(101) VIDHYA RAM AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 — Section 23 — Condonation of delay — Beneficial legislation — Delay of 210 days in filing appeal — Appellants were poor and illiterate persons from an economically weaker section who suffered paucity of funds to obtain timely legal advice — Held, considering the beneficial nature of the legislation and the economic hardships faced by the claimants, a liberal approach must be adopted — Appellants successfully established suffic India Law Library Docid # 2455095
(102) MANEESH MOUDGIL AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE N.C.T. OF DELHI AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 420, 406, 467, 471 and 120-B — Quashing of FIR — Inherent powers — High Court cannot conduct a mini-trial — Power under Section 482 CrPC must be exercised sparingly and with circumspection — Court cannot assess probabilities, weigh credibility of witnesses, or resolve disputed questions of fact — Allegations of cheating, forgery, and conspiracy in procuring property documents and a registered Will from an ail India Law Library Docid # 2455098
(103) RAGHUNATH (NOW DECEASED) THR LR AND ANOTHER Vs. SH. BHARAT BHUSHAN (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 12 Rule 6 — Judgment on admissions — Scope and applicability — Nature of power is discretionary and permissive — Court can determine legal consequences where foundational factual ingredients stand admitted, without requiring separate admission of legal propositions — In a suit for possession based on a Will for which uncontested Letters of Administration were granted, the execution and validity of the Will being undisputed, the Trial Court was fully compe India Law Library Docid # 2455101
(104) VIJAY PAL Vs. BHARAT SINGH[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Civil Law — Suit for Declaration and Injunction — Lal Dora Land — Proof of Ownership and Possession — Delhi Land Reforms Act — Plaintiffs claimed ownership of an unconstructed plot in Lal Dora area based on long-standing ancestral possession without title documents — Revenue records reflected Gaon Sabha as owner — Held, even assuming formal title documents are absent in Lal Dora Abadi Deh, a party asserting ownership on the basis of possession must affirmatively establish continuous possession — India Law Library Docid # 2455102
(105) SMT. GUDIYA RAI Vs. VIPLAV RAI[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 24 — Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13 — Transfer of matrimonial proceedings — Convenience of wife — Wife sought transfer of divorce suit filed by husband from Family Court, Dantewada to Family Court, Kondagaon on grounds of distance and travel inconvenience — Settled legal principle that in matrimonial disputes, convenience of the wife is paramount — Relying on Supreme Court precedents, High Court held that the petition deserved to be allowed and t India Law Library Docid # 2455123
(106) TRILOKI PATEL Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 320, 325 and 341 — Voluntarily causing grievous hurt and wrongful restraint — Appreciation of evidence — Accused assaulted the victim with a wooden stick over an unpaid grocery debt, resulting in injuries — Conviction based on credible testimonies of the injured victim and eyewitness husband, corroborated by medical testimony and X-ray report — Evidence confirmed a fracture of the distal end of the left radius bone — Fracture falls within the definition of griev India Law Library Docid # 2455125
(107) GAURMATI SAHU Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Service Law — Recovery of excess payment — Retired Class-III employee — Two advance increments granted in 1990 for undergoing sterilization received for decades — Recovery order issued after retirement without opportunity of hearing — Held, recovery of excess payment is impermissible from retired Class-III employees, particularly where payments were made for decades and no undertaking consenting to recovery was given — Case squarely covered under the parameters laid down in State of Punjab v. Ra India Law Library Docid # 2455128
(108) DURVASA PANDEY AND ANOTHER Vs. UMESH THAKUR AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 168 and Section 173 — Assessment of compensation — Death of minor child in road accident — Tribunal assessed notional income at Rs. 36,000 per annum — Held, a minor child who dies or suffers permanent disability in a motor accident cannot be treated as a non-earning individual merely due to absence of gainful employment — Loss of income must be computed adopting at least the prevailing notified minimum wages in the State — Monthly income of deceased 13-year-old India Law Library Docid # 2455129
(109) BARATI BHAGAT AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND ANOTHER[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Civil Law — Adverse Possession — Government land reserved for public utility — Plaintiffs claimed declaration of title by adverse possession over 1.50 acres of land, asserting continuous possession for over 70 years — State established that the land was allotted for a graveyard as per revenue records and nistaar patrak since 1957 — Held, adverse possession cannot be claimed over Government land reserved for public utility purposes such as graveyards, roads, or hospitals — Concurrent findings of India Law Library Docid # 2455130
(110) GOVIND PRASAD AND OTHERS Vs. SATYAPRAKASH GUPTA (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Hindu Law — Joint Family Property — Nucleus and Burden of Proof — No presumption exists that a Hindu undivided family possesses joint property merely by virtue of jointness. The initial burden lies on the claimant asserting jointness to prove the existence of a joint family, joint income, and an adequate income-bearing nucleus. Once an adequate nucleus capable of acquiring the property is established, a presumption arises that the acquisition is joint family property. The burden then shifts to t India Law Library Docid # 2455132
(111) TAJ UDDIN TAPADAR ALIAS TAJ UDDIN Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 21(b) and 29 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 438 and 442 — Interim custody of conveyance — Contraband recovered directly from the registered owner while transporting it in the vehicle — Charge-sheet filed and cognizance taken — Registered owner sought interim zimma of vehicle pending trial — Release on superdari cannot be granted where the owner is arrayed as an accused and the reverse burden of proof remains u India Law Library Docid # 2455136
(112) SHREE SHREE SHIV RAM MANDIR Vs. PRADIP KUMAR ROY AND 4 ORS.[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 1 Rule 10(2) — Impleadment of party — Legal entity and juristic personality — Hindu Idol vs. Temple — Rejection of temple's impleadment application — High Court held that while a consecrated Hindu idol or deity may be recognized as a juristic person, the temple building housing the deity cannot be regarded as a juristic person capable of suing or being sued without proof that such personality was bestowed upon it — Constructing a private temple on private India Law Library Docid # 2455138
(113) KARAN ORANG Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Criminal Law — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 430(2) — Suspension of sentence pending appeal — Fixed-term sentence — Appellant was convicted under Sections 104 and 118 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for five years — Appellant had undergone custody for over one year and four months — Appeal hearing was likely to be delayed — Held, where an accused is sentenced to a fixed term, suspension of sentence should be considered liberally un India Law Library Docid # 2455143
(114) BABUL SINHA AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Service Law — Departmental Proceedings — Principles of Natural Justice — Non-supply of enquiry report — Petitioner, a Head Constable, was dismissed from service without being furnished a copy of the enquiry officer's report, despite specifically raising an objection in his reply to the second show-cause notice — Held, furnishing the enquiry report to a delinquent employee before the disciplinary authority takes a final decision on penalty is an essential facet of reasonable opportunity of defenc India Law Library Docid # 2455146
(115) DWIPEN DEKA Vs. KUJENDRA DOLEY AND ORS.[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Non-compliance of directions — Delayed compliance by passing speaking order — Petitioner alleged violation of earlier contempt order directing authorities to complete enquiry and pass final order on entitlement to contractual payments within six months — During pendency of instant contempt proceedings, authorities issued a speaking order rejecting petitioner's claim due to structural collapse and lack of supervision — Held, although the order was passed beyond the India Law Library Docid # 2455147
(116) SMT. TARADEVO AND OTHERS Vs. JAGDISH PRASAD DUBEY AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope of interference with concurrent findings of fact — Finding regarding possession over suit property — Courts below concurrently dismissed plaintiffs' suit upon evaluating oral and documentary evidence, holding that plaintiffs failed to prove possession — Held, a finding on possession is essentially a finding of fact — Where concurrent findings are based on evidence on record and suffer from no illegality or perversity, the Hig India Law Library Docid # 2455167
(117) SMT. MANJARI SHEKHAR Vs. KUNWARLAL AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Germane considerations — Valuation and Court Fees — Plaint to be read as a whole — Held, it is trite law that for deciding the question of valuation of a suit as well as liability for court fees at the threshold of Order 7 Rule 11 of the CPC, only the averments in the plaint are germane. The plaint is required to be read as a whole. The defence available to the defendants or pleas raised in their written statement cannot India Law Library Docid # 2455173
(118) VIJENDRA KUMAR KAUSHAL Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389(1) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 430 — Suspension of sentence pending appeal — Fixed-term sentence — Principles reiterated — When a convicted person is sentenced to a fixed period and files an appeal under a statutory right, the appellate court should liberally consider suspension of sentence unless exceptional circumstances or statutory restrictions exist — When appeals cannot be disposed of expeditiously due to heavy cou India Law Library Docid # 2455174
(119) HDFC ERGO GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. SHEETAL PRASAD GUPTA AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 07-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Validity of Insurance Policy at Time of Accident — Onus of Proof — Accident occurred at 15:00 hours while policy was allegedly issued at 18:52 hours following RTGS premium receipt at 18:49:10 hours — Insurer failed to produce original proposal form, bank transaction slip, or explain how complete vehicle details were processed to generate the policy within three minutes — Being a licensee of the regulatory authority and custodian of public goods, onus lay upon the insur India Law Library Docid # 2455177
(120) YOGESH PRASAD Vs. MAHATMA GANDHI CHITRAKOOT GRAMODAY UNIVERSITY CHITRAKOOT SATNA THROUGH ITS DIRECTOR (DISTANCE) AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 07-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226(2) — Writ Jurisdiction — Territorial Jurisdiction — Nexus with lis — Challenge to appointment of Student Advisors by respondent-University situated at Chitrakoot, District Satna — Maintainability before Gwalior Bench — Held, District Satna does not fall within the territorial jurisdiction of the Gwalior Bench — Mere fact that petitioner approached Gwalior Bench does not confer jurisdiction — Under Article 226(2), jurisdiction is determined by the place w India Law Library Docid # 2455182