(161) GURDIAL SINGH Vs. RANJIT KAUR ETC.[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Finding of fraud cannot be based on suspicion or conjecture but requires strict proof with particulars, and cannot be made without specific pleadings — The First Appellate Court’s finding of fraud vitiating a consent decree was set aside as perverse and unsustainable in law for India Law Library Docid # 2443903
(162) PARKASH CHAND AND OTHERS Vs. KARTAR CHAND AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 and Punjab Courts Act, 1918 — Section 41 — Regular Second Appeal — Treated as appeal under Section 41 of Punjab Courts Act, 1918, not Section 100 CPC — No question of law required to be framed. India Law Library Docid # 2443904
(163) SARDARI LAL Vs. BUTA RAM (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LRS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Specific Performance — Agreement to Sell — Plaintiff sought possession by way of specific performance of an agreement to sell — The defendant denied execution and claimed fraud and alteration of the document. India Law Library Docid # 2443905
(164) RAJWANT KAUR @ RAJ Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 306 — Abetment of Suicide — Petitioners filed a revision petition challenging the order framing charges under Section 306 IPC — Delay in filing revision petition condoned — The court considered the definition of abetment and the essential ingredients for constituting the offense of abetment of suicide — It was held that a mere allegation of India Law Library Docid # 2443906
(165) RAMESH CHAUHAN Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Service Law — Premature Retirement — Withdrawal of Resignation — An employee has a right to withdraw a prospective resignation at any time before it becomes effective, i.e., before it operates to terminate the employment or tenure of office, unless there is a legal, contractual, or constitutional bar. India Law Library Docid # 2444247
(166) DR. TILAK RAJ SHARMA Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of criminal proceedings — High Court can quash proceedings if allowing them to continue would be an abuse of the process of the Court or if the ends of justice require it. India Law Library Docid # 2444248
(167) STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Vs. DESH RAJ[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Section 20 — Appeal against acquittal — Trial Court acquitted respondent of charge under Section 20 of NDPS Act — Prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt — Numerous contradictions and discrepancies in evidence of police officials, including the India Law Library Docid # 2444249
(168) RAM LAL Vs. SMT. REETA DEVI AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125(3) — Imprisonment for non-payment of maintenance — Magistrate's power to sentence — The provision allows for imprisonment up to one month for each month of default, or until payment is made sooner — The total period of imprisonment in a single instance cannot exceed one India Law Library Docid # 2444250
(169) ASHOK KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 173 — Acceptance of closure report — Notice to informant — When police file a report stating no offence is made out, Magistrate must provide the informant an opportunity to be heard before accepting the report and dropping proceedings — This ensures the informant can persuade the India Law Library Docid # 2444251
(170) STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. SMT SEEMA JAKHAR[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439(2) — Cancellation of Bail — Appeal against order by Co-ordinate Bench — Order granting bail can be revoked if it is perverse or illegal — Cancellation of bail requires violation of conditions, misuse of liberty, tampering with evidence, or influencing witnesses — State's application for cancellation solely based on re-evaluation of gravity of charge, without India Law Library Docid # 2444696
(171) SANDEEP SINGH Vs. BABITA YADAV AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Court is confined to averments in plaint, not defence — Plaint must be read as a whole for meaningful interpretation — Defence cannot be considered for rejection of plaint India Law Library Docid # 2444697
(172) HANUMAN RAM AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Indian Railway Establishment Manual (IREM) — Volume I, Paragraph 303 — Determination of inter se seniority — Applicability of batch-wise seniority — Court held that Paragraph 303 of IREM, Volume-I, is designed for situations with two or more distinct and separate batches — In the present case, there was a single batch of India Law Library Docid # 2444698
(173) TEHRI HYDRO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. Vs. SMT. ARCHANA SHUKLA AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 18, 4(1), 6 and 17 — Compensation — Market Value — Sale Acts — Deduction — The Reference Court reduced the deduction from 50% to 30% without providing adequate reasons or relying on evidence, which was challenged by the appellant. India Law Library Docid # 2445154
(174) MUKUL JAIN Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 and 82 — Anticipatory Bail — Declared Proclaimed Offender — A person declared as a proclaimed offender, who has absconded or concealed himself to avoid the execution of a warrant, is generally not entitled to anticipatory bail. India Law Library Docid # 2445151
(175) ADIL AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Batch of petitions filed for quashing of FIR alleging fabrication of sale deeds and land grabbing — Allegations primarily civil in nature but circumstances suggest a larger syndicate involved in fraudulent land transactions, potentially targeting government land. India Law Library Docid # 2445152
(176) CHATUR SINGH Vs. VIKRAM SINGH AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 14-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Second Appeal — Substantial question of law — The High Court can interfere in a second appeal only if a substantial question of law arises. India Law Library Docid # 2445153
(177) MINATIRANI MADHEI Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 13-05-2026 Orissa Grama Panchayats Act, 1964 — Section 24(2)(c) — Notice for No Confidence Motion — Requisition and proposed resolution must accompany the notice — Mere mention of resolution to send requisition is not a proposed resolution — The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the requisition and the draft India Law Library Docid # 2443815
(178) VEER SINGH Vs. GULZAR SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-05-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11 — Appointment of Arbitrator — Court's power to appoint arbitrator is discretionary and not mandatory — Court must be satisfied that a dispute exists and the applicant has fulfilled conditions precedent for invoking arbitration. India Law Library Docid # 2443909
(179) M/S. AHUJA KASHYAP PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. M/S. MANDAP INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LIMITED[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-05-2026 Haryana Urban (Control of Rent & Eviction) Act, 1973 — Section 4(2)(b) — Determination of fair rent — In cases where construction was completed after 31.12.1961 and no rent was agreed upon preceding the application, the basic rent is determined on the basis of rent prevailing in the locality for similar buildings on the date of application. India Law Library Docid # 2443910
(180) AJAIB SINGH (SINCE DECEASED) THR. LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. BHUPINDER SINGH AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-05-2026 Succession Law — Wills — Proof of Wills — Suspicious Circumstances — Even if a Will is registered, the propounder must satisfy the court about its valid execution and dispel suspicious circumstances — Registration alone does not guarantee validity. India Law Library Docid # 2443911