(81) KALEEM Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 (Murder) — Conviction based on Dying Declaration — Trial Court's judgment of conviction and sentence upheld. The High Court found the dying declaration to be reliable and voluntary, corroborated by the First Information Report (FIR). Statements of witnesses consistently identified the India Law Library Docid # 2440275
(82) GHANSHYAM MANDAL AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR (NOW JHARKHAND)[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 read with Section 34 — Murder — Appeal against conviction — Appellants convicted for murder by Sessions Court and conviction upheld by High Court — Supreme Court examined evidence and found ocular evidence to be consistent and reliable — Minor inconsistencies do not weaken India Law Library Docid # 2440284
(83) ATMA RAM Vs. SUNIL KUMAR AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — High Courts should not interfere with concurrent findings of fact unless judgments below are perverse or based on no evidence. — High Court cannot re-appreciate evidence to substitute its own view for plausible findings of fact by the first appellate court. — In India Law Library Docid # 2440476
(84) SHEETAL DASS AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 — Section 34 — Offences by companies — Vicarious liability — Directors and persons in charge of business — Complaint must contain specific averments detailing how the accused was in charge of and responsible for the company's business, not just a bald statement of their position India Law Library Docid # 2440477
(85) KESHAV CHANDEL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 528 — Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 126(2), 190, 191(2), 191(3) and 115(2) — Quashing of FIR and subsequent proceedings on basis of compromise — Offence not heinous or involving moral turpitude — Compromise entered into between parties — Continuation of India Law Library Docid # 2440478
(86) STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Vs. CHANDERBHAN AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 323, 325, 34 — Appeal against acquittal — High Court can only interfere with an acquittal if the judgment is perverse, based on misreading or omission of material evidence, or if no two reasonable views are possible. The trial court's assessment that there was a delay in reporting the incident India Law Library Docid # 2440479
(87) SANTOKH SINGH Vs. BALDEEP SINGH[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Conviction — Revisional Court’s scope — A revisional court cannot re-appreciate evidence or substitute its own findings for those of the lower courts unless there is a patent defect, an error of jurisdiction, or a perversity in the decision. India Law Library Docid # 2440480
(88) VISHAL SHARMA Vs. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT OFFICE (ED)[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 483 — Interim bail — Applicant sought interim bail on the ground of his sister-in-law's death and to be with his family — Court considered the death and applicant's need to mourn, granting ten days interim bail — Previous grant of interim bail was not misused — Conditions India Law Library Docid # 2440481
(89) RAJ KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) — Section 483 — Regular bail — Petitioner lodged FIR against for sexual assault — Allegations of victim voluntarily boarding petitioner's car and falsely implicating him for monetary gain — No medical evidence to support sexual intercourse — Victim alleged to have a history of filing India Law Library Docid # 2440482
(90) RAM NARAIN (D) BY LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. THE SUB DIVISIONAL OFFICER AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-02-2026 Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 — Section 123 — Regularisation of unauthorised occupation — Legal fiction created by Section 123(2) deems land settled with house owners in possession by a specific cut-off date, overriding Section 143 declaration — Regularisation is a socio-economic measure and is applicable even if houses were built forcefully or without consent. India Law Library Docid # 2439955
(91) VANDANA JAIN AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471 — Criminal Breach of Trust, Cheating, Forgery, Using Forged Document — Joint Venture Agreement — Dispute arising from JVA — FIR quashed — Allegations primarily civil in nature, with a criminal cloak — Dishonest intention not evident from the inception — Delay in lodging FIR indicates civil dispute India Law Library Docid # 2439956
(92) OGEPPA (D) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. SAHEBGOUDA (D) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Suit for declaration of hereditary pujari rights and injunction — Long-standing dispute over temple and pujari rights spanning over a century — Conflicting claims based on historical decrees and subsequent conduct. India Law Library Docid # 2439957
(93) M/S. ADISHAKTI DEVELOPERS AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-02-2026 Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Section 98 — Recovery Certificate — Sale under Section 98 — Mandatory Deposit — Rule 107(11)(h) of Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Rules, 1961 — Deposit of entire auction amount within 15 days of auction date is a mandatory condition — Failure amounts to void sale — Bank did not raise objection and accepted deposit after 15 days — Such India Law Library Docid # 2440044
(94) KAPIL DEV SHARMA Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Administrative Law — Office Orders — Withdrawal of service benefits — An initial office order dated 17.03.2025, which withdrew certain service benefits after the enactment of a new Act, was subsequently declared infructuous and withdrawn by a later office order dated 10.09.2025 — The subsequent order directed the restoration India Law Library Docid # 2440378
(95) ASHOK KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Service Law — Regularization of services — Claim for regularization denied due to lack of proof of employer-employee relationship — Appellants failed to produce appointment orders, attendance records, or proof of payment for services rendered — Merely possessing identity cards or handling receipt books does not establish employment — Previous litigation had also dismissed similar claims on the grounds India Law Library Docid # 2440379
(96) DEEPAK UPADHYAY Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Transfer of Employees — Challenging transfer order — Appellant argued transfer was without consent — Court held transfer was due to exigency of service for expediting recovery proceedings of Non-Performing Assets — Employee's duty to serve employer — No malafide or arbitrary action alleged — Writ Court would not India Law Library Docid # 2440380
(97) LALITA DEVI Vs. STATE OF HP AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Service Law — Termination of services — Anganwadi Worker — Insubordination and indiscipline — Orders to shift Anganwadi Centre were repeatedly disobeyed despite show cause notices and ample opportunities — Husband of worker misbehaved with superior officers, registered FIR — Termination justified as insubordination affects hierarchy and chain of command — Termination not perverse India Law Library Docid # 2440381
(98) ARPITA KUMARI Vs. ARUN THAKUR[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Maintenance — Retrospective effect — Maintenance awarded by Family Court should be from date of filing of petition, not from date of order — High Court modified Family Court’s order to grant maintenance from date of filing of petition, allowing respondent to pay arrears in installments. India Law Library Docid # 2440382
(99) DR. SARISHTI KATWAL Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Service Law — Non-Practicing Allowance (NPA) — Doctors recruited after May 24, 2023 — Notification dated May 24, 2023, stating that NPA will not be admissible for doctors recruited henceforth — Petitioner's appointment notification was dated September 29, 2022, but she joined on July 5, 2023, after the new notification — Court held that the notification was prospective and did not affect those appointed India Law Library Docid # 2440412
(100) SH. SANJAY KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-02-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 16 — Transfer of public servant — Arbitrary exercise of power — Transfer order found to be actuated by extraneous considerations to adjust private respondents, not by administrative exigency or public interest — Such action held to be hit by Articles 14 and 16. India Law Library Docid # 2440413