(681) IMTIYAZ AHMAD BHAT Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Habeas Corpus — Preventive Detention — Petitioner sought release from preventive detention under the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978. The Court examined the grounds of detention and procedural safeguards. India Law Library Docid # 2447287
(682) JAYASURYA Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Appeal against dismissal of bail petition by Special Court for SC/ST (POA) Act — Appellant was already in jail for another case during the registration of the current FIR and his arrest — Despite conflicting claims regarding his presence and involvement, the period of incarceration already undergone by the appellant is a significant factor for considering bail. India Law Library Docid # 2447402
(683) PERIYAMMAL Vs. SUNDARAM AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Speedy Disposal of Suit — Senior Citizen Plaintiff — Court directed early disposal of a partition suit due to the plaintiff being a senior citizen, aged 75 years, and the suit pending for several years. India Law Library Docid # 2447403
(684) AMSAVALLI AND OTHERS Vs. SELVI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 8 — Property inherited by a son from his father after 1956 as a Class I heir does not become coparcenary property in relation to his children and he becomes the absolute owner with full power of alienation. India Law Library Docid # 2447404
(685) OM PRAKASH BARWADIYA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail Cancellation — Grounds for cancellation of bail are limited to misuse of liberty, supervening circumstances, or patent illegality/perversity in the original bail order — A mere possibility of another view on merits is insufficient. India Law Library Docid # 2447685
(686) SURYA PRATAP SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Service Law — Suspension — Extended duration — Uttarakhand Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 2003, R. 4 — Petitioner, a probationer, placed under suspension following his arrest in connection with a paper-leak FIR in which he was not originally named but later implicated post-investigation — Following Ajay Kumar Choudhary v. Union of India, (2015) 7 SCC 291, suspension ordinarily should not extend beyond three months absent service India Law Library Docid # 2447965
(687) MONU ALIAS GUFRAN Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Trial — Hostile witnesses — Unproved recovery — Failure of prosecution to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt — Section 302/34 IPC — Conviction for murder of a minor girl rested on alleged eyewitness account and recovery of knife/chunni from a third party's house at appellant's instance — Held, all material witnesses of fact, including informant-father, mother, uncle (recovery witness), and sister, turned hostile and did not support the prosecution case; informant categorically denied r India Law Library Docid # 2447967
(688) KRISHAN KANT ANAND Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Direction for registration of FIR — Availability of alternate statutory remedy — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S. 175(3) — Petitioner sought mandamus directing registration of FIR alleging attempt to murder by poisoning, without having approached the jurisdictional Magistrate under S. 175(3) BNSS (equivalent to S. 156(3) Cr.P.C.) — Held, where an efficacious statutory remedy exists for seeking registration of FIR, the extraordinary writ jur India Law Library Docid # 2447968
(689) DEVENDRA SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 31 — Sentences for multiple offences at one trial — Silence regarding concurrent or consecutive running — Effect — Petitioner convicted under Ss. 498-A, 304-B, 120-B IPC, with sentences confirmed up to the Supreme Court, but neither the High Court's appellate judgment nor the Supreme Court's order specified whether sentences were to run concurrently or consecutively — Held, S. 31 Cr.P.C. casts an India Law Library Docid # 2447969
(690) VENKATESH T Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Regular bail — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 7(a) — Trap case where bribe amount recovered from scooter of one accused, allegation of demand only against him and not co-accused — Accused, police officers with no criminal antecedents, having cooperated with investigation, major portion of which stood completed, save FSL report — No violation of interim bail conditions earlier granted — Regular bail granted subject to conditions, conside India Law Library Docid # 2447996
(691) SREEDEVI INFRA CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. CANARA BANK AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ against SARFAESI proceedings — Maintainability — Petitioner challenging e-auction sale notice contending estoppel based on bank's alleged acceptance of substituted security — Held, SARFAESI Act, 2002 being a complete code providing efficacious alternate remedy under S. 17 before DRT, writ petition not maintainable — Article 226 not intended to bypass statutory remedy — Writ petition dismissed, petitioner relegated to statutory forum. [Paras 5, 6] India Law Library Docid # 2447997
(692) BITU KHATIK @ SONKAR Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Bail — Arms Act, 1959 — Organized crime — Non-disclosure of criminal antecedents — Where accused, involved in 23 criminal cases, fails to disclose any criminal antecedents in the bail application, such suppression of material facts amounts to abuse of process and disentitles him to discretionary relief of bail, applying the principles in Munnesh v. State of U.P. and Zeba Khan v. State of U.P. — Bail rejected having regard to allegation of organized crime involving dealing in firearms and non-dis India Law Library Docid # 2448239
(693) DR. RAMLAL R.V Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226, 227 — Maintainability where existence of a concluded contract is seriously disputed — Absence of formal agreement not fatal to binding contract — A mere reference to a future formal document does not, by itself, prevent a binding bargain — Whether execution of a further formal agreement is a condition of the bargain or merely the parties' expressed desire for a formal record depends on the intention gathered from correspondence and conduct, not created India Law Library Docid # 2448593
(694) M/S MALABAR PLANTATIONS Vs. THOTTAKAD ESTATE PVT . LTD[KERALA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 55(1)(a), 55(2) — Vendor's duty of disclosure and implied warranty of title — Buyer's knowledge of defect does not exclude statutory warranty — Section 55(1)(a) casts a duty on the seller to disclose every material defect in title known to him and not discoverable by the purchaser with India Law Library Docid # 2448594
(695) CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Vs. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT[KERALA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 — Section 44(1)(a), (c), S. 71 — Jurisdiction of Special Court under PML Act to try committed scheduled offence — On committal of a scheduled-offence case under S. 44(1)(c), a Special Court constituted under the PML Act is legally competent to try the scheduled offence even though it is not the notified court for that offence — Section 71 gives the Act overriding effect notwithstanding any inconsistent law — Order transferring the scheduled-offence case f India Law Library Docid # 2448595
(696) SHAILESH R. GANDHI AND OTHERS Vs. LATE RAMCHANDRA R. GANDHI THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Ss. 9, 7 and 16 — Composite family settlement comprising Memorandum of Agreement, Branding Agreement, Registered User Agreement and Irrevocable Power of Attorney — Agreements executed contemporaneously as part of single transaction — Prima facie held, disputes cannot be viewed as arising solely from Registered User Agreement — India Law Library Docid # 2447177
(697) RAMPHAL AHIRWAR Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Judicial review of departmental punishment — Acquittal of delinquent in criminal trial on benefit of doubt — Effect on disciplinary proceedings — Held, acquittal by criminal court does not ipso facto absolve delinquent from liability in departmental proceedings — Standard of proof in the two proceedings being different, findings recorded in departmental enquiry on India Law Library Docid # 2447180
(698) RAMEN ROY Vs. SAMBRIDDHI REAL ESTATE PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 2(1)(c)(vi) — "Commercial dispute" — Construction and infrastructure contracts — Development agreement contemplating transfer of ownership rights in addition to construction — Held, expression "dispute arising out of" construction and infrastructure contracts is of expansive connotation and sub-clause (vi) does not use the word "only" to India Law Library Docid # 2447183
(699) SOMANATH JANKA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 374(2) — Appeal against conviction — Offences under Ss. 363, 366 and 376(2)(n), IPC read with S. 6, POCSO Act, 2012 — Victim turning hostile — Absence of eye-witness — Held, conviction based mainly on circumstantial and medical evidence, in the absence of any supporting testimony from the victim herself (star witness) and no other India Law Library Docid # 2447184
(700) THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS Vs. UMESH KUMAR SINGH[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Service Law — Departmental enquiry — Principles of natural justice — Non-service of second show-cause notice along with copy of inquiry report before imposing major penalty — Held, admittedly, the second show-cause notice along with the inquiry report was not served on the delinquent employee before imposition of penalty — Following Managing India Law Library Docid # 2447185