(541) KAILASH PATHAK Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 06-01-2026 Service Law — Suspension Pending Enquiry — Nature of Suspension — Suspension is not a punishment but an interim administrative measure intended to facilitate a free, fair, and unbiased departmental enquiry, particularly essential in cases of grave allegations (such as forgery of public documents, misappropriation of funds, and abuse of public office) to prevent tampering with records, influencing witnesses, India Law Library Docid # 2437898
(542) ANCHAL AGRAWAL Vs. ARVIND AGRAWAL[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 19 — Family Court — Procedure — Ex Parte Proceedings — Setting aside ex parte decree — Definition of "Hearing of the Suit"— Where the case was fixed for reconciliation/filing of written statement, and subsequently returned from Lok Adalat, the date fixed for regular court proceedings (after reference to Lok Adalat) was not a date fixed for "hearing of the suit" under India Law Library Docid # 2437909
(543) KANTA SETHI AND ANOTHER Vs. HANS RAJ AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 1 Rule 9, Order 1 Rule 10, Order 6 Rule 17 — Suit for Partition — Non-joinder of Necessary Parties — Intestate Succession — In a partition suit based on intestate succession, all legal heirs must be impleaded as co-sharers or necessary parties to ascertain the exact share of the plaintiff — Failure to implead five out of six siblings (daughters) of the deceased renders the suit defective for India Law Library Docid # 2437880
(544) SHAHEEN MALIK AND ANOTHER Vs. MOHD. SARFARAZ[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance — Enhancement of Quantum — Wives and Children — Object of Section 125 is to provide swift remedy against destitution and neglect and secure "dignified sustenance"— Sustenance is not bare survival; it must secure a standard of living consistent with dignity, considering the status the wife would have enjoyed in matrimonial home — Quantum must bear a rational nexus to the needs of the claimants and the means/earning India Law Library Docid # 2437881
(545) RAM KUBER Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 376(2) and 506(II) — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 — Section 5(1) punishable under Section 6 — Conviction for repeated rape of a child (13 years old) — Age of Prosecutrix — School records showing Date of Birth as 23.10.2005, making the child 13 years old at the time of the incident (July 2018) — Even if defense assertion of 17 years old were accepted (which was unsupported by evidence), the victim was still a child under 18 years, India Law Library Docid # 2437882
(546) CHINA TRUST COMMERCIAL BANK (NOW KNOWN AS M/S CTBC BANK CO. LTD.) AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 409 — Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of cheque) — Complaint filed against Bank and its officers alleging criminal breach of trust (S. 409 IPC) by misappropriating an undated 'security cheque' given as assurance for a commercial loan, and presenting it for encashment upon default — Allegation made after India Law Library Docid # 2437883
(547) NEELAM JOSHI Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI) AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Habeas Corpus — Custody of Minor Children — Applicability and Scope — Writ of Habeas Corpus is a prerogative process for securing liberty and extends to restoring custody of a minor to their legal guardian when wrongfully deprived — Detention of a minor by a person not entitled to legal custody is treated as equivalent to illegal detention — The writ is an extraordinary India Law Library Docid # 2437884
(548) ANURADHA @ CHIKU Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) — Section 21(4) — Bail — Rigour of Twin Conditions — The statutory provision imposes two stringent conditions for granting bail: the Court must be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accused is not guilty of the offence, and that the accused is unlikely to commit any offence while on bail — This threshold is qualitatively different and more exacting than discretion under the general law — Satisfaction of the India Law Library Docid # 2437885
(549) SHYOPAL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 06-01-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397 and 401 — Revision Petition — Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Sections 279 (Rash driving), 337 (Causing hurt by act endangering life), and 304-A (Causing death by negligence) — Conviction affirmed but sentence reduced — Petitioner convicted and sentenced by trial court (affirmed by appellate court) for offenses under Sections 279, 337, and 304-A IPC — Petitioner did India Law Library Docid # 2437941
(550) SHYAM SUNDER Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 06-01-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 397 read with Section 401 — Scope — Petitioner convicted under Section 7/16 of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (PFA Act) — Challenge limited to quantum of sentence, not conviction — High Court maintaining the finding of guilt and conviction affirmed by lower courts, noting no interference required on merits. India Law Library Docid # 2437942
(551) M/S. M D ROAD LINES PVT. LTD. Vs. FIROZ KHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 06-01-2026 Rajasthan Rent Control Act, 2001 — Section 2(c) — Landlord-Tenant Relationship — Eviction Petition — Requirement for Landlord Status — A person must stand on his own evidence (Plaintiff's strength) — The definition of 'landlord' under the Act emphasizes receiving or entitlement to receive rent, making ownership of the premises not essential — Where the tenant categorically admits the landlord-tenant relationship and payment of India Law Library Docid # 2437943
(552) RAM NARAYAN MEENA Vs. SHRI NIRANJAN ARYA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 06-01-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Power to Punish for Contempt — Standard of Proof — Exercise of power to punish for contempt must be reserved for cases involving clear violation of the court’s order — Since contempt proceedings and subsequent punishment are serious consequences, these powers should be invoked only when a clear case of "wilful disobedience" is established — The petitioner alleging breach must establish India Law Library Docid # 2437944
(553) KHARTARAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Rajasthan Prisoners Release on Parole Rules, 2021 — Rules 8, 10, 15 — Parole — Conditions for Release — Indigent Prisoner — Constitutional Mandates (Articles 14 and 21) — Insistence on furnishing sureties for release on sanctioned parole, where a prisoner's indigence and inability to furnish sureties are established and undisputed, amounts to constructive denial of parole and renders the concession illusory; this insistence is legally unsustainable, constitutionally impermissible, and morally India Law Library Docid # 2437948
(554) NANDKISHOR ONKAR MAWASKAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 06-01-2026 Maharashtra Scheduled Commodities (Regulation of Distribution) Order, 1975 — Clause 24 — Revisional Jurisdiction of Hon'ble Minister — Scope of Revision — A Revisional Authority must record positive finding regarding the legality or propriety of the impugned order or irregularity of proceedings before setting it aside — The Hon'ble Minister exceeded jurisdiction by quashing cancellation of Authorization and India Law Library Docid # 2437954
(555) SHRI. PRAMOD Vs. THE GENERAL MANAGER AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 06-01-2026 Service Law — Appointment on Compassionate Grounds — Voluntary Retirement on Medical Grounds — Scheme for Compassionate Appointment — Applicability of Schemes — Where an employee voluntarily retired on medical grounds before the introduction of a new scheme (Scheme of 2015 effective from 05.08.2014) but had pending applications, the application must be considered under the prior governing India Law Library Docid # 2437955
(556) ALANKAR PADAJI MHATRE AND OTHERS Vs. NAMDEO NARAYAN NAIK SINCE DECEASED THR. LEGAL HEIRS AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 23 Rule 1(1) — Withdrawal/Abandonment of Suit/Claim — Plaintiff is 'dominus litus' — Plaintiff has an absolute right to abandon the suit against all or any defendants, or abandon part of the claim (e.g., deleting a defendant and a suit property) unconditionally; permission of the court is not peremptory for such abandonment — Court cannot compel a plaintiff to prosecute a suit against their wish — Unconditional abandonment under India Law Library Docid # 2437957
(557) ANKUR DAVID AND OTHERS Vs. NILL[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Divorce Act, 1869 — Section 10A(1) — Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent — Period of separation — Constitutional Validity — The stipulation in Section 10A(1) requiring a separation period of "two years or more" for filing a mutual consent divorce petition was declared unconstitutional and read down to a period of "one year" by the Kerala High Court in Saumya Ann Thomas v. Union of India Law Library Docid # 2437962
(558) NUR HUSSAIN ALI Vs. JATINDRA BHARALI[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of Cheque) — Legally Enforceable Debt Requirement — For an offence under Section 138, the dishonoured cheque must represent a legally enforceable debt on the date of maturity or presentation — If the drawer makes a part payment of the sum represented on the cheque between the date it is drawn and when it is presented for encashment, the India Law Library Docid # 2437964
(559) TAFIKA MANOWARA RAHMAN Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Service Law — Seniority — Inter-establishment transfer on own request — Effect on seniority — The petitioner was transferred on her own request from the establishment of Respondent No. 5 (Dhansiri Project Division) to the establishment of Respondent No. 4 (Mangaldai Division) with a specific stipulation in the transfer order (dated 19-08-2005) that her seniority in the new establishment (Respondent No. India Law Library Docid # 2437965
(560) M/S. OM TELECOM LOGISTICS PVT. LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 06-01-2026 Assam Value Added Tax Act, 2003 — Section 89 — Compounding of Offence — Delegation of Power — Superintendent of Taxes (Respondent No. 3) ordered compounding of offence under Section 85(1)(n) upon petitioner's request — Challenge raised that Superintendent of Taxes lacked jurisdiction under Section 89 to compound — Section 89 grants power to the Commissioner of Taxes; however, Rule India Law Library Docid # 2437966