(381) UNION OF INDIA Vs. K SUB MAJ (HONY CAPT) MOHANRAJ TK[KERALA HIGH COURT] 16-07-2026 Armed Forces Disability Pension — Presumption of sound health at enrolment — Lifestyle-disease classification not a sufficient ground for denial — Absent any note of disability at entry, a member is presumed in sound health, and any disease leading to discharge is presumed to have arisen in service unless the Medical Board records reasons why it could not have been detected pre-enrolment — Onus lies on the employer, not the claimant — Mere classification of a disease as a "lifestyle disorder" or India Law Library Docid # 2448675
(382) MOHD. NADEEM SAMYAL Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K THROUGH STATION HOUSE OFFICER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 16-07-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8, 15, 25, and 37 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 439 [corresponding to BNSS, 2023 — Section 483] — Grant of bail on medical grounds — Rigor of Section 37 NDPS Act — The statutory bar/rigor of Section 37 of the NDPS Act does not operate as an absolute impediment to the grant of bail where the accused is India Law Library Docid # 2448646
(383) RAHIL GARGOTRA Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 16-07-2026 Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Section 8 — Preventive Detention — Non-placement of material facts / Non-application of mind — Non-placement of relevant documents—such as a subsequently registered FIR in which the proposed detenue was already arrested, the factum of custody, and the grant of bail—before the detaining authority at the time of passing a preventive detention order vitiates the order for non-application of mind — The sponsoring agency is under a legal obligation to place India Law Library Docid # 2448648
(384) GANDHARB SINGH CHIB Vs. SAHIL MANHAS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 16-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 156(3) [corresponding to BNSS, 2023 — Section 175(3)] & Section 482 [corresponding to BNSS, 2023 — Section 528] — Maintainability of petition challenging an order directing registration of FIR/investigation — Prematurity — A petition under Section 482 CrPC / Section 528 BNSS challenging a Magistrate's order passed under Section 156(3) CrPC directing the police to register an FIR and conduct an investigation is premature and not maintainable — An ord India Law Library Docid # 2448649
(385) DEVESH SHARMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH THR AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 15-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 311(2) — Madhya Pradesh Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1966 — Termination of service — Punitive and stigmatic order — Requirement of departmental inquiry — An order of termination that casts a stigma on an employee, implying misconduct, cannot be passed without a India Law Library Docid # 2447764
(386) KARNAIL SINGH Vs. JARNAIL SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Hindu Law — Will — Interpretation — Life interest created in favour of testator's widow — Suit for partition filed during subsistence of such life interest held premature — Testator, contemplating two eventualities depending on whether his wife predeceased him or survived him, created a life interest in favour of his widow in the event she survived him, with the property to devolve upon his five sons only after India Law Library Docid # 2447821
(387) KARNAIL AND OTHERS Vs. JAGIR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Partition — Suit for possession by way of partition — Ancestral property — Burden to prove inheritance and identity of suit property — Plaintiffs claiming partition of house situated in abadi deh as ancestral property inherited from common ancestor failed to establish date of death of the ancestor, chain of inheritance, or that the property was ever owned by him — Mere oral assertion of a plaintiff-witness, India Law Library Docid # 2447822
(388) KALAWATI AND ANOTHER Vs. AJIT SINGH AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 100 — Regular Second Appeal — Concurrent findings of fact — Scope of interference — Jurisdiction under Section 100 CPC confined to substantial questions of law; reappreciation of evidence or substitution of a different factual view impermissible merely because another view is possible — Appellants failed to show that material evidence was ignored, inadmissible evidence India Law Library Docid # 2447823
(389) JASBIR KAUR Vs. SUKHDEEP KAUR[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of written statement — Belated change of stand not permissible — An amendment seeking to introduce, for the first time at a belated stage, a detailed and specific mode of payment of sale consideration — facts admittedly within the knowledge of the defendant since India Law Library Docid # 2447820
(390) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. SHRI R.P PAUL,(IAS RTD)[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Administrative Law — Judicial Review — Courts should not substitute their views for those of expert bodies like Screening Committees when assessing an individual's suitability for promotion based on service records. India Law Library Docid # 2447843
(391) PRACHI Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Habeas corpus — Detention of major woman against her wishes — Right to choose life partner — Corpus, a major, alleged confinement and coercion by uncle to marry against her choice while she wished to marry a person of her own choosing — Held, a major cannot be detained or compelled to marry against her wishes irrespective of family objections — Petition allowed; Corpus set at liberty, with directions for medical examination and police protection to Corpus and her chosen partner. [Paras 9, 11, 13 India Law Library Docid # 2447979
(392) M. VENKATESH AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Factories Act, 1948 — Sections 2(l), 2(n), 88(2), 92 — Karnataka Factories Rules, 1969 — Rule 4 — Quashing of prosecution — Complaint alleging fatal accident to contract worker without specifying provision of Act/Rules violated — Held, prosecution under general S. 92 without pleading violation of a specific provision is illegal — Contract labour of an independent contractor, absent direct control/supervision by occupier, not a "worker" under S. 2(l) — S. 88(2) mandates enquiry but not a specific India Law Library Docid # 2448004
(393) M LATHA KUMARI @ K LATHA RAO AND OTHERS Vs. MOHAMMED SHAFI C M AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation — Death of married earning member — Deduction towards personal expenses — Enhancement — Deceased, married with wife and two children, income assessed at Rs 15,000 p.m. — Tribunal erroneously applied 50% deduction towards personal expenses applicable to bachelors instead of 1/3rd applicable to married persons with dependents — Loss of dependency recomputed applying 1/3rd deduction India Law Library Docid # 2448011
(394) AMKHIM HOLDINGS PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. KIRTI ZAVERI (DELETED) SINCE DECEASED THR. LRS. AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Contempt of Court — Wilful Disobedience — Status Quo Order — Third Party purchasers — Knowledge of order — Not automatically liable for contempt — Conduct must hinder administration of justice. India Law Library Docid # 2448018
(395) RAJU DHONDIRAM AKRUPE AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Maharashtra Civil Services (General Conditions of Services) Rules, 1981 — Rule 10 — Bombay Civil Services (Classifications and Recruitment) Rules, 1939 — Rule 7, Note 3B — Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Service Rules, 2021 — Rule 5.4 — Age relaxation for government servants — Municipal corporation employees are not state India Law Library Docid # 2448019
(396) NOUVEAU EXPORTS PVT. LTD. Vs. PUNITA CAPOOR AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 16(d) and Order VII Rule 10 — Letters Patent, Clause XII — Suit for land — Territorial jurisdiction — A suit for specific performance of an agreement for sale of land and for possession of the suit property, where the land is situated outside the original jurisdiction of the High Court, is a "suit for India Law Library Docid # 2448020
(397) M/S BHAGVATI INFRA (FORMERLY KNOWN AS M/S. JALAN MAPLE SHELTERS) Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 — Sections 192, 193, 194(2) — Auction of immovable property — Mandatory 30-day notice period — Auction conducted with less than 30 days' notice from the date of public notice — Held to be a gross illegality, not merely an irregularity. India Law Library Docid # 2448021
(398) SHREE RASRAJ HEIGHTS CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. DEVENDRA CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY LTD. AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Maharastra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Competent Authority — Jurisdiction — A Competent Authority becomes functus officio after issuing an order of unilateral deemed conveyance and cannot review or modify it, except for correcting clerical or arithmetical errors. India Law Library Docid # 2448022
(399) NILESH DILIP JAGTAP Vs. DIVISIONAL JOINT REGISTRAR, CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES, PUNE DIVISION, PUNE AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Section 3 and 158 — Delegation of Powers — Subordination of Officers — Orders passed by Deputy Registrar or District Deputy Registrar, even when exercising delegated powers of Registrar, remain orders of subordinate officers and are subject to revision by the Divisional Joint Registrar, not the India Law Library Docid # 2448023
(400) NEVILLE TULI Vs. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (SEBI) AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 15-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Cognizance of offences — SEBI Act, 1992 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS, 2023) — Special Court under SEBI Act is bound by the mandatory requirement of Section 223(1) proviso of BNSS, 2023 to provide an opportunity of hearing to the accused before taking cognizance of an India Law Library Docid # 2448024