(981) MANISHA W/O AMRESH KUMAR GUPTA Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Service Law — Disciplinary Proceedings — Natural justice — Admission of charges — Non-furnishing of witness list — Appellant challenged dismissal on grounds that departmental proceedings violated Rule 17(3) of Bihar Government Servants (CCA) Rules, 2005 due to non-supply of a witness list — Held, principles of natural justice and formal proof are not required where allegations are admitted — Appellant admittedly remained absent from duty for over two years without sanctioned leave — Matters admi India Law Library Docid # 2454421
(982) MARTHALA JAYAVARDHAN REDDY Vs. SHAIK BALE PEERA ALIAS S. MD BALA PEERA[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 18 — Acknowledgment of liability — Statement in insolvency proceedings — Trial Court rejected plaint in a suit for recovery on a promissory note, holding that defendant's inclusion of plaintiff as creditor in an insolvency petition was merely an admission and not an acknowledgment — Held, relying on precedents regarding entries in balance sheets, an admission of liability in insolvency proceedings amounts to an acknowledgment under Section 18 — An acknowledgment ex India Law Library Docid # 2453961
(983) M/S TRIPLAR SCHOOL OF LEARNING AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S KALYANI ADS AND ANOTHER[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 47 — Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 — Section 22C — Lok Adalat Award — Executability and pecuniary jurisdiction — Judgment debtors objected to execution of a Lok Adalat award contending that the award exceeded statutory pecuniary limits and was a nullity — Held, judgment debtors participated in the Lok Adalat proceedings and signed the award — Moreover, their writ petition challenging the award was dismissed by a Division Bench and attained finali India Law Library Docid # 2453962
(984) ALI HUSSAIN SHAH Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 25-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 480 and 483 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 437 and 439 — Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 409, 467, 471 and 120-B — Statutory bar on bail — Offences punishable with life imprisonment — Scope — The statutory bar restricting grant of bail under Section 480 of BNSS is confined only to offences carrying a sentence of death or imprisonment for life in the alternative. Where imprisonment for life is prescribed disjunctively from the deat India Law Library Docid # 2454079
(985) ADAM RAM Vs. STATE OF HP AND ANR.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 311(2), Second Proviso, Clause (a) — Disciplinary action following conviction — Pendency of criminal appeal — Suspension of sentence — Mere pendency of an appeal against conviction, suspension of sentence under Section 389 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, or enlargement on bail does not bar the disciplinary authority from initiating proceedings or ordering dismissal or removal from service. Article 311(2)(a) pertains to the conduct leading to convict India Law Library Docid # 2454084
(986) DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT AND OTHERS Vs. MD. SALEEM KHAN AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 25-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 216 — Alteration or addition of charge — Maintainability of application — Locus standi — Directorate of Enforcement sought addition of charges under Sections 411 and 424 RPC in a CBI charge-sheet — Trial Court dismissed application citing lack of locus standi — Held, unsustainable — Section 216 CrPC enables the Court to alter or add charges at any stage before judgment — An application by a third party or agency merely brings an omission to the Cour India Law Library Docid # 2454086
(987) CHUNI LAL AND ANOTHER Vs. SUBHASH CHAND AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Himachal Pradesh Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1971 — Section 57 — Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1954 — Sections 37 and 45 — Jurisdiction of Civil Court — Bar under Consolidation Act — Clerical error in Jamabandi reducing plaintiffs' recorded share — Error originated during preparation of periodical records under the Land Revenue Act and was mechanically carried forward, rather than arising out of any consolidation scheme or statutory adjudication — Section 5 India Law Library Docid # 2454087
(988) B.S.PANDURANG SINGH Vs. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 — Sections 5, 8 and 26 — Adjudicatory mechanism — Availability of statutory alternate remedy — Maintainability of writ petition — Provisional attachment confirmed under Section 8 — Statutory appeal filed under Section 26 before Appellate Tribunal — Held, the PMLA provides a comprehensive and self-contained adjudicatory mechanism through attachment under Section 5, confirmation under Section 8, and an appeal under Section 26 — Constitutional jurisdiction u India Law Library Docid # 2454088
(989) VIJAY RANI GUPTA Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 16 and 39(d) — Service Law — Equal pay for equal work — Pay parity across departments — Petitioner was appointed as Art/Craft Teacher in the Agriculture Department at a lower pay scale than counterparts in the Rural Development Department — Qualifications, recruitment procedure, duties, and responsibilities were identical and uncontroverted — Held, treating employees holding identical posts differently merely because they belong to different departments India Law Library Docid # 2454090
(990) FIRDOUS AHMAD SHAH Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 25-09-2026 Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Section 8 — Successive detention orders — Earlier detention quashed or revoked — Reliance on fresh material — Scope of judicial review — Where an earlier preventive detention order has been quashed, the quashed grounds cannot form the sole foundation of a subsequent detention order — However, a detenue's subsequent conduct is not immune from consideration — When fresh, independent material intervenes, past incidents may validly be referenced as anteced India Law Library Docid # 2454092
(991) SRI. UDAYKIRAN VASIREDDI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 7 and 11(ii) — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 354A(1) — Quashing of proceedings — Abuse of process — Matrimonial discord — Mother lodged sexual assault complaint against father after the Family Court granted him interim weekend custody of minor daughter and dismissed her restraining application — Hospital and psychiatric records revealed no evidence of molestation, only anxiety India Law Library Docid # 2454102
(992) STATE OF KARNATAKA BY HAROHALLI POLICE, RAMANAGARA, REP. BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT BUILDING, BENGALURU-1 Vs. G.S. MALLAIAH[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of interference — Acquittal strengthens the presumption of innocence of the accused — An appellate court reviewing an acquittal is entitled to re-appreciate evidence, but must determine whether the trial court's view is plausible — If the view adopted by the trial court is plausible on the evidence on record, the appellate court cannot overturn the acquittal merely because another view is possible — Interferenc India Law Library Docid # 2454106
(993) METHUKU THIRUPATHI REDDY Vs. CBI[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 397 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 438 — Revisional jurisdiction — Scope and limitations — Revisional court does not act as an appellate court and cannot re-appreciate evidence or substitute its own conclusions on facts — Jurisdiction is supervisory and intended to correct a miscarriage of justice — Interference is impermissible unless findings of the courts below are perverse, grossly erroneous, glaringly unreasonable, based o India Law Library Docid # 2454110
(994) ISHWAR DASS AND ANOTHER Vs. KANTA DEVI AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Proof of rash and negligent driving — Appreciation of evidence — Offending tractor was involved in the accident resulting in the victim's death — Criminal case was registered against the driver and the First Information Report recorded specific allegations of rash and negligent driving — Investigating officer testified that the tractor went out of control onto the wrong side of the road — Finding of the Tribunal that the accident occurred due to the rash India Law Library Docid # 2454117
(995) MISHU GUGLANI Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 / Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Pre-arrest bail — Scope and parameters — Power to grant anticipatory bail is an extraordinary remedy to be exercised sparingly in exceptional cases — It cannot be granted as a matter of rule — Relief requires a delicate balance between safeguarding individual liberty and protecting public interest and ensuring fair investigation — Presumption of innocence alone is not a sufficient ground for granting anticipatory ba India Law Library Docid # 2454119
(996) STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER Vs. SRI. MANOJ KUMAR JAIN[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 227, 239, 397 and 401 — Discharge — Standard of scrutiny at the stage of framing of charge — While the court is not required to meticulously weigh evidence or seek proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt at the stage of discharge, there must exist strong suspicion founded on prima facie material to proceed against the accused — A prosecution cannot be sustained merely on conjectures or unsubstantiated suspicion — Where the foundational allegations i India Law Library Docid # 2454120
(997) THE ANDHRA PRADESH GENERATION CORPORATION AND ANOTHER Vs. E RAJASEKHAR AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Land Acquisition — Employment under Land Loser Quota — Eligibility and Qualification — Land acquired in 1992 and application filed under G.O.Ms.No. 98 — Writ petitioner placed in merit list of District Selection Committee (DSC) but denied appointment citing lack of qualification during earlier recruitment notifications and pending award — Held, the award was already passed and petitioner possessed required ITI qualification when his candidature was considered by 3rd DSC — State cannot defeat the India Law Library Docid # 2454025
(998) V. RAJYALAKSHMI Vs. C YELLAYYA REDDY[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1) — Irretrievable breakdown of marriage — Jurisdiction of High Court — First Appellate Court's duty — Family Court dissolved marriage solely on ground of irretrievable breakdown — Held, irretrievable breakdown of marriage is not an independent statutory ground available under Section 13 to High Courts, though recognized by Supreme Court under constitutional jurisdiction — Long separation alone is not a statutory ground — However, First Appellate Court is em India Law Library Docid # 2454036
(999) SMT. KALLA VARALAKSHMI AND ANOTHER Vs. KALLA SANKARA RAO[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ib) — Desertion — Statutory requirement of two years — Petition for dissolution of marriage was presented on 20.05.2004 alleging separation from 08.06.2002 — On husband's own showing, continuous statutory period of two years immediately preceding presentation of petition had not expired — Statutory ground of desertion was not available on date of filing — Family Court erred in granting divorce on ground of desertion without fulfilling statutory period — D India Law Library Docid # 2454038
(1000) T. ANAND Vs. THE STATE OF A P[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-09-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 134 — Number of witnesses — Non-examination of witness who brought injured to hospital — Credibility of eye-witnesses — In a criminal trial, no particular number of witnesses is required to prove a fact. Evidentiary value of ocular witnesses who witnessed the assault in broad daylight cannot be discarded merely because other bystanders or the individual who transported the injured victim to the hospital were not examined. Quality of evidence takes precedence over plu India Law Library Docid # 2453963