(21) M/S BRANDAVAN FOOD PRODUCTS Vs. INDIAN RAILWAY CATERING AND TOURISM CORPORATION LTD.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 9 — Interim protection sought by petitioner against demand notice from respondent — Dispute arose from license agreement for on-board catering services — Petitioner contended respondent illegally increased concession fee due to increase in train coaches, which was not permitted by India Law Library Docid # 2447510
(22) DALCHAND AHIR Vs. PRINCIPAL SECRETARY STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 10-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 15 and 16 — Denial of appointment — Arbitrary and discriminatory action — Petitioner denied appointment as Special Education Teacher based on Non-recognition by NCTE, while RCI recognition was the relevant criterion for the post. India Law Library Docid # 2447515
(23) SHRI GANGA SINGH (HANDICAPPED) Vs. SMT. DEVI SINGH AND ANOTHER[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956 — Section 20(3) — Maintenance — Major unmarried daughter — Application for maintenance filed under Section 125 Cr.P.C. when it should have been under Section 20(3) HAM Act — Court cannot refuse relief due to mentioning a wrong India Law Library Docid # 2447516
(24) BHERUSINGH Vs. KARULAL[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 10-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397, 401 — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay in filing appeal — Rejection of appeal on a 12-day delay without considering merits is hyper-technical and defeats substantial justice — Courts should adopt a liberal approach for short delays to advance justice. India Law Library Docid # 2447517
(25) ROSHNI KERKETTA Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Review Jurisdiction — Scope and Limitations — A review petition cannot be used as an appeal in disguise, and it is generally exercised for correction of a mistake, not to substitute a new view, unless there is a glaring omission or patent mistake in the original order. India Law Library Docid # 2447577
(26) M/S. LEVITATE MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD. Vs. M/S. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Orrder 11 Rules 1(4) & 5 (as amended by Commercial Courts Act, 2015, Sch.) — Additional documents, filing of — Standard of "reasonable cause" — Held, plaintiff obliged to file all documents in its possession along with plaint; leave to file additional documents within 30 days of institution of suit permissible only on establishing reasonable cause for non-disclosure and India Law Library Docid # 2447455
(27) BEJLA ORAON Vs. KALI DAS ORAON AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Hindu Law — Customary Law (Tribal) — Oraon Custom — Ghardamad (custom of adopted son-in-law) — Who may effect such adoption — Suit for declaration of title to ancestral land, contested on plea that a collateral (Punai) had been taken as ghardamad by plaintiff's grand-uncle Ledura, who died issueless, and thereby acquired inheritable rights transmissible to his wife Budhain — Concurrent findings India Law Library Docid # 2447456
(28) BRITISH MOTOR CAR COMPANY (1939) LTD. Vs. M/S HINDUSTAN COMMERCIAL BANK LTD. SINCE HAS BEEN MERGED INTO PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 — Section 14(1)(b) — Subletting, assignment or parting with possession — Whether involuntary transfer pursuant to statutory scheme of bank amalgamation attracts the provision — Original tenant-bank (HCB) amalgamated with another bank (PNB) pursuant to a Scheme framed by RBI and notified by the Central Government under S. 45 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 India Law Library Docid # 2447457
(29) AAA Vs. LINDA SEMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 19(1) & 21 — "Knowledge that such an offence has been committed" — Meaning and scope — Held, not confined to direct/personal knowledge of commission of offence based on person's own senses — Includes awareness founded on receipt of credible information regarding commission of offence punishable under the Act — Where such information is received India Law Library Docid # 2447458
(30) BIHAR STATE FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER Vs. BHUSHAN SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 — Sections 29 & 30 — Auction sale of mortgaged property by Financial Corporation for recovery of dues — Judicial review of, scope — Borrowers persistently defaulting over eight years despite multiple opportunities, repayment schedules fixed by High Court, and statutory notices — Financial Corporation auctioning mortgaged property after affording repeated chances India Law Library Docid # 2447460
(31) SH. SANJEEV KUMAR CHADHA Vs. ANIL KUMAR CHADHA AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Property Law — Validity of Sale Deeds — A relinquishment deed, duly registered, confers title upon the recipient — Subsequent sale deeds executed by the recipient cannot be invalidated based on mere suspicion or conjecture, especially when the India Law Library Docid # 2447508
(32) RATTAN SINGH Vs. AKHTAR ISLAM[DELHI HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Specific Performance of Contracts — Readiness and Willingness to Perform — Plaintiff must prove continuous readiness and willingness from the date of contract to the time of hearing — Financial capacity is required to be proved through evidence — India Law Library Docid # 2447509
(33) SHRIRAM MANDIR PANCHKUIYA DHARMIK TRUST THROUGH ITS TRUSTEE ASHOK KUMAR Vs. SHRI MAHANT RAMGOPALDAS GURU LAXMANDAS AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 115 — M.P. Public Trusts Act, 1951 — Section 2(1) — Maintainability of Civil Revision — Registrar, Public Trust is not a "Court" as defined under Section 2(1) of the M.P. Public Trusts Act, 1951, nor is it a "Subordinate Court" under Section 3 of the CPC — Revisional powers of High Court India Law Library Docid # 2447514
(34) STATE OF CHHATTISGARH Vs. ANWAR KHAN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 25 — Confessions to police — Admissibility — A confession made to a police officer is inadmissible in evidence against an accused person, irrespective of the circumstances under which it was made. This absolute bar applies to confessions made even when the accused is not in police custody or before any investigation has begun. The term "accused of any offence" includes a person accused at India Law Library Docid # 2447578
(35) AJAY VIJH Vs. INDIAN BANKS ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ jurisdiction — Maintainability — Inclusion of advocate's name in IBA "Caution List" — High Court dismissing writ petition on ground that Indian Banks' Association (IBA) is not "State" under Art. 12 — Held, focus of maintainability has shifted from formal character of respondent body to nature of function performed and effect of impugned action on legally protected rights — Caution List operates as sector-wide adverse accreditation mechanism with p India Law Library Docid # 2447430
(36) GUNADHAR SINGH Vs. DHONIBALA SINGH AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-07-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 9 — Restitution of conjugal rights — Proof of marriage and of withdrawal without reasonable excuse — Wife's suit for restitution decreed by Family Court, holding that husband had withdrawn from her society without reasonable cause and that the factum of marriage stood proved — Husband denying the marriage altogether and pleading that the wife was set up by villagers to extort money India Law Library Docid # 2447442
(37) SHYAMA NAND TIWARI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-07-2026 Service Law — Regularization — Casual/Part-Time Labourers — Educational qualification — Part Time Casual Labourers (Regularization) Scheme of CBIC, 2020 — Petitioners engaged as Casual Labourers since 1995 and 1999 respectively, working continuously for nearly three decades — Claim for regularization rejected on ground of non-fulfilment of educational qualification (matriculation) — Petitioners possessing only India Law Library Docid # 2447440
(38) MANTU PANDEY @ SWETABH KUMAR PANDEY Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 304 Part I, 304 Part II, 300, 299 — Murder v. culpable homicide not amounting to murder — Distinction between "intention" and "knowledge" — Appellant convicted by trial court under S. 302 IPC for causing death of an elderly woman by assaulting her with a bamboo strip, on her refusal to supply liquor to him while he was in an intoxicated state — Deceased did not die at the spot but India Law Library Docid # 2447441
(39) SHIV SHANKAR SHARMA Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 06-07-2026 Constitution of India, Art. 226 — Public Interest Litigation — Maintainability — Credentials and bona fides of petitioner — Petitioner having history of filing PILs making reckless and unsubstantiated allegations against high-ranking officials, dismissed earlier with costs by High Court and held not maintainable by Supreme Court — Allegations made without impleading persons against whom allegations levelled — Held, bona fides of petitioner is a India Law Library Docid # 2447394
(40) PYNSHNGAINLANG NONGRUM Vs. THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA AND OTHERS[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 06-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC0 — Section 375 (Sixthly) and 376D — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Ss. 5(g), 6 — Rape/gang penetrative sexual assault — Sole testimony of prosecutrix — Minor contradictions in statements u/s 161 and 164 CrPC vis-a-vis court testimony, regarding duration of relationship, manner of entry into vehicle, consumption of alcohol and sequence of events — Held, such discrepancies not going to the root of the India Law Library Docid # 2447395