(281) M.KARUPPASAMY Vs. THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Disciplinary Proceedings — Differing view of Disciplinary Authority — Necessity of assigning cogent reasons — Enquiry Officer exonerated delinquent officer, holding that none of the charges were proved — Disciplinary authority differed with findings without any substantive discussion or cogent reasons, merely citing subsequent identification of illegal sewer connections — Held, reasoning for a conclusion is an inexorable requirement, and a conclusion without reasons lacks legal validity and amou India Law Library Docid # 2456276
(282) SONUBEN MANUBHAI CHAUHAN Vs. DHARMESH ALIAS DHARMENDRABHAI N MOJIDRA (PRAJAPATI) AND ORS.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Beneficial Legislation — Concept of just and fair compensation — Principles of fairness, reasonableness, and equability — Assessment of compensation must be liberal, realistic, and not niggardly — Perfect mathematical calculation for loss is impossible, yet the Tribunal has a duty to award just compensation regardless of the amount claimed to restore the injured victim to the pre-accident state as far as possible — Pecuniary compensation cannot renew a battered physica India Law Library Docid # 2456330
(283) AMIT SUBHASH MOHEKAR Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Criminal Law — Medical Negligence — Prosecution of Medical Professionals — Guidelines in Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab — Before initiating criminal proceedings or lodging an FIR against a doctor, an independent, competent medical opinion must be obtained to support allegations of rashness or criminal negligence — Criminal process cannot be permitted as a tool for harassing or pressurizing medical professionals — Where a multi-disciplinary Medical Board examined the case and categorically opine India Law Library Docid # 2456351
(284) PALASHBHAI S/O DUNGARBHAI PRAJAPATI AND ORS. Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANR.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 227 and 228 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302 and 306 — Pre-charge evidence — Permissibility at stage of discharge — Chargesheet was filed under Section 306 IPC — Sessions Court examined the post-mortem doctor before framing of charge to determine whether offence under Section 302 or 306 IPC was made out — Held, recording of pre-charge evidence at the stage of deciding a discharge application is an unknown procedure under the CrPC — Court mu India Law Library Docid # 2456352
(285) JAYSHREEBEN MAHENDRABHAI THAKKAR AND ANR. Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANR.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Multiple FIRs — Abuse of process — Quashing of FIR — Incident of alleged verbal threat during society meeting previously inquired into and referred for Chapter proceedings under Section 107 Cr.P.C. — Subsequent complaint closed, yet third complaint registered as FIR on identical facts after unexplained delay — Settled law establishes that successive FIRs or fresh investigation regarding same occurrence are impermissible — Criminal proceedings India Law Library Docid # 2456304
(286) MEHUL MANSUKHBHAI BOGHARA Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT & ANR.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 332, 353, 385, and 427 — Quashing of FIR — Mala fide counter-blast — Petitioner, an advocate, was brutally assaulted while live-streaming alleged police corruption, leading to an attempt to murder FIR against police personnel — Police lodged impugned counter-FIR alleging extortion and deterrence of public servants — Allegation that petitioner attempted extortion while live-streaming in public held inherently India Law Library Docid # 2456307
(287) SHAHINAHMED FAKIRMOHAMMAD PATHAN Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 201 and 203 — Circumstantial evidence — Complete chain of circumstances — Murder of friend's wife — Accused seen heading towards victim's house by independent witnesses and admittedly present there when victim was found dead — Accused falsely claimed deceased committed suicide by hanging — Forensic and medical evidence conclusively proved death by homicidal strangulation and antemortem head injury, completely ruling out hanging — Failure to prove explicit m India Law Library Docid # 2456328
(288) DR K SAI PRASAD REDDY AND ANOTHER Vs. SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY AND ANOTHER[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Service Law — University Faculty — UGC Regulations, 2018, Clause 3.1.0 — Mandatory procedure for appointment to teaching posts — Direct recruitment to posts of Assistant Professor must be conducted on the basis of merit through an all-India advertisement and selection by a duly constituted Selection Committee — UGC Regulations do not provide for any alternate channel or method of recruitment — Prescribed method of recruitment is a binding condition of service, and a University cannot adopt any a India Law Library Docid # 2456364
(289) AVANIGADDA SEETHA RAMA RAO AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 4(1), 5-A, 6(1) and 17(4) — Setting aside dispensation of Section 5-A enquiry — Status of prior Section 6 declaration — State dispensed with Section 5-A enquiry invoking Section 17(4) and issued Section 6 declarations — High Court previously directed enquiry under Section 5-A finding no urgency — Held, directing a Section 5-A enquiry automatically effaces and renders inefficacious the previous Section 6 declaration, even without an express quashing order — A India Law Library Docid # 2456368
(290) PALLAM RAGHAVENDRA AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 120-B, 420, 466 and 467 read with Section 34 — Pre-arrest bail — Ground of delay and parity — Delay of over one year occurred in lodging the complaint from the date of alleged offence — Petitioners were Government servants and similarly situated to co-accused who was already granted pre-arrest bail — Investigation ongoing but custodial interrogation not deemed necessary — Petitioners held entitled to pre-a India Law Library Docid # 2456381
(291) GHEESUBAIGARI MAHAMMED SAB AND OTHERS Vs. THE SPECIAL DEPUTY COLLECTOR, LAND ACQUISITION OFFICER, S.R.B.C., NANDYAL AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 18 and 26(2) — Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 — Section 2(2) and Order XXI — Executability of Reference Court award — Award passed by Reference Court enhancing compensation is deemed to be a decree under Section 26(2) of the Act and is executable under Order XXI of the Code — Claimants entitled to realise enhanced compensation through execution proceedings cannot be defeated on mere technical grounds when the award remains operative and unchallenged — Executi India Law Library Docid # 2456404
(292) RAGHUPATRUNI KANAKA LAKSHMI PRASAD AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 406 and 420 — Criminal Breach of Trust vs Cheating — Co-existence of offences — Section 406 presupposes lawful entrustment of property followed by dishonest misappropriation arising from a fiduciary relationship, whereas Section 420 requires deception and fraudulent inducement at the very inception of the transaction — Both offences operate in separate spheres and are antithetical to each other — Held, the offences of criminal breach of trust and cheating cannot India Law Library Docid # 2456412
(293) GHEESUBAIGARI MAHAMMED SAB AND OTHERS Vs. THE SPECIAL DEPUTY COLLECTOR, LAND ACQUISITION OFFICER, S.R.B.C., NANDYAL AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 18 and Section 26(2) — Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 — Order XXI — Reference Court award deemed decree — Executability — Petitioners sought execution of enhanced compensation awards by attachment of government properties — Executing Court dismissed petitions holding that properties belonged to other government offices and not to Land Acquisition Officer personally — Held, under Section 26(2) of the Act, Reference Court awards are deemed decrees executable und India Law Library Docid # 2456415
(294) KALAMUDDIN Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA[PATNA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Service Law — Compassionate Appointment — Relative Merit Points System — Calculation of merit points — Father of petitioner died in harness — Petitioner's application rejected due to low merit points — Dispute regarding points awarded under heads of lump-sum terminal benefits and annual family income — Undisputed record established that family received Rs. 29,63,673/- exceeding the maximum threshold, attracting zero points, and sons had certified annual income of Rs. 3,60,000/-, also attracting India Law Library Docid # 2455625
(295) RAJESH KUMAR SHRIVASTAVA @ RAJESH SHRIVASTAVA Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 406 and 34 — Criminal breach of trust — Auction of repossessed vehicle — Failure to deliver vehicle — Quashing of cognizance — Complainant participated in an auction conducted by company, deposited tender and bid amounts, but vehicle was allegedly not delivered and sold to another — Petitioner was Regional Business Head of the auctioning company — Amount was deposited directly with company and not with petitioner — Held, the necessary ingredients of criminal breach of India Law Library Docid # 2455638
(296) NANDU THAKUR Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 34 and 307 — Common Intention — Attempt to murder — Constructive liability — Deceased co-accused fired at informant while appellant allegedly held the informant from behind — Mere act of catching hold of a victim does not automatically establish common intention to commit murder — Prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the act was done in furtherance of a shared common intention — Evidence at best showed similar intention, which cannot attract Section 34 India Law Library Docid # 2455656
(297) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. SUDHIR S/O MOTIRAMJI HIWARKAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 300 / Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Necessary Party — Impleadment — State as a necessary party — Writ petition filed seeking direction for absorption of a lecturer into service, which fastens direct and continuous financial and administrative liability upon the State — State of Maharashtra was not arrayed as a party respondent in the writ petition ab initio, and a belated application merely impleaded India Law Library Docid # 2455667
(298) UNIVERSAL SPECIALITY CHEMICALS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226 and 227 — Maintainability and entertainability of writ petition — Alternative statutory remedy — Rule of exhaustion of statutory remedies is a matter of policy, convenience, and judicial discretion rather than an absolute rule of law — Where the controversy involves a pure question of law and does not require an investigation into disputed questions of fact, the High Court can legitimately exercise its extraordinary writ jurisdiction without relegating India Law Library Docid # 2455675
(299) SHRI SAHEBRAO NARAYAN SASTE AND OTHERS Vs. RATAN YASHWANT SASTE AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Article 110 — Joint Family Property — Suit for partition — Exclusion and ouster — Twin conditions — Article 110 requires a positive act or conduct by which exclusion is made known to the plaintiff — Mere denial of share in agricultural yield, exclusive possession by one co-heir, or oral refusal by father in anger does not constitute ouster — Possession of one co-heir is considered in law as possession of all — Raising a plea of adverse possession acknowledges the opposite India Law Library Docid # 2455680
(300) RAHUL GAJRAJ PATIL @ SARANG PATIL Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Regular bail — Governing principles — Object of bail is to secure the attendance of the accused at trial and is neither punitive nor preventative — Presumption of innocence is a cardinal principle rooted in Article 21 of the Constitution of India, 1950 — Discretion conferred upon the High Court to grant bail is unfettered by rigid classifications and must be exercised judiciously — Held, detention prior to conviction cannot be used as puni India Law Library Docid # 2455684