(741) M/S SHIVALOK GAS AGENCY Vs. EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANIZATION (MINISTRY OF LABOUR, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA) AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 — Section 7-A — Power to determine applicability and dues — Regional Provident Fund Commissioner has the power to decide disputes regarding the applicability of the Act to an establishment and determine the amount due from an employer under the Act, India Law Library Docid # 2443676
(742) THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS Vs. AMITABH KUMAR GUPTA AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Pension Scheme — Old Pension Scheme vs. New Pension Scheme — Government employee appointed prior to the cut-off date for New Pension Scheme appointed on a date after the cut-off due to permitted extension of joining time is entitled to Old Pension Scheme benefits. India Law Library Docid # 2443677
(743) SOFIOR RAHMAN Vs. THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — No Second FIR for Same Offence — The law clearly states that there cannot be a second First Information Report (FIR) for the same cognizable offence or the same incident — Any subsequent information received after the start of an investigation into a cognizable offence disclosed in the India Law Library Docid # 2443724
(744) VICKY KHARSATI Vs. STATE OF MEGHALAYA[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 5 and 6 — Quashing of FIR — Consensual relationship between accused (21 years) and victim (17 years) at the time of FIR, later married and had two children — Court can quash POCSO case by consent in exceptional circumstances, considering local customs and India Law Library Docid # 2443725
(745) M/S. TATA STEEL LIMITED Vs. UNION OF INDIA[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Writ Petition challenging Order-in-Original under CGST Act, 2017 — Alternative remedy of appeal exists — Bench held that writ petition should only be entertained in exceptional circumstances as per Whirlpool Corporation v — Registrar of Trademarks, such as where the action India Law Library Docid # 2443776
(746) ASHOK MINZ @ LADEN @ JAGIRA MINZ Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 354A and Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act, 2012 — Sections 8/12 — Conviction under these sections is not sustainable when the victim herself denies any bad intention or sexual molestation. India Law Library Docid # 2443777
(747) ANGSHUMAN SANTRA Vs. ARPITA SEN[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of Pleadings — Rejection of Amendment — Family Court rejected petitioner's amendment application on the ground of failing to establish due diligence, despite issues not being framed — Held, the Family Court erred by applying the pro6so to India Law Library Docid # 2443778
(748) DEBASIS MOHANTY Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 2(1) — Land is leased out in favor of a person for cultivation and its record of rights are finally published in the name of the State — Section 15(b) of Odisha Survey and Settlement Act — Revisionary power — The Court observed that the petitioner, being a vendee from the lessee, cannot be expected to India Law Library Docid # 2443844
(749) DEVI PR.MOHANTY (DEAD) DEBIKA RANI MOHANTY AND ANOTHER Vs. MEMBER, BOARD OF REVENUE, ORISSA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Jurisdiction — The Member, Board of Revenue, while exercising revisional powers under Section 32 of the OSS Act, must confine its examination to the correctness of the order under challenge — It cannot delve into the validity of earlier orders that were not part of the appeal or revision before it. India Law Library Docid # 2443845
(750) STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS Vs. VIJAY KUMAR JOSHI AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 23-04-2026 Rajasthan Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1996 — Rule 2(e), Rule 3(r), Rule 12(b) — Counting of contractual service for pension — Where an employee, initially appointed on a contractual basis, is subsequently regularised without interruption of service, the provisions relating to "qualifying service" assume relevance — Rule 12(b) provides that qualifying service commences from the date a government servant takes charge of the post to which he is first appointed, whether substantively, or in an India Law Library Docid # 2444679
(751) MUNEGOWDA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 22-04-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Writ Petition Jurisdiction — Disputed Questions of Fact — Whether writ court can entertain matters involving disputed facts — Supreme Court in Real Estate Agencies case held that writ court is empowered to restrain State and its instrumentalities and is not debarred from entertaining adjudications involving disputed questions of fact, though ordinarily it would not, as a matter of prudence, India Law Library Docid # 2442610
(752) ASHISH KUMAR CHATTERJEE Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 22-04-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226/227 — Writ of Certiorari — High Court's power is supervisory, not appellate — Does not review or reweigh evidence — Demolishes orders without jurisdiction or palpably erroneous — Does not substitute its own views — Refuses to upset illegal orders for substantial justice and equitable considerations. India Law Library Docid # 2442611
(753) SAKIL HOSSAIN Vs. THE STATE OF TRIPURA[TRIPURA HIGH COURT] 22-04-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 37 — Bail — Recovery of Commercial Quantity — Application for bail was rejected because there were sufficient prima facie materials indicating the recovery of a commercial quantity of contraband from the accused, which meant that the twin conditions under Section 37 of the NDPS Act were not fulfilled for granting bail. India Law Library Docid # 2442612
(754) GHULAM NABI ALLAIE AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (SRINAGAR BENCH)] 22-04-2026 Land Acquisition — Compensation — Government cannot dispossess citizens of their private property without following due process of law or paying adequate compensation, even if there is a delay in the landowner approaching the court — The right to property is a constitutional and human right, and the absence of a formal acquisition process or compensation for the occupied land means the state cannot deny the owner's claim. India Law Library Docid # 2442613
(755) RIJIED NONGPHLANG Vs. THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA AND OTHERS[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 22-04-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 173(8) — Further investigation — Procedure for filing supplementary charge sheet — Seizure and production of birth certificate of victim at a late stage of trial without following due procedure and without filing a supplementary charge sheet with advance notice to the accused is irregular and can cause prejudice. India Law Library Docid # 2442614
(756) CHAITANYA BAHUUDDESHIYA SHIKSHAN PRASARAK MANDAL AND OTHERS Vs. AUXILO FINSERVE PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-04-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act), Section 13 — Default in repayment of financial assistance — Secured creditor entitled to take possession and auction secured asset (School premises) — Petitioners repeatedly failed to honour commitments and undertakings to repay debt, even after High Court and Supreme Court orders — India Law Library Docid # 2442600
(757) UNCHGAON VILLAGE PANCHAYAT Vs. KOLHAPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-04-2026 Jurisdiction of Civil Court — Challenge to Municipal Limits — Matters concerning the specification and alteration of municipal limits under Section 3 of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, are legislative in nature and cannot ordinarily be adjudicated by a Civil Court through a suit seeking declarations and injunctions — The High Court correctly held that the Civil Court lacked jurisdiction India Law Library Docid # 2442601
(758) UNION OF INDIA Vs. SIR SOBHA SINGH AND SONS PVT. LTD[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-04-2026 Government Grants Act, 1895 — Section 3 — Tenor of Grant — Overriding Effect — The Government Grants Act, 1895, and specifically Section 3, mandates that Government grants take effect according to their tenor, overriding any other rule of law, statute, or enactment to the contrary — This provision confers special statutory immunity and elevates the stipulations within the grant to a position of supremacy, meaning the terms of the grant prevail even if they are inconsistent with India Law Library Docid # 2442602
(759) THE SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU, AND OTHERS ETC. Vs. S. RAJA AND OTHERS ETC[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-04-2026 Public Interest Litigation and Administrative Inquiry — Scope of judicial review — Initially, a Public Interest Litigation sought an inquiry into alleged encroachments and illegal land transactions — The government formed a committee, leading to the High Court disposing of the PIL, finding its objective achieved — The builder's challenge to the inquiry was also dismissed by the High Court, stating it was too early India Law Library Docid # 2442603
(760) ADALAT YADAV ETC. Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-04-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 134 — Weightage of evidence — Court can convict on the sole testimony of a single eyewitness provided he is wholly reliable — The quality of evidence, not the quantity, is material — A 'sterling witness' is one whose version is unassailable, consistent, natural, and withstands strenuous cross — examination, correlating with supporting material. India Law Library Docid # 2442604