(1) STATE OF UTTARAKHAND THR. CHIEF SECRETARY AND OTHERS Vs. M.C. BHANDARI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-11-2026 Uttarakhand Public Service Commission (Conditions of Service) Regulations, 2004 — Regulation 7(1) and 7(2) — Fixation of salary of retired Government servants appointed as Chairman or Member of Uttarakhand Public Service Commission — Principle of "pay minus pension" — Validity of deduction — High Court declared Regulation 7(2) ultra vires Articles 14 and 39(d) of Constitution on ground of violating "equal pay for equal work" — Supreme Court held that pension earned for previous service is kept i India Law Library Docid # 2458193
(2) MANGALA BHIMRAO INGLE Vs. THE ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER, AMRAVATI DIVISION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-11-2026 Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act, 1959 — Section 14(1)(j-1) — Disqualification from contesting panchayat elections on having more than two children — Relevance of laws penalising more than two children — Foundation of such laws (fear of overpopulation) has crumbled due to demographic changes and fall in Total Fertility Rate (TFR) from 3.0 to 1.9, which is below replacement level — Continued operation of such laws requires immediate re-visitation, compelling reference to India Law Library Docid # 2458194
(3) CHINMOY MONDAL Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 — Section 115 — Injunction and status quo — Binding effect on non-parties — Trial court and first appellate court refused temporary injunction in title suit filed against public authorities — High Court in civil revision passed interim order directing maintenance of status quo regarding nature and character of the suit property — Private respondents contended that the status quo order was not binding on them as they were not parties to th India Law Library Docid # 2458235
(4) LIONS CLUB OF DURGAPUR AND ANOTHER Vs. LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 115 — Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 — Revisional jurisdiction — Ad interim injunction — Appellate Court's failure to consider relevant materials — Petitioners made out a prima facie case for the revisional application to be heard on merits where the Appellate Court failed to advert to the relevant governing bye-laws and evidentiary materials placed on record while refusing to grant ad interim injunction to the petitioners. India Law Library Docid # 2458236
(5) AYAN KUMAR DAS Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Service Law — Suspension — Subsistence allowance — Claim of parity — Negative equality — Appellant suspended on allegations of illegal initial appointment challenged refusal of ad-interim subsistence allowance, claiming similarly situated individuals facing identical charges were receiving the allowance — Held, it is well-settled law that no person can claim negative equality — A benefit cannot be claimed merely because it was extended to other persons facing similar charges without establishing India Law Library Docid # 2458237
(6) DRILL WILL CLUBS AND HOSPITALITY PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 — Section 400(1) and Section 401 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 243P to 243W — Statutory authority of Municipal Corporation — State Level Committee SOP — Petitioner challenged demolition notice under Section 400(1) on grounds of compliance with SOP framed by State Level Committee for Fire Safety — Held, interim permission to operate business pursuant to SOP cannot be construed as KMC waiving its legal powers or being denuded of statutory authorit India Law Library Docid # 2458239
(7) ALOK DAS AND ANR. Vs. STATE[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT (CIRCUIT BENCH AT JALPAIGURI)] 04-11-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 21(c), 29 and 37 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Regular bail — Statutory embargo under Section 37 — Petitioners implicated based on co-accused statement — No contraband recovered from petitioners' possession — State submitted call records revealed conversation between petitioners and persons from whom contraband was recovered — Held, in view of absence of recovery, long detention, and completion of chargeshee India Law Library Docid # 2458240
(8) LEBU MIAH Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Habeas Corpus — Citizenship and Deportation — Due process of law — Petitioner's wife and children holding Indian passports and visas were detained during transit under threat of summary push-back to Bangladesh on allegations of illegal entry — Held, persons holding Indian passports cannot be pushed back or forcibly deported outside India without affording them an opportunity of hearing to prove citizenship and without initiating proceedings under appro India Law Library Docid # 2458241
(9) NAVIN KUMAR PODDAR Vs. THE REGISTRAR, DEBTS RECOVERY TRIBUNAL-I, KOLKATA AND ORS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — SARFAESI Act, 2002 — Section 17 — Maintainability of writ petition — Alternative remedy — Scope of writ jurisdiction — Debts Recovery Tribunal under Section 17 is the competent forum to adjudicate all issues between the borrower and financial institution — Writ Court can only entertain an application where the order or action of the bank is per se without jurisdiction — Where no prima facie case shows that the bank's action is per se illegal or without India Law Library Docid # 2458242
(10) ASHOK KUMAR DAS @ DR. ASHOK KUMAR DAS Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANR.[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 190, 200, 202 and 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 352 — Cognizance on protest complaint following Final Report — Valid application of judicial mind — Police submitted Final Report finding no material for cognizable offences but noted material under Section 352 IPC — Complainant filed protest complaint — Magistrate examined witnesses under Sections 200 and 202 CrPC, perused prior police records and Section 164 CrPC statements, and took cogniz India Law Library Docid # 2458243
(11) ANJALI KAUNDAL Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Admission to MBBS Course — Technical Glitch in Online Portal — Exclusion from counselling — Petitioner deposited requisite security fee within prescribed period via NEFT/challan, but payment failed to reflect on online ERP portal — Despite prompt representations with proof, university failed to verify bank records, preventing her from choice filling — Held, a candidate cannot be penalized for technical or administrative failures of authorities — Public India Law Library Docid # 2458256
(12) BHARAT Vs. STATE OF H.P. & ORS.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Himachal Pradesh Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1968 — Section 3 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Temporary release on parole — Principles governing grant — Rejection based solely on heinousness or nature of offence — Sustainability — Incarceration for long duration with satisfactory jail conduct — Merely committing a crime does not strip a convict of human dignity — Nature of the offence alone cannot be a ground to deny parole where the prisoner exhibits a tendency India Law Library Docid # 2458257
(13) KAUSHALYA DEVI Vs. LAND ACQUISITION COLLECTOR (RAILWAYS) AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 28 and 54 — Statutory interest on enhanced compensation — Modification of Reference Court's award — Reference Court awarded interest at 9% per annum from 30.06.2000 till deposit of compensation, failing to adhere to the statutory rate — Held, appellant is entitled to interest at the rate of 9% per annum for the first year and thereafter at the rate of 15% per annum from the date of the award until the date of final payment/deposit — Award modified accordingl India Law Library Docid # 2458258
(14) ASHWANI KUMAR SOOD Vs. HIMACHAL PRADESH STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD LIMITED AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Service Law — Pay Fixation and Reduction — Principles of Natural Justice — Audi Alteram Partem — Civil Consequences — Petitioner's pay was re-fixed in the Old Master Scale but subsequently withdrawn and reduced vide office order without issuing any show cause notice or granting an opportunity of being heard — Held, any administrative order visiting an employee with civil consequences or adverse financial effects cannot be passed without putting the concerned employee on notice and affording a he India Law Library Docid # 2458259
(15) RAJENDER KUMAR Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Execution of Decree — Scope of Executing Court — Going behind decree — High Court directed respondents to consider the petitioner's claim for re-designation and pay scale — Competent authority passed an order deciding the representation — Petitioner alleged non-compliance in an execution petition — Held, the executing court cannot go behind the decree or enlarge the scope of the judgment — Where the writ court merely directed consideration without ordering the grant of the pay scale, the executi India Law Library Docid # 2458260
(16) JAI RAJ Vs. BINTA DEVI[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 346 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 309 — Adjournments — Right to fair trial — Scope — Trials must proceed on a day-to-day basis unless reasonable cause is recorded for adjournment — An accused cannot repeatedly seek adjournments or file applications under the guise of exercising the right to a fair trial — Repeated and routine adjournments defeat the administration of justice and corrode public faith in the judiciary — Trial co India Law Library Docid # 2458261
(17) SHYAM LAL Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 15 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 155(3) — Recovery of contraband — Hostile independent witness — Reliability of police witnesses — Recovery of poppy straw witnessed by police officials and an independent witness who turned hostile — Discrediting of hostile witness does not undermine prosecution case — Testimony of police officials cannot be distrusted or discarded merely on account of their official status if otherwise found cogent, India Law Library Docid # 2458262
(18) CHETAN KHEORA Vs. STATE OF HP[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 21, 29 and 37 — Regular bail — Intermediate quantity — Recovery of 8.430 grams of heroin from vehicle — Rigors of Section 37 NDPS Act do not strictly apply with full vigor when contraband is less than commercial quantity — Recovery was not exclusively attributed to petitioner as co-accused fled — Charge-sheet filed and culmination of trial likely to take time — Pre-trial incar India Law Library Docid # 2458263
(19) ROHIT SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 04-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 22(5) — Jharkhand Control of Crimes Act, 2002 — Section 17 — Preventive detention — Right to make representation — Proof of mala fides — Detenu alleged that jail authorities refused to forward his representation — Held, the statutory and constitutional requirement was met as grounds of detention were duly served on the detenu — Allegation of mala fides requires strong, cogent, and convincing evidence, the burden of which rests heavily on the detenu — Bare an India Law Library Docid # 2458271
(20) ARJUN FLOUR MILLS Vs. THE STATE OF ODISHA FINANCE DEPARTMENT SECRETARY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-11-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 246, Read with List II Entry 54 of Seventh Schedule — State Legislative Competence — Surcharge/Additional tax on sales tax — Validity — Surcharge computed as a percentage of sales tax payable by dealers exceeding a specified turnover threshold is in substance an enhancement of rate of sales tax and a tax on sale or purchase of goods — Mode of computation (with reference to tax payable India Law Library Docid # 2458195