(1) DAULAT Vs. NARENDRA PARMAR AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 13-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 6 Rule 17 and Order 7 Rule 11 — Amendment vs. Rejection of Plaint — A pending application for amendment of pleadings under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC should generally be decided before an application for rejection of the plaint under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC, especially if the amendment seeks to address defects India Law Library Docid # 2447518
(2) AMAR THAPA Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 37 — Commercial Quantity — Bail Application — Grant of bail for offences involving commercial quantity requires satisfaction of two conditions: reasonable grounds to believe accused is not guilty and not likely to commit offence while on bail, after India Law Library Docid # 2447506
(3) MS PHARMACEUTICALS Vs. NITYAM PHARMA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Statutory notice — Validity must reflect legally enforceable debt — Notice demanding less than cheque amount due to admitted part payments is not per se invalid if computation is disclosed — Whether such demand makes the notice valid India Law Library Docid # 2447507
(4) M/S BRANDAVAN FOOD PRODUCTS Vs. INDIAN RAILWAY CATERING AND TOURISM CORPORATION LTD.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 9 — Interim protection sought by petitioner against demand notice from respondent — Dispute arose from license agreement for on-board catering services — Petitioner contended respondent illegally increased concession fee due to increase in train coaches, which was not permitted by India Law Library Docid # 2447510
(5) DALCHAND AHIR Vs. PRINCIPAL SECRETARY STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 10-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 15 and 16 — Denial of appointment — Arbitrary and discriminatory action — Petitioner denied appointment as Special Education Teacher based on Non-recognition by NCTE, while RCI recognition was the relevant criterion for the post. India Law Library Docid # 2447515
(6) SHRI GANGA SINGH (HANDICAPPED) Vs. SMT. DEVI SINGH AND ANOTHER[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 — Section 20(3) — Maintenance — Major unmarried daughter — Application for maintenance filed under Section 125 Cr.P.C. when it should have been under Section 20(3) HAM Act — Court cannot refuse relief due to mentioning a wrong India Law Library Docid # 2447516
(7) BHERUSINGH Vs. KARULAL[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 10-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397, 401 — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay in filing appeal — Rejection of appeal on a 12-day delay without considering merits is hyper-technical and defeats substantial justice — Courts should adopt a liberal approach for short delays to advance justice. India Law Library Docid # 2447517
(8) M/S. LEVITATE MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD. Vs. M/S. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Orrder 11 Rules 1(4) & 5 (as amended by Commercial Courts Act, 2015, Sch.) — Additional documents, filing of — Standard of "reasonable cause" — Held, plaintiff obliged to file all documents in its possession along with plaint; leave to file additional documents within 30 days of institution of suit permissible only on establishing reasonable cause for non-disclosure and India Law Library Docid # 2447455
(9) BEJLA ORAON Vs. KALI DAS ORAON AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Hindu Law — Customary Law (Tribal) — Oraon Custom — Ghardamad (custom of adopted son-in-law) — Who may effect such adoption — Suit for declaration of title to ancestral land, contested on plea that a collateral (Punai) had been taken as ghardamad by plaintiff's grand-uncle Ledura, who died issueless, and thereby acquired inheritable rights transmissible to his wife Budhain — Concurrent findings India Law Library Docid # 2447456
(10) BRITISH MOTOR CAR COMPANY (1939) LTD. Vs. M/S HINDUSTAN COMMERCIAL BANK LTD. SINCE HAS BEEN MERGED INTO PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 — Section 14(1)(b) — Subletting, assignment or parting with possession — Whether involuntary transfer pursuant to statutory scheme of bank amalgamation attracts the provision — Original tenant-bank (HCB) amalgamated with another bank (PNB) pursuant to a Scheme framed by RBI and notified by the Central Government under S. 45 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 India Law Library Docid # 2447457
(11) AAA Vs. LINDA SEMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 19(1) & 21 — "Knowledge that such an offence has been committed" — Meaning and scope — Held, not confined to direct/personal knowledge of commission of offence based on person's own senses — Includes awareness founded on receipt of credible information regarding commission of offence punishable under the Act — Where such information is received India Law Library Docid # 2447458
(12) BIHAR STATE FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER Vs. BHUSHAN SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 — Sections 29 & 30 — Auction sale of mortgaged property by Financial Corporation for recovery of dues — Judicial review of, scope — Borrowers persistently defaulting over eight years despite multiple opportunities, repayment schedules fixed by High Court, and statutory notices — Financial Corporation auctioning mortgaged property after affording repeated chances India Law Library Docid # 2447460
(13) SH. SANJEEV KUMAR CHADHA Vs. ANIL KUMAR CHADHA AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Property Law — Validity of Sale Deeds — A relinquishment deed, duly registered, confers title upon the recipient — Subsequent sale deeds executed by the recipient cannot be invalidated based on mere suspicion or conjecture, especially when the India Law Library Docid # 2447508
(14) RATTAN SINGH Vs. AKHTAR ISLAM[DELHI HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Specific Performance of Contracts — Readiness and Willingness to Perform — Plaintiff must prove continuous readiness and willingness from the date of contract to the time of hearing — Financial capacity is required to be proved through evidence — India Law Library Docid # 2447509
(15) SHRIRAM MANDIR PANCHKUIYA DHARMIK TRUST THROUGH ITS TRUSTEE ASHOK KUMAR Vs. SHRI MAHANT RAMGOPALDAS GURU LAXMANDAS AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 115 — M.P. Public Trusts Act, 1951 — Section 2(1) — Maintainability of Civil Revision — Registrar, Public Trust is not a "Court" as defined under Section 2(1) of the M.P. Public Trusts Act, 1951, nor is it a "Subordinate Court" under Section 3 of the CPC — Revisional powers of High Court India Law Library Docid # 2447514
(16) AJAY VIJH Vs. INDIAN BANKS ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ jurisdiction — Maintainability — Inclusion of advocate's name in IBA "Caution List" — High Court dismissing writ petition on ground that Indian Banks' Association (IBA) is not "State" under Art. 12 — Held, focus of maintainability has shifted from formal character of respondent body to nature of function performed and effect of impugned action on legally protected rights — Caution List operates as sector-wide adverse accreditation mechanism with p India Law Library Docid # 2447430
(17) GUNADHAR SINGH Vs. DHONIBALA SINGH AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-07-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 9 — Restitution of conjugal rights — Proof of marriage and of withdrawal without reasonable excuse — Wife's suit for restitution decreed by Family Court, holding that husband had withdrawn from her society without reasonable cause and that the factum of marriage stood proved — Husband denying the marriage altogether and pleading that the wife was set up by villagers to extort money India Law Library Docid # 2447442
(18) SHYAMA NAND TIWARI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-07-2026 Service Law — Regularization — Casual/Part-Time Labourers — Educational qualification — Part Time Casual Labourers (Regularization) Scheme of CBIC, 2020 — Petitioners engaged as Casual Labourers since 1995 and 1999 respectively, working continuously for nearly three decades — Claim for regularization rejected on ground of non-fulfilment of educational qualification (matriculation) — Petitioners possessing only India Law Library Docid # 2447440
(19) MANTU PANDEY @ SWETABH KUMAR PANDEY Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 304 Part I, 304 Part II, 300, 299 — Murder v. culpable homicide not amounting to murder — Distinction between "intention" and "knowledge" — Appellant convicted by trial court under S. 302 IPC for causing death of an elderly woman by assaulting her with a bamboo strip, on her refusal to supply liquor to him while he was in an intoxicated state — Deceased did not die at the spot but India Law Library Docid # 2447441
(20) SHIV SHANKAR SHARMA Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 06-07-2026 Constitution of India, Art. 226 — Public Interest Litigation — Maintainability — Credentials and bona fides of petitioner — Petitioner having history of filing PILs making reckless and unsubstantiated allegations against high-ranking officials, dismissed earlier with costs by High Court and held not maintainable by Supreme Court — Allegations made without impleading persons against whom allegations levelled — Held, bona fides of petitioner is a India Law Library Docid # 2447394