Collector cannot delve into complex title India Law Library Docid # 2440916
(803) RAJESHKUMAR NAVNITLAL MEHTA Vs. BHIKHIBEN D/O PUNJAJI GULABJI THAKORE AND W/O MANGAJI CHHAGANJI THAKORE AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(A) and (D) — Rejection of plaint — Application for rejection of plaint on grounds of limitation and lack of cause of action — Court must consider averments in plaint as a whole, not defence — Limitation is a mixed question of law and facts unless patently clear — Rejection of plaint at threshold is a drastic power, to be exercised only when suit is undoubtedly India Law Library Docid # 2440917
(804) ANOOP UPPAL AND OTHERS Vs. JAMMU MUNICIPAL CORPORATION THROUGH ITS COMMISSIONER AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Administrative Law - Abuse of Power - Misuse of Building Safety Regulations. The Municipal Commissioner cannot use the process of declaring a building unsafe as a tool to evict tenants when a court-appointed expert committee has already declared the shops structurally safe. Such action is a colorable exercise of power and an abuse of process, especially when it jeopardizes citizens' livelihood. India Law Library Docid # 2441021
(805) SHOKAT ALI Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Section 8 — Preventive Detention — Grounds for — Petitioner detained for bovine smuggling and organized crime — Past FIRs and bail orders do not bar preventive detention as it is a precautionary measure to prevent future acts, not punish past ones — The subjective satisfaction of the detaining authority regarding the necessity of detention to maintain public order is paramount and India Law Library Docid # 2441022
(806) MOHD. ASHRAF DAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE (NOW UT) OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Jammu & Kashmir Forest Act, Samvat 1987 — Jammu & Kashmir Willow (Prohibition on Export and Movement) Act, 2000 — Confiscation of property — Non-government property — Confiscation proceedings cannot be finalized or confiscation order passed until conviction of offenders is recorded by the Magistrate — Seized vehicles cannot be confiscated without a prior criminal conviction. [Paras 21, 26(ii), 27 India Law Library Docid # 2441023
(807) GHULAM AHMAD GANIE Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (SRINAGAR BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Service Law — Disciplinary proceedings — Violation of natural justice — Preliminary enquiry findings cannot be used as evidence in regular enquiry without opportunity for cross-examination — Dismissal of petitioner from service quashed for violation of principles of natural justice and perversity in findings due to reliance on India Law Library Docid # 2441079
(808) SHIVAJI MADHAV JADHAV AND OTHERS Vs. NASHIK DISTRICT CENTRAL COOPERATIVE BANK LTD.[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971 — Schedule IV, Item 6 — Unfair labour practice — Keeping employees temporary for years to deny permanency — Industrial Court failed to appreciate that lack of sanctioned staffing pattern does not prevent regularisation when work is perennial, India Law Library Docid # 2441118
(809) ASHOK NARAYAN PIPRAIYA AND OTHERS Vs. LILABAI NARAYAN PIPRAIYA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 — Section 2(b) and Section 4 — Eviction of children/relatives by senior citizen — Application for eviction of children/relatives simplicitor, without a prayer for monetary maintenance, is maintainable under the Act, especially when the senior citizen has been dispossessed of her property or requires the property to generate income for a normal life. India Law Library Docid # 2441119
(810) KHANDU BAJABA GAWANDE (SINCE DECEASED THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS) Vs. DEORAM BAJABA GAWANDE (SINCE DECEASED THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS) AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 6 — Suit for restoration of possession — Scope of enquiry in such suits is summary and limited to proving plaintiff's possession on the date of dispossession, dispossession within six months prior to filing of suit, and dispossession without consent or due process of law — Trial Court erred in decreeing the suit without conducting factual enquiry into possession on the crucial date and by India Law Library Docid # 2441120
(811) BHOLENATH MEVALAL NISHAD Vs. SHYAMDULARI MEVALAL NISHAD AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 — Section 2(b) and Section 4(3) — Eviction of son from senior citizen's property — Senior citizen's right to residence is part of maintenance obligation — Forced dispossession of a senior citizen from her own home constitutes a breach of the child's duty to maintain and allows for eviction proceedings. India Law Library Docid # 2441121
(812) SHAMSHUDDIN ALI MULLAJI Vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER (PENSION) AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Employees' Pension Scheme, 1995 — Dual Pension — Misrepresentation and Fraud — Petitioner received pension from first employment while still employed in second employment, by not disclosing his continuing employment in Form 10-D — This constituted misrepresentation and defrauding the State Exchequer — Court noted cases where recovery of excess pension was not ordered due to old age and minimal amounts, India Law Library Docid # 2441122
(813) RASHMI CHS LIMITED Vs. ROMILA DILIP BAJAJ AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Maharastra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Section 23 — Refusal of membership — Society must record and communicate clear and sufficient reasons for refusal — Applicant has a right to appeal to the Registrar against refusal — Registrar's decision is final — Society cannot introduce new grounds for rejection during appeal. India Law Library Docid # 2441123
(814) DR. SMT. LALITA GUPTA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Quashing of recovery order — Petitioner seeking to quash an order demanding recovery of excess amount paid — Excess amount paid between 2008 and 2015, petitioner retired in 2016; recovery order passed in 2024, 8 years after retirement — Held, recovery order passed after such a long lapse of time is bad in law and also ignores procedures laid down in relevant pensionary rules and India Law Library Docid # 2441170
(815) JEESHAN KHAN Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Bail Orders — Modification — Delay in release from custody due to typographical error in bail order and objection by Criminal Reader — Court's prima facie view that Criminal Reader's procedure was invalid and Special Judge should have passed a legal order — Holding that the order was sufficient to identify the accused and the case, and India Law Library Docid # 2441171
(816) K.ESWARAN Vs. S.JANAKIRAMAN AND OTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Contract Law — Specific Performance — Suit for specific performance of sale agreement — Unregistered agreement — Admissibility of unregistered agreement as evidence of contract in specific performance suit — Proviso to Section 49 (c) of Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Admissible if not falling under Section 17(1-A) of Registration Act. India Law Library Docid # 2441645
(817) THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT, CHENNAI ZONAL OFFICE Vs. THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, ANTI CORRUPTION BUREAU, CHENNAI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) — Sections 43, 44(1)(a), 44(1)(c) — Scheduled Offence and Money Laundering Offence — Trial Jurisdiction — If the court which has taken cognizance of the scheduled offence is different from the Special Court which has taken cognizance of the offence of money-laundering, the India Law Library Docid # 2441646
(818) NTR 16636-L COL YESUDIAN SUGUMAR P (RETD) Vs. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND OTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Armed Forces Rules — Disability Pension — Entitlement — Petitioner claims disability pension for Hypertension — Release Medical Board assessed disability at 30% but opined it was neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service — Subsequent appeals and Tribunal's order rejected the claim — Court upheld the Tribunal's decision. India Law Library Docid # 2441647
(819) PRIMARY AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION Vs. THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU, DEPARTMENT OF COOPERATION, FOOD & CONSUMER PROTECTION[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 19(1)(c) and 43B — Tamil Nadu Cooperative Societies Act, 1983, Sections 74 and 75(1) — Challenge to constitutional validity of Sections 74 and 75(1) and consequential Government Orders constituting India Law Library Docid # 2441648
(820) DR. SUMANA MAJUMDAR Vs. STATE OF TRIPURA AND OTHERS[TRIPURA HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — High Court’s power to direct framing of a scheme. The High Court cannot direct the State to frame a scheme as it is the exclusive domain of the State, which acts as a welfare State. India Law Library Docid # 2442132