In a significant judgment delivered on February 17, 2026, the Gujarat High Court modified a life sentence awarded in a 2016 Mehsana stabbing case. The Division Bench held that the incident, though fatal, did not amount to murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), but fell within the scope of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

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The Tripura High Court has modified a life sentence awarded to a 76-year-old man convicted of killing his wife, holding that the case was not one of murder but culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The Division Bench partly allowed the appeal and reduced the sentence to eight years of rigorous imprisonment.

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At the Srinagar wing of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, a bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by National Insurance Company Limited. The insurer was seeking to overturn a compensation award granted to a family whose home was damaged during the devastating 2014 floods.

The case originates from a policy taken by late Shad Mohd Bashir, whose residential house at Sarai Payeen, Amira Kadal, Srinagar, had been insured since 2009. Though the policy was renewed annually, the company later claimed that it excluded flood and similar storm-related risks - referred to in technical jargon as “STFI” (Storm, Tempest, Flood, Inundation).