(601) THE BRANCH MANAGER, CHOLAMANDALAM M.S. GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. NAGAPANDI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 18-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order XLI Rule 27(1)(b) — Production of additional evidence in appellate court — Certified copy of rough sketch — Insurance company sought to produce rough sketch of accident site at appellate stage — Trial was conducted during Covid-19 pandemic and driver could not be examined due to pending criminal prosecution — Held, appellate court can admit additional evidence under clause (b) if required to pronounce a satisfactory judgment and in the interest of paramount jus India Law Library Docid # 2451160
(602) INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS Vs. SRI. B.P. ESHWAR SINGH[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 18 Rule 4, Order 6 Rule 16, and Section 151 — Evidence beyond pleadings — Striking off affidavit evidence — Maintainability — Application filed seeking to strike off portions of defendant's examination-in-chief tendered on affidavit on the ground that it exceeded pleadings — Held, the Code of Civil Procedure provides no mechanism to strike off portions of an affidavit in lieu of examination-in-chief — Object of Order 18 Rule 4 is speedy trial — Aggrieved India Law Library Docid # 2451204
(603) H.M. TAMBOURINE APARTMENT AND OTHERS Vs. BANGALORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Karnataka Ownership Flats (Regulation of the Promotion of Construction, Sale, Management and Transfer) Act, 1972 — Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 — Section 14 — Subsequent construction on reserved vacant land — Estoppel against flat purchasers — Developer constructed initial residential blocks and retained vacant land clearly earmarked in plan and brochure for future development — Sale deeds executed in favour of flat owners contained specific covenant that developer retained India Law Library Docid # 2451205
(604) STATE PROJECT DIRECTOR RASHTRIYA MADHYAMIKA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN Vs. M/S. KMV PROJECTS AND ANOTHER[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13(1A) — Scope of Interference — Interpretation of Contract — Incorporation of Price Variation Clause — Appellant contended that price variation clause was deleted from tender documents and unauthorizedly incorporated in agreement — Arbitral Tribunal found that signed agreement and contract data explicitly included the clause, supported by pre-contract negotiations — Held, the finding relates to c India Law Library Docid # 2451206
(605) STATE OF KARNATAKA Vs. PAVITRA GOWDA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 154 — Cross-examination of own witness — Judicial discretion — Section 154 vests judicial discretion in the Court to permit a party to cross-examine its own witness. Such permission is an extraordinary measure confined to special cases where the witness resiles from material statements, suppresses truth, or exhibits hostile animus. A witness does not become hostile merely because an inconvenient answer or minor discrepancy emerges in an unguarded moment. Formal decla India Law Library Docid # 2451207
(606) NAVEEN G. Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 108 and 45 — Abetment of suicide — Quashing petition — Essential ingredients of instigation, goading, and proximity — Petitioner continuously stalked and harassed deceased to force a relationship, threatened to circulate private photographs, and sabotaged matrimonial negotiations with prospective grooms — Conduct persisted despite deceased's prior suicide attempt and community intervention — Held, the allegations reveal a sustained, cumulative course of c India Law Library Docid # 2451208
(607) B.LAXMIKANTHA RAO Vs. B.RAMKISHAN RAO[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 47 and Order 26 Rule 9 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Execution of Lok Adalat Award — Partition Suit — Demarcation of properties — Compromise award allotted shares but lacked specific measurements and physical division on ground — Executing Court appointed an Advocate Commissioner with a Mandal Surveyor to demarcate and fix boundaries — Petitioner challenged the order contending the Executing Court went behind the decree — Held, Executing India Law Library Docid # 2451265
(608) RIDDHAM DEORA Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Right to travel abroad — Minor's passport application — Withholding of consent by estranged parent — Refusal to issue passport to minor seeking to study abroad on ground of missing paternal consent — Held, right to travel abroad is an integral facet of personal liberty under Article 21 — Children are independent individuals and not the property of parents — Where parents are divorced and father never sought custody or visitation rights, minor's educatio India Law Library Docid # 2451328
(609) AJIT SINGH SOLANKI Vs. HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Rajasthan High Court Staff Service Rules, 2002 — Clause (6-A) and Rule 20 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 14 and 16 — Promotion to Upper Judicial Assistant — Seniority-cum-merit criterion — Feeder cadres comprising Judicial Assistants, Caretakers, and Computer Informers — Petitioner challenged promotion rule alleging disparity in cadre strength and claiming priority due to higher pay scale — Held, seniority is strictly determined by substantive appointment date under Rule 20 — Disparity India Law Library Docid # 2451329
(610) SHRAWAN SINGH DEVDA Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Rajasthan Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Sections 29(2)(c) and 39 — Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017 — Rule 22 — Cancellation of GST registration — Non-furnishing of returns for six consecutive months — Effective date of cancellation falling within default period — Order cancelling registration with effect from a date within the period of default is not retrospective in the strict sense — Requirement to assign specific reasons applies only where cancellation is anterior to commence India Law Library Docid # 2451330
(611) NATIONAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY OF INDIA Vs. SHUBHKARAN SINGH AND ANOTHER[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 National Highways Act, 1956 — Section 3G — Land Acquisition — Determination of compensation — Nature of acquired land — Effect of non-utilization after conversion — NHAI contended that subject land was used for agricultural purposes and conversion lapsed due to non-utilization within the stipulated period — Held, where statutory rules contemplate withdrawal or cancellation, mere non-utilization does not automatically terminate or efface the conversion order without a formal order of revocation b India Law Library Docid # 2451331
(612) M/S NAVBHARAT BUILDCON PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. M/S SUZLON ENERGY LIMITED[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 17-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Scope of interference — Interpretation of contract — Patent illegality — Arbitrator held generation guarantee for Wind Turbine Generator extended throughout 20-year contractual period — Commercial Court set aside award holding guarantee was restricted to 4 years as per Purchase Order and MOU — Held, where contractual terms are plain, clear, and unambiguous, arbitrator cannot rewrite or travel beyond them — Arbitrator's interpretation extendin India Law Library Docid # 2449553
(613) DR. MAHESH MEENA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 17-08-2026 Service Law — Transfer — Scope of Judicial Review — Transfer is an incident of service and an employee holding a transferable post has no vested right to remain posted at a particular place. Courts will ordinarily refrain from interfering in administrative transfer decisions unless the order is shown to be vitiated by mala fides, issued by an incompetent authority, passed in violation of mandatory statutory provisions such as Rule 20 of the Rajasthan Service Rules, 1951 or Section 89(8)(ii) of t India Law Library Docid # 2449562
(614) SUDHIR RAI @ SUDHIR MAHATO Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 17-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 300, 302 and 304 Part II — Murder vs Culpable homicide not amounting to murder — Absence of intention to kill — Sudden dispute — Deceased intervened to pacify an ongoing dispute between appellant and another person — Appellant fired a single gunshot causing death — No prior enmity existed between appellant and deceased — Act done without premeditation — Firing India Law Library Docid # 2449257
(615) M/S SANTOSH ASSOCIATE PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. HARYANA STATE INDUSTRIAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 16, 37(2) & 18 — Mandatory pre-deposit clause for initiating arbitration — Validity and maintainability of reference — Arbitrator dismissed contractor's claim for failing to deposit 10% of claim amount as pre-deposit per contractual clause — Commercial Court affirmed order relying on S.K. Jain [(2009) 4 SCC 357] — Held, pre-deposit clauses requiring India Law Library Docid # 2449292
(616) UNION OF INDIA Vs. CHIDIEBERE KINGSLEY NAWCHARA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8(c), 21(c), 23(c), 27A, 28, 29 & 37 — Grant and Cancellation of Bail to Foreign National — Non-compliance with statutory conditions and jumping of bail — Held, grant of bail under special statutes like the NDPS Act requires strict compliance with the twin conditions under S. 37(1)(b)(ii) — The court must be satisfied on reasonable grounds that the accused is not guilty and is unlikely to commit any offence while on bail — India Law Library Docid # 2449293
(617) NEPAL SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302/149, 324/149, 148 & 147 — Eyewitness testimony — Unreliable and contradictory evidence — Acquittal — Conviction of accused based on testimonies of alleged injured eyewitness (PW-6) and deceased's wife (PW-7) set aside — PW-6 admitted falling unconscious upon the first blow and not personally witnessing his father being struck — PW-7 admitted reaching the spot after the incident occurred, contradicting her examination-in-chief — Their India Law Library Docid # 2449294
(618) THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER Vs. PRATHIK PARASRAMPURIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Election Law — Electoral Integrity and Free and Fair Elections — Role of Money Power / Black Money — Money power and undeclared/black money used to influence voters strike at the very heart of representative government and compromise the core of a democratic polity — Free and fair elections demand that voters exercise their choice unencumbered by monetary gratification or inducements — The three foundational concepts—democracy, the rule of law, and the electoral process—are India Law Library Docid # 2449295
(619) KESHVENDRA SINGH Vs. SHANKAR SINGH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 — Section 12— Scope & Interpretation — Priority of Proceedings — Section 12 of the Gangsters Act does not operate to freeze, stay, or indefinitely stall trials for predicate/underlying offences (such as murder) pending in other courts until the gangster trial concludes — The true purpose of Section 12 is to provide priority in the India Law Library Docid # 2449296
(620) SANT RAM AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 17-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Ocular evidence versus medical evidence — Material contradiction — Alleged eyewitnesses deposed that accused fired gunshots and assaulted deceased with spears and knives — Post-mortem report revealed only incised wounds and abrasions, with an absolute absence of firearm or spear injuries — Conflict between oral testimony and medical evidence rendered the presence of eyewitnesses doubtful — Genesis and origin of prosecution story held su India Law Library Docid # 2450788