(541) KEERTIKIRAN Vs. SHANTESH[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Sections 9, 13(1)(i), 13(1)(ia) — Transfer of matrimonial proceedings — Cross-petitions by husband and wife for transfer of each other's petitions to a common forum — Husband's elderly, ail75 dependent father requiring care shown through medical records and resignation from employment, against wife's bank employment permitting work-from-home — Convenience and balance of hardship favouring husband — Wife's petition for transfer dismissed; husband's petition allowed, wif India Law Library Docid # 2447999
(542) STATE OF BIHAR Vs. DHARMRAJ SINGH[PATNA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Service Law — Dismissal — Breath Analyzer Report — No Evidence — Natural Justice — State's intra-court appeal against quashing of a police officer's dismissal for consumption of liquor, based solely on an unproved breath analyzer report and smell-based witness testimony, without consideration of the officer's tuberculosis-related medication defence. Held, while a breath analyzer report is admissible under Section 75(3) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, its admissibility is distinct from i India Law Library Docid # 2448101
(543) RAMAKRUSHNA KAR Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Odisha Gram Panchayat Act, 1964 — Sections 25(1)(n), 26(2), 26(3) — Disqualification of Naib Sarpanch — Natural justice — Where repeated notices for hearing were duly served and acknowledged by the petitioner who chose not to participate in the disqualification enquiry, he is estopped from later alleging violation of natural justice — Disqualification order passed after independent application of mind to the complaint and departmental reports, holding the petitioner (a registered contractor) to India Law Library Docid # 2448252
(544) HAFIS Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 52A(4) — Inventory as primary evidence — Mandatory tendering in evidence, not mere production — Once foundational facts of non-compliance are shown, burden shifts to prosecution to either prove due compliance with S. 52A or satisfy the court that non-compliance did not affect the case — Section 52A(4) inventory certified by the Magistrate constitutes primary evidence in substitution of the contraband, but must be formally tendered an India Law Library Docid # 2448602
(545) M/S IRINE AGRO SPICES Vs. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF AXIS BANK LTD[KERALA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — MSMED Act, 2006 Framework — Borrower's duty to assert MSME status — Alternative remedy under S. 17 SARFAESI — Following binding Supreme Court precedent (Pro Knits; Shri Shri Swami Samarth), even where the lender is unaware of MSME status, the borrower must assert such status in response to the S. 13(2) notice, supported by affidavit, triggering the lender's obligation to consider the Framework India Law Library Docid # 2448603
(546) DR. JOHNS PVT. LTD. Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 10-07-2026 Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 — Sections 18(a)(i), 18(B), 25(3), 25(4), and 27(d) — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1989 (J&K) — Section 538-B [corresponding to CrPC, 1973 — Section 468 / BNSS, 2023 — Section 510] — Bar of Limitation — Time-barred prosecution — Taking cognizance of offences under Sections 18(a)(i) and 18(B) punishable under Section 27(d) of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (carrying a maximum punishment of two years India Law Library Docid # 2448657
(547) UNION OF INDIA Vs. NARENDER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 10-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 47 Rule 1 — Scope and Grounds of Review Jurisdiction — Review is not an appeal in disguise and cannot be entertained merely for a fresh hearing, re-appreciation of evidence, or substitution of one possible view for another — Review jurisdiction can be validly invoked only upon the discovery of new and important matter/evidence which, despite due India Law Library Docid # 2448658
(548) ASHFAQ AHMAD BHAT Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (SRINAGAR BENCH)] 10-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Quashment of FIR — Matrimonial dispute — Compromise — FIR under Ss. 498-A, 354, 323 IPC arising out of matrimonial discord — Parties amicably settling disputes and complainant unwilling to pursue proceedings — Held, where wrong is essentially private/personal or arises from matrimonial dispute and parties have resolved it, High Court is within jurisdiction to quash proceedings under S. 482 CrPC even if some offences are non-compoundable, particularly India Law Library Docid # 2448662
(549) TADI MUSALAMMA ALIAS MARY AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 36-A(4) — Bail — Non-Filing of Charge Sheet Within Statutory Period — Where the charge sheet is not filed within the statutory period of 180 days from arrest and no extension has been sought by the prosecution by demonstrating progress of investigation and specific reasons, and investigation qua the accused stands substantially completed with only official witnesses remaining, refusal to release the accused, who have fixed abode and India Law Library Docid # 2448773
(550) SH. SANJEEV KUMAR CHADHA Vs. ANIL KUMAR CHADHA AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Property Law — Validity of Sale Deeds — A relinquishment deed, duly registered, confers title upon the recipient — Subsequent sale deeds executed by the recipient cannot be invalidated based on mere suspicion or conjecture, especially when the India Law Library Docid # 2447508
(551) RATTAN SINGH Vs. AKHTAR ISLAM[DELHI HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Specific Performance of Contracts — Readiness and Willingness to Perform — Plaintiff must prove continuous readiness and willingness from the date of contract to the time of hearing — Financial capacity is required to be proved through evidence — India Law Library Docid # 2447509
(552) SHRIRAM MANDIR PANCHKUIYA DHARMIK TRUST THROUGH ITS TRUSTEE ASHOK KUMAR Vs. SHRI MAHANT RAMGOPALDAS GURU LAXMANDAS AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 115 — M.P. Public Trusts Act, 1951 — Section 2(1) — Maintainability of Civil Revision — Registrar, Public Trust is not a "Court" as defined under Section 2(1) of the M.P. Public Trusts Act, 1951, nor is it a "Subordinate Court" under Section 3 of the CPC — Revisional powers of High Court India Law Library Docid # 2447514
(553) STATE OF CHHATTISGARH Vs. ANWAR KHAN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 25 — Confessions to police — Admissibility — A confession made to a police officer is inadmissible in evidence against an accused person, irrespective of the circumstances under which it was made. This absolute bar applies to confessions made even when the accused is not in police custody or before any investigation has begun. The term "accused of any offence" includes a person accused at India Law Library Docid # 2447578
(554) THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS Vs. RAMESHWAR SINGH AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure — Condone Delay — Inordinate delay in filing appeal by the State, if not explained by sufficient cause, will result in dismissal of the delay condonation application — The courts are not to extend the period of limitation on equitable grounds. India Law Library Docid # 2447598
(555) RAJAN KUMAR SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Exam Regulations — OMR Answer Sheet — Candidate's sole responsibility for filling OMR sheet correctly — Instructions on OMR sheets are mandatory and have force of law — Failure to comply with instructions, including correct filling of roll number, can result in cancellation of candidature — Computer processing of OMR India Law Library Docid # 2447599
(556) ROSHAN LAL Vs. VENI RAM AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 39 Rule 7 — Appointment of Advocate Commissioner — Trial Court's power to appoint a Commissioner for local inspection to ascertain physical condition, measurements, and boundaries of disputed property is permissible to facilitate adjudication of interlocutory applications, not for India Law Library Docid # 2447658
(557) SHAHNAWAZ AND OTHERS Vs. MOHHOMAD YUSUF AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Registration Act, 1908 — Sections 17 and 49 — Indian Stamp Act, 1899 — Section 35 — Admissibility of document — Document as memorandum of family settlement — A document that merely records an already concluded oral family arrangement, and does not itself create, declare, or extinguish rights in immovable India Law Library Docid # 2447659
(558) BABUL KALAL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF THE RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Administrative Law — Natural Justice — Principles of Natural Justice require that a candidate must be given an opportunity of hearing before being permanently debarred from appearing in examinations, especially when the debarment order is issued without prior notice or communication to the affected party. India Law Library Docid # 2447660
(559) SMT. HAKRI AND OTHERS Vs. SMT. LEELA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1998 — Mandatory duty to impound insufficiently stamped documents — Trial court erred by refusing to impound a document after declaring it inadmissible due to insufficient stamp duty and lack of registration, instead relying on its prior admissibility ruling. India Law Library Docid # 2447661
(560) BIRAM SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-07-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 52-A — Disposal of seized substances — Procedure for drawing samples — Non-compliance or delay in following Section 52-A is a procedural irregularity, not fatal to the trial, and does not automatically entitle an accused to bail — The Supreme Court has held India Law Library Docid # 2447662