(161) SMT BHAGWATI SINGH TEKAM Vs. SADANLAL JAAT[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 17-07-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 144 — Maintenance Application — Dismissal of application for maintenance solely on the ground of alleged suppression of a previous marriage, without recording evidence or conducting an inquiry, is illegal. The Family Court must allow parties to present evidence and arguments before deciding such applications. India Law Library Docid # 2448274
(162) MAMTABAI PATIDAR AND OTHERS Vs. NATIONAL INSURANCE LTD. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 17-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Compensation for death of minor child in motor accident — Notional income to be assessed on basis of Minimum Wages payable to skilled labourer, with addition of future prospects — Held, deceased child's income to be notionally fixed as per Minimum Wages Act applicable to skilled labour at the time of accident, with 40% addition towards future prospects. India Law Library Docid # 2448328
(163) DABBU @ DEV SONKHARE Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Circumstantial evidence — Conviction requires a complete chain of circumstances that are consistent only with the guilt of the accused and exclude every other hypothesis, leaving no reasonable ground for innocence. India Law Library Docid # 2447765
(164) KHALEEL AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 16-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 307 — Attempt to murder — Essential ingredients — Act done with intention or knowledge and under circumstances that would amount to murder if death resulted — Nature of injury is not determinative — Intention is gathered from circumstances, not just consequences. India Law Library Docid # 2447766
(165) CHANDER SINGH (DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LRS AND OTHERS Vs. BALBIR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Hindu Succession — Mutation of inheritance — Partial mutation excluding co-heirs — Effect — Where the propositus's estate in one village was mutated in favour of all his legal heirs but his estate in another village was mutated only in favour of some heirs to the exclusion of others, the excluded heirs' claim to a share cannot be India Law Library Docid # 2447811
(166) BESTECH INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. FAKIRA SINGH (NOW SUBSTITUTED BY HIS LRS) AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Order 11 Rule 1(10) CPC (as applicable to commercial disputes) — Mandatory disclosure regime — Order XI, as substituted for commercial disputes, casts a mandatory obligation on every party to disclose all documents in its power, possession, control or custody along with its pleadings, and bars reliance on undisclosed documents unless reasonable cause is shown — The India Law Library Docid # 2447814
(167) M/S ASTRA LIGHTING LTD. LALRU THROUGH ITS CHAIRMAN Vs. SANJAY KUMAR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Transfer of Property — Sale by co-sharer in excess of share — Effect on rights of true owner — Where a co-sharer sells land in excess of his own share, encroaching upon the share of another co-sharer, the sale deed to that extent is void ab initio and does not bind the rights of the true owner whose share was wrongly alienated, notwithstanding that the vendee subsequently transferred the land to further India Law Library Docid # 2447815
(168) MANOJ KUMAR Vs. AMI LAL AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 16(c) — Readiness and willingness — Burden on plaintiff, independent of defendant's conduct — A plaintiff seeking specific performance must clear the statutory bar under Section 16(c) by proving continuous readiness and willingness to perform the essential terms of the contract, dehors the defence raised by the defendant — Mere purchase of stamp paper and an India Law Library Docid # 2447816
(169) OM PARKASH (NOW DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LRS AND OTHERS Vs. SMT. MAYA AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Hindu Law — Ancestral/coparcenary property — No presumption — Burden of proof — There is no presumption that property owned by a person is ancestral or coparcenary property — The burden lies entirely on the party asserting such character to establish, by cogent documentary evidence, that the property devolved by inheritance through the male line from a common ancestor and retained its ancestral India Law Library Docid # 2447817
(170) GURDEV SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 36-A(4), proviso — Mandatory conditions for extension of investigation period beyond 180 days — The proviso to Section 36-A(4) permits extension of the 180-day period only upon a report of the Public Prosecutor indicating the progress of investigation and India Law Library Docid # 2447818
(171) SMT. VEENA GOEL AND ANOTHER Vs. PRITHVI RAM AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Appeal for enhancement of compensation — Reconstructed record — Effect — Where the original record of the tribunal proceedings has been destroyed in a fire and is unavailable, the appeal may be decided on the basis of the facts and evidence as discussed and recorded by the India Law Library Docid # 2447819
(172) THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS Vs. N.KUMAR AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Res Judicata — Full Bench judgment of the High Court, confirmed by the Supreme Court, on issues concerning vocational instructors, binds subsequent cases with similar issues. India Law Library Docid # 2447841
(173) N.SUBRAMANIAN Vs. THE DEPUTY ACCOUNTANT GENERAL (FUNDS) AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Tamil Nadu Pension Rules, 1978 — Rule 2 (Proviso) — Employees appointed on or after 01.04.2003 are not entitled to the Old Pension Scheme. [Paras 3, 27] India Law Library Docid # 2447842
(174) ANKUSH SEHGAL Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — False promise of marriage — Consensual relationship via dating app — Applicant and complainant met on Tinder, engaged in consensual physical relationship over extended period; complainant alleged relations were on false pretext of marriage — Held, contact through a non-matrimonial social app, absence of any specific promise, mutual and prolonged nature of relationship, and delay of over a year in India Law Library Docid # 2447980
(175) PRAKASH CHANDRA SHARMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 417 — Compounding of compoundable offence — Amicable settlement — Complainant, present in person, confirmed FIR was lodged due to misunderstanding since resolved through compromise; expressed unwillingness to prosecute — Held, S. 417 IPC being compoundable and offence duly compounded with informant's free consent, compounding application allowed — Charge-sheet, summoning order and proceedings quashed qua applicants. [Paras 12-14] India Law Library Docid # 2447981
(176) DEEPAK SHARMA Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Compounding of non-compoundable offence — Section 376 IPC — Applicant and complainant, formerly in a relationship, settled matrimonial-origin dispute; complainant, now married and settled, unequivocally expressed unwillingness to prosecute — Held, though S. 376 IPC ordinarily non-compoundable, High Court's inherent power under S. 482 Cr.P.C. permits quashing where continuation would serve no purpose and complainant's stand is categorical and v India Law Library Docid # 2447982
(177) M/S. SAYESH ENTERPRISES Vs. M/S. EMERALD VENTURES[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 39 Rule 2(a), Order 39 Rules 1 & 2 — Contempt for violation of ex parte interim injunction — Maintainability where underlying injunction application stands finally rejected and rejection affirmed in appeal — Held, once ad-interim injunction is vacated by a considered order confirmed on appeal, it does not subsist, and contempt proceedings for its violation cannot be continued pending final adjudication of the suit, India Law Library Docid # 2448003
(178) SMT. JAYASHREE @ PRABHAVATI PRATAP PATIL AND OTHERS Vs. MR. PRATAP VISHWANATH PATIL AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance — "Wife" definition — A woman whose marriage is annulled due to contravention of Section 5(i) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, because she was already married and concealed this fact, is not entitled to maintenance as she is not a legally wedded wife. India Law Library Docid # 2448026
(179) ARUN KUMAR SHARMA Vs. ANAND RAO V CHATIM AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (GOA BENCH)] 16-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 340 and 195 — Offences under Indian Penal Code, Section 209 — False claims in Court — Court must consider if prosecution is expedient in the interest of justice, not just if an offence appears to have been committed — A prima facie case of deliberate falsehood on a India Law Library Docid # 2448046
(180) SHRI ERASMO JESUS DE SEQUEIRA AND OTHERS Vs. DR. MARIA JULIA LEELA DE SEQUEIRA GILL MAJOR AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (GOA BENCH)] 16-07-2026 Portuguese Civil Code — Succession — Gift Deed — Sale Deed — Inventory Proceedings — Civil Suit for Partition — A completed inter vivos gift deed and subsequent sale deed create enforceable proprietary rights that can be partitioned by a Civil Court, even if inventory proceedings concerning succession are pending — The India Law Library Docid # 2448048