(841) M/S DELHI COLD STORAGE PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHER Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Companies Act, 1956 — Section 108 & 629A — Transfer of shares — Issue estoppel — Complaint filed by Registrar of Companies based on allegations already adjudicated in a previous private complaint filed by a shareholder was held to be barred by the principle of issue estoppel. India Law Library Docid # 2439504
(842) INDER SINGH (DIED) THROUGHLRS Vs. ASIN THROUGH LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES (SINCE DECEASED)[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 16-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 22 Rule 3 and 4 — Substitution of legal representatives — Appeal dismissed in abatement due to failure to substitute legal heirs of deceased appellant and respondent — Application filed to set aside abatement and substitute legal heirs — Delay in filing substitution applications — India Law Library Docid # 2440201
(843) NISHAD AND OTHERS Vs. MUMTHAZ BEEGUM[KERALA HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Family Law — Recovery of gold ornaments and money — Entrustment to husband and mother-in-law — Evidence showed wife was given gold ornaments at marriage and entrusted them to husband and mother-in-law — Husband's financial position at marriage made his claim about gifting ornaments to wife unconvincing — Wife's evidence regarding gold ornaments, money, and household articles was credible — India Law Library Docid # 2440415
(844) YOGESH KOSLE AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 304-B — Dowry Death — Essential ingredients of Section 304-B IPC include death of a woman by burns or bodily injury or otherwise than under normal circumstances, occurrence within seven years of marriage, subject to cruelty or harassment by husband or his relative soon before death in connection with dowry demand — If any ingredient is absent, presumption under Section 113B of India Law Library Docid # 2440651
(845) STATE OF CHHATTISGARH Vs. TOBIUS XAXA[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7 and 13(1)(D) read with Section 13(2) — Proof of demand for illegal gratification — Essential ingredient for conviction — Demand can be proved by direct evidence (oral, documentary) or circumstantial evidence — Mere acceptance without demand is not an offence — Section 20 mandates India Law Library Docid # 2440652
(846) NASIR BAKHSH AND OTHERS Vs. SMT. KAUSAR BANO AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 23 Rule 3 — Compromise of Suit — Rejection of Compromise Application by Trial Court — Grounds for Rejection — Prior Agreement to Sell by a Third Party — Appellants are co-sharers among themselves and sought partition. Parties entered into an amicable settlement and filed a joint application under Order 23 Rule 3 CPC. Trial Court rejected the application on grounds of non-joinder of parties and existence of a prior agreement to sell with a third party. Hel India Law Library Docid # 2440653
(847) VASUDEO GOND Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 375, 376, 511 — Attempt to commit rape — Partial penetration — Victim's testimony and medical report indicating hymen not ruptured and possibility of partial penetration — Held, sufficient to establish attempt to commit rape but not actual rape. Evidence of forcibly taking victim into room, stripping, and rubbing India Law Library Docid # 2440654
(848) ANTRAM (DEAD) THR LRS. Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 458 — Lurking house-trespass by night after preparation for hurt, assault, or wrongful restraint — Prosecution successfully proved ingredients of Section 458 IPC through evidence of victim and other witnesses; accused trespassed into courtyard at night and assaulted victim with a blunt weapon as India Law Library Docid # 2440655
(849) ALI HASAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 374(2) — Appeal against conviction and sentence for dacoity — Trial court presumed dacoity occurred without proper examination of evidence — Appellants claimed false implication due to village politics and past enmity — Court found material inconsistencies in prosecution witnesses' testimonies regarding identification, weapons used, injuries sustained, and recovery of looted items — No recovery of any booty despite arrests — Accused were India Law Library Docid # 2440979
(850) RAM PHERAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT (LUCKNOW BENCH)] 16-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 302/34, 498-A — Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — Sections 3, 5 — Conviction for murder and cruelty — Death by strangulation followed by burning to conceal crime — Plea of alibi disbelieved as after-thought and contrary to accused's own admission — Evidence of defense witnesses not reliable — Circumstantial evidence supporting guilt beyond reasonable India Law Library Docid # 2440980
(851) LH OF DECD JOSHEF JEROM CHRISTIAN AND OTHERS Vs. KIRITKUMAR JEROM VENDELIN AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of plaint — Grounds of limitation and absence of cause of action — Held, for deciding an application under Order 7 Rule 11, only averments in the plaint are to be considered — A cause of action barred by limitation cannot be decided summarily under Order 7 Rule 11 if it involves disputed questions of fact or hinges on the date of knowledge, as India Law Library Docid # 2441051
(852) BABUBHAI ISHWARBHAI PATEL Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879 — Section 135(C) — Mutation of revenue entry based on registered sale deed — A person acquiring rights through a registered document is exempted from reporting to the designated officer, implying the officer has a duty to mutate the entry even without notice to other parties. India Law Library Docid # 2441052
(853) R.SRINIVAS Vs. STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 16-02-2026 Parent Statute and Delegated Legislation — Validity of Rule — Sub-rule (3) of Rule 21 of the Telangana Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Rules, 2011, which empowers the District Collector/District Magistrate to order eviction of children/legal heirs from the property of senior citizens, was challenged as unconstitutional and ultra vires the Maintenance & Welfare of Parents and Senior India Law Library Docid # 2441472
(854) STATE REP. BY THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE Vs. M.MUNEER AHAMED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 197 — Sanction for prosecution — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 217 — Delay in granting sanction — High Court’s direction for deemed sanction if authority fails to decide within one month — Supreme Court notes that the earlier judgment in Dr. Subramanian Swamy vs. Manmohan Singh (2012) 3 SCC 64 does not support the concept of deemed India Law Library Docid # 2439531
(855) MARYAMAA JOSH AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Writ Petition — Challenging Judicial Orders — Parties aggrieved by a judicial order must challenge it according to prescribed procedure, not by filing a writ petition seeking to declare it per incuriam/sub silentio. India Law Library Docid # 2439535
(856) MANOJ Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Essential Commodities Act, 1955 — Sections 3, 7 — Cement Control Order, 1967 — Maharashtra Cement (Licensing and Control) Order, 1973 — Decontrol of cement price and distribution from March 1, 1989 — Conviction for offences relating to cement contravention after decontrol — Unsustainable in law — Prosecution fundamentally unsustainable due to absence of operative control order on relevant date. India Law Library Docid # 2439380
(857) BALMUKUND SINGH GAUTAM Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Absconding accused — General rule is that an absconder is not entitled to anticipatory bail, exception being when court is prima facie satisfied that no case is made out against the accused after perusing FIR, case diary, and other materials — Accused absconded for almost six and a half years, threatened victim, had criminal India Law Library Docid # 2439381
(858) PAWAN KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Service Law — Regularisation of Services — Casual Workers — Supreme Court held that casual workers who were similarly situated to those whose services had been regularised in previous judgments, should also have their services regularised. The Court noted that the work performed was perennial and fundamental to the functioning of the department, and that excluding these workers amounted to discrimination. India Law Library Docid # 2439382
(859) THE TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION Vs. ANNA NAGAR CRICKET CLUB AND ANOTHER ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Cricket Association Rules — Applicability of Supreme Court Judgments — A district cricket association's rules and bye-laws are not necessarily required to be identical to those of the national cricket governing body (BCCI) based on previous Supreme Court judgments, as the specific rulings in those cases did not mandate such precise conformity for district associations. India Law Library Docid # 2439383
(860) STATE BANK OF INDIA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 14, Section 238 — Telecom laws — Spectrum — Nature of — Can spectrum, even if treated as an asset in corporate debtor's books, be subjected to proceedings under IBC? — Held, No. Spectrum is a natural resource, the right to use which is granted by the Government under a licence, not ownership. The IBC cannot override the specific statutory regime governing telecommunications law. India Law Library Docid # 2439384