(501) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. GHULAM MOHI UD DIN SHAH AND ORS.[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 09-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Insurance Claim — Policy Coverage — Private Vehicle Occupants — Claim arising from the death of a passenger travelling in a private car — Insurer established through uncontroverted testimony that the insurance policy was limited strictly to third-party coverage and no additional premium was paid to cover occupants or passengers — Deceased was travelling as an unauthorized occupant without policy coverage — Held, the insurance policy issued to the owner of the offending India Law Library Docid # 2456197
(502) M/S.CITIZENS CLUB Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND FOUR OTHERS.[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Telangana Gaming Act, 1974 — Sections 2, 3, 4 and 15 — Classification of 13-card Rummy as a game of skill — Impact of 2017 Amendment — Club raided for playing 13-card Rummy with token coins — Held, 13-card Rummy is recognized as a game of skill, and playing it without stakes is not unlawful — However, by virtue of the 2017 Amendment, the statutory exemption for games of skill stands curtailed where betting or wagering is involved — Police are fully empowered to take action under the Act if the g India Law Library Docid # 2456210
(503) MOHD YAQOOB Vs. FINANCIAL COMMISSIONER (REVENUE) URF[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 09-10-2026 Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act — Section 12 — Appeal against mutation — Maintainability — Question of Limitation — Appellant challenged Mutation No. 39 dated 10.03.1959 before Additional Deputy Commissioner after three decades without filing an application for condonation of delay or explaining the delay — Limitation is not a mere procedural formality but goes to the root of maintainability — Appellate revenue authority must first determine limitation before examining the case on merits — En India Law Library Docid # 2456178
(504) COMMISSIONER SECRETARY, PMGSY, GOVT., OF J&K, CIVIL SECRETARIAT, JAMMU AND ANOTHER Vs. MOHD. IQBAL AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 09-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order XIV Rule 5 and Order XLI Rule 25 — Non-framing of specific issue — Effect of — Defendant participating in trial with full knowledge of controversy cannot raise non-framing of issues as a ground to seek remand in appeal — Omission to frame an issue is an irregularity that is not fatal unless it caused actual prejudice or misled a party — Party failing to seek amendment or framing of additional issues under Order XIV Rule 5 acquiesces in the proceedings — Appella India Law Library Docid # 2456189
(505) MST. SAKEENA BANOO Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 09-10-2026 Service Law — Age Determination — Conflict between School Certificate and Medical Opinion — Engagement of Aaya/Helper — Petitioner challenged cancellation of her tentative selection, relying on a Medical Board certificate assessing her age at 23 years — Provisional-cum-discharge certificate issued by school recorded her date of birth as 04.03.2005 — Held, it is settled law that where a school discharge certificate based on official academic records is available, a medical opinion cannot be relie India Law Library Docid # 2456191
(506) BAL KRISHNAN PANDITA AND ANOTHER Vs. THE UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ Jurisdiction — Disputed questions of fact — Claim of easementary rights — Petitioner asserted acquisition of easementary rights by prescription and necessity over a pathway passing through land recorded as migrant property — Held, determining the precise location of the pathway, nature, character, duration of user, and whether user was permissive or as of right involves complex and disputed questions of fact — Such issues require elaborate evidenc India Law Library Docid # 2456192
(507) MANZOOR AHMAD DARSAROO Vs. MR. ASHISH GUPTA[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 09-10-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Scope of contempt jurisdiction — Court must strictly confine itself to express directions contained in judgment alleged to have been violated — Court cannot enlarge scope of original order, reopen decided issues, or assess correctness, legality, or sufficiency of subsequent actions — Exercising appellate or review jurisdiction under guise of contempt proceedings is impermissible — No supplemental direction can be issued beyond what was expressly directed in origina India Law Library Docid # 2456193
(508) GULZAR AHMAD BHAT Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND ORS.[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Preventive Detention — Maintainability of writ petition at pre-execution stage — Scope of judicial review — High Court is empowered to entertain a writ petition challenging a detention order prior to its execution, though grounds of interference are limited — Interference is warranted where the Court is prima facie satisfied that the order is not passed under the purported Act, is executed against a wrong person, is passed for an ulterior purpose, is f India Law Library Docid # 2456195
(509) NANDIBEN WD/O NAGINBHAI PATEL Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 419(4) — Criminal Jurisprudence — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of appellate interference — Accused enjoys a double presumption of innocence, which is reinforced upon acquittal by the trial court — Appellate Court cannot substitute its view or overturn an acquittal merely because another view is possible — Interference is justified only where findings of the trial court suffer from patent perversity, are manifestly erroneous, demonstrably uns India Law Library Docid # 2456302
(510) DILIPBHAI BHAGVANSINH PADHIYAR AND OTHERS Vs. MOTHER DAIRY FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PVT LTD[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Sections 25K and 25N — Retrenchment of workmen in industrial establishment employing more than 100 workers — Mandatory compliance with Chapter V-B — Management retrenched workmen following Section 25F instead of Section 25N — Employer admitted to employing over 1,000 workers, attracting Chapter V-B — Section 25N mandates three months' notice or wages in lieu thereof and prior permission from the appropriate Government after inquiry — Failure to seek or obtain stat India Law Library Docid # 2456341
(511) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. RAJESHKUMAR DHULAJI MAKVANA AND ANR.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 42 and 50 — Search and seizure — Mandatory compliance — Accused allegedly intercepted carrying brown sugar — Raiding officers failed to inform accused of his statutory right to be searched before an independent Gazetted Officer or Magistrate, instead offering themselves — Held, provisions of Section 50 are mandatory and strict compliance is required — Further, failure to record secret information in writing and transmit it forthwith India Law Library Docid # 2456357
(512) COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX Vs. SHANTABEN K. PATEL[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Sections 45 and 56 — Capital Receipt or Income from Other Sources — Assessee transferred user rights over trademarks and brand names under a 1980 dissolution deed in exchange for annual variable payment linked to profits — High Court held that such payments were license fees and not a fixed annuity — Consideration of Rs. 50 crores received by assessee on subsequent tripartite sale of ownership rights was a capital receipt arising from transfer of capital assets — It could India Law Library Docid # 2456308
(513) INDRAVADAN @ ASHOK MAGANBHAI PATEL AND ORS. Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ORS.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Inherent powers — Parameters governing exercise of extraordinary jurisdiction — Supreme Court guidelines in State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal and four-step test in Pradeep Kumar Kesarwani applied — High Court can exercise inherent powers where allegations in FIR, accepted at face value, do not prima facie constitute any offence — Criminal machinery must not degenerate into an engine of harassment where criminal liability is comp India Law Library Docid # 2456311
(514) THE STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. JAMNASHANKAR J. GAUR & ORS.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 498A and 120-B — Cruelty and Dowry Demands — Appreciation of evidence — Discrepancies and hearsay — Testimony of deceased's sister regarding physical abuse and dowry harassment was contradicted by her prior police statement admitting lack of communication with the deceased — Evidence of another relative was based purely on secondary communication from his wife and devoid of specific dowry particulars, rendering it inadmissible hearsay — Grave suspicion cann India Law Library Docid # 2456324
(515) KOLAPALLI PRABHAKAR RAO AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 420 — Cheating — Misrepresentation and dishonest inducement — Violation of Government Order — Accused falsely represented himself as the authorized agent of a designated public company to lift scrap from a Government workshop at prescribed rates, subsequently diverting and selling the material in the open market — Held, procuring state-controlled material through false impersonation and deceitful representation clearly constitutes the offence of cheating punishab India Law Library Docid # 2456397
(516) MODERN ASSET Vs. KNK CONSTRUCTION PRIVATE LIMITED.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Section 31(1) — Clean Slate Principle — Right of Successful Resolution Applicant (SRA) to pursue pre-CIRP claims vs. Counterclaim by Operational Creditor (OC) — Equitable Set-Off — Operational Creditor suffered a major haircut on its pre-CIRP claim under the approved resolution plan — Subsequent to CIRP completion, SRA invoked arbitration seeking recovery of pre-CIRP dues from the same Operational Creditor arising out of the very same contract — Secti India Law Library Docid # 2454912
(517) SHUBHAM EQUIPMENT PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. ROTHWELL WATER COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6-A) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Scope of Inquiry — Minimal Judicial Intervention — Referral Court's jurisdiction under Section 11(6-A) is restricted to examining the prima facie existence of an arbitration agreement — Once the prima facie existence of an arbitration agreement is established, the Court ought to appoint an arbitrator and refer the parties to arbitration — Contentions regarding overlapping claims under a prior agreement fall wi India Law Library Docid # 2454913
(518) FEDERATION OF MEDICAL AND SALES REPRESENTATIVES ASSOCIATION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 and 32 — Right to Health — Unethical Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices — Public Interest Litigation seeking statutory force for Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) or framing of judicial guidelines — Health forms an integral part of right to life — Unethical practices including direct or indirect monetary benefits, gifts, hospitality, sponsored travel, and inducements to medical practitioners result in over-prescription India Law Library Docid # 2454914
(519) RAMKRUSHNA PRAHLLAD DONGARDIVE Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 409 — Criminal Breach of Trust by Public Servant — Misappropriation of Government funds — Reversal of acquittal by High Court — Legality of — Onus lies affirmatively on prosecution to prove entrustment of property and dishonest intention beyond reasonable doubt — Prosecution failed to produce original cashbook, daily registers, stock registers, or audit reports to prove collection and non-deposit of funds — Non-production of material documents in complainant's India Law Library Docid # 2454915
(520) MEERUT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Vs. PARMESHWAR DAYAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 54 — Interim Stay / Conditional Release of Enhanced Compensation — Discretion of Court — Parity in interim arrangements — High Court granted stay on enhanced compensation awarded by Reference Court subject to petitioner depositing 50% in cash and furnishing security for balance 50%, permitting landowners to receive entire cash deposit — Supreme Court directed petitioner to deposit the entire enhanced compensation with High Court Registry within four weeks — H India Law Library Docid # 2455038