(221) RAJVENDRA @ RAJVIND Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 374(2) — Appeal Against Conviction — The High Court will dismiss an appeal if it finds no illegality, perversity, or material irregularity in the trial court's judgment and the appeal is devoid of merit. India Law Library Docid # 2440316
(222) BASANT LAL VISHWKARMA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-02-2026 Fundamental Rule 54-B — Suspension and Reinstatement — Pay and Allowances — When a government servant is reinstated after suspension, the competent authority must specifically decide on the pay and allowances for the suspension period and whether it will be treated as duty. India Law Library Docid # 2440317
(223) M/S JAI PRAKASH ASSOCIATED PVT. LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-02-2026 Stamp Act, 1899 — Section 40 — Penalty for Deficient Stamp Duty — Penalties imposed by the Collector must be reasonable and not arbitrary, especially when the party has acted bona fide and presented the instrument for determination of duty. India Law Library Docid # 2440318
(224) NAWAL KISHORE SAO AND OTHERS Vs. SMT. JAYBUNNISHA AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 19-02-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 3, 11, 149, 166 and Rules framed thereunder — Insurance Policy conditions — Breach of — Driving Licence — Hazardous Goods Endorsement — Accident occurred while transporting filled gas cylinders — Driver did not possess a valid endorsement for carrying hazardous goods — This constituted a India Law Library Docid # 2440647
(225) GULABCHANDRA SAMUAL Vs. MANISH SHARMA (DEAD)[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 19-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 1 Rule 10 — Impleadment of parties — Application to implead legatees in a rent control eviction suit — Rejection of application by Rent Controller and Rent Control Tribunal is upheld — Tenant cannot question landlord's title in eviction proceedings — Dispute of title is outside the scope of landlord-tenant relationship. India Law Library Docid # 2440648
(226) VIJENDRA SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. JAI BHAGWAN AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 19-02-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 28 — Rescission of contract — Contract for sale of immovable property — Decree for specific performance granted — Purchaser (decree-holder) failed to pay purchase money within the period allowed by the decree — Vendor (judgment-debtor) applied to have the contract rescinded — Court may, in its discretion, rescind the contract or extend the time for payment India Law Library Docid # 2440827
(227) BODULAL AND OTHERS Vs. HANUMAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 18-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rule 32(5) — Enforcement of injunction decrees — Executing Court's powers — The Executing Court has the power to take all necessary measures to ensure effective compliance of an injunction decree, including restoring possession if the judgment-debtor has dispossessed the decree-holder in defiance of the decree. India Law Library Docid # 2440160
(228) STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS Vs. ARJUN LAL BUNKAR AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 18-02-2026 Rajasthan Civil Services (Revised Pay Scale) Rules, 2008 — Rule 26 — Pay Protection — Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti employees — Not government employees — Institutions registered under Societies Registration Act are private, non-governmental bodies — Employees not entitled to pay protection or pensionary benefits for previous service in such institutions. India Law Library Docid # 2440161
(229) NAMO NARAYAN VAIDH Vs. SMT. GAYATRI A. RATHORE AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 18-02-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1972 — Willful disobedience of court order — Essential element of contempt is wilful disobedience of the court's order — Where an order does not specify a particular location for joining duties, an employee insisting on a specific location and filing a contempt petition for not being posted there, amounts to an abuse of process and not disobedience. India Law Library Docid # 2440162
(230) DR. GULAB SINGH JATAV Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 18-02-2026 Madhya Pradesh Uchcha Nyayalaya (Khand Nyaypeeth Ko Appeal) Adhiniyam, 2005 — Section 2(1) — Appeal against dismissal of writ petition — Petitioner appointed as Assistant Professor with a condition to acquire NET/SLET/Ph.D. within two years, with a one-time special relaxation from GAD — Petitioner acquired Ph.D. after 13 years — Petitioner sought India Law Library Docid # 2440313
(231) PRASANNA NAMDEV (SONI) Vs. THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 18-02-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 14 — Discrimination — Denial of death benefits to a married daughter solely on the ground of her marital status is discriminatory and violative of Article 14. India Law Library Docid # 2440314
(232) RAMSWAROOP AND ANOTHER Vs. CHURAMAN AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 18-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 151, 152 & Order 41 Rule 20 & Order 22 Rule 3 — Substitution of Legal Representatives — Amendment of Judgment and Decree — Where a judgment and decree is amended by the Trial Court after an appeal is filed, and the appeal involves a ground challenging the decree passed against a deceased person, the India Law Library Docid # 2440315
(233) SITA RAM Vs. PAWAN KUMAR (DIED) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 18-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 41 Rule 23A — Remand of case — Power to remand under this provision can only be exercised if the decree of the trial court is reversed in appeal and a retrial is deemed necessary. The appellate court must provide cogent reasons for reversal and must address the trial court's findings. A mere statement that a retrial is necessary without proper justification or without reversing the trial court's India Law Library Docid # 2440649
(234) SUBODH KUMAR DESHPANDEY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 18-02-2026 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 — Section 12(1)(a) and Section 19(a) — Transfer during pendency of inquiry — Employer’s duty to await recommendation of Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) — Aggrieved woman did not make a written request for transfer — Employer transferred India Law Library Docid # 2440650
(235) RATAN BUILDTECH PVT. LTD. THROUGH ITS PRACTICING COMPANY SECRETARY MR. ALAKH PANDEY Vs. ANIL KUMAR[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT (LUCKNOW BENCH)] 18-02-2026 Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 — Section 58 — Appeal to High Court — Appeal from order of Appellate Tribunal to High Court — Section 100-A CPC bars further appeal from judgment of Single Judge deciding such appeal — UPREAT deemed to be civil court for certain purposes and its proceedings judicial India Law Library Docid # 2440828
(236) STATE BANK OF INDIA Vs. M/S. PATEL ENGINEERING LIMITED[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 17-02-2026 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13(1A) — Appeal against order granting temporary injunction — Setting aside of injunction order — Court must consider preliminary jurisdictional issues [SARFAESI Act, RDB Act, IBC] even if not explicitly pleaded. India Law Library Docid # 2439679
(237) OFFICIAL LIQUIDATOR OF THE MYSORE KIRLOSKAR LTD., (IN LIQN.) Vs. M/S. KIRLOSKAR INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED MANAGEMENT STUDIES[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 17-02-2026 Companies Act, 1956 — Section 531 — Fraudulent Preference — Lease agreement executed by former management of a company in liquidation just before winding-up petition was filed, transferring valuable property for a pittance, within six months of winding-up proceedings, constitutes fraudulent preference and is void ab initio. India Law Library Docid # 2439680
(238) THE DIVISIONAL MANAGER, NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD Vs. BETTAPPA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT (DHARWAD BENCH)] 17-02-2026 Employees' Compensation Act, 1923 — Section 30(1) — Appeal against award — Insurance Company's liability — Policy terms and statutory provisions — Insurer's liability is one of indemnification, governed by policy terms, not statutory compulsion. India Law Library Docid # 2439849
(239) JAYANT VATS Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 17-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — Rape — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 69 — Bail Application — Allegation of sexual exploitation and deceit on pretext of false promise of marriage by applicant — Prosecutrix alleged knowing applicant since 2018, physical relations established on assurance of marriage, refusal to marry due to non-matching birth charts — Material on record (complaint, India Law Library Docid # 2439896
(240) M/S. UJJAIN DREAMS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 17-02-2026 Rajasthan Transparency Public Procurement Act, 2012 & Rules, 2013 — Rule 68 — Lack of Competition — Requirement for justification note and recording of reasons by procuring entity when only one responsive bid is received — Non — compliance observed when no such note was prepared and views of Finance/Accounts Member were India Law Library Docid # 2440094