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(741) USHABATI PATEL @ NAIK Vs. CHAMPABATI PATEL AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 54 — Appeals against Referral Court award — Scope of interference — Compensation for acquired lands — Referral Court answered reference under Sections 18 and 30 determining entitlement and apportionment among legal heirs — Appellate court will not interfere with an award unless there is a wrong application of well-settled legal principles or important points have been overlooked — Findings of Referral Court held to be based on proper appreciation of evidence
India Law Library Docid # 2450390

(742) UNION OF INDIA Vs. SNEHALATA PADHI AND ANOTHER[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Delay of 78 days in filing review petition — Review petitioner, Union of India, sought condonation of delay of 78 days in preferring the review petition — Considering the submissions and averments made in the application, the delay was condoned in the interest of justice.
India Law Library Docid # 2450391

(743) DR. SWAPNA SARIT Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Service Law — Recruitment — Challenge to Selection — Participation in Selection Process — Estoppel — Candidate having participated in selection process cannot turn around to challenge selection criteria after remaining unsuccessful — Petitioner applied for post of Assistant Professor pursuant to advertisement and participated in selection — Upon publication of provisional merit list wherein Opposite Party No. 5 was selected, petitioner challenged list contending advertisement lacked required add
India Law Library Docid # 2450392

(744) M/S. K.V. MOHANA RAO & CO. (P) LTD. Vs. COMMISSIONER (AUDIT) GST & CENTRAL EXCISE, BHUBANESWAR AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Finance Act, 1994 — Sections 73, 75 and 78(A) — Order-in-Original — Tax periods 2011-12 to 2014-15 — Maintainability and Jurisdiction — Petitioner challenged Order-in-Original passed by Commissioner (Audit) GST and Central Excise, alleging lack of jurisdiction, hit by limitation, and non-fulfillment of statutory ingredients under Section 73 — Held, matter is squarely governed by Supreme Court precedent in Commissioner of Customs v. M/s. Canon India Pvt. Ltd.
India Law Library Docid # 2450393

(745) MOHAMMED ASHICK AND ANOTHER Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA REP. BY THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY AND ANOTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 14-08-2026
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 — Sections 15, 16(b) and 43D(5) — Grant of bail — Accusations prima facie true — Appellants allegedly hurled a petrol bomb at a Member of Parliament's office causing no damage or injury — Offences altered to include UAPA based on confessions alleging links with absconding accused — Organization of absconding accused was not banned and allegations lacked substantiation — NIA declined investigation — Material failed to establish reasonable grounds for bel
India Law Library Docid # 2451131

(746) THIRUKKAMMAL Vs. THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 14-08-2026
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 36A(4) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Extension of period of detention and investigation beyond 180 days — Statutory default bail — Twin conditions — Special Court granted two-month extension to investigating agency to file final report and rejected default bail application — Prosecutor's affidavit merely set out reasons for not completing investigation within 180 days without disclosing specific grounds f
India Law Library Docid # 2451135

(747) K.ANTHONIAMMAL Vs. S.REGINA AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 14-08-2026
Registration Act, 1908 — Sections 17 and 49 — Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 54 — Indian Stamp Act, 1899 — Section 35 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Unregistered and insufficiently stamped sale deeds — Admissibility — Claim of title — Collateral purpose — Plaintiff sought to mark unregistered sale deeds to establish possession as a collateral transaction in a suit for declaration of title — Held, a compulsorily registrable document that forms the very foundation and subs
India Law Library Docid # 2451157

(748) B.R. PUSHPA Vs. WILSON JAYARAJ[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 145 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 315 — Defence evidence by affidavit — Accused voluntarily tendered evidence-in-chief through an affidavit and submitted to cross-examination — Later challenged the validity of her own affidavit in revision seeking remand — Held, Section 145 is procedural, aimed at expeditious trial, and courts are not precluded from accepting affidavit evidence of the accused — Having voluntarily filed the affidavit a
India Law Library Docid # 2451198

(749) MR.SIRAJUDDIN @ SIRAJ SHEIKH Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 3(1)(r) — "Place within public view" — Political rally — Petitioner allegedly hurled caste-based abuses against political rivals at a political rally and other public locations — Held, a political rally is a congregation in the public domain convened to be seen and heard by a multitude — Words uttered travel beyond the intended target to the crowd and acquire a distinctly public character — A political dais cann
India Law Library Docid # 2451199

(750) SRI. K G SUBBAIAH Vs. SMT D M SHARADAMMA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 — Sections 19 and 20 — National Legal Services Authority (Lok Adalat) Regulations, 2009 — Regulations 10 and 12 — Pre-litigation dispute — Procedure for reference to Lok Adalat — Mandate of prior notice and hearing — Held, under Section 20(2) of the Act read with Regulations 10(1A) and 12(2), a pre-litigation dispute can be referred to Lok Adalat by the concerned Legal Services Authority or Committee on the request of a party only after issuing notice and aff
India Law Library Docid # 2451200

(751) EARTH RECYCLER PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 — Sections 23, 24, 41, 42, 47, and 59 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 316(2) and 318(4) — Quashing of FIR — Interplay between Special Act and General Penal Law — Petitioners, licensed for recycling expired goods, allegedly re-labelled and resold expired food articles to the public — Contention that FSS Act is an exhaustive code excluding police investigation was rejected — Held, the completeness of a special enactment cannot become a cloak of immuni
India Law Library Docid # 2451201

(752) MS. B.JAHNAVI AND ANOTHER Vs. LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 — Section 21 — Lok Adalat Award — Challenge on grounds of fraud — Maintainability and burden of proof — An award passed by the Lok Adalat possesses statutory finality and must be treated as a decree, challengeable only under the exceptional supervisory writ jurisdiction of the High Court — General allegations of fraud are insufficient; a party alleging fraud must plead full particulars and demonstrate that representations were false to the knowledge of the ma
India Law Library Docid # 2451274

(753) BANDAM RAMESH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Essential Commodities Act, 1955 — Section 6-A — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Seizure of vehicles — Interim custody — Vehicles seized following registration of FIR over alleged illegal transportation of paddy using fraudulent truck sheets — Petitioners sought release of the seized vehicles — Held, as proceedings are likely to take time, vehicles ordered to be released subject to petitioners furnishing a bank guarantee via fixed deposit of Rs. 25,000/- each and an undertaking not to
India Law Library Docid # 2451275

(754) M/S. UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. P. ANASUJA AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Negligence and Liability — Appreciation of evidence — Insurer contended that the deceased contributed to the accident by applying sudden brakes after a preceding bus stopped, and that the offending DCM Van was falsely implicated — Held, Tribunal's finding that the accident occurred due to rash and negligent driving of the driver of the DCM Van does not warrant interference, as the said finding was supported by eyewitness testimony and the police charge sh
India Law Library Docid # 2451276

(755) MECHINENI SUJATHA AND ANOTHER Vs. DASARI CHERALU AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 9 Rule 13 — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Setting aside ex parte decree — Ground of medical illness — Failure to produce proof — Defendants sought condonation of 166 days' delay in filing application to set aside ex parte decree, pleading that defendant No. 7 was bed-ridden due to severe health issues — No medical certificate or treatment records were produced before the court — Held, when specific illness is pleaded as suffici
India Law Library Docid # 2451277

(756) N. MURALIDHAR RAO Vs. NACHARAM ANJAIAH AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 7 Rule 14(3), Order 18 Rule 17 and Section 151 — Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Suit for specific performance — Production of additional documents and recall of witness — Trial Court dismissed applications to receive financial records and recall P.W.1 — Held, burden lies on plaintiff to plead and prove readiness and willingness to perform the contract — When defendants questioned plaintiff's financial capacity during cross-examination, plaintiff was entitled to pr
India Law Library Docid # 2451278

(757) MYKALA MALLAIAH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026
Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 — Section 5-A — Scope of validation — Agreement of sale — Appellants sought validation of land purchase under Section 5-A based on an unregistered Agreement of Sale — Held, Section 5-A contemplates validation of completed unregistered sale transactions and not an agreement of sale where transfer remains incomplete — An agreement to sell does not effect a transfer of title and cannot be treated as an alienation or transfer under Section 5
India Law Library Docid # 2451279

(758) SAACHI MINOCHA Vs. NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, JODHPUR AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026
National Law University, Jodhpur — Rules of Examination — Rule 1.7(D) — Attendance shortage due to medical grounds — Student suffering from severe illness (Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension) debarred from VI Semester examination after availing medical relaxation in V Semester — Absence of embargo in rules — Held, Rule 1.7(D) mandates allowing students unable to take end-term exams on medical grounds to take repeat exams as first attempt — The rule contains no restriction limiting this benefit
India Law Library Docid # 2449549

(759) M/S SHREE VINAYAK HOTELS AND RESORTS AND ANOTHER Vs. DESERT TULIP HOTEL AND RESORTS PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026
Rajasthan Rent Control Act, 2001 — Sections 18(1) and 29 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 2(1)(c)(vii) and Section 11 — Overriding effect of special statute — Lease of hotel premises — Rent Tribunal returned petition for filing before Commercial Court — Held, Section 11 of 2015 Act bars Commercial Court jurisdiction where civil court jurisdiction is barred under special law — Sections 18(1) and 29 of 2001 Act exclude civil court jurisdiction — Special law overrides general law — Order ret
India Law Library Docid # 2449550

(760) AUDI AUTOMOBILES AND OTHERS Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX, INDORE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026
Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 35L — Maintainability of appeal before Supreme Court — Preliminary objection raised by Department that appeal does not come under Section 35L as issue had no relation to rate of duty or valuation — Held, issue raised regarding extended period of limitation on ground of non-inclusion of certain costs in assessable value has an inextricable link with valuation of goods for purposes of assessment — Issue raised in show cause notice fundamentally dealt with valuati
India Law Library Docid # 2448945

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