(1) SANJAY DALAL AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-11-2026 West Bengal Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1972 — Section 13(6) — West Bengal Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Rules, 1982 — Rule 9 — Cancellation of license — Requirement of show cause notice — Market Committee attempted to evict shop allottees and re-allot premises without issuing statutory show-cause notice — Rule 9 mandates service of notice stating grounds and granting fifteen days to show cause prior to cancellation or suspension of a license — Failure to serve India Law Library Docid # 3000678
(2) DULAL CHANDRA SANFUI Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Judicial review of administrative action — Scope — Decision-making process — Compliance with judicial directions — Sub-Divisional Officer directed demolition of unauthorized construction pursuant to a binding High Court order — Petitioner challenged the demolition notice via a fresh writ petition on the ground that an intra-court appeal was pending — Held, mere pendency of an appeal without an order of stay does not preclude the authority from implemen India Law Library Docid # 3000679
(3) MOUMITA MAHATA AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-11-2026 Service Law — Transfer — Health Assistants (Female) — Mandatory vs. Directory requirement — Circular/Memo dated January 29, 2024 and Memo dated July 31, 2026 requiring completion of three years of service prior to seeking transfer held to be directory in nature — The duration of service prior to seeking transfer cannot operate as a disabling or disentitling factor — Rejection of transfer applications solely on the ground of non-completion of three years' service is unsustainable. India Law Library Docid # 3000680
(4) STATE OF ORISSA AND OTHERS Vs. SAKUNTALA PARAHI[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 09-11-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Sections 3 and 5 — Condonation of delay — Principles — Condonation under Section 5 is not an absolute or inchoate right and depends upon the quality of explanation offered constituting sufficient cause — Court cannot overlook Section 3 and must harmonize both provisions to strike equilibrium between rights of parties — Length of delay is immaterial; what is seminal is the sufficiency of the cause shown — Longer delay may be condoned if plausible explanation is offered, whi India Law Library Docid # 3000652
(5) SAROJ CHANDRA BEHERA Vs. HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LTD., KORAPUT DIVISION, SUNABEDA-2, KORAPUT AND ORS.[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 09-11-2026 Letters Patent Appeal — Scope of Intra-Court Appeal — Interference with Single Judge's findings — Held, an intra-court appeal is not a fresh hearing of the writ petition — The appellate Bench does not substitute its own view merely because an alternative or superior view of the evidence is possible — Interference is warranted only where the Single Judge has committed an error of law, misread the record, or arrived at a conclusion suffering from patent error or perversity. India Law Library Docid # 3000653
(6) YUSUF Vs. VIGYAPAN LOKE DELHI ADVERTISING CGHS LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of plaint on ground of limitation — Plaint cannot be rejected at the threshold under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC when the plaintiff relies on continuous entries and balance sheets reflecting amounts carried forward, which raise triable issues regarding acknowledgment of liability under Section 18 of the Limitation Act, 1963 — Court ought not to delve into the depths of evidence or conclusively determine the non-existence of liability at the India Law Library Docid # 3000178
(7) CHATUR SINGH DHRUW Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2026 Service Law — Compulsory Retirement — Scope of judicial review — An order of compulsory retirement is not punitive or stigmatic and is based on the subjective satisfaction of the competent authority regarding public interest and administrative efficiency — Judicial review is limited to examining whether relevant material existed, whether norms/criteria prescribed by the government were observed, and whether the decision is arbitrary, perverse, or vitiated by mala fides — Courts will not re-appre India Law Library Docid # 3000179
(8) THE CHAIRMAN NATIONAL BOOK TRUST, INDIA AND ANOTHER Vs. A.R. ABDUL GAFFAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 12 — "State" or "other authorities" — Status of National Book Trust (NBT) — National Book Trust is financially, functionally, and administratively dominated by and under the deep and pervasive control of the Government of India, making it an instrumentality or agency of the State and consequently an "authority" / "State" within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution India Law Library Docid # 3000181
(9) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. ROHITH NATHAN AND ANOTHER, ETC[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2026 Supreme Court Rules / Practice — Miscellaneous Applications — Scope of clarification — Miscellaneous applications in disposed-of proceedings cannot be employed to seek a rehearing, reopen concluded issues, or secure a reconsideration of the merits of a judgment; they are maintainable only to clarify the scope, temporal operation, and implementation of directions already issued India Law Library Docid # 3000182
(10) STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 131 — Original jurisdiction — Inter-State water and power sharing disputes — Implementation of a declaratory decree — Where a suit regarding a share in power generated from inter-state hydel projects (Bhakra-Nangal and Beas Projects) is decreed in part, and subsequent differences arise regarding computation, valuation, and capital cost liabilities, the Supreme Court in the nature of execution proceedings can formulate a cashless settlement framework involvin India Law Library Docid # 3000183
(11) J. RAJESH (MINOR) THR. HIS MOTHER AND NATURAL GUARDIAN J. GOMATHI Vs. M. KUMARAN. (DEAD) THR. LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2026 Hindu Law — Succession / Partition — Ancestral property — Devolution of property under Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Property inherited by a son from his father upon a partition or intestate succession does not constitute Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) or coparcenary property vis-a-vis his own son — Grandson (son's son) is excluded from Class I heirs and does not acquire a right by birth in such property during the lifetime of his father — Once a partition takes place among Class I India Law Library Docid # 3000177
(12) A. JOHN KENNEDY AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2026 Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 — Sections 2(c), 2(o), and 6 — Determination of forest rights — The statutory process for recognizing forest rights of Forest Dwelling Scheduled Tribes (FDST) and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (OTFD) must be strictly adhered to through the three-tiered mechanism (Gram Sabha, Sub-Divisional Level Committee, and District Level India Law Library Docid # 3000180
(13) TRILOKI PRASAD GUPTA @ TRILOKI PRASAD Vs. IN THE GOODS OF LATE AKSHAIBAR PRASAD X[PATNA HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Civil Procedure — Conversion of Appeal — Uncontested Probate Proceedings — Appellant initially preferred a First Appeal against the judgment dismissing an uncontested probate application — Appeal directed to be modified into a Miscellaneous Appeal since there was no contest before the original Court — High Court condoned delay in filing the Miscellaneous Appeal upon finding sufficient cause shown in the limitation application. India Law Library Docid # 3000188
(14) PAWAN KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226 and 227 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Maintainability of criminal writ petition after cognizance — Petitioner sought quashing of FIR and subsequent order taking cognizance — Held, a criminal writ petition filed under Article 226 for quashing an FIR is rendered not maintainable once an order taking cognizance is passed by the competent court — Supreme Court ruling in Pradnya Pranjal Kulkarni distinguished on the ground that i India Law Library Docid # 3000189
(15) M/S. V. K. JAIN AND SONS Vs. NEERAJ JAIN[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 7 — Arbitration agreement — Incorporation in commercial invoices — Validity — An arbitration agreement need not be contained in a separate, mutually signed document if written terms demonstrate consensus ad idem — Where parties have continuous commercial dealings, the acceptance of invoices containing an arbitration clause and part-payments made thereunder constitute a valid arbitration agreement — Non-membership of a party in a trade association India Law Library Docid # 3000222
(16) DELHI STATE COOPERATIVE BANK LTD Vs. DHARAMVIR RANA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 96 — Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 34 — Maintainability of suit for recovery without seeking declaration — Bank deducted sum from retiral benefits of employee via intimation letter — Bank contended suit was not maintainable without challenging deduction letter by seeking declaration — Held, intimation letter merely communicated deductions and did not declare any independent right or liability — Suit was a simple claim for recovery of illegally deducted India Law Library Docid # 3000223
(17) SMT. CHANDA DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. MONIKA SINGH[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 54 — Ownership of immovable property — Oral agreement to sell — Permissive user — Plaintiff claimed ownership through registered Agreement to Sell and Conveyance Deed, corroborated by official property tax and utility records — Defendants claimed deceased predecessor purchased suit property via oral agreement with monthly salary deductions — Held, an alleged oral agreement is legally incapable of transferring title or creating proprietary rights in immova India Law Library Docid # 3000224
(18) BHARAT GHAI AND ANOTHER Vs. RAJU GROVER AND ANR. (BAJAJ ALLIANZ GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD.)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Determination of income — Self-employed individual — Assessment of benchmark income — Claimant rendered comatose post-accident — Tribunal erred in relying solely on the return of a COVID-affected year and drawing adverse inference for failure to file subsequent returns after incapacitation — Relying on Supreme Court precedents, average income reflected in Income Tax Returns of the preceding three years must be taken as benchmark for self-employed persons India Law Library Docid # 3000225
(19) NARAYAN Vs. STATE[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 161 — Rape trial — Hostile witness — Evidentiary value of previous statements — Prosecutrix completely resiled from her allegations during trial and stated that the accused did nothing wrong — Held, previous statement of the prosecutrix recorded under Section 161 CrPC cannot be treated as substantive evidence — While hostile testimony does not automatically mandate acquittal, the prosecution must independently India Law Library Docid # 3000226
(20) RAM LAVAT Vs. RAM PADARATH (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 06-11-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — "Sufficient cause" — Scope and applicability — Discretion to condone delay must be exercised judiciously based on the facts and circumstances of each case — The expression "sufficient cause" cannot be liberally interpreted where negligence, inaction, or lack of bona fides is apparent — Law of limitation must be applied with all its rigour and courts possess no power to extend statutory limitation periods purely on equitable grounds — Maxi India Law Library Docid # 3000227