(601) 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
(602) 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
(603) 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
(604) 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
(605) 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
(606) 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
(607) 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
(608) 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
(609) 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
(610) 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
(611) 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
(612) DEVILAL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 15-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Grant of regular bail — Parity with co-accused — Offences under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 120-B of IPC and Sections 3 and 10 of Rajasthan Public Examination Act — Co-accused was enlarged on bail by the Supreme Court taking note of prolonged trial proceedings and lack of prior criminal antecedents — High Court held that the case of the petitioner is almost identical in nature, gravity, and potential term of punishment to that of the co-a India Law Library Docid # 2452662
(613) SOBARAN SINGH (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. Vs. GORDHAN SINGH (DEAD) THR. LRS.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-09-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 20 — Discretionary relief of specific performance — Agreement to sell agricultural land — Reversal of Trial Court’s decree by First Appellate Court and modification by High Court in Second Appeal — High Court upheld Trial Court’s findings in favor of plaintiff but directed refund of enhanced money (Rs. 15,00,000/-) to settle equities instead of granting specific performance — Imperiality of decreeing specific performance when agreement is duly proved and posse India Law Library Docid # 2452685
(614) KM. MONA SHUKLA AND OTHERS Vs. GYANENDRA KATIYAR[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order VII Rule 14(3) — Production of additional documents at final arguments stage — Judicial discretion — Leave to produce documents after conclusion of evidence is not barred by an absolute prohibition — Discretion must be exercised judiciously applying a three-fold test: whether the omission to produce earlier was bona fide; whether the document is relevant and necessary for effective adjudication; and whether its belated production would cause serious preju India Law Library Docid # 2453000
(615) SMT CHANDRAKANTA Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 180(3) Proviso — BNSS Rules, 2024 — Rule 20(1) — Investigation — Audio-video recording of witness statements — Investigating Officers frequently omitted audio-video recording under the pretext of optional administrative circulars, often copying FIR contents into statements — Such omission deprives investigations of transparency and undermines truth-finding — High Court observed that discretionary recording has been widely misused — Court directe India Law Library Docid # 2453002
(616) NAND RAM Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 118 and Section 133 — Rape of minor — Credibility of sole testimony of prosecutrix — A victim of sexual assault is not an accomplice and her testimony stands on a higher pedestal than that of an injured witness — Corroboration is not an absolute requirement of law if the testimony is worthy of credence — Minor victim's testimony was consistent, reliable, and competent — Medical evidence established fresh tears to hymen and fourc India Law Library Docid # 2453003
(617) BILLU @ TAUFIQ AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 34 and 302 — Murder — Joint Liability — Absence of overt act of causing fatal injury — Appellant chased the victim while armed with a pistol, exhorted co-accused to kill him, and remained present during the fatal knife assault — Contention that appellant neither fired nor stabbed the victim — Held, Section 34 does not require every participant to commit an identical or fatal overt act — Armed pursuit, presence, and exhortation during the assault establish a shar India Law Library Docid # 2453004
(618) SHAMSHER @ SHAMSHEER Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 366 and 376 — Determination of age — Ossification test — Absence of documentary proof of age — Radiologist assessed victim's age as about 17 years — Allowing margin of error as per medical jurisprudence, age could be six months more, placing her around the age of majority — In the absence of substantive evidence establishing minority beyond reasonable doubt, the benefit of doubt must accrue to the accused — Held, prosecution failed to prove that the victim was a India Law Library Docid # 2453005
(619) BHUVNESH KUMARI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 14-A(1) — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 397(2) — Maintainability of appeal — Order rejecting police Final Report and treating protest petition as a complaint — Preliminary objection that order is purely interlocutory — Held, an order taking cognizance, rejecting a final report, or summoning an accused is an intermediate order, not a purely interlocutory order, because reversing it terminates India Law Library Docid # 2453006
(620) LALITESH PATI TRIPATHI Vs. DR VINOD KUMAR BIND[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 15-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 102(1), Article 102(2), Article 191 and Tenth Schedule, Para 2 — Representation of the People Act, 1951 — Section 100(1)(a) — Disqualification for being chosen vs. Disqualification for being a member — Respondent, a sitting MLA of NISHAD Party, contested Parliamentary election as a BJP candidate without resigning — Held, voluntarily giving up party membership disqualifies a sitting legislator from continuing as a member of that House under the Tenth Schedule India Law Library Docid # 2453007