(221) UTTAMCHAND DEVICHAND SHAH Vs. THE OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE, HIGH COURT, BOMBAY[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Presidency-Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 — Scheme of the Act — A creditor does not need a decree or a final adjudication order to make a claim with the Official Assignee — The Act's definitions of "creditor" and "debt" are inclusive, allowing all creditors to participate in insolvency proceedings — The Official Assignee has the India Law Library Docid # 2447342
(222) POOJA RAMESH SINGH Vs. JAMMU AND KASHMIR BANK LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 7 and 14 — Corporate guarantee — Effect of demerger/amalgamation of corporate debtor — NCLT admission order under S. 7 relying on six judicial precedents to reject corporate guarantor's plea that liability stood extinguished on demerger/amalgamation — NCLAT dismissing appeal and reproducing the same precedents — On independent India Law Library Docid # 2447196
(223) C.WILSON GNANASEKARAN Vs. THE GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 02-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Mandamus — Retirement benefits — Delayed payment — Interest rate — Petition seeking direction to pay interest on belated retirement benefits, including gratuity, earned leave, and provident fund. India Law Library Docid # 2447400
(224) R.ELANGOVAN Vs. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR TAMIL NADU STATE TRANSPORT CORPORATION (KUM) LIMITED AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 02-07-2026 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Section 12(3) — Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Employees — Earned Leave Encashment — Settlement under Section 12(3) allows employees to surrender earned leave and accumulate remaining leave up to 240 days as terminal benefit. India Law Library Docid # 2447401
(225) SHIV SHANKAR SHARMA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 114 & Order 47 Rule 1 — Review — Scope of — Review sought of findings doubting petitioner's credentials and holding institution of PIL to be an abuse of process of Court, and of cost of Rs. 50,000/- imposed — Held, grounds raised did not constitute error apparent on face of record — Mere reiteration of ar India Law Library Docid # 2447449
(226) GANESH GOPE Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 363 — Kidnapping — Essential ingredients — (i) victim must be a minor i.e. below 18 years of age, and (ii) she must have been "taken away" or enticed by the accused — Held, prosecutrix admittedly aged about 19 years on date of occurrence, as per father's own testimony — No documentary evidence to establish minority except doctor's radiological opinion, held insufficient to displace clear India Law Library Docid # 2447450
(227) SASHI BHUSAN PRASAD BHUIAN @ SHASHI BHUSAN PRASAD BHUIA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 277 — False statement in verification — Petitioner, a permanent employee, filed Income Tax Return claiming refund of Rs. 35,500/- on basis of T.D.S. Certificate (Form-16A) and claim of housing loan exemption — On enquiry, T.D.S. Certificate found not issued by employer and no housing loan found sanctioned in petitioner's favour by any Bank — Plea of illiteracy and reliance on office clerk for filing India Law Library Docid # 2447451
(228) HARSHIT SOLANKI Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Rajasthan Compassionate Appointment of Dependents of Permanent Total Disabled Government Servants Rules, 2023 — Rules 2(b) and 2(f) — Compassionate appointment — Eligibility — Permanent total disability — Accident while on duty — Rule 2(f) exhaustively defines permanent total disability to eight specific categories of India Law Library Docid # 2447652
(229) JEET KAUR Vs. LEKHRAJ AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 16 Rule 1(3) and Section 151 — Summoning of witness and revenue record — Rejection of application and closure of evidence — Held, procedural requirements are to facilitate adjudication and not to defeat justice — Mere omission to file witness list within time does not create absolute embargo against examining material witness if evidence is relevant and necessary. India Law Library Docid # 2447653
(230) HARISH KUMAR ALIAS SHALLY Vs. UT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 JK Public Safety Act, 1978 — Detention Order — Challenge to — Grounds of detention are based on FIRs registered in 2016, 2017, and a preventive action in 2025 — Petitioner granted bail in all FIRs — Investigation in some cases ongoing — Detention order passed hastily without waiting for outcome of preventive measures initiated under BNSS — Detaining authority failed to demonstrate why security proceedings were India Law Library Docid # 2447295
(231) ROUF RAFIQ Vs. ROUFA JAVED AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Family Law — Maintenance — Interim maintenance for child — Court's power to award interim maintenance to a minor child is based on the legal and moral responsibility of the parent, especially the father, to provide for the child's basic needs such as food, clothing, education, and shelter. India Law Library Docid # 2447296
(232) ARTI VARUN KEJRIWAL AND OTHERS Vs. VANDANA VINAY AWATRAMANI AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) — Existence of HUF and ancestral nucleus — Burden of proof — The party asserting the existence of an HUF and an ancestral nucleus has the burden to first establish a joint family nucleus of sufficient strength and a reasonable nexus between it and the acquisition of properties claimed as HUF properties — Mere assertions of family businesses or income generation are India Law Library Docid # 2447298
(233) PRAN NATH ARORA Vs. SATISH KUMAR ARORA (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Section 151 — Revisional powers of High Court — Rejection of application to examine handwriting expert — Trial Court rejected application of defendant to examine handwriting expert to compare disputed and standard signatures of plaintiff — High Court, in revision, set aside the trial court's order — High Court held that the expert should be allowed to examine the documents to determine if India Law Library Docid # 2447211
(234) DALBIR Vs. M/S CLOUD BUILD CON PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 — Ad interim injunction — Suit for permanent injunction — Plaintiff sought to restrain defendants from changing nature of suit land and alienating it without partition — Both lower courts dismissed application for injunction — High Court found no perversity in concurrent findings of lower courts. India Law Library Docid # 2447212
(235) TARA CHAND (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. RAMESHWAR (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Sections 14(1), 15 — Property of deceased woman — Limited interest converted to absolute estate upon her death — Smt — Bohti, widow of Deepa, inherited property from her husband — Initially she may have held limited interest, but under Section 14(1) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, her interest became absolute, granting her full ownership — Upon her death without issue, succession would India Law Library Docid # 2447213
(236) KRISHAN DASS AND OTHERS Vs. SWARAN KAUR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Adverse Possession — Claim for ownership based on adverse possession requires clear and cogent evidence of possession that is open, continuous, hostile, and with the animus possidendi (intention to dispossess the true owner) — Mere long occupation is insufficient; the possessor must demonstrate overt acts asserting a hostile title against the true owner — Previous possession described as permissive or based on a compromise India Law Library Docid # 2447214
(237) GIRWAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Land Reforms — Inclusion of Banjar Qadim Land in Surplus Area — Land recorded as banjar qadim (uncultivated for a long period) from 1956-57 onwards could not legally be included in a landowner's holding for the purpose of determining surplus area — Such inclusion is a jurisdictional defect that renders the order void ab initio and cannot be India Law Library Docid # 2447215
(238) JANGBIR SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Principles of Granting Bail — The object of bail is to ensure the accused's appearance at trial, not to punish or preventively detain, keeping in mind the presumption of innocence and the hardship of pre-trial detention — Deprivation of liberty is a grave concern, permissible only under reasonable, fair, and legally sound provisions serving community good and state necessity. India Law Library Docid # 2447216
(239) D.C. TANWAR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226/227 — Writ of Mandamus — Retiral Benefits — Delay in Release — Petitioner sought release of retiral benefits and refund of deducted rent — Petitioner retired in 1993 but benefits were withheld due to pending disciplinary proceedings, which were significantly delayed — The High Court directed release of all pending retiral benefits with interest, and refund of rent and a specific deducted amount. India Law Library Docid # 2447217
(240) KHUSHPREET KAUR AND OTHERS Vs. PUNJAB STATE POWER CORPORATION LTD. AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 14 — Equality and Non-Discrimination — Economically Weaker Section (EWS) Reservation — Candidates who applied for EWS certificates before the cut-off date but received them later due to administrative delays should not be denied consideration, especially when similar relaxations were granted to other reserved categories — Holding otherwise would be discriminatory and arbitrary. India Law Library Docid # 2447218