(901) HARISH CHANDRA Vs. STATE[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 34 — Common intention — Distinguished from mere presence, similar intention or participation in a related act — Held, An inference of common intention must be a necessary inference from the circumstances proved and cannot be founded merely on association, presence or suspicion; persons acting with similar intentions during the same occurrence need not share a common intention regarding the particular offence — Where the accused was India Law Library Docid # 2448891
(902) THE ADMISSION SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION IN KERALA Vs. KARTHIK DEV R AND OTHERS[KERALA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 114 r/w Order 47 Rule 1 — Scope of review jurisdiction — Held, Review jurisdiction cannot be equated with an appellate remedy and cannot be used for re-agitating issues already decided — An error apparent on the face of the record must be self-evident, needing no process of reasoning to detect; an erroneous decision cannot be "reheard and corrected" under India Law Library Docid # 2448892
(903) YASODA DEVI @ SUSHILA DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. KAILASH KUMAR PANDEY AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 168 — Assessment of income in absence of documentary proof — Held, Absence of documentary evidence such as income-tax returns or land revenue records cannot by itself be a ground to discard the claimant's income altogether — Where oral testimony regarding occupation and earnings remains substantially unshaken in cross-examination, some element of guesswork is inevitable, and income must be assessed on the realities of facts and India Law Library Docid # 2448893
(904) STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER Vs. BHANWAR LAL JAIN AND ANOTHER[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 — Sections 22A(b) and 22B — Jurisdiction of Permanent Lok Adalat — Service matters — Respondent filed an application claiming service benefits from the date of initial appointment — Permanent Lok Adalat allowed the application — Petitioner challenged award on grounds of lack of jurisdiction — Held, Permanent Lok Adalats exercise limited jurisdiction strictly confined to "public utility services" enumerated under Section 22A(b) — Service disputes do not fall u India Law Library Docid # 2449551
(905) RAJASTHAN STATE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION LTD, RIICO Vs. M/S NEEMRANA ASSOCIATES AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 11-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 39 Rules 1 & 2 — Interim Injunction — Limited stay order — Effect of non-extension — Automatic revival of lower court order — An interim stay granted for a specified duration expires upon the end of that period unless expressly extended by the court. Where the High Court stayed the operation of a lower appellate court's status quo order till a specified date without further extension, the status quo order automatically revived upon expiry of that date. Conseque India Law Library Docid # 2449557
(906) JUPUDI SURESH Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Dying declaration — Reliability — Two dying declarations recorded on same day by different persons but overlapping in timing, one showing recording time inconsistent with FIR registered over 15 hours later — Medical evidence indicating credible statement possible only where burns between 80-90%, whereas victim suffered 96% burns — Motive stated differing between the two declarations — Held, dying declarations rendered suspicious and unsafe to found India Law Library Docid # 2448881
(907) SUDHIR AND OTHERS Vs. HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCE, DAINIK BHASKAR GROUP (D.B. CORP. LTD.) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 — Section 17(2) — No power of delegation to refer disputes to Labour Court — Section 17(2) does not empower the State Government to delegate its power to refer a dispute as to the amount due to a newspaper employee to any authority — unlike Section 17(1), which India Law Library Docid # 2448927
(908) LILLY GOYAL Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 195(1)(a) read with Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 182 — Cognizance of offence of giving false information to a public servant — Statutory bar on taking cognizance — Section 195 mandates that no Court shall take cognizance of an offence under Section 182 IPC except on a written complaint of the public servant concerned or a superior public servant — Complaint initiated by India Law Library Docid # 2448951
(909) DHANANJAY YADAV @ DHANANJAY Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302, 120B — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 161 — Evaluation of Evidence — Dying Declaration — Discrepancy between witnesses — Witness (PW-5) claimed deceased named the shooter, but omitted this crucial detail in his statement recorded under Section 161 CrPC — Deceased specifically informed his wife (PW-7) that he could not identify India Law Library Docid # 2449276
(910) M/S KARINA FINCAP LIMITED Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 120B and 34 — Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Quashing of Cognizance Order — Malicious Counterblast — Commercial Dispute — Respondent defaulted on commercial loan extended by petitioner-finance company, resulting in initiation of proceedings under Section 138 of NI Act — Respondent India Law Library Docid # 2449277
(911) SUNIL CHAUDHARY @ DR. SUNIL KUMAR CHAUDHARY @ SUNIL KUMAR CHAUDHARY Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 190 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 201, 328 and 34 — Cognizance differing from final report — Prima facie case — Magistrate took cognizance of offences differing from the final form submitted by police — Accused challenged the cognizance order — Held, at the stage of taking cognizance and issuing process, the Magistrate is only required to satisfy India Law Library Docid # 2449278
(912) SATYAM Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Private unaided educational institution — Imparting education is a function of public character — Though private institutions are not State under Article 12, their decisions having a public law element are amenable to judicial review — Actions relating to admission, fee structure, and expulsion of students involve public duty and must India Law Library Docid # 2449280
(913) AKANCHHA Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Service Law — Recruitment of Teachers — Weightage for Experience — Proof of Qualification vs. Possession of Qualification — Candidate possessed valid experience certificate counter-signed by competent authority prior to cut-off date but inadvertently submitted copy signed only by School Principal — Commission refused to award experience marks — Held, India Law Library Docid # 2449281
(914) RAJU RAVIDAS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 — Section 30(a) — Seizure and Safe Custody of Contraband — Chain of Custody — Failure to seal seized articles — Seized liquor was neither sealed at the spot of seizure nor at the police station, but sealed only before the Court — Prosecution failed to establish safe custody of seized articles and rule out tampering or substitution — Establishing complete chain of India Law Library Docid # 2449282
(915) NARESH SHARMA Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 528 (corresponding to Section 482 of CrPC) — Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 376 and 506 — Quashing of FIR on basis of compromise — Non-compoundable and heinous offences — Allegation of sexual assault on promise of marriage — During pendency of proceedings, accused and victim-prosecutrix solemnized marriage and were living India Law Library Docid # 2449455
(916) VIRENDER NEGI Vs. SURJEET CHAUHAN[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 142(1)(a) read with Section 138 — Cognizance of offences — Locus standi to file complaint — Pre-requisite requirement — Onus of proof — Complaint under Section 138 can only be made by the payee or holder in due course of cheque — Primary onus lies on complainant to establish status as payee or holder in due course at time of trial — Complainant India Law Library Docid # 2449456
(917) BHARTI VERMA Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) — Sections 316(2) and 61(2) — Anticipatory / Pre-arrest Bail — Interim protection — Confirmation of bail — Petitioner joined investigation pursuant to interim protection and fully co-operated with the investigating agency — State conceded that custodial interrogation was no longer required and no recovery was to be made — Main object of bail is to secure India Law Library Docid # 2449457
(918) STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS Vs. RAMESH SINGH[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope of interference with concurrent findings of fact — High Court's jurisdiction — Appellate Court exercising powers under Section 100 CPC will not disturb concurrent findings of fact unless the decision is based on inadmissible evidence, ignorance of relevant admissible evidence, misreading of evidence, or is manifestly perverse — First India Law Library Docid # 2449459
(919) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. SHRI. PANDU AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT (DHARWAD BENCH)] 11-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 168 — Contributory negligence — Appreciation of spot sketch and evidence — Sugarcane loaded on a tractor-trailer touched the pillion rider of a motorcycle, leading to a fatal accident — Tribunal attributed 25% contributory negligence to the rider (husband/claimant) — Held — Spot sketch and panchanama (drawn at the instance of the claimant) established the India Law Library Docid # 2449481
(920) SYED MAJEED @ SYED MAZEED AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 11-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Anticipatory bail — Joint hearing — Petitioners arrayed as Accused Nos. 1 to 3 in same crime facing identical accusations under Sections 352, 115(2), and 118(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and Sections 3(2)(va) and 3(1)(r) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Seeking pre-arrest bail — Common order — Held, since petitioners in both criminal petitions are accused in the very same crime and fac India Law Library Docid # 2450105