(801) KAKKOTH SASEENDRAN Vs. SAIFUDEEN AND ANOTHER[KERALA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act — Fixation of Fair Rent — Principles and Relevant Factors — Application by landlord for fixation of fair rent — Shop room located in commercially prominent locality — In determining fair rent, courts must consider inflation, variation in cost of living index, general growth of the area, and prevailing market rent of comparable premises as reported by the Advocate Commissioner — Evaluation of facilities and condition of comparable buildings is essenti India Law Library Docid # 2450342
(802) FR. THOMAS PULAYATH AND OTHERS Vs. ST.THOMAS ORTHODOX SYRIAN CHURCH, CHERUKUNNAM AND OTHERS[KERALA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Police Protection — Scope of Jurisdiction — Disputed possession of Church properties — Writ petitioners sought police protection to obtain possession of church properties relying on Supreme Court ruling in K.S. Varghese — Held, a writ petition under Article 226 seeking police protection cannot be a substitute for a civil suit to enforce unadjudicated claims of possession or management — High Court cannot decide disputed questions of title or physical p India Law Library Docid # 2450347
(803) VIDYA SANKAR Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[KERALA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226(2) — Territorial Jurisdiction — Cause of Action — Rejection of reservation certificate — Writ petitioners submitted online applications from Kerala and received communications rejecting their Non-Creamy Layer certificates within Kerala — Part of the cause of action accrued within the territorial jurisdiction of the Kerala High Court — High Court has jurisdiction under Article 226(2) to entertain the writ petition, even if scrutiny and evaluation were con India Law Library Docid # 2450369
(804) A.V.L. SRINIVAS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Legal Metrology Act, 2009 — Karnataka Legal Metrology (Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules, 2021 — Schedule IX — Fee for verification and stamping — Enhancement of compensatory fee — Quid pro quo — Appellant challenged enhancement of stamping and verification fees claiming lack of corresponding service enhancement — Held, compensatory fees require only a broad overall correlation between services rendered and fees charged, not mathematical accuracy or direct quid pro quo — Fee increase on account of India Law Library Docid # 2449302
(805) MONIKA AND OTHERS Vs. PARVI BUSTA AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 528 [corresponding to Section 482, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973] — Quashing of FIR and consequential proceedings — Offence under Sections 147, 148, 149 and 323 of Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Amicable settlement/compromise — Dispute arose out of a student clash/misunderstanding — Complainant categorically stated on oath that she India Law Library Docid # 2449449
(806) KESSIREDDY RAJASEKHAR REDDY Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 21 and 22(1) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 47 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 50 — Right to be informed of grounds of arrest — Mandatory requirement — The constitutional mandate to inform an arrestee of the grounds of arrest in writing in a language understood by him is mandatory across all statutes. Failure to communicate written grounds of arrest at least two hours prior to production for remand renders both the arr India Law Library Docid # 2449795
(807) SANJAY CHOUHAN Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Anticipatory Bail — Maintainability of successive applications — Non-cooperation by accused — Accused evaded notices issued under Section 35(3) of BNSS — Successive anticipatory bail applications ought not to be entertained when the accused is absconding and failing to cooperate with the investigation — A specious plea of change in circumstances, such as the subsequent filing of a charge-sheet, cannot be invoked to entertain a second pre-a India Law Library Docid # 2449796
(808) KALAGANDHA SAILESWARI Vs. KALAGANDHA NAGESWARA RAO[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia), (ib) and Section 13-B — Conversion of divorce petition — Permissibility at appellate stage — A petition originally filed seeking dissolution of marriage under contested grounds of cruelty and desertion under Section 13(1)(ia) and (ib) can be converted into a petition for divorce by mutual consent under Section 13-B during appellate proceedings — Judicial practice encourages flexible interpretation to enable parties to amicably resolve matrimonial dif India Law Library Docid # 2449797
(809) DARASINGH@ NILADRI BIHARI NAG Vs. STATE OF ORISSA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Circumstantial evidence — Standard of proof — Appeal against conviction under Section 302 IPC — Held, in cases resting solely on circumstantial evidence, every incriminating circumstance relied upon must be fully established and consistent only with the hypothesis of guilt, leaving no reasonable ground for innocence. A false explanation or denial under Section 313 Cr.P.C. cannot fill gaps in prosecution evidence. Where established circumstances cumulatively India Law Library Docid # 2450394
(810) KANHU CHARAN PARIDA Vs. STATE OF ORISSA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 r/w Section 34 — Circumstantial Evidence — Motive and Enmity — Accused convicted for murder based on circumstantial evidence including previous hostility — Evidence established prior enmity between deceased and one appellant, but also revealed deceased had criminal antecedents and hostility with several other individuals — Motive alone cannot take the place of proof and assumes significance only when remaining circumstances form a complete chain — Presence of India Law Library Docid # 2450395
(811) SHAKUNTALA SAHU AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 and Section 34 — Murder — Circumstantial evidence — Last seen theory — Deceased was taken from his house by accused Appellants 2 and 4 and was discovered hours later in a half-burnt condition — Recovery of burnt materials from house of accused — When circumstances establishing that accused took away deceased are proved, failure of accused to offer plausible explanation regarding what happened to deceased operates as an additional link in chain of circumstance India Law Library Docid # 2450396
(812) MAHESH CHANDRA DAS Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Service Law — Pension — Qualifying Service — Inclusion of adhoc period — Petitioner initially appointed on adhoc basis as Steno-cum-Typist in 1987 — Subsequently participated in a recruitment process and received fresh regular appointment as Junior Stenographer in 2000 — Claim to treat adhoc period as qualifying service for pensionary benefits — Held, since the petitioner was regularly appointed to a different post after facing a selection process, the prior adhoc service cannot be treated as qu India Law Library Docid # 2450397
(813) RENU JAIN AND ANOTHER Vs. DEVILAL GOSWAMI AND ANOTHER[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 168 — Assessment of Compensation — Income Tax Return — Evidentiary Value — Tribunal rejected Income Tax Return showing gross income of Rs.1,19,000/- per annum and notionally fixed annual income at Rs.36,000/- — Held, Income Tax Return, being a statutory document, possesses evidentiary value and cannot be simply discarded without specific contradictory material — Annual income re-fixed at Rs.1,00,000/- as a more realistic and appropriate figure. India Law Library Docid # 2450398
(814) R.MUTHUKUMAR Vs. J.R.LEKHA @ VENNILA[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 13-08-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i-a) and Section 13(1)(i-b) — Grounds for divorce — Cruelty and constructive desertion — Appellant husband suspected respondent wife's character, enquired about her phone calls from their minor daughter, and questioned residential security guards — Husband also failed to maintain children and made no efforts for reconciliation after separation — Held, doubting spouse's character or chastity, whether explicitly or by insinuation, constitutes mental cruelty India Law Library Docid # 2451144
(815) P.AMBIGA Vs. THE REGISTRAR GENERAL AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 13-08-2026 Service Law — Maternity Benefits — Third Child — Entitlement to full maternity leave — Petitioner had two children prior to entering government service and gave birth to a third child while in service — Employer restricted maternity leave to 12 weeks — Held, denying or restricting maternity leave merely because it is a third pregnancy is unreasonable and unsustainable — State policy regarding population control norms and the objective of granting maternity benefits must be harmonized purposively India Law Library Docid # 2451162
(816) SHIVAKUMAR Vs. NARAYANASWAMY AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 378 and 372 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 143, 148, 323, 302 and 149 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of appellate interference — Presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is fortified by an order of acquittal — Appellate court will not disturb an acquittal merely because an alternative view is possible, unless the trial court's findings are palpably erroneous, perverse, or legally unsustainable — When the trial court has taken a leg India Law Library Docid # 2451196
(817) SRI RAGHAVENDRA MAHABALESHWAR UPADHAYAYA Vs. CANARA BANK AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 18(1) — Pre-deposit for maintainability of appeal — Computation — Failure to credit deposits made before DRT — Petitioner deposited substantial amounts under DRT interim orders which, combined with pre-auction payments, exceeded the total demand — DRAT ordered pre-deposit and dismissed appeal for non-compliance without considering deposits made before DRT — Held, DRAT erred in disregard India Law Library Docid # 2451197
(818) MD. HAMEED ALI Vs. SRINIVAS AND ANOTHER[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166 and 168 — Injury to minor — Loss of future earnings — Notional income and future prospects — Minor claimant suffered a crush injury to his right hand resulting in 45% permanent functional disability, rendering him unable to write — Relying on Kajal v. Jagdish Chand, notional income of the minor was assessed at Rs.4,846/- per month, equivalent to a skilled worker's wage — In terms of Pranay Sethi, 40% future prospects were added, fixing monthly income at Rs India Law Library Docid # 2451289
(819) GATTU KISHAN RAO AND ANOTHER Vs. GATTU RAMULU AND ANOTHER[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 448, 427, 506 read with 34 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Civil dispute with criminal elements — Allegations of criminal trespass, construction of wall, and intimidation — Held, mere existence of a civil dispute does not justify quashing when allegations prima facie disclose criminal offences — Court under Section 482 cannot conduct a roving inquiry into disputed questions of title, possession, or const India Law Library Docid # 2451290
(820) M.B. REDDY Vs. THE TELANGANA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Service Law — Regularisation — Re-engagement of terminated contract employee — Continuity of service — Recovery of excess wages — Petitioner was terminated from service following disciplinary proceedings and later re-engaged as a fresh contract employee under a new agreement — His name was mistakenly included in an earlier regularisation list, which the Corporation subsequently revised while seeking recovery of excess wages — Held, an employee terminated and re-engaged afresh cannot claim contin India Law Library Docid # 2451291