(401) BHUKYA RAMU Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 303(2) — Interim custody of seized vehicle — Expiry of Registration Certificate — Tractor trailer was seized for alleged illegal sand quarrying — Magistrate rejected application for interim custody on the ground that the vehicle's registration certificate had expired — Held, physical presence of the vehicle before the Registering Authority is essential for renewal of its registration certificate — Continued seizure causes hardship to the owner who relies o India Law Library Docid # 2451257
(402) AERLAM @ MUDDANGULA ANURADHA Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Boot-leggers... Act, 1986 — Sections 2(m) and 3(1) — Insecticides Act, 1968 — Section 3(k) — Detention order — Detenu classified as an "insecticide offender" for procuring and selling misbranded pesticides — Detenu argued he was not a habitual offender — Held, being a habitual offender is not a statutory prerequisite under Section 2(m), unlike specific categories such as a "Goonda" under Section 2(g) — Chemical analysis reports confirming active in India Law Library Docid # 2451258
(403) VARIKUPPALA YADAIAH AND ANOTHER Vs. BODA NAVEEN KUMAR AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 149 and 173 — Third-party claim — Breach of policy condition — Absence of driving licence — Doctrine of "pay and recover" — Driver lacked a valid driving licence at the time of the accident — Tribunal exonerated the insurer from liability — Held, claimants being innocent third parties under beneficial legislation, a breach of policy conditions cannot defeat their legitimate claims — Insurer directed to satisfy the award in the first instance with liberty to re India Law Library Docid # 2451259
(404) WENTEK WEIGHING SYSTEMS Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Government Contracts — Tender Process — Scope of Judicial Review — Disqualification of Bidder — Scope of judicial review in public tenders is strictly circumscribed. Writ courts cannot sit in appeal over assessments made by technical evaluation experts. A bidder who deviates from material or essential tender terms cannot claim illegality in rejection. Furthermore, challenge to one bidder's disqualification cannot be converted into an roving inquiry int India Law Library Docid # 2451260
(405) SMT. DEU BAI Vs. LALURAM AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rule 1(3) and Section 151 — Pleadings and Evidence — Belated production of handwriting expert report — Variance between pleading and proof — Defendant pleaded that signatures were obtained under a false pretext, without disputing authorship or pleading forgery — Held, procuring a signature by deception stands on a different footing from disputing authorship — Evidence may corroborate a pleaded case but cannot supply omitted foundational material facts — India Law Library Docid # 2451317
(406) BANWARI LAL JHURIA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2017 — Rule 63 — Maintainability of writ petition — Alternative statutory remedy — Rule of exhaustion of alternative remedy is a matter of judicial discretion and self-restraint, not an absolute bar — Writ jurisdiction can be invoked in cases involving enforcement of fundamental rights, lack of jurisdiction, or breach of natural justice — Where impugned demands were issued relying on undisclosed audit materials India Law Library Docid # 2451318
(407) ANKIT AGARWAL Vs. THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Mining Lease — Cancellation and Demand — Violation of Natural Justice — Competent authority declined to accept Panchnama report alleging unauthorized excavation and directed fresh inquiry — Authorities nevertheless raised monetary demand and cancelled lease relying on the rejected report without conducting fresh inspection or supplying report to petitioner — Mining lease was also cancelled during pendency of statutory appeal against the demand — Held, India Law Library Docid # 2451319
(408) CHETAN SINGH JHALA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Alternative statutory remedy — Breach of natural justice — Respondents raised preliminary objection regarding availability of alternative statutory remedy under Rules of 2017 — Held, existence of an alternative statutory remedy is a rule of discretion and self-restraint, not an absolute bar or rule of compulsion — High Court can exercise writ jurisdiction where there is a patent violation of principles of natural just India Law Library Docid # 2451320
(409) LILA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 21 and 226 — Custodial Death — Undertrial prisoner — Scope and standard of care — Deceased died in judicial custody, and post-mortem examination revealed multiple ante-mortem injuries inconsistent with natural death. Deprivation of liberty does not entail deprivation of the fundamental right to life and dignity under Article 21. State owes a solemn constitutional obligation to protect inmates who are completely dependent on custodial authorities. Failure to India Law Library Docid # 2451321
(410) DEVARAM Vs. KHETARAM AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Sections 4 and 8 — Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 — Order VII Rule 11 — Coparcenary property — Right by birth — Agricultural land allotted to grandfather devolved intestate upon his three sons as Class-I heirs — Grandson claimed undivided share by birth and challenged subsequent alienations — Held, property inherited by a son under Section 8 devolves in his individual capacity as self-acquired property — In the absence of specific pleadings establishing the existence India Law Library Docid # 2451322
(411) PR COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, BIKANER Vs. M/S G.D. PANSARI AND SONS (HUF)[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Income-tax Act, 1961 — Section 143(3) and Section 260A — Valuation of Opening Stock — Fundamental accounting principle — Assessing Officer revalued the assessee's opening stock as on 01.04.2013 by applying prevailing market rates, making an addition of Rs. 7,95,50,000/-, despite the Department having accepted the identical closing stock as on 31.03.2013 without rejecting the books of account — Held, the closing stock of the preceding year necessarily forms the opening stock of the succeeding yea India Law Library Docid # 2451323
(412) RAM PRASAD Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Urban Development — Rajasthan Urban Improvement Act, 1959 — Master Plan — Encroachments — Due process of law — Implementation of Master Plan is mandatory for planned urban growth in larger public interest and cannot be altered for individual benefit. However, the State cannot forcibly dispossess occupants or demolish properties without following procedural due process. Rights under Articles 21 and 300-A of the Constitution mandate providing proper notice and a fair opportunity of hearing prior t India Law Library Docid # 2449548
(413) THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS Vs. TARKESHWAR PRASAD SINGH AND ANOTHER[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Service Law — Recovery of Excess Payment — Retired Employee — Jharkhand Pension Rules, 2000 — Rule 43(b) — Excess salary paid over 36 years to a retired Class-III employee cannot be recovered post-superannuation, following the principles laid down in Rafiq Masih. Recovery from pension is permissible only upon a clear finding of grave misconduct recorded in a departmental or judicial proceeding under Rule 43(b). Allegations of fraud without formal inquiry findings cannot deprive an employee of sa India Law Library Docid # 2449486
(414) NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. ZUBAIDA KHATOON AND ANOTHER[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Insurance liability — Burden of proof — Insurer claimed vehicle was uninsured and policy photocopy produced by claimant was forged — Held, a mere denial in the written statement without leading evidence or summoning records is insufficient to dislodge the claimant's document — Burden of proving facts that exclude insurer's liability or establish forgery rests solely on the insurer — Having failed to discharge this burden before the Tribunal, the insurer cannot avoid li India Law Library Docid # 2449495
(415) NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD., Vs. ZUBAIDA KHATOON AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 140, 147, 163-A and 166 — Insurance Policy — Fake/forged insurance policy — Burden of proof — Fastening of liability — Primary onus lies upon insurer seeking to exclude its obligation to indemnify to establish necessary facts by leading cogent evidence — Insurer set up defense that vehicle was not covered under insurance and photocopy of policy produced by India Law Library Docid # 2449626
(416) NEELABH GUPTA Vs. PURSHOTTAM DAS GUPTA AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 U.P. Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Interim stay pending condonation of delay — Appellate Court's jurisdiction — Pendency of an application seeking condonation of delay does not deprive the Appellate Court of power to pass protective interim orders to preserve the subject matter of an appeal — Such protection is provisional and protective in nature, intended to prevent the appeal from becoming infructuous, and does not amount to an adjudicatio India Law Library Docid # 2450772
(417) ASGAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 307 and 323 read with Section 34 — Appreciation of ocular evidence — Injured witnesses — Minor discrepancies, variations in narration, or errors in sequence do not justify rejecting otherwise credible ocular evidence — Evidence of rustic or rural witnesses must be appreciated having regard to normal behavioral patterns and without applying hyper-technical standards — Maxim falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus has no application in India — Inconsistency as to wh India Law Library Docid # 2450773
(418) BABU RAM AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 141 and 149 — Unlawful Assembly — Minimum requirement of five persons — Trial Court convicted three out of six accused under Sections 147, 323/149, 324/149 and 302/149 IPC while acquitting three co-accused — Acquittal of three co-accused was not challenged by State — Number of accused proven to have participated fell below five — Held, Section 149 IPC cannot be applied when the numerical strength of the unlawful assembly falls below five persons, provided no unidentif India Law Library Docid # 2450774
(419) ARUN KUMAR Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 498-A, 302/149 — Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — Section 4 — Cruelty and murder charges — Reversal of conviction — Deceased found dead in matrimonial home — Evidentiary material established that the husband and deceased resided separately from co-accused in-laws — No credible documentary or oral evidence supported alleged dowry demands — Defence evidence proved separate living and peaceful marital life — False assertion of joint family living by prosecution witnes India Law Library Docid # 2450775
(420) AMIT KUMAR Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 19-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 read with Section 34 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 32(1) — Murder — Rejection of dying declaration — Deceased suffered 95% burn injuries — Medical evidence established deceased was unfit to speak — Absence of medical fitness certificate — Directive order to record dying declaration contained accused names added in different ink — Inaccurate details regarding parentage of accused — Inconsistency between oral testimony claiming accused visited house and dying India Law Library Docid # 2450776