(21) KARUPPASAMY Vs. THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 09-10-2026 Bail — Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 14-A(2) — Principle of Parity — Co-accused released — Trial Court denied bail to appellant primarily because he had been absconding and a non-bailable warrant was pending against him — High Court held that investigation was already completed and case was taken on file — Since all other co-accused were granted bail either by trial Court or High Court, denying bail to appellant alone was unfair — Princi India Law Library Docid # 2455310
(22) JEGAN Vs. ANISH[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 09-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Enhancement of compensation — Assessment of permanent disability — Claimant suffered crush injury to right foot with metatarsal bone fractures, multiple surgeries, and skin grafting — Medical Board assessed permanent disability at 15% — Tribunal awarded Rs. 75,000/- computing at Rs. 5,000/- per percentage — High Court held that for an accident occurring in the year 2017, the applicable rate is Rs. 7,000/- per percentage of disability — Disability compensa India Law Library Docid # 2455311
(23) S.THIRAVIYASAMY Vs. THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 25 — Religious procession — Use of public roads — Communal objection — Petitioner sought mandamus to take out a church chariot procession through a route objected to by another community — Held, right to freely profess and practice religion under Article 25 cannot be denied merely because persons of another community reside along the route or another religious place of worship is situated there — Public roads are secular spaces, and administrative authoritie India Law Library Docid # 2455330
(24) M/S. BHANDUP ESTATE AND OTHERS Vs. INDUBHAI RAJARAM OHOL AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 23 Rules 3 and 3-A — Setting aside consent decree — Authority of Constituted Attorney and Advocate — Challenge to consent decree after thirty years alleging fraud and lack of authority by Manager — General Power of Attorney conferred broad powers, including authority to defend, submit to judgment, and compromise suits — Advocate representing Defendant also executed consent terms — Advocate holding vakalatnama possesses implied authority to settle — Record India Law Library Docid # 2455256
(25) MR. CHARANJIT SINGH BRIGHT Vs. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND ANOTHER[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 General Insurance (Conduct, Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1975 — Rule 30(ii) — Constitution of India — Article 311(2)(b) — Dispensation of departmental inquiry — Mandatory requirement of recording reasons — Power to dispense with regular inquiry is an exception to the normal rule — Disciplinary authority must record specific, objective, and cogent reasons in writing establishing that holding an inquiry is not reasonably practicable — Mere ipse dixit or mechanical invocation of Rule 30(ii) withou India Law Library Docid # 2455257
(26) M/S VIDYA CATERERS Vs. BHARAT PETROLEUM CORP. LTD & ORS.[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India — Article 226 — Judicial review in tender and contractual matters — Scope of interference — Author of the tender document is the best judge to understand and appreciate its requirements — Court in exercise of writ jurisdiction cannot sit as an appellate authority or substitute its own interpretation for that of the author unless the decision-making process suffers from manifest arbitrariness, perversity, or mala fides — Technical evaluation and comparison of bids by courts India Law Library Docid # 2455258
(27) ASHWIN ASHARA AND ANOTHER Vs. THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GREATER MUMBAI AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Private contractual disputes — Redevelopment agreement — Petitioners sought a writ against a private developer claiming additional area, amenities, and compensation under a redevelopment agreement — Held, writ jurisdiction cannot be invoked as a substitute for ordinary civil remedies to adjudicate private claims against a private entity not discharging any public duty — Where the dispute is rooted purely in private co India Law Library Docid # 2455259
(28) CONSTABLE SUSHIL KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HP AND ORS.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Punjab Police Rules — Rule 16.38 — Scope and Procedure — Complaint alleging criminal offence by police officer in official duties — Superintendent of Police is required to immediately inform the District Magistrate — District Magistrate determines whether the investigation shall be conducted by a selected Magistrate of the first class or a police officer — Upon establishment of a prima facie case, judicial prosecution ordinarily follows — Departmental proceedings may be held only if specifically India Law Library Docid # 2455338
(29) STATE OF H.P. Vs. RAJESH VERMA[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 279 and 304A — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Rash and negligent driving — Causing death by negligence — Accused drove a pick-up loaded with vegetable bags and apple boxes carrying the deceased perched on top — Accused swerved suddenly at a curve, causing the deceased to fall, strike the windshield of an oncoming bus, and sustain fatal injuries — Permitting a passenger to sit atop loaded goods and maneuvering abru India Law Library Docid # 2455351
(30) M/S RAKESH KUMAR AND DINESH KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. NANDAN TANDON[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act — Section 14 — Amendment of eviction petition — Eviction petition filed on grounds of bona fide requirement and arrears of rent — Landlord filed application under Order 6 Rule 17 seeking to incorporate statutory pleadings regarding non-acquisition of other commercial premises — Rent Controller allowed amendment subject to payment of Rs. 3,000/- as costs — Tenants challenged the order under Article 227 of India Law Library Docid # 2455358
(31) DHANI RAM @ GALLU Vs. STATE OF HP[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 18, 20 and 37 — Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Grant of regular bail to elderly undertrial — Commercial quantity recovered — Revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Under Trial Review Committees (UTRCs) framed pursuant to Supreme Court directions — Step 2, Clause 2.2.16 permits consideration for release of undertrials aged 70 years and above — Petitioner, being 73 years old, was duly recommended for r India Law Library Docid # 2455359
(32) CHOBBE RAM & ORS. Vs. STATE OF HP & ORS.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 418, 419, 420 and 120-B — Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 318(3), 319(2) and 11(b) — Quashing of FIR — Compromise between parties — Impersonation and forgery of sale deed — Criminal proceedings cannot be quashed merely because the victim settled the dispute with the accused — Offences involving fabrication of documents and impersonation to transfer title affect societal interests and the probity of la India Law Library Docid # 2455361
(33) RAJ KUMAR Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Regular Bail — Successive bail application — Maintainability — Material change in circumstances — Accused filed a successive bail application after the dismissal of his previous bail petition — Held, successive bail applications can only be entertained if there is a substantial and material change in the fact situation or law directly impacting the earlier decision — Judicial propriety and discipline demand restraint against entertaining repeated applicatio India Law Library Docid # 2455362
(34) DHANIA AND OTHERS Vs. KANSO DEVI AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 22 Rule 4 and Rule 9 — Abatement of appeal — Failure to implead legal representatives — Test of total versus partial abatement — Appeal abates in its entirety if proceeding against surviving respondents would lead to mutually contradictory or inconsistent decrees — Court must determine whether the decree is joint and indivisible, whether the action could have been instituted against surviving respondents alone, and whether a decree against them would be r India Law Library Docid # 2455369
(35) AYISHATH RUKSANA Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 22(5) — Kerala Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 2007 — Sections 3(1) and 7(2) — Preventive detention — Supply of grounds and documents in language known to detenu — Detenu, a native of Karnataka knowing only Kannada, was served the detention order and relied-upon material in Malayalam without Kannada translations — Failure of detaining authority to furnish translated copies in a language understood by the detenu violates Article 22(5) — Detenu was de India Law Library Docid # 2455375
(36) TAPASI BAG Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 — Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Competing rights of senior citizen and daughter-in-law — Harmonious balancing — Daughter-in-law possesses a right to reside in her matrimonial home, but such right is not indefeasible so as to exclude or oppress elderly in-laws from their owned property — Courts must harmoniously balance the competing rights of aged parents and the India Law Library Docid # 2455389
(37) IJARUL MALLICK @ EJARUL MALLICK Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 370 and Section 370(2) — Trafficking of persons — Ingredients — Fraudulent inducement and consent — Convict enticed a married woman under false pretext of marriage and transported her to a rented room in a red-light area — Held, under Section 370 IPC, victim's consent is explicitly immaterial — Even if completed acts of prostitution with customers were not fully established due to victim's stiff resistance, dishonest intent and transportation through deception with the India Law Library Docid # 2455390
(38) ABU NASER GHARAMI AND ORS. Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 19(1)(a), 19(1)(b) and 226 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 141, 143, 145, 147 and 149 — Peaceful protest — Right to assemble without arms and voice grievances is constitutionally guaranteed — Large assembly of demonstrators shouting slogans does not per se constitute an unlawful assembly unless the common object falls within the five categories enumerated under Section 141 IPC — Mere protest and rais India Law Library Docid # 2455391
(39) PRATAP KUMAR SAHA Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Service Law — Recruitment / Selection Examination — Answer Key Dispute — 2nd State Level Selection Test (SLST) — Petitioner missed qualifying mark by one mark and challenged Question No. 4 in 'D' series booklet claiming option 'C' was correct instead of model answer key's option 'B' — Subject experts considered objection and concurred with model answer key — Held, model answer key was uniformly applied to all candidates and cannot be departed from merely because candidate relies on textbooks sup India Law Library Docid # 2455392
(40) SAYANTAN CHAKRABORTY AND ORS. Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANR.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 498A, 406 and 34 — Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — Section 4 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Matrimonial dispute — Parties separated within six months of marriage due to irreconcilable differences — Wife lodged complaint alleging cruelty after husband initiated matrimonial litigation — Case diary revealed that the allegations were general in nature and lacked specific details — None of the ingredients required to India Law Library Docid # 2455393