(61) RAIS UDDIN PURKAIT AND ANOTHER Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Gas Cylinders Rules, 2016 — Rule 2(7) — Maintainability of writ petition — Alternative statutory remedy — Locus standi — Original selectee challenged the withdrawal of Letter of Intent (LOI) and rejection of distributorship process — Availability of an alternative remedy does not bar writ jurisdiction where the impugned administrative action is arbitrary and violates constitutional guarantees under Articles 14, 19(1)(g), and 21, as well as provisions o India Law Library Docid # 2452444
(62) RABERT ANTHONY BARLA @ ROBERT ANTHONY BARLA Vs. ZUBIN A. KUJUR AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Revenue Law — Mutation Proceedings — Scope and Jurisdiction — Fiscal purposes — Mutation entries are summary in nature, meant solely for updating revenue records and collecting land revenue from persons in possession. Such proceedings do not confer, extinguish, or determine title, ownership, or succession rights. When a serious dispute of right, title, and interest arises between the parties, revenue authorities cannot adjudicate the controversy and must relegate the parties to a competent civil India Law Library Docid # 2452445
(63) ARUN DAS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Section 6 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 164 — Appreciation of child victim's evidence — Conviction can be sustained on the solitary testimony of a prosecutrix only if it inspires confidence, is unblemished, and is of sterling quality — Material contradictions existed between victim's Section 164 statement and trial testimony regarding place of occurrence and sequence of events — Deposition recorded merely four months after the i India Law Library Docid # 2452446
(64) MAWKHAR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SHILLONG AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF MEGHALAYA AND OTHERS[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 25, 26 and 226 — Administrative Law — Religious affairs — Scope of executive interference — Deputy Commissioner issued orders interpreting the Presbyterian Church of India Constitution and halting the administration of Holy Sacraments by an outside Synod — Held, while the State is empowered to maintain public order, preventive jurisdiction cannot be transformed into an adjudication of ecclesiastical or denominational rights — Executive authority cannot act India Law Library Docid # 2452447
(65) NANDAN SINGH FARTIYAL Vs. DEVKI DEVI[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance — Quantum assessment — Revisionist-husband challenged the Family Court's order awarding Rs. 7,000/- per month maintenance to respondent-wife — Husband derived rental income of approximately Rs. 25,000/- per month from a shop — Wife owned and possessed 12 bighas of gifted agricultural land yielding an assessed annual income of about Rs. 50,000/- — Considering the respective financial positions, available income sources, and day-to-d India Law Library Docid # 2452448
(66) SUBZAR AHMAD GANIE Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 15-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 22(5) — Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Preventive detention — Vagueness of grounds — Detenue described as an Over Ground Worker associated with terrorists — Grounds of detention must disclose basic facts and particulars, not merely detached conclusions — A vague assertion labelling an individual as an Over Ground Worker without specifying overt acts, dates, or the manner of conduct does not constitute adequate communication of grounds — Deprivat India Law Library Docid # 2452450
(67) AMRAPALI BOSE Vs. SUBRA GHOSH[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 406, 415, 418, 420, 506 and 120B — Quashing of complaint — Civil dispute given criminal colour — Flat purchase transaction — Complainant filed criminal proceedings against director and employee of developer company for recovery of money after approaching Consumer Forum — Petitioners were not signatories to agreement for sale and were merely present when assurance of refund was given — Criminal procedure cannot India Law Library Docid # 2452451
(68) SRI AGASTI CHARAN GHOSH Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973 — Section 23 — West Bengal Panchayat (Gram Panchayat Administration) Rules, 2004 — Rules 26 and 30 — Unauthorized construction — Deemed sanction — Building erected on agricultural land without prior conversion to homestead land — Gram Panchayat withheld permission — Appellant claimed deemed sanction under Rule 30 due to lack of timely response — Held, Rule 26 statutorily mandates withholding permission until land classification is altered by competent authority — India Law Library Docid # 2452452
(69) JAI SINGH Vs. AJAY KUMAR AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 and Section 173 — Rash and negligent driving — Identity of driver — Proof and evidence — Appellant-owner contended that an engaged driver was operating the offending vehicle at the time of the accident and not him. The High Court held that apart from a bare assertion, no evidence was adduced by the appellant to support his plea. Consistent eyewitness testimony established that the appellant-owner himself drove the vehicle rashly and negligently, striking th India Law Library Docid # 2452454
(70) ROSHAN LAL (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS Vs. RITA DEVI[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 26 Rule 9 — Suit for permanent prohibitory injunction and possession — Demarcation of land — Validity of Local Commissioner report — Trial Court decreed plaintiff's suit for possession of 9 Marlas of encroached land based on Local Commissioner's report and Tatima — Defendant challenged demarcation alleging lack of proper measurement and bias — Held, Local Commissioner carried out demarcation in accordance with instructions of Financial Commissioner and Hi India Law Library Docid # 2452455
(71) OM PARKASH Vs. CHAND AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Summoning of additional accused — Test and standard of evidence — Petitioner alleged specific roles in FIR attributing gandasi and knife blows to respondents, supported by medico-legal report — Investigating agency declared respondents innocent and placed them in column 12 — Injured victim and doctors testified in court corroborating allegations — Magistrate summoned respondents, but Sessions Court reversed it — Held, more than a prima facie c India Law Library Docid # 2452530
(72) DAVANAPALLI MALLESH Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8(c), 20(a)(i), 27(b) and 37(1)(b) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 480 and 483 — Regular bail — Cultivation of cannabis plant — Non-weighment of seized plant — Accused was arrested for allegedly cultivating a single cannabis plant — Investigating agency merely measured the plant's height without ascertaining its weight — Rigours of Section 37(1)(b) of the NDPS Act are not attracted as no commercial quantity is India Law Library Docid # 2452536
(73) BALJINDER KAUR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 106 and 281 — Fair and impartial investigation — Transfer of investigation — Accused named in FIR fled abroad despite non-bailable warrants — Police exonerated named accused solely based on an unverified, secondary phone-recorded video lacking original footage, date, or time, and nominated another person — Complainants faced threats — Potential connivance of local police created serious doubts regar India Law Library Docid # 2452539
(74) RENU DESWAL Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 — Section 28(1)(a) — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Competence to file complaint — Multi-member Appropriate Authority — Section 28(1)(a) explicitly authorizes institution of a complaint by an officer duly authorized by the Appropriate Authority — Complaint need not be signed jointly by all members of the multi-member statutory body — Where the State pleaded that the Authority deliber India Law Library Docid # 2452540
(75) CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER, RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION Vs. RAJINDER SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166 and 168 — Negligence — Contributory negligence — Overloading of vehicle — Head-on collision between bus and tempo — The mere fact that a tempo was carrying multiple passengers does not establish contributory negligence in the absence of specific evidence proving an act or omission contributing to the accident. Evidence of an independent eyewitness corroborated by injured passengers and a prompt FIR established the rash and negligent driving of the bus driv India Law Library Docid # 2452545
(76) CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER, RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION Vs. RAJINDER SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Negligence — Contributory negligence — Collision between bus and tempo — Appellant contended that tempo was overloaded and liability should be apportioned 50:50 — Held, the mere fact that several passengers were travelling in a vehicle or that the vehicle did not overturn does not establish contributory negligence absent specific evidence showing an act or omission contributing to the collision — Eye-witness testimony corroborated by injured occupants supported the fin India Law Library Docid # 2452546
(77) PRAKASH Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 304 Part II — Culpable homicide not amounting to murder — Knowledge without intention — Accused slapped the deceased forcefully on his cheek during a late-night altercation, causing him to fall backward onto a tar road and sustain fatal head injuries — Trial court convicted the accused under Section 304 without specifying the part — Held, while an intention to cause death or such bodily injury likely to cause death could not be inferred from a single slap, the ac India Law Library Docid # 2452556
(78) IFTEKHAR @ MUNNA ANSARI Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 15-09-2026 Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 438 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 201, 420, 465, 467, 468 and 471 — Anticipatory bail — Alleged forgery of authorization letter to park buses in school premises — Rejection by Sessions Court on ground of non-recovery of original document — Forensic report revealed questioned document did not bear applicant's handwriting or signature — Key witness stated applicant never handed over said India Law Library Docid # 2452575
(79) RAJKUMAR SINGH Vs. MUNNA SINGH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 15-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 10 — Stay of suit — Test of applicability — Entire subject matter must be identical — Petitioner sought stay of a subsequent suit challenging a sale deed executed during pendency of proceedings, on the ground that a second appeal concerning partition and injunction over the same property was pending — Held, Section 10 applies only when the entire subject matter in controversy is directly and substantially the same, and not merely where some issues are c India Law Library Docid # 2452576
(80) RAMAKANT TIWARI Vs. MANAGING DIRECTOR AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Service Law — Disciplinary Proceedings — Requirement of a speaking and reasoned order — Principles of natural justice — Petitioners penalised with recovery from salary after a theft occurred at their office — Despite submitting replies to show-cause notices, the disciplinary authority imposed recovery without recording reasons or addressing the defence raised — Held, recording reasons is an indispensable requirement of natural justice and administrative fairness — Mere assertion that the reply w India Law Library Docid # 2452578