(841) SREEDEVI INFRA CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. CANARA BANK AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ against SARFAESI proceedings — Maintainability — Petitioner challenging e-auction sale notice contending estoppel based on bank's alleged acceptance of substituted security — Held, SARFAESI Act, 2002 being a complete code providing efficacious alternate remedy under S. 17 before DRT, writ petition not maintainable — Article 226 not intended to bypass statutory remedy — Writ petition dismissed, petitioner relegated to statutory forum. [Paras 5, 6] India Law Library Docid # 2447997
(842) BITU KHATIK @ SONKAR Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Bail — Arms Act, 1959 — Organized crime — Non-disclosure of criminal antecedents — Where accused, involved in 23 criminal cases, fails to disclose any criminal antecedents in the bail application, such suppression of material facts amounts to abuse of process and disentitles him to discretionary relief of bail, applying the principles in Munnesh v. State of U.P. and Zeba Khan v. State of U.P. — Bail rejected having regard to allegation of organized crime involving dealing in firearms and non-dis India Law Library Docid # 2448239
(843) DR. RAMLAL R.V Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226, 227 — Maintainability where existence of a concluded contract is seriously disputed — Absence of formal agreement not fatal to binding contract — A mere reference to a future formal document does not, by itself, prevent a binding bargain — Whether execution of a further formal agreement is a condition of the bargain or merely the parties' expressed desire for a formal record depends on the intention gathered from correspondence and conduct, not created India Law Library Docid # 2448593
(844) M/S MALABAR PLANTATIONS Vs. THOTTAKAD ESTATE PVT . LTD[KERALA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 55(1)(a), 55(2) — Vendor's duty of disclosure and implied warranty of title — Buyer's knowledge of defect does not exclude statutory warranty — Section 55(1)(a) casts a duty on the seller to disclose every material defect in title known to him and not discoverable by the purchaser with India Law Library Docid # 2448594
(845) CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Vs. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT[KERALA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 — Section 44(1)(a), (c), S. 71 — Jurisdiction of Special Court under PML Act to try committed scheduled offence — On committal of a scheduled-offence case under S. 44(1)(c), a Special Court constituted under the PML Act is legally competent to try the scheduled offence even though it is not the notified court for that offence — Section 71 gives the Act overriding effect notwithstanding any inconsistent law — Order transferring the scheduled-offence case f India Law Library Docid # 2448595
(846) SHAILESH R. GANDHI AND OTHERS Vs. LATE RAMCHANDRA R. GANDHI THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Ss. 9, 7 and 16 — Composite family settlement comprising Memorandum of Agreement, Branding Agreement, Registered User Agreement and Irrevocable Power of Attorney — Agreements executed contemporaneously as part of single transaction — Prima facie held, disputes cannot be viewed as arising solely from Registered User Agreement — India Law Library Docid # 2447177
(847) RAMPHAL AHIRWAR Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Judicial review of departmental punishment — Acquittal of delinquent in criminal trial on benefit of doubt — Effect on disciplinary proceedings — Held, acquittal by criminal court does not ipso facto absolve delinquent from liability in departmental proceedings — Standard of proof in the two proceedings being different, findings recorded in departmental enquiry on India Law Library Docid # 2447180
(848) RAMEN ROY Vs. SAMBRIDDHI REAL ESTATE PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 2(1)(c)(vi) — "Commercial dispute" — Construction and infrastructure contracts — Development agreement contemplating transfer of ownership rights in addition to construction — Held, expression "dispute arising out of" construction and infrastructure contracts is of expansive connotation and sub-clause (vi) does not use the word "only" to India Law Library Docid # 2447183
(849) SOMANATH JANKA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 374(2) — Appeal against conviction — Offences under Ss. 363, 366 and 376(2)(n), IPC read with S. 6, POCSO Act, 2012 — Victim turning hostile — Absence of eye-witness — Held, conviction based mainly on circumstantial and medical evidence, in the absence of any supporting testimony from the victim herself (star witness) and no other India Law Library Docid # 2447184
(850) THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS Vs. UMESH KUMAR SINGH[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Service Law — Departmental enquiry — Principles of natural justice — Non-service of second show-cause notice along with copy of inquiry report before imposing major penalty — Held, admittedly, the second show-cause notice along with the inquiry report was not served on the delinquent employee before imposition of penalty — Following Managing India Law Library Docid # 2447185
(851) STATE OF SIKKIM Vs. BISHAL SAHA[SIKKIM HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 36A — Exclusive jurisdiction of Special Court — Charge-sheet filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate instead of Special Court — Effect — Held, once a Special Court is constituted for an area, it alone has exclusive jurisdiction, India Law Library Docid # 2447186
(852) All NEHU WORKERS’ UNION (ANWU) Vs. NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY (NEHU) AND OTHER[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Service Law — Regularization of casual/temporary workers — Long years of continuous service (10 to 30 years) without appointment against sanctioned posts or through regular selection process — Availability of vacant sanctioned posts — Held, a blanket denial of consideration for regularization would be unjustified where members of petitioner-Union have rendered long, continuous service and India Law Library Docid # 2447187
(853) STATE OF KERALA Vs. KERALA REVENUE DEPARTMENT STAFF ASSOCIATION KRDSA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Supervisory jurisdiction over Administrative Tribunal — Scope — Held, power of superintendence under Article 227 is to be kept to the minimum, is not appellate in nature, and can be exercised only where the order of the Tribunal is passed in grave dereliction of duty, in flagrant abuse of fundamental principles of law or justice, or reflects India Law Library Docid # 2447188
(854) M.MANUEL, MALABAR FASHION JEWELLERY Vs. MALABAR GOLD PRIVATE LTD.[KERALA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Trade Marks Act, 1999 — Section 28(3) — Infringement action between two registered proprietors — Registrations in different classes — Held, S. 28(3) bars an infringement action between two registered proprietors only where both the marks are identical/nearly resembling AND the registrations relate to the same goods or services — Where rival registrations fall in different classes (goods India Law Library Docid # 2447189
(855) PHOENIX MARKETING SOLUTION Vs. THE DEPUTY STATE TAX OFFICER 2 VELLORE (RURAL)[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, Section 74; Tamil Nadu Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Assessment Order — Petitioner challenged assessment orders and sought quashing of the same, restoration of Input Tax Credit (ITC) and permission to file an appeal without pre-deposit — Petitioner availed ITC in relation to supplies from M/s — Rathod Enterprise. India Law Library Docid # 2447405
(856) IREO GRACE REALTECH PVT. LTD. Vs. SAKSHI ABRAHAM AND OTHERS[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 30-06-2026 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 51 — Appeal against State Commission order — Condonation of delay — Delay in filing appeal was condoned considering the matter had travelled to the Supreme Court and the appeal was filed shortly after the Supreme Court's order, and the delay was not opposed by the India Law Library Docid # 2447934
(857) SECRETARY, FOREST AND OTHERS Vs. OM KAILASH TYAGI[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Service Law — Recovery from retired employee — Wrongful pay fixation — Class III/Group-C employee — No misrepresentation or fraud by employee — Respondent, a Statistical Officer (Group-C), had his pay scale re-fixed and Rs. 13,63,630/- recovered from gratuity post-retirement, without any finding that he had misrepresented facts or committed fraud India Law Library Docid # 2447954
(858) GOPAL SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA[PATNA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Service Law — Pay Parity — Non-Consideration of Similarly Situated Persons — Petitioner's claim to pay parity for basic pay under the CCS (Pension) Rules rejected solely by reference to one named comparator, while several other similarly situated persons named in his representation were left unaddressed. Held, where a representation names multiple similarly situated persons who have already been granted the claimed benefit, the authority is obliged to consider the claim qua each of them and cann India Law Library Docid # 2448092
(859) DEVENDRA MISHRA Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Compassionate Appointment — Acceptance of Lower Post — Exhaustion of Right — Petitioner, recommended for a Class-III post but appointed and having voluntarily joined a Class-IV post due to non-availability of vacancy, sought subsequent conversion to the originally recommended Class-III post. Held, once an applicant exercises the option to accept and join a lower post under compassionate appointment, the right to compassionate appointment stands exhausted, and no vested right survives to claim co India Law Library Docid # 2448093
(860) KAVITHA AND OTHERS Vs. K NAGARAJU AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 151 and Order 18 Rule 17 — Reopening of Evidence/Recalling Witnesses — Scope — The inherent power under S. 151, CPC and the power to recall witnesses under O. 18 R. 17 cannot be routinely invoked, are not intended to fill lacunae in evidence already recorded, and are to be exercised sparingly, only where no other provision covers the situation and where bona fides of the applicant are not in doubt — Recall of witnesses cross-examined at length by a pred India Law Library Docid # 2448774