(241) MAHILA RAVINDRA KAUR Vs. SMT. GURMEET KAUR AND ANOTHER[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 25-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 80(4) (Madhya Pradesh State Amendment) and Order 1 Rule 3-B — Suit for specific performance — Joinder of State as party — Necessity of notice — Plaintiff filed suit for specific performance against private defendant, joining State without seeking any relief against it — Lower Courts dismissed suit for non-compliance with Section 80 CPC — Held, under MP State Amendment Section 80(4), where State is joined under Order 1 Rule 3-B CPC and no relief is claim India Law Library Docid # 2450509
(242) ASHISH SHARMA Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 and Section 397(3) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Bar on second revision — Exercise of inherent powers by High Court after dismissal of revision by Revisional Court — Though Section 397(3) prohibits a second revision, inherent powers of the High Court under Section 482 CrPC (Section 528 BNSS) remain preserved — Such power cannot be utilised as a substitute for a second revision and must be exercised sparingly and caut India Law Library Docid # 2450735
(243) MEERA SHARMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Service Law — Revision of Pay — 4-tier pay scale — Notional benefits — Petitioners inducted into Himachal Pradesh Forest Services (HPFS) in 1990 — State restored 4-tier pay structure to eight specified cadres like HPAS w.e.f. 27.08.2009 notionally and actually from 09.08.2012 — HPFS was granted 4-tier scale w.e.f. 01.09.2013 — Rejection of petitioners' claim for notional benefits w.e.f. 27.08.2009 — Held, once State extended 4-tier pay scale to HPFS, denying notional benefit w.e.f. 27.08.2009 wa India Law Library Docid # 2450738
(244) NANDAKISHORE ALIAS NANDAKISHORE PARIDA Vs. RAJKISHORE PARIDA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 427 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 378(4) — Appeal against acquittal — Offence of mischief — Non-examination of material independent eye-witnesses — Complainant alleged that accused forcibly ploughed his land and destroyed paddy seedlings — Prosecution relied on interested witnesses while independent eye-witnesses present at the spot were withheld — Station diary entry/FIR lodged at police outpost was neither produced nor proved — Prosecution failed to India Law Library Docid # 2450379
(245) STATE OF ODISHA Vs. SANJEET DASH @ BANKU[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 300 and 302 — Murder of wife — Proof of guilt — Accused inflicted 49 stab wounds on his wife with a knife — Conviction based on eyewitness testimony of minor injured daughter, voluntary extra-judicial confession made to mother, matching fingerprint report on recovered knife, blood-stained apparel, and post-crime abscondence — Defense plea of lack of motive or fatal single injury rejected — Inflicting multiple injuries all over the body demonstrates clear intenti India Law Library Docid # 2450389
(246) UMASHANKAR PANDEY Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 37 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Bail — Offence involving commercial quantity — Ground of long custody and delay in trial — Right to speedy trial under Article 21 must be read alongside and not in displacement of Section 37 NDPS Act mandate — Length of period spent in custody or commencement of trial are not by themselves persuasive grounds to grant bail without satisfying the mandatory twin conditions under Section 37 India Law Library Docid # 2450400
(247) B. TIRUPATI RAO AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 3(1)(x) — Offence of intentionally insulting SC/ST member — Property dispute background — Material discrepancies in prosecution witnesses' evidence regarding exact utterances — Offence is not established merely because victim belongs to Scheduled Caste without specific intention to humiliate on caste grounds — Abuse hurled during longstanding land litigation does not constitute offence under Section 3(1)(x) — Co India Law Library Docid # 2450411
(248) DEEPAK Vs. THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 25-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(C), 25, 29(1), 37 and 50 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Bail — Commercial quantity — Seizure of 150 kg of ganja from a courier container van carrying petitioner and co-accused — Scope of Section 50 — Contraband recovered directly from vehicle and not through personal search, rendering Section 50 inapplicable — Twin conditions under Section 37 — Petitioner had criminal antecedent for simila India Law Library Docid # 2451146
(249) S. SRI HARI HARAN Vs. THE ADMINISTRATOR, A1513, SIVAGANGAI CO-OPERATIVE STORES LTD.[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 25-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of Writ Petition against Co-operative Society — Tenancy dispute — Petitioner challenged an eviction notice issued by the respondent Co-operative Stores prior to the expiry of a registered rental agreement — Held, a co-operative society is not an instrumentality of the State under Article 12, and disputes arising out of private contractual or tenancy arrangements must be agitated before a civil court — Writ petition disposed of, granting India Law Library Docid # 2451163
(250) P.SUBRAMANIAN Vs. G. ARIVOLI AND ANOTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 25-08-2026 Service Law — Tamil Nadu Recognised Private Schools (Regulation) Act, 1973 — Pay fixation and pensionary benefits — Counting of unaided service — Deceased teacher served in unsanctioned and unaided post prior to sanction of grant-in-aid — Claim to count such period for pay fixation and pension — Held, Government is obliged to sanction grant for salary only if the post is a sanctioned post — Past service rendered in unsanctioned and unaided post prior to sanction cannot be counted as government s India Law Library Docid # 2451168
(251) MR. A.R. KRISHNAMANI Vs. LAKEPOINT BUILDERS PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34(2)(a) and Section 34(2)(b) — Production of additional documents outside arbitral record — Scope post-2019 Amendment — 2019 amendment substituted words "furnishes proof that" with "establishes on the basis of the record of the arbitral tribunal that" strictly in Section 34(2)(a) — No corresponding amendment was made to Section 34(2)(b) — Record-based restriction cannot be imported into Section 34(2)(b) — A Section 34 Court is not barred from rec India Law Library Docid # 2451220
(252) K. R. ROOPA Vs. B. M. MURLIDAR[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 144 — Maintenance to wife — Entitlement and disqualification — Leaving matrimonial home without reasonable cause — Wife left matrimonial home after 25 years of marriage to attend to her ailing parents and refused to return despite husband's requests — No evidence of cruelty or harassment established — Grant of maintenance is not automatic and requires proof of neglect or refusal by the husband India Law Library Docid # 2451221
(253) SMT. TEJASWINI. V Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 — Sections 23 and 2(h) — Applicability of Section 23 — Age requirement — Transferor is not required to have attained the age of sixty years on the date of execution of the transfer deed. It is sufficient if the applicant is a senior citizen on the date of filing the application under Section 23. Furthermore, where there is only a marginal shortfall in age on the date of filing, the statutory requirement is satisfied if the applican India Law Library Docid # 2451222
(254) SAMINENI NEERAJ KUMAR MANIKANTA Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Anticipatory Bail — Economic Offences — Multi-level marketing scheme — Discretionary relief — Allegations of inducing victims into a QNET/Vihaan money-circulation chain system — Petitioner contended he was merely an independent distributor without administrative control — Held, specific overt acts of conducting training sessions were attributed to petitioner by victims — Seizure of electronic devices and documents in a connected crime corr India Law Library Docid # 2451243
(255) SPUNWELL SYNTEX PRIVATE LTD Vs. INCOME TAX OFFICER, DELHI AND ANOTHER[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Sections 270A, 270A(9) and 270AA — Penalty — Immunity from imposition of penalty — Scope and applicability — Misreporting of income — Section 270AA(3) creates an express statutory bar against granting immunity where penalty proceedings are initiated under Section 270A(9) for under-reporting of income in consequence of misreporting — Immunity under Section 270AA is confined strictly to cases involving under-reporting of income without misreporting — Consequently, an applica India Law Library Docid # 2451332
(256) NAND KISHORE Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 42 and 37 — Search at night without warrant — Bail — Secret information received on patrol was recorded in writing with reasons for dispensing with warrant to prevent concealment of contraband — Information was forwarded to superior officer within prescribed time — Prima facie due compliance with Section 42 established — Search conducted during night hours does not invalidate proceedings when statutory safeguards are met — Recovery India Law Library Docid # 2451333
(257) THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, PUBLIC WORK DEPARTMENT Vs. M/S TRIMURTI CONSTRUCTION AND ANOTHER[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34(2)(b)(ii) and Section 37 — Setting aside of arbitral award — Public policy of India — Violation of natural justice — Claims for idling of labour and machinery — Appellant specifically disputed engagement of labour and machinery in its written reply — Arbitral Tribunal passed award without framing issues, recording evidence, or seeking admission/denial of documents — Award based solely on pleadings without supporting evidence is perverse, patent India Law Library Docid # 2451334
(258) JASWANT Vs. MANJU[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 39 Rules 1 & 2 — Temporary injunction — Scope of appellate interference — Exercise of judicial discretion — An appellate court reviewing an order granting or refusing an interlocutory injunction exercises restricted jurisdiction and does not function as a court of substitution — Appellate court cannot reassess material merely to arrive at a different conclusion if the trial court's view is reasonably possible — Interference is warranted only where discret India Law Library Docid # 2451335
(259) SMT. PRIYANKA PATODIYA Vs. SANDIP KUMAR[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 24 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Transfer of matrimonial proceedings — Non-appearance of parties — Dispensation of notice — Supervisory jurisdiction can be exercised suo motu or without awaiting appearance where the record clearly justifies transfer — Mere transfer between competent courts does not adversely affect substantive rights, as disputes are decided on merits — The rule of audi alteram partem is not inflexible — Prolonging trans India Law Library Docid # 2451336
(260) UDAILAL ALIAS KANAIYALAL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 37 — Bail involving commercial quantity — Rigour of Section 37 — Twin conditions — Section 37 imposes a specific statutory embargo on bail in offences involving commercial quantity — Mandatory twin conditions are cumulative, requiring the court's satisfaction that reasonable grounds exist for believing the accused is not guilty and is unlikely to commit any offence while on bail — "Reasonable grounds" implies substantial probable cau India Law Library Docid # 2451337