(581) SATYA PRAKASH @ SATTE PANDIT Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 307 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 134 — Evidentiary value of injured witness — Credibility — Testimony of an injured witness carries a built-in guarantee of presence at the crime scene and is deemed highly reliable, as an injured person is unlikely to let the actual assailant go scot-free while falsely implicating an innocent person — Where the evidence of the injured eye-witness is steadfast, unassailable, and corroborated by medical evidence showing a fresh st India Law Library Docid # 2455716
(582) JAY PRATAP SINGH CHAUHAN Vs. CBI THRU. SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE AND HEAD OF BRANCH LKO. AND ANOTHER[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT (LUCKNOW BENCH)] 08-10-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 19 — Grant of prosecution sanction — Nature of internal departmental communications — Review of sanction — Internal departmental notings or communications sent by a disciplinary authority to the Chief Vigilance Officer expressing refusal do not constitute a formal, executable order declining sanction. The subsequent formal order granting sanction on the basis of complete materials, including trap memos and witness statements, is not an impermissible r India Law Library Docid # 2455736
(583) MAKBUL HUSSAIN @ MAGBUL HUSSAIN Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND 5 ORS.[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Foreigners Act, 1946 — Section 9 — Citizenship determination — Burden of proof and sufficiency of pleadings — Under Section 9, the onus of proving Indian citizenship lies squarely on the proceedee and never shifts — Proceedee must explicitly plead and prove material facts within personal knowledge, including date and place of birth, details of parents, and siblings, in line with the mandate in Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India — Vague and inadequate written statement failing to disclose these India Law Library Docid # 2455737
(584) TOWAJ UDDIN AHMED Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Passports Act, 1967 — Sections 6(2)(f) and 22 — Central Government Notification No. GSR 570(E) dated 25.08.1993 — Pending criminal proceedings — Entitlement to issuance or renewal of passport — An applicant facing criminal proceedings is not absolutely disentitled to a passport — Section 6(2)(f) is subject to the exemption powers under Section 22 read with Notification No. GSR 570(E) — A No Objection Certificate or permission granted by the jurisdictional criminal court, along with the applicant India Law Library Docid # 2455738
(585) NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS Vs. SMTI. DALIMI KALITA AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 149 and 166 — Breach of policy conditions — Expired driving licence and route permit — Liability of insurer — Third-party claim — Principle of "pay and recover" — Driver's licence and route permit had expired prior to accident — Insurer contested direction to satisfy 50% of the award — Held, beneficial object of the Act requires that claims of third parties should not be defeated by disputes between insurer and insured — Insurer rightly directed to pay 50% comp India Law Library Docid # 2455739
(586) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. SMT. TUTUMONI BORA AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 149 and 166 — Motor accident claim — Breach of policy condition — Offending vehicle operated on public road without registration certificate and permit — Pay and recover principle — Tribunal observed in the body of judgment that insurer was entitled to recover compensation from owner, but inadvertently omitted such direction from the operative part — High Court held that direction for recovery ought to be incorporated in the operative part — Insurer directed t India Law Library Docid # 2455742
(587) M/S KHAGEMBA TRANSMISSION AND CONSTRUCTION Vs. THE STATE OF MANIPUR[MANIPUR HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ Jurisdiction — Locus Standi — Stranger to Tender Process — Petitioner failed to participate in the mandatory site visit and pre-bid meeting and had not submitted a bid — Petitioner sought relaxation of mandatory eligibility criteria and an opportunity to participate afresh — Held, a stranger having no right cannot invoke extraordinary writ jurisdiction under Article 226 for Mandamus or Certiorari to seek relaxation of essential tender conditions — India Law Library Docid # 2455783
(588) SMTI EMPIL SANGMA Vs. STATE OF MEGHALAYA[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Regular Bail — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 341, 376(2)(f) and 323 — Prolonged custody during trial — Son of petitioner remained in detention for over two and a half years — State and complainant opposed bail citing defense-induced delay and examination of six of seven prosecution witnesses — Held, as investigation was complete, charge sheet filed, and the victim examined and discharged, continued incarceration was unjustified — Prolonged detention wei India Law Library Docid # 2455804
(589) LIJA RAHUL @ TALARI VIJAY KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Anticipatory bail — Guiding principles — Judicial assessment — Petitioners sought pre-arrest bail for offences under Sections 127(2) and 109 read with Section 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — High Court reiterated that granting anticipatory bail entails a judicious, fact-specific assessment balancing the gravity of accusations, role attributed to applicants, necessity of custodial investigation, and protection of personal liberty, w India Law Library Docid # 2456207
(590) MOHAMMED ZUBAIR AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND ANOTHER[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 272 and 275 — Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 — Section 20(2) — Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 — Sections 3 and 14 — Quashing of FIR — Scope of interference during ongoing investigation — Petitioners sought quashing on grounds of omnibus allegations and absence of essential ingredients — High Court held that whether allegations are true must be rev India Law Library Docid # 2456208
(591) MELIGA MAHESH AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Anticipatory bail — Scope of inquiry — Nature and gravity of accusation — Court considering an anticipatory bail application is not required to meticulously examine evidence or determine the veracity of allegations as though conducting a trial — Discretion must be exercised judiciously having regard to the nature and gravity of the accusation, role attributed to the accused, and requirements of a fair investigation — Definitive findings on d India Law Library Docid # 2456217
(592) DEVINDER SINGH AND ORS. Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 08-10-2026 Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 3(1) — Caste determined by birth — Marriage to a member of Scheduled Caste — Complainant wife married to a Scheduled Caste person did not belong to the Scheduled Caste community herself — Allegations of caste-based abuses directed at complainant — Held, caste is determined by birth and cannot be altered or acquired by marriage to a person belonging to a Scheduled Caste community — Therefore, caste-based utte India Law Library Docid # 2456172
(593) M/S RKAZE ENTERPRISES TH ITS PROPRIETOR SH. EBINEZER SOTRA Vs. UT OF J&K AND ORS.[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 08-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition in contractual disputes — Admitted liability — Public law element — Petitioner sought release of unpaid contractual dues from State authorities — State contended matter arose from a concluded contract — Held, although contractual disputes are ordinarily relegated to civil courts, writ jurisdiction is not ousted against the State where its action is arbitrary or unreasonable — Where the liability is admitted and no factu India Law Library Docid # 2456174
(594) BASHIR AHMED Vs. U. T. OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 08-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Habeas Corpus — Scope and maintainability — Detention of adult — Petitioner sought directions to trace his 20-year-old daughter alleging illegal detention — Daughter appeared and submitted that she had attained majority and voluntarily left her parental house to marry a person of her choice without any coercion — Held, a writ of habeas corpus can be issued only for securing release from illegal or unlawful detention — It cannot be issued to com India Law Library Docid # 2456175
(595) MOHAMMAD ASHRAF GANAI AND ORS Vs. STATE OF JK AND ANR[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 08-10-2026 Service Law — Regularization — Retrospective Effect — Contractual Engagement — Petitioners, originally daily-rated Junior Engineers, engaged on contractual basis and subsequently regularized with immediate effect under Order dated 31.08.2016 upon completing two years of satisfactory service — Petitioners claimed regularization retrospectively from the date of completion of two years of contractual service — Respondents opposed claiming petitioners were backdoor entrants regularized as a one-time India Law Library Docid # 2456194
(596) M/S FILATEX INDIA LIMITED Vs. THE COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX VADODARA - II[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Section 142(8)(a) — Inapplicability in absence of assessment or adjudication proceedings — Assessee paid service tax along with interest and penalty for pre-GST period under Reverse Charge Mechanism after DGGI issued an inquiry letter — Investigation closed without initiating formal proceedings — CESTAT denied refund treating payment as recovery of arrears under Section 142(8)(a) — Held, Section 142(8)(a) applies only when amount becomes recoverable pur India Law Library Docid # 2456300
(597) NAGINBHAI CHHANABHAI RATHOD Vs. ASHOKKUMAR MANIBHAI DESAI AND ANR.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Adverse possession — Distinction between long possession and adverse possession — Specific pleadings and proof required — A plea of adverse possession requires clear pleadings and proof disclosing the exact date when possession became hostile to the true owner, accompanied by open repudiation of title. Longevity of occupation alone does not establish adverse possession in law. Without establishing the element of conscious hostility and overt assertion of ownership against India Law Library Docid # 2456335
(598) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. BABU BHIMA DODIYA AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 394 and 397 — Identification of accused — Test Identification Parade (TIP) — Reliability — Incident occurred at night while witnesses were asleep and covered with blankets — No light source established, and complainant's claim of moonlight was an uncorroborated omission and material improvement — Substantial contradictions between dock identification and TIP — Serious procedural infirmities in TIP, including unexplained delay, potential prior exposure of accused India Law Library Docid # 2456346
(599) SHIVAJIRAO RAMDAS SONAVNE Vs. GURUMEJSING AJITSING JAAT [DELETED] & ORS.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166 and 168 — Assessment of income — Professional standing — Advocate — Future prospects — The claimant, aged 32 years, was an enrolled advocate holding a Sanad under Section 17 of the Advocates Act, 1961 — The Tribunal erred in assessing his income at Rs. 1,800/- per month on par with minimum wages for skilled labour — A practising advocate cannot be treated alike a skilled or semi-skilled worker — Income assessed at Rs. 2,500/- per month with 40% addition to India Law Library Docid # 2456349
(600) RAJESH BABULAL PANJARI Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-10-2026 Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879 — Section 108(6) — Saurashtra Gharkhed, Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, 1949 — Sections 54 and 75 — Suo motu revision — Inordinate delay — Collector initiated suo motu RTS proceedings after 14 years of conversion of land to non-agricultural use and 15 years after execution of sale deeds — Held, revenue authorities exercising suo motu powers must do so within a reasonable time — If any action is contemplated for alleged breach of revenue laws, t India Law Library Docid # 2456359