(421) UMESHBHAI MAHASHANKARBHAI PUROHIT Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-05-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 306 and 107 — Abetment of suicide — To attract Section 306, the accused must have a clear mens rea to instigate the deceased to commit suicide — The act of instigation must be of such intensity that it pushes the deceased to a point where they have no choice but to commit suicide — Such instigation must occur in close proximity to the act of suicide. India Law Library Docid # 2443382
(422) BHARATBHAI MAGJIBHAI PATEL AND OTHERS Vs. CHUNILAL MERVANBHAI PATEL AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — First Appeal — Scope of Appellate Court — The first appellate court has a very wide jurisdiction, similar to the trial court, and must re-examine all factual and legal aspects of the case, appreciating the entire evidence to arrive at an independent conclusion, providing reasoned India Law Library Docid # 2443383
(423) A.K.MOITRA Vs. B.A.S.F. INDIA LTD. AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 08-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — Appeals filed against the judgment and decree of the Trial Court — First Appeals were preferred by the respective defendants challenging the Judgment and Decree dated 30.06.2006 passed by the learned Principal Civil Judge, Valsad — The appeals were decided by a Common Judgment. India Law Library Docid # 2443384
(424) SANJAY SHAMRAO BHOR Vs. PUNE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 08-05-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226 & 227 — Writ Petition challenging termination of services — Labour Court's award set aside — Termination unsustainable as it occurred during subsistence of an interim order and without fulfilling prescribed conditions — Reinstatement directed with continuity of service India Law Library Docid # 2444169
(425) ANSHUKA BHANDARI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 08-05-2026 Civil Services Examination — Recomputation of results — High Court directed recomputation of preliminary examination results in previous writ petitions by deleting a question, accepting another answer as correct, and treating a third answer also as correct — The selecting body must comply with these directions. India Law Library Docid # 2446835
(426) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS Vs. MAHADAPPA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 08-05-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 4 and Compensation — Determination of market value of acquired land — Reliance on sale exemplar executed approximately two months prior to the Section 4 notification — Deduction of 40% towards development costs for acquired land due to its NA potentiality and commercial aspects, considering it India Law Library Docid # 2446940
(427) AWDHESH PRASAD TRIPATHI Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 82 and 83 — Proclamation and Attachment — Issuance of processes under Sections 82 and 83 of Cr.P.C — simultaneously requires court satisfaction that the accused is about to dispose of or remove property, or is absconding with no immediate prospect of arrest — Order for India Law Library Docid # 2443704
(428) ANIL KUMAR CHAUDHARY Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302/201 — Murder and causing evidence of offence to disappear — Conviction solely on circumstantial evidence — Appeal against conviction and sentence — Circumstantial evidence found to be scanty and disjointed, not forming a complete chain to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt — Acquittal of co-accused on India Law Library Docid # 2443705
(429) ABDUL HAKIM @ HAKIM MIAN Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302/34 — Appeal against conviction for murder — One accused died during pendency of appeal — Appeal heard for sole surviving appellant — Lower court convicted appellant for murder under Section 302/34 IPC and sentenced to life imprisonment. India Law Library Docid # 2443706
(430) MEWA SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. NACHHITTAR KAUR (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Contract Law — Offer and Acceptance — Agreement requires mutual consent, meaning both parties agree to the same terms — An offer must be clear and unambiguous, and acceptance must be unequivocal and communicated to the offeror — If there is no consensus ad idem (meeting of the minds), no binding contract is India Law Library Docid # 2443930
(431) GURDEV SINGH (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS Vs. SUKHDEV SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 101 — Will — Validity of — Burden of proof on the propounder — Will must be proved to be executed by the testator when he was of sound disposing mind. India Law Library Docid # 2443931
(432) GANESH CHAND (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LRS Vs. KEWAL KRISHAN[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 and Punjab Courts Act, 1918 — Section 41 — Second Appeal — Scope of — Second appeals are to be treated as appeals under Section 41 of the Punjab Courts Act and not under Section 100 CPC in Punjab and Haryana. India Law Library Docid # 2443932
(433) GURDEEP SINGH Vs. PRITAM SINGH (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Specific Performance — Agreement to Sell — Plaintiff sought possession based on an agreement to sell and had paid loan installments and electricity bills — Both lower courts dismissed the suit, finding the agreement to sell suspicious and unproven — This court upheld the dismissal, stating the plaintiff failed to prove the agreement's India Law Library Docid # 2443933
(434) JOGINDER SINGH Vs. MANOHAR LAL AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Punjab Pollution Control Board — Service Regulations — 1980 Regulations were statutory and approved by the Government, while 1987 Regulations were draft proposals not approved by the State Government and therefore not legally enforceable, nor could they be used as guidelines. India Law Library Docid # 2443934
(435) B.D. TRIVEDI (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS Vs. LAXMI DEVI (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Second Appeal — Suit for possession dismissed by trial court, appeal also dismissed by first appellate court — High Court upholds both judgments. India Law Library Docid # 2443935
(436) NAMENDER NATH Vs. MAHENDER AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 397, 401 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 406, 420, 506, 120-B — Acquittal challenged in revision — Both trial court and appellate court concurrently acquitted accused — High Court found no illegality, perversity, or misappreciation of evidence warranting interference in India Law Library Docid # 2443936
(437) TARA CHAND Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 468, and 471 — Cheating, Forgery of valuable security or document, and Using as genuine a forged document — Conviction for receiving old age pension based on a forged school leaving certificate — Petitioner convicted by trial court and conviction affirmed by appellate court. India Law Library Docid # 2443937
(438) SH. VINAY JISHTU Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 — Rule 10 (6) and (7) — Suspension of government servant — Deemed suspension after detention for more than 48 hours — Requirement of review within 90 days of detention or release — Failure to review within the stipulated period renders the suspension order invalid — Subsequent India Law Library Docid # 2444255
(439) LRS OF MAHAVEER SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. NARENDRA SINGH AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 07-05-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope of interference — High Court's jurisdiction in a second appeal is limited to substantial questions of law, not to re-examine evidence or function as a third court of facts — Concurrent findings of fact by lower courts are presumed correct and can only be set aside if demonstrably perverse, based on no evidence, illegal, or causing miscarriage India Law Library Docid # 2444712
(440) SHUBHAM BALASAHEB KARDULE Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 07-05-2026 Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act, 1981 — Section 2(e-2) — "Sand Smuggler" — Petitioner's role in FIR was only taking a tractor head from police custody, not involved in excavation, storage, or transport of sand — Detaining authority failed to establish necessary ingredients of being a sand smuggler as defined by law, vitiating the India Law Library Docid # 2446979