(141) CHHATTISGARH LOK AYOG Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 20-07-2026 Right to Information Act, 2005 — Section 22 — Overriding effect — Non obstante clause — Held, S. 22 confers overriding effect on RTI Act only to the extent of inconsistency with any other law, not a blanket repeal — RTI Act has not repealed Official Secrets Act or other confidentiality provisions, which continue to operate unless held inconsistent with the Act. India Law Library Docid # 2448332
(142) VANDANA AGGARWAL Vs. PRATIK GOYAL AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — S. 3, Expln. II — Domestic Incident Report — Nature and status of — Held, DIR is a document prepared to assist the Magistrate and cannot substitute or supersede the original complaint under S. 12 — Complaint and DIR must be read cumulatively, not in isolation — DIR has no independent legal existence apart from the complaint India Law Library Docid # 2447729
(143) ANURAG Vs. STATE[DELHI HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 376(2)(n) and 377 — Rape on false promise of marriage and unnatural sex — Discharge application — Framing of charges sustained — Long-term physical relationship established on alleged false promise of marriage Prosecutrix submitted identity proof during hotel check-ins, and physical relations occurred once more even after she discovered petitioner's marriage to a third party — Petitioner sought discharge claiming a consensual India Law Library Docid # 2447730
(144) PANKAJ PRAKASH AND ANOTHER Vs. UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 114 and Order 47 Rule 1 — Scope of review jurisdiction — Held, very limited — Maintainable only on discovery of new and important matter/evidence not within knowledge despite due diligence, or mistake/error apparent on the face of the record — Error must be self-evident, not one requiring a long-drawn India Law Library Docid # 2447731
(145) ASHOK KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. PREM NATH[DELHI HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) —Section 96 & Order 41 Rule 27 — First Appeal and Additional Evidence — Application for additional documents allowed but appeal dismissed on merits — Appellants filed applications under Order 41 Rule 27 CPC to place on record additional documents India Law Library Docid # 2447732
(146) RAVINDER SONI AND OTHERS Vs. SANATAN DHARAM SABHA HARI MANDIR (REGD.)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Interference with concurrent findings of fact — When permissible — The High Court, in a Regular Second Appeal, can only consider and adjudicate upon substantial questions of law arising from the impugned judgment — Where the courts below correctly appreciated facts to observe that the reliefs claimed by the plaintiffs regarding unauthorized construction India Law Library Docid # 2447733
(147) NIWAS SURENDER KUMAR AND COMPANY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Railways Act, 1989 — Section 93 — Scope and nature of statutory liability — Onus of proof — Section 93 fastens a statutory strict liability upon the Railway Administration as an insurer, rather than a mere bailee, to compensate for the loss, destruction, damage, or non-delivery of goods carried — The statutory exceptions carved out under the section do not confer blanket immunity — To escape liability, the burden rests squarely upon the Railways to demonstrably discharge India Law Library Docid # 2447734
(148) GORDHAN Vs. RAMCHANDRA S/O GANPAT (DECD.) THR. LRS ARJUN AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 17-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Section 11 — Res Judicata — Suit for declaration, injunction, partition, and mesne profits — Trial court dismissed suit on the ground of res judicata before recording evidence — Held, the issue of res judicata cannot be decided at the stage of Order 7 Rule 11 application as it requires India Law Library Docid # 2447767
(149) SONAM JOSHI Vs. VINOD KUMAR SAHNEY AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 1 Rule 10 — Impleadment of parties in suit for specific performance — Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell filed by plaintiff against vendor — Third parties claiming independent title through succession from deceased grandmother, alleging Will set up by vendor forged, sought impleadment India Law Library Docid # 2447810
(150) BALBIR SINGH Vs. STATE OF U.T., CHANDIGARH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 — Sections 7(1) and 16(1)(a)(i) — Probation of Offenders Act, 1958/Section 360 Cr.P.C. — Applicability barred — Section 20AA of the PFA Act excludes the benefit of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 and Section 360 Cr.P.C. to a person convicted under the PFA Act unless he was below 18 years of age at the time of the offence — Where the petitioner was 44 years India Law Library Docid # 2447812
(151) JANPAL SINGH Vs. OM PARKASH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Claim petition — Standard of proof — Preponderance of probabilities — Proceedings before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal are summary in nature and negligence is to be proved on the touchstone of preponderance of probabilities, not beyond reasonable doubt — However, this relaxed standard does not dispense with the claimant's obligation to lay a credible factual India Law Library Docid # 2447813
(152) DAKSHINAMOORTHI AND OTHERS Vs. NARAYANASAMY NAICKER(DIED) AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Family Law — Partition — Oral Partition — Burden of Proof — The party claiming an oral partition bears the burden of proving it with cogent and contemporaneous documentary evidence, not merely on the preponderance of probabilities — Mere separate enjoyment for convenience does not equate to a legal India Law Library Docid # 2447854
(153) RUDRAVVA AND OTHERS Vs. GOURAMMA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Hindu Law — Partition — Prior oral/family partition — Proof — Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 41 Rule 27 — Additional evidence — Concurrent finding that suit Item 'B' property stood partitioned between propositus and husband of Defendant 3 in 1982, evidenced by mutation entry, subsequent independent sale by allottee, and conduct of parties amounting to implied admission — Plaintiffs' suggestion during cross-examination itself inferred India Law Library Docid # 2448009
(154) SOMESHA B. R AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 482 [Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — S. 528] — Karnataka Police Act — Ss. 79, 80 — Quashing of proceedings — Doctrine of parity — Proceedings against co-accused persons similarly situated already quashed by coordinate Benches on ground of non-obtaining of mandatory permission under S. 155(2) CrPC prior to registration of FIR for non-cognizable offence — Held, petitioners being similarly placed accused entitled to identical relief on doctrine of parit India Law Library Docid # 2448010
(155) ROHAN J. TIWARI AND OTHERS Vs. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GREATER MUMBAI AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 — Sections 296, 299 and 301 — Land acquisition for public street — Applicability of Section 299 — If land is occupied by a building, Section 299 is inapplicable — Compensation must be determined under Section 296 read with Land Acquisition Act, 2013. India Law Library Docid # 2448027
(156) PR COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX Vs. DBM GEOTECHNICS AND CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD.[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 31(1) — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) — Approval of Resolution Plan — Claims not part of the Resolution Plan are extinguished — No proceedings can be initiated or continued for such claims after approval of the plan — This principle applies to statutory dues owed to India Law Library Docid # 2448028
(157) DR.NIRAJ AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 17-07-2026 Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 — Section 17(3)(b) — Appointment of Appropriate Authority for a part of the State — A single member authority is validly appointed under this provision, and does not require a multi-member committee as stipulated for the whole India Law Library Docid # 2448039
(158) MANOJ SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 SC/ST Act — Anticipatory Bail — Delay in FIR — Doubtful Allegation — Appeal against refusal of anticipatory bail in a case alleging caste-based abuse and assault by steel torch, where the FIR was lodged six days after the alleged occurrence without explanation and the injury was assessed as simple. Held, considering the doubtful nature of the allegation, the possibility of false implication, and the prima facie absence of cogent material establishing the ingredients of the SC/ST Act, anticipator India Law Library Docid # 2448102
(159) KUVAR JHA Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Public Distribution System — Cancellation of Licence — Inadequate Notice Period — Rule 27(ii), Control Order 2016 — Cancellation of a PDS dealer's licence of fifteen years' standing, following show-cause notices allowing only two days and twenty-four hours respectively to respond to allegations of stock discrepancy and non-compliance. Held, following a covered Division Bench precedent, even three days cannot be treated as a reasonable opportunity within the meaning of Rule 27(ii) of the Bihar Ta India Law Library Docid # 2448103
(160) RISHABH SHRIVASTAVA Vs. SMT. RITU SHRIVASTAVA @ PINKI SHRIVASTAVA AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance — Family Court awarded maintenance based on presumed income of husband and wife's admitted income without proper proof — Husband's pay slip showing income of Rs — 24,332/- was available, but Court presumed his income to be Rs — 50,000/- — Wife admitted income India Law Library Docid # 2448263