(21) SUNIL CHAUDHARY @ DR. SUNIL KUMAR CHAUDHARY @ SUNIL KUMAR CHAUDHARY Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 190 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 201, 328 and 34 — Cognizance differing from final report — Prima facie case — Magistrate took cognizance of offences differing from the final form submitted by police — Accused challenged the cognizance order — Held, at the stage of taking cognizance and issuing process, the Magistrate is only required to satisfy India Law Library Docid # 2449278
(22) SATYAM Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Private unaided educational institution — Imparting education is a function of public character — Though private institutions are not State under Article 12, their decisions having a public law element are amenable to judicial review — Actions relating to admission, fee structure, and expulsion of students involve public duty and must India Law Library Docid # 2449280
(23) AKANCHHA Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Service Law — Recruitment of Teachers — Weightage for Experience — Proof of Qualification vs. Possession of Qualification — Candidate possessed valid experience certificate counter-signed by competent authority prior to cut-off date but inadvertently submitted copy signed only by School Principal — Commission refused to award experience marks — Held, India Law Library Docid # 2449281
(24) RAJU RAVIDAS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 — Section 30(a) — Seizure and Safe Custody of Contraband — Chain of Custody — Failure to seal seized articles — Seized liquor was neither sealed at the spot of seizure nor at the police station, but sealed only before the Court — Prosecution failed to establish safe custody of seized articles and rule out tampering or substitution — Establishing complete chain of India Law Library Docid # 2449282
(25) STATE (NCT OF DELHI) Vs. SAJID ALI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Section 2(1)(d) — Proof of age of victim — Age of prosecutrix being a jurisdictional pre-requisite to invoke POCSO Act, prosecution must satisfactorily establish minority through reliable documentary proof — Birth certificate not corroborated by original entry in the birth register, and registration effected 13 years after birth without any traceable order of SDM permitting delayed registration, held insufficient to prove minority — India Law Library Docid # 2448823
(26) MOHAN @ SUNNY Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 232 — Mandatory compliance — Non-compliance of Section 232 Cr.P.C. does not ipso facto vitiate proceedings unless shown to have resulted in serious and substantial prejudice to accused — Accused failed to establish any prejudice caused due to non-compliance of Section 232 Cr.P.C. India Law Library Docid # 2448824
(27) MUKESH Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 300 Thirdly — Murder — Essential requisites — Prosecution must establish the presence of bodily injury, its nature, intention to inflict that specific injury, and that the injury was sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death — Absence of motive or previous animosity is of no consequence when actus reus and required intent/knowledge are established — Single India Law Library Docid # 2448825
(28) SAILESHWAR ORAON @ MANDEEP @ KASAI @ SALESHWAR ORAON Vs. UNION OF INDIA[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 — Section 43D(5) — Grant of bail — Armed cadre of proscribed terrorist organization — Accused alleged to have actively participated in assembling with weapons, planting IED explosives in forest area, and detonating them causing grave injuries to security personnel — Specific identification by protected witnesses and existence of multiple criminal antecedents India Law Library Docid # 2448986
(29) ASSAM CRICKET ASSOCIATION Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 173(8) — Further investigation — Necessity of seeking prior leave of Court — Merely making an endorsement in charge sheet by Investigating Officer that investigation will continue and supplementary charge sheet will be submitted whenever required does not amount to taking prior permission India Law Library Docid # 2448988
(30) MARYOM HAQUE AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM, REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, ASSAM.[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 223(1), First Proviso — Applicability of procedure under Section 223 of BNSS to proceedings under Section 12 of DV Act — An application under Section 12 of DV Act is filed seeking quasi-civil reliefs such as maintenance, protection, and shared household orders — It is not a "complaint India Law Library Docid # 2448989
(31) SRI SURENDRA SHARMA Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 / Assam Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Section 67(4) — Power to seal premises, almirahs, or electronic devices — Precondition of denial of access — The power conferred under Section 67(4) to seal or break open doors, almirahs, electronic devices, boxes, or receptacles can be exercised only where access to India Law Library Docid # 2448990
(32) JAMINDAR RAM AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 read with Section 34 — Non-examination of key material witness — Adverse inference — Informant, who was sole eyewitness to actual assault inside room, was not examined by prosecution without any explanation — Fardbayan formed foundation of prosecution case, while other witnesses merely repeated what informant told them — Non-examination deprived India Law Library Docid # 2449272
(33) MOTI LAL SAH Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 201 read with Section 34 — Circumstantial Evidence — Hearsay evidence — Murder and secret disposal of body — Informant not an eyewitness and derived information from villagers — Villagers turned hostile or were not examined — Testimony of informant regarding murder lacked substantive corroboration — Absence of post-mortem report left nature of India Law Library Docid # 2449273
(34) ASHOK SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Arms Act, 1959 — Section 27 — Murder trial — Credibility of eyewitnesses chargesheeted by police for same offence — Appellant exonerated by investigating agency but cognizance taken by Chief Judicial Magistrate on protest petition — Trial Court convicted appellant based on testimonies of PW2 and PW3 — Held, testimonies of witnesses who were themselves India Law Library Docid # 2449274
(35) RATAN MAHTO Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 10-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 4, 29 and 30 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — Conviction under POCSO Act — Reversal of — Victim turned hostile, denying any occurrence or making any statement to police — Informant-mother gave contradictory testimony — Medical evidence inconclusive with hymen intact and no spermatozoa — Foundational facts to India Law Library Docid # 2449275
(36) WAHID KHAN Vs. STATE[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 5(l) & 6 — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault on minor — Age determination — School Admission Register vs. Unattested Certificate / Statement under S. 161 CrPC — Admissibility — Held, a written certificate issued by a school principal during investigation constitutes a statement under S. 161 CrPC and is inadmissible in evidence — However, the extract of the Student Admission and Withdrawal Register India Law Library Docid # 2448747
(37) A V INTERNATIONAL AND ANOTHER Vs. ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE INTELLIGENCE & ORS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Customs Act, 1962 — Sections 28, 28(9) & 28(9A) — Independent nature of Show Cause Notices (SCNs) originating from same investigation — Effect of interim stay on co-pending SCN — Held, two separate Show Cause Notices issued on different dates and dealing with distinct subject matters (e.g., one concerning seized goods and the other concerning earlier imports under Section 28) maintain their India Law Library Docid # 2448748
(38) XXXXX Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 (corresponding to Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 482) — Scope of inherent powers of High Court — Concurrent findings of discharge by lower courts — Non-interference — Held, the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court under Section 528 BNSS cannot be invoked to conduct a re-appreciation of evidence or substitute its India Law Library Docid # 2448749
(39) PRAKASH CHANDRA AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay in filing appeal — Economic hardship — Beneficial legislation — Held, delay in filing an appeal under Section 23 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 can be condoned where the appellant belongs to an economically weaker section and was unable to contact counsel or secure timely legal advice due to paucity of funds — Keeping in view the India Law Library Docid # 2448750
(40) SMT.VIJAYA RIZBUD Vs. DEEPAK KUMAR MISHRA AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 07-08-2026 Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1961 — Section 12(1)(f) — Bona-fide requirement for business — Scope of "Son" — Inclusion of Stepson — Eviction sought by landlady for setting up business of her stepson — Stepson was born to husband from his previous marriage — No inter-se dispute and stepson resided with landlady — Term "son" is flexible and must be given a contextual interpretation aligned with object of Act — Stepson India Law Library Docid # 2448809