(861) BHOLENATH MEVALAL NISHAD Vs. SHYAMDULARI MEVALAL NISHAD AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 — Section 2(b) and Section 4(3) — Eviction of son from senior citizen's property — Senior citizen's right to residence is part of maintenance obligation — Forced dispossession of a senior citizen from her own home constitutes a breach of the child's duty to maintain and allows for eviction proceedings. India Law Library Docid # 2441121
(862) SHAMSHUDDIN ALI MULLAJI Vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER (PENSION) AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Employees' Pension Scheme, 1995 — Dual Pension — Misrepresentation and Fraud — Petitioner received pension from first employment while still employed in second employment, by not disclosing his continuing employment in Form 10-D — This constituted misrepresentation and defrauding the State Exchequer — Court noted cases where recovery of excess pension was not ordered due to old age and minimal amounts, India Law Library Docid # 2441122
(863) RASHMI CHS LIMITED Vs. ROMILA DILIP BAJAJ AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Maharastra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Section 23 — Refusal of membership — Society must record and communicate clear and sufficient reasons for refusal — Applicant has a right to appeal to the Registrar against refusal — Registrar's decision is final — Society cannot introduce new grounds for rejection during appeal. India Law Library Docid # 2441123
(864) ANOOP UPPAL AND OTHERS Vs. JAMMU MUNICIPAL CORPORATION THROUGH ITS COMMISSIONER AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Administrative Law - Abuse of Power - Misuse of Building Safety Regulations. The Municipal Commissioner cannot use the process of declaring a building unsafe as a tool to evict tenants when a court-appointed expert committee has already declared the shops structurally safe. Such action is a colorable exercise of power and an abuse of process, especially when it jeopardizes citizens' livelihood. India Law Library Docid # 2441021
(865) SHOKAT ALI Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Section 8 — Preventive Detention — Grounds for — Petitioner detained for bovine smuggling and organized crime — Past FIRs and bail orders do not bar preventive detention as it is a precautionary measure to prevent future acts, not punish past ones — The subjective satisfaction of the detaining authority regarding the necessity of detention to maintain public order is paramount and India Law Library Docid # 2441022
(866) MOHD. ASHRAF DAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE (NOW UT) OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Jammu & Kashmir Forest Act, Samvat 1987 — Jammu & Kashmir Willow (Prohibition on Export and Movement) Act, 2000 — Confiscation of property — Non-government property — Confiscation proceedings cannot be finalized or confiscation order passed until conviction of offenders is recorded by the Magistrate — Seized vehicles cannot be confiscated without a prior criminal conviction. [Paras 21, 26(ii), 27 India Law Library Docid # 2441023
(867) DR. SMT. LALITA GUPTA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Quashing of recovery order — Petitioner seeking to quash an order demanding recovery of excess amount paid — Excess amount paid between 2008 and 2015, petitioner retired in 2016; recovery order passed in 2024, 8 years after retirement — Held, recovery order passed after such a long lapse of time is bad in law and also ignores procedures laid down in relevant pensionary rules and India Law Library Docid # 2441170
(868) K.ESWARAN Vs. S.JANAKIRAMAN AND OTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Contract Law — Specific Performance — Suit for specific performance of sale agreement — Unregistered agreement — Admissibility of unregistered agreement as evidence of contract in specific performance suit — Proviso to Section 49 (c) of Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Admissible if not falling under Section 17(1-A) of Registration Act. India Law Library Docid # 2441645
(869) THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT, CHENNAI ZONAL OFFICE Vs. THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, ANTI CORRUPTION BUREAU, CHENNAI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) — Sections 43, 44(1)(a), 44(1)(c) — Scheduled Offence and Money Laundering Offence — Trial Jurisdiction — If the court which has taken cognizance of the scheduled offence is different from the Special Court which has taken cognizance of the offence of money-laundering, the India Law Library Docid # 2441646
(870) NTR 16636-L COL YESUDIAN SUGUMAR P (RETD) Vs. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND OTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Armed Forces Rules — Disability Pension — Entitlement — Petitioner claims disability pension for Hypertension — Release Medical Board assessed disability at 30% but opined it was neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service — Subsequent appeals and Tribunal's order rejected the claim — Court upheld the Tribunal's decision. India Law Library Docid # 2441647
(871) PRIMARY AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION Vs. THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU, DEPARTMENT OF COOPERATION, FOOD & CONSUMER PROTECTION[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 19(1)(c) and 43B — Tamil Nadu Cooperative Societies Act, 1983, Sections 74 and 75(1) — Challenge to constitutional validity of Sections 74 and 75(1) and consequential Government Orders constituting India Law Library Docid # 2441648
(872) DR. SUMANA MAJUMDAR Vs. STATE OF TRIPURA AND OTHERS[TRIPURA HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — High Court’s power to direct framing of a scheme. The High Court cannot direct the State to frame a scheme as it is the exclusive domain of the State, which acts as a welfare State. India Law Library Docid # 2442132
(873) JEESHAN KHAN Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 05-03-2026 Bail Orders — Modification — Delay in release from custody due to typographical error in bail order and objection by Criminal Reader — Court's prima facie view that Criminal Reader's procedure was invalid and Special Judge should have passed a legal order — Holding that the order was sufficient to identify the accused and the case, and India Law Library Docid # 2441171
(874) GHULAM AHMAD GANIE Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (SRINAGAR BENCH)] 05-03-2026 Service Law — Disciplinary proceedings — Violation of natural justice — Preliminary enquiry findings cannot be used as evidence in regular enquiry without opportunity for cross-examination — Dismissal of petitioner from service quashed for violation of principles of natural justice and perversity in findings due to reliance on India Law Library Docid # 2441079
(875) MR. JIJABHAU DYANESHWAR TEMGIRE Vs. MR. GANGARAM KHANDU TEMGIRE AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 04-03-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Orders 7, 8, and 13 — Documents for cross-examination — Exceptions for production of documents exist for cross-examination of a witness or to refresh memory, even if not produced with plaint, written statement, or at settlement of issues, provided such documents are relevant for cross-examination under India Law Library Docid # 2441124
(876) M/S.SHUBHAM FLOUR MILL Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 04-03-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Section 14 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 12 — Bakri Niyantran Sanhita 2023 (BNSS) — Section 10 — Appointment of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) — Powers of ACJM — Incompetence of ACJM — The argument that an ACJM lacks the authority to handle an application under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act because the High Court's India Law Library Docid # 2441160
(877) MANIKANDAN Vs. STATE REP. BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 04-03-2026 Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Sections 5(l) and 5(j)(ii) read with Section 6 — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault — Sentencing — Amendment on 16.08.2019 — Offence committed in 2014 prior to amendment — Trial Court imposing sentence of 20 years as per amended Act — India Law Library Docid # 2441649
(878) KADHIRAVAN Vs. THE STATE REP BY, INSPECTOR OF POLICE[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 04-03-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 335 — Conviction under for causing grievous hurt by dangerous manner with intent to cause hurt — Set aside — Trial court's finding found to be perverse. India Law Library Docid # 2441650
(879) N.NITHYANAND(DIED) AND OTHERS Vs. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE COIMBATORE DISTRICT AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 04-03-2026 Disciplinary Proceedings vs Criminal Proceedings — Simultaneous proceedings — Departmental domestic enquiry and criminal trial can proceed simultaneously, and the outcome of the criminal case does not necessarily affect the domestic enquiry — The nature, test, and objectives of these proceedings are different. India Law Library Docid # 2441652
(880) SELVI Vs. THE STATE[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 04-03-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 106 — Burden of proof — Prosecution’s primary duty — Section 106 of the Evidence Act cannot be used to relieve the prosecution of its duty to prove the guilt of the accused — The prosecution must establish the basic facts against the accused before Section 106 can be resorted to. India Law Library Docid # 2441660