(801) STATE OF ODISHA AND ANOTHER Vs. AMITA MOHAPATRA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 22-06-2026 Service Law — Regularization — Termination during pendency of regularization process — Constitution of India, 1950, Arts. 14, 16, 21 — State cannot rely on absence of a sanctioned post to deny regularization where it had knowingly engaged the employee for over a decade, repeatedly recommended her case for regularization, and permitted the process to remain pending — Termination effected mid-process, taking advantage of the State's own inaction, is arbitrary and inconsistent with its obligation a India Law Library Docid # 2448235
(802) STATE OF ODISHA Vs. PRADEEP KUMAR PANY AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 22-06-2026 Service Law — Re-engagement — Equal treatment vis-à-vis similarly situated employees — Fresh consideration — Rejection of claim for re-engagement without examining the specific grievance that juniors/similarly situated persons were retained when workforce strength was reduced constitutes a deficiency in decision-making warranting fresh consideration, though no substantive relief of regularization or re-engagement is thereby granted — Direction for fresh, reasoned decision considering equality pr India Law Library Docid # 2448236
(803) LAKSHMI PRASAD YADAV Vs. EASTERN COAL FIELD LIMITED AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 21-06-2026 Compassionate Appointment — Eligibility — Son-in-law seeking appointment must prove residence with deceased employee and near-total dependence on their earnings, in addition to being within the age limit of 35 years at the time of application. India Law Library Docid # 2447913
(804) SMT. SUDHA GUPTA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 19-06-2026 Appointment to Public Service — Eligibility Criteria — The petition sought appointment as Samvida Shala Shikshak Varg-III — The petitioner possessed a B.Ed — while the prescribed essential qualification was a Higher Secondary Examination with at least 50% marks along with a two-year Diploma in Education (D.Ed.) — The Court held India Law Library Docid # 2447137
(805) NATIONAL HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA Vs. SANTOSH KUMAR JAI AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 31(5) and Section 34(3) — Delivery of Arbitral Award — The period for filing an application to set aside an arbitral award under Section 34(3) is to be reckoned from the date when the signed copy of the award is delivered to the party, not from when the party otherwise becomes aware of the award. India Law Library Docid # 2447138
(806) ARVIND KUMAR GOYAL Vs. NATIONAL HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Section 12(5) and Explanation — Contempt Proceedings — Nature of proceedings — Contempt proceedings are actions against an individual (in personam) and not against an authority or a body corporate. India Law Library Docid # 2447067
(807) HINDUSTAN ZINC LIMITED Vs. RAJASTHAN ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 181 — Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and Conditions for Determination of Tariff) Regulations, 2025 — Regulations 32 and 92 — Judicial review of subordinate legislation — Scope of review limited to legislative competence, constitutional limitations, manifest arbitrariness, or inconsistency with parent statute — Tariff fixation and charges determination by State Electricity India Law Library Docid # 2447221
(808) PRESIDENT, ST.ALPHONSA TRUST Vs. MICHAEL BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS PVT LTD.[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 19-06-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Execution Petition — Review of Order — Where an arbitral award is subject to execution, and the Executing Court initially passes an order which is later challenged through a review petition alleging apparent errors in calculations and appropriation of payments, the court has the power and duty to rectify such patent mistakes in the order to ensure it India Law Library Docid # 2447414
(809) MRS. L.JOTHIAMMAL Vs. MRS. V.GANGA AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Compromise between parties — Joint Memo of Compromise filed by Appellant and Respondents 14, 20, and 21 — Court recorded the compromise and disposed of the appeal in terms of the settlement. India Law Library Docid # 2447415
(810) MR.IRUDAYARAJ (DECEASED) AND OTHERS Vs. THE SETTLEMENT TAHSILDAR AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Tamil Nadu Minor Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963 — Special Tribunal Appeals — Jurisdiction — Appeals under Section 30 of the Act involve determination of rival claims of title and validity of title deeds, which are complex issues beyond the summary nature of proceedings under the Act — Such disputes are to be adjudicated by a competent Civil Court. India Law Library Docid # 2447416
(811) HEERALAL DILIP GOLECHA Vs. GREATER CHENNAI CORPORATION AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Trade License Application Pending — Issuance of Lock and Seal Notice — Petitioner applied for a trade license for their soft drink distribution business and submitted all necessary documents and fees — While the application was pending, the respondent issued a lock and seal notice, alleging the absence of a trade license — Petitioner contended this action was arbitrary India Law Library Docid # 2447417
(812) SUMAN KUTIYAL Vs. SECRETARY, RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Service Law — Seniority — Provisional/tentative seniority list — Maintainability of challenge — Cause of action — Claim petition challenging seniority under GO dated 05.10.2005 dismissed by Tribunal as premature, since only a provisional seniority list (to which petitioner had filed no objections) had been issued, no final list yet existing — Held, liberty earlier granted to challenge "the seniority list" upon issuance of a fresh list did not extend to challenging a still-provisional list that h India Law Library Docid # 2447963
(813) PADMINI NAIK Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Orissa Grama Panchayats Act, 1964 — Section 24(2)(h) — No-confidence motion against Sarpanch — Postponement/adjournment distinguished — Where a no-confidence meeting could not be held on the originally notified date for unavoidable reasons and is rescheduled to a later date before commencement, there is no infraction of S. 24(2)(h), which bars only adjournment after the meeting has commenced — Distinction between "postponement" (permissible) and "adjournment" (barred) reaffirmed following Govind India Law Library Docid # 2448228
(814) SANGRAM KESHARI NAYAK Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Service Law — Promotion — Withdrawal on discovery of pendency of Vigilance Proceeding — Odisha Government Servants' Conduct Rules, 1959, Rule 3 — Promotion granted by DPC in ignorance of a pending Vigilance Proceeding against the employee is liable to be withdrawn upon such fact coming to light, without violating principles of natural justice where show-cause notice was issued and reply considered before reversion — Employee not eligible for regular promotion at the relevant time given pendency India Law Library Docid # 2448229
(815) PRITISHREE PRIYADARSINI Vs. HARICHANDAN TRIPATHY[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 24 — Transfer of matrimonial proceeding — Convenience of wife — In matrimonial transfer petitions, convenience of the wife, particularly one without independent income facing long-distance travel and safety concerns, is a paramount consideration, though not to be applied mechanically without regard to the husband's circumstances — Opposite party's status as Army personnel posted outside the State and minimal inconvenience from permitting appearance via India Law Library Docid # 2448230
(816) PUSPANJALI SWAIN Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Criminal Revision — Cognizance order — Scope of interference — Sections 420, 468, 471, 34 IPC — At the stage of scrutinizing an order taking cognizance, a microscopic examination of materials or evaluation of merits is impermissible; interference is warranted only where the complaint discloses no offence or is frivolous, vexatious or oppressive — Pendency of a civil proceeding for annulment of marriage under S. 25 Special Marriage Act does not dilute a prima facie case of forgery/cheating discl India Law Library Docid # 2448231
(817) DEBENDRA NARAYAN PATTANAIK Vs. SANGHAMITRA BISWAL @ PATTANAIK AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12 — Interim maintenance — Quantification — Quantification of maintenance necessarily involves subjectivity; factors under Rajnesh v. Neha considered, including that wife, though a practising advocate and managing director of a marriage bureau, may still require support, balanced against husband's undertaking to bear son's education expenses — Interim maintenance to wife reduced to align with modest earning capacity while correspondi India Law Library Docid # 2448232
(818) RADHESHYAM MOHANTY Vs. KALI THAKURANI REPRESENTED THROUGH THE SUB-COLLECTORCUM-EXECUTIVE OFFICER, ENDOWMENT, BHAWANIPATNA, KALAHANDI AND ANOTHER[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 19-06-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 9 Rule 13 — Condonation of delay — Property of deity — A plea that a suit for adverse possession against a deity is not maintainable merely because the deity is a perpetual minor is misconceived; deity's right to property, though inalienable, remains subject to the general law of limitation — Delay in filing application under Order IX Rule 13 CPC to set aside ex parte decree against deity's property can be condoned only India Law Library Docid # 2448233
(819) AYAR GITABEN DINESHBHAI Vs. ELECTION COMMISSIONER AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 18-06-2026 Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993 and Gujarat Panchayats Election Rules, 1994 — Election Petition — Recount of Votes — A written application for recounting of votes must be made to the Returning Officer immediately after the announcement of the total votes polled and before the declaration of the result, stating the grounds for the demand India Law Library Docid # 2447035
(820) KANTABEN AJITBHAI BALANI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 18-06-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 498A, 323, 504, 506(2), 114 — FIR quashing application — Allegations against mother-in-law, father-in-law, and sister-in-law were omnibus and vague, lacking specific instances or roles — Sister-in-law resided separately in another city — Such generalised India Law Library Docid # 2447036