(1) 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
(2) SHRI DHANPAT RAI GUPTA AND OTHERS Vs. SHRI KASHMIRI LAL GUPTA (SINCE DECEASED) REPRESENTED THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS/REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Regular Second Appeal — Scope of interference by First Appellate Court with findings of fact recorded by Trial Court — Held, where the Trial Court has appreciated the entire evidence and recorded cogent, reasoned findings based on documents and admissions on record, the First Appellate Court cannot reverse such findings without independently examining the evidence in its entirety, particularly where the view taken by the Trial Court is a plausible India Law Library Docid # 2447168
(3) RAM ASHRYA UPADHYAY Vs. VIJAY NARAIN UPADHYAY[DELHI HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Regular Second Appeal — Scope — Concurrent findings of fact recorded by the Trial Court and the First Appellate Court, based on proper appreciation of evidence, cannot be reopened in a Second Appeal in the garb of substantial questions of law; a challenge confined to factual findings, without raising any substantial question of law, is not maintainable India Law Library Docid # 2447169
(4) STATE AND OTHER Vs. LALIT KUMAR AND OTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 (analogous to Section 482 CrPC) — Cancellation/setting aside of order granting bail — Scope of interference — A superior court should not normally interfere with an order granting bail, but where the Trial Court has missed extremely important factors while granting bail in an offence of grave nature, the High Court would be justified in setting aside such an order in exercise of its inherent jurisdiction India Law Library Docid # 2447170
(5) MR. A.R. ABDUL RAZAK Vs. M/S. ASHRITHA HOUSE BUILDING CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Limited scope of judicial interference — Court under Section 34 does not sit in appeal over an arbitral award and cannot reappreciate evidence; "patent illegality" must go to the root of the matter and excludes mere erroneous application of law or re-appreciation of evidence — scope under Section 37 is narrower still, confined to examining whether India Law Library Docid # 2447172
(6) ASHIM SINHA Vs. THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Circumstantial evidence — Standard of proof — Held, in a case resting purely on circumstantial evidence, the prosecution must establish each circumstance beyond reasonable doubt, forming a complete chain consistent only with the guilt of the accused and excluding every other hypothesis; suspicion, however strong, cannot substitute proof, and there is a legal as well as grammatical India Law Library Docid # 2447173
(7) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. SARASWATI[KERALA HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 29(2) — Customary mode of dissolution of marriage — Family pension to divorced daughter — Held, dissolution of marriage by a registered customary agreement (Annexure A3, 1974) executed in accordance with the practice prevailing among members of the Thiyya community of North Malabar, governed by Marumakkattayam law and having statutory backing India Law Library Docid # 2447174
(8) LODHIYA TUDU AND OTHER Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 430(1) — Suspension of sentence post-conviction — Distinction from pre-trial bail — Held, at post-conviction stage when suspension of sentence is sought, there is a finding of guilt and presumption of innocence does not arise; strong and compelling reasons are required (not merely custody duration), and the court considers only prima facie merits of the India Law Library Docid # 2447175
(9) KRIT YADAV AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 29-06-2026 Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — Section 82 — Powers of State Commissioner — Limited to matters enumerated; no power to adjudicate on title — Held, though State Commissioner has powers of a Civil Court for purposes of investigation, inquiry and proceedings under Sections 195 and Chapter XXVI CrPC, such powers are strictly limited to matters specified in Section 82 and do not extend to India Law Library Docid # 2447176
(10) BHAIRAM Vs. SURESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 25-06-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 – Section 173(1) – Appeal against award – Claimant praying for modification of award to direct Insurance Company to pay compensation while recovering it from owner/driver – Insurance Company denied liability on grounds of dishonoured cheque for premium and policy cancellation – Tribunal exonerated India Law Library Docid # 2447133
(11) MATHU ALIAS JAGDISH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-06-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 304 Part II — Culpable Homicide not Amounting to Murder — Conviction and sentence — Appeal against — Abatement of appeal due to death of co-accused — Death of two appellants during pendency of appeal — Appeal survives only for the third appellant. India Law Library Docid # 2447141
(12) GOVIND RAM AND OTHERS Vs. DILA RAM (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-06-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 62 — Limitation Act, 1963 — Article 61 — Usufructuary Mortgage — Right to redemption — In usufructuary mortgage, right to redemption continues until mortgage money is paid, for which there is no time limit, unless it is pleaded and proved that usufruct has extinguished the mortgage amount. India Law Library Docid # 2447163
(13) HARI SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. FINANCIAL COMMISSIONER (APPEALS) AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-06-2026 Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, 1972 — Section 104 and Rule 21 — Resumption of land — Application for resumption was filed within the extended period as the substitution of the rule was retrospective and intended to provide more time to landowners. India Law Library Docid # 2447164
(14) STATE OF H.P. Vs. DAVINDER KUMAR AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-06-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 374 and 386 — Appeal against acquittal — High Court can interfere with an acquittal only if the judgment is perverse, based on misreading of evidence, or omits material evidence, and no reasonable person could arrive at the acquittal — If two reasonable views are possible, the appellate court should not interfere. India Law Library Docid # 2447165
(15) M/S. SBEIPL HP (JV) HAVING ITS REGISTERED ADDRESS SHASHTRI NAGAR PAL ROAD JODHPUR RAJASTHAN Vs. MADHYA PRADESH JAL NIGAM AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 24-06-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Public Procurement — Tender Process — Judicial Review — High Courts should exercise restraint and not interfere with contractual and commercial decisions of tendering authorities unless the process is vitiated by manifest arbitrariness, mala fides, bias, irrationality, or affects public interest. India Law Library Docid # 2447135
(16) SHANKAR DUTT Vs. UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-06-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 168 — Notional income of skilled worker — Carpenter — Assessment — The appellant, a carpenter aged 38 years, suffered amputation of his right leg below the knee in a road accident in November 2004 — The Claims Tribunal assessed his monthly income at Rs. 3,000/- and the High Court enhanced it to Rs. 5,000/- relying on minimum wages. Held — A carpenter is a India Law Library Docid # 2447132
(17) ISRAFIL @ PAPPU @ NAIMUDDIN KHAN Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-06-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 — Forgery and use of forged documents in judicial proceedings — Appeal confined to quantum of sentence, conviction upheld — Occurrence of offence in 2014, appellant facing proceedings for over a decade, no prior or subsequent criminal antecedents, forged document detected at early stage, no irreversible consequences — These factors warrant reconsideration India Law Library Docid # 2447125
(18) M. PARAMESH Vs. VRL LOGISTICS LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-06-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Compensation — Enhancement — High Court enhanced compensation, but calculation of future prospects and omission of certain awarded amounts were infirmities — Supreme Court addressed these infirmities. India Law Library Docid # 2447126
(19) THE ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. KALU RAM AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-06-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 and 140 — Compensation for death in motor vehicular accident — Negligence — Truck stationed on road at night without warning lights or indicators — Wagon-R car collided from behind — Held, truck driver was negligent in leaving the vehicle unattended on the road without adequate precautionary measures, which was the proximate cause of the accident. [Paras 4, 8, India Law Library Docid # 2447127
(20) MOHAMMED KHALEEL (D) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS Vs. JAYAMMA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-06-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 16(c) — "Readiness and Willingness" — Relief of specific performance is equitable and discretionary — Plaintiff must specifically aver and prove continuous readiness and willingness to perform obligations — Failure to do so disentitles plaintiff to relief — "Readiness" refers to financial capacity, "Willingness" to conduct and intention — Both cumulatively must India Law Library Docid # 2447128