(721) RAVINDER KUMAR Vs. GANESH DUTT (DECEASED THROUGH LRS) AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Injunction — Co-owners and Construction — A co-owner is generally not entitled to an injunction restraining another co-owner from raising construction on joint property unless the construction amounts to ouster, diminishes the value or utility of the property, or is otherwise detrimental to the co-owner out of possession — The burden is on the plaintiff to prove such detrimental impact India Law Library Docid # 2447220
(722) DR. RAHUL PATIDAR Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ Petition — Scope of Judicial Review — Court cannot act as an appellate academic body and assess equivalence of degrees, substituting its views for academic experts, especially in recruitment matters where specific rules and advertisements govern the process. India Law Library Docid # 2447226
(723) NEGI RAM Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397, 401 — Revisional Jurisdiction — Scope — A revisional court is not an appellate court and can only rectify patent defects, errors of jurisdiction, or law — It cannot re-appreciate evidence or substitute its own findings for those of the lower courts, unless the findings are perverse, illegal, or based on no evidence. India Law Library Docid # 2447227
(724) STATE OF H.P. Vs. SATPAL[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 — Section 16(1)(a)(i) — Misbranded and Adulterated Food — Food Inspector's failure to mention in the spot memo that the manufacturing date was not on the label renders the prosecution case regarding misbranding doubtful, as such misbranding should have been noted by the Food Inspector at the time of sample collection. India Law Library Docid # 2447228
(725) THE COMMISSIONER URBAN LAND CEILING AND URBAN LAND TAX Vs. MANGALA GOWRI (DIED) AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Inordinate delay of 904 days in filing appeal — Explanation of seeking instructions from higher authorities and administrative reasons not considered sufficient cause — Delay cannot be condoned as a matter of course or merely as an act of generosity. India Law Library Docid # 2447338
(726) SHASHIKANT M. RAMANE AND OTHERS Vs. JOINT REGISTRAR CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES SRA/MHADA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Section 154B-8(2) and 154B-23(1)(iii) — Disqualification of Committee Members — Failure to furnish documents to a member within 45 days of payment of fees renders committee members liable for disqualification. India Law Library Docid # 2447343
(727) MEENU MALHOTRA Vs. JASBIR SINGH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of plaint — Application for amendment moved at initial stage after filing of written statement — Trial Court erred by dismissing application as belated India Law Library Docid # 2447210
(728) IMTIYAZ AHMAD BHAT Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Habeas Corpus — Preventive Detention — Petitioner sought release from preventive detention under the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978. The Court examined the grounds of detention and procedural safeguards. India Law Library Docid # 2447287
(729) JAYASURYA Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Appeal against dismissal of bail petition by Special Court for SC/ST (POA) Act — Appellant was already in jail for another case during the registration of the current FIR and his arrest — Despite conflicting claims regarding his presence and involvement, the period of incarceration already undergone by the appellant is a significant factor for considering bail. India Law Library Docid # 2447402
(730) PERIYAMMAL Vs. SUNDARAM AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Speedy Disposal of Suit — Senior Citizen Plaintiff — Court directed early disposal of a partition suit due to the plaintiff being a senior citizen, aged 75 years, and the suit pending for several years. India Law Library Docid # 2447403
(731) AMSAVALLI AND OTHERS Vs. SELVI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 8 — Property inherited by a son from his father after 1956 as a Class I heir does not become coparcenary property in relation to his children and he becomes the absolute owner with full power of alienation. India Law Library Docid # 2447404
(732) OM PRAKASH BARWADIYA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail Cancellation — Grounds for cancellation of bail are limited to misuse of liberty, supervening circumstances, or patent illegality/perversity in the original bail order — A mere possibility of another view on merits is insufficient. India Law Library Docid # 2447685
(733) SURYA PRATAP SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Service Law — Suspension — Extended duration — Uttarakhand Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 2003, R. 4 — Petitioner, a probationer, placed under suspension following his arrest in connection with a paper-leak FIR in which he was not originally named but later implicated post-investigation — Following Ajay Kumar Choudhary v. Union of India, (2015) 7 SCC 291, suspension ordinarily should not extend beyond three months absent service India Law Library Docid # 2447965
(734) MONU ALIAS GUFRAN Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Trial — Hostile witnesses — Unproved recovery — Failure of prosecution to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt — Section 302/34 IPC — Conviction for murder of a minor girl rested on alleged eyewitness account and recovery of knife/chunni from a third party's house at appellant's instance — Held, all material witnesses of fact, including informant-father, mother, uncle (recovery witness), and sister, turned hostile and did not support the prosecution case; informant categorically denied r India Law Library Docid # 2447967
(735) KRISHAN KANT ANAND Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Direction for registration of FIR — Availability of alternate statutory remedy — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S. 175(3) — Petitioner sought mandamus directing registration of FIR alleging attempt to murder by poisoning, without having approached the jurisdictional Magistrate under S. 175(3) BNSS (equivalent to S. 156(3) Cr.P.C.) — Held, where an efficacious statutory remedy exists for seeking registration of FIR, the extraordinary writ jur India Law Library Docid # 2447968
(736) DEVENDRA SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 31 — Sentences for multiple offences at one trial — Silence regarding concurrent or consecutive running — Effect — Petitioner convicted under Ss. 498-A, 304-B, 120-B IPC, with sentences confirmed up to the Supreme Court, but neither the High Court's appellate judgment nor the Supreme Court's order specified whether sentences were to run concurrently or consecutively — Held, S. 31 Cr.P.C. casts an India Law Library Docid # 2447969
(737) VENKATESH T Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Regular bail — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 7(a) — Trap case where bribe amount recovered from scooter of one accused, allegation of demand only against him and not co-accused — Accused, police officers with no criminal antecedents, having cooperated with investigation, major portion of which stood completed, save FSL report — No violation of interim bail conditions earlier granted — Regular bail granted subject to conditions, conside India Law Library Docid # 2447996
(738) SREEDEVI INFRA CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. CANARA BANK AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ against SARFAESI proceedings — Maintainability — Petitioner challenging e-auction sale notice contending estoppel based on bank's alleged acceptance of substituted security — Held, SARFAESI Act, 2002 being a complete code providing efficacious alternate remedy under S. 17 before DRT, writ petition not maintainable — Article 226 not intended to bypass statutory remedy — Writ petition dismissed, petitioner relegated to statutory forum. [Paras 5, 6] India Law Library Docid # 2447997
(739) BITU KHATIK @ SONKAR Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Bail — Arms Act, 1959 — Organized crime — Non-disclosure of criminal antecedents — Where accused, involved in 23 criminal cases, fails to disclose any criminal antecedents in the bail application, such suppression of material facts amounts to abuse of process and disentitles him to discretionary relief of bail, applying the principles in Munnesh v. State of U.P. and Zeba Khan v. State of U.P. — Bail rejected having regard to allegation of organized crime involving dealing in firearms and non-dis India Law Library Docid # 2448239
(740) DR. RAMLAL R.V Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226, 227 — Maintainability where existence of a concluded contract is seriously disputed — Absence of formal agreement not fatal to binding contract — A mere reference to a future formal document does not, by itself, prevent a binding bargain — Whether execution of a further formal agreement is a condition of the bargain or merely the parties' expressed desire for a formal record depends on the intention gathered from correspondence and conduct, not created India Law Library Docid # 2448593