(1) SANJAY SUREKA @SANJAY KUMAR SUREKA Vs. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) — Section 19(2) — Forwarding of arrest order and material — There is no strict timeline mentioned in the PMLA to forward the arrest order and material in possession to the Adjudicating Authority, except that it must be done "immediately". The word "immediately" means the material must be transferred expeditiously and simultaneously with the arrest, and minor administrative India Law Library Docid # 2455664
(2) B. ANASUYAMMA (DIED) PER LR AND ANOTHER Vs. B. MADHUSUDHAN REDDY (DIED) PER LRS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Limitation and Family Law / Property Law — Partition and Title Dispute — Family settlement and subsequent compromise decree — Validity and evidentiary value — Trial Court and High Court erred in holding that a compromise decree recorded by the High Court had no evidentiary value and ignoring past family settlements and valid compromises — Once a compromise India Law Library Docid # 2455665
(3) SANJAY PRASAD Vs. MADHUSUDAN DWIVEDI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Section 2(b) and 19 — Maintainability of Special Appeal/Intra-court appeal against interlocutory orders passed by Single Judge in contempt proceedings — Appellant challenged interim order of Single Judge rejecting compliance affidavit and directing personal appearance of officer for alleged non-compliance of writ court's order — Supreme Court held that civil contempt proceedings are essentially in the nature of a 'Special Civil Jurisdiction' and are not resolved in India Law Library Docid # 2455658
(4) THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL TAX, CGST DIVISION Vs. SREENIVASA RAO RAVINUTHALA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 61 and 62 — Limitation and appeal — IBC is a complete, self-contained code with strict, time-bound limitation architecture designed to preserve asset value and economic health. Under Section 62, absolute outer limit for filing an appeal to the Supreme Court is 60 days (45-day standard period plus a 15-day grace period upon showing sufficient cause), beyond which the court loses jurisdiction to condone delay. India Law Library Docid # 2455659
(5) ALLADIN CHARITIES AND ZAKAT WAKF Vs. MOHAMMED SALEEM ALIAS MOHD. WAJID ALI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rule 58 and Rules 97 to 101 — Execution of decree for possession and third-party objections — Where a stranger or third-party objector resists the execution of a decree for possession, an application under Order 21 Rule 58 is not maintainable as it governs objections to attachment; the correct remedy and procedure are governed by Order 21 Rules 97 to 101. Quoting a wrong provision of law is not India Law Library Docid # 2455660
(6) MOHD. ASAD CHOUDHARY Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Education and Universities — Verification of Academic Credentials — Where a student's name is duly reflected in the university's primary internal records (Green Sheet Register) as having been admitted against an allotted seat and having successfully cleared all examinations, an administrative or clerical omission by the university's previous administration in including the name in the admission disclosure list sent India Law Library Docid # 2455661
(7) DR. B.C. ROY ENGINEERING COLLEGE AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Education and Higher Educational Institutions — Fee Fixation and Regulation — Fixation of fees for professional education conducted by self-financing higher educational institutions must balance the certainty and predictability of reasonable fees for students and parents with the need for adequate resources and development for institutions. Fee fixation committees and regulatory bodies perform important public functions and must operate with institutional efficiency India Law Library Docid # 2455662
(8) M/S DHANLAXMI MERCHANDISE PVT. LTD Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Mines and Minerals — Sand Mining (Mining, Transportation, Storage and Trading) Rules, 2019 — Cancellation of e-tender-cum-auction — Where an MDO surrenders a lease under Rule 16 and re-participates in a subsequent tender where it emerges as the H1 bidder, the tendering authority cannot reject the bids and cancel the process solely because the fresh offers are lower than the bidder's previous contract bids, without establishing through contemporaneous valuation or market material that the bids ar India Law Library Docid # 2455663
(9) KALAMUDDIN Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA[PATNA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Service Law — Compassionate Appointment — Relative Merit Points System — Calculation of merit points — Father of petitioner died in harness — Petitioner's application rejected due to low merit points — Dispute regarding points awarded under heads of lump-sum terminal benefits and annual family income — Undisputed record established that family received Rs. 29,63,673/- exceeding the maximum threshold, attracting zero points, and sons had certified annual income of Rs. 3,60,000/-, also attracting India Law Library Docid # 2455625
(10) RAJESH KUMAR SHRIVASTAVA @ RAJESH SHRIVASTAVA Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 406 and 34 — Criminal breach of trust — Auction of repossessed vehicle — Failure to deliver vehicle — Quashing of cognizance — Complainant participated in an auction conducted by company, deposited tender and bid amounts, but vehicle was allegedly not delivered and sold to another — Petitioner was Regional Business Head of the auctioning company — Amount was deposited directly with company and not with petitioner — Held, the necessary ingredients of criminal breach of India Law Library Docid # 2455638
(11) NANDU THAKUR Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 34 and 307 — Common Intention — Attempt to murder — Constructive liability — Deceased co-accused fired at informant while appellant allegedly held the informant from behind — Mere act of catching hold of a victim does not automatically establish common intention to commit murder — Prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the act was done in furtherance of a shared common intention — Evidence at best showed similar intention, which cannot attract Section 34 India Law Library Docid # 2455656
(12) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. SUDHIR S/O MOTIRAMJI HIWARKAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 300 / Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Necessary Party — Impleadment — State as a necessary party — Writ petition filed seeking direction for absorption of a lecturer into service, which fastens direct and continuous financial and administrative liability upon the State — State of Maharashtra was not arrayed as a party respondent in the writ petition ab initio, and a belated application merely impleaded India Law Library Docid # 2455667
(13) UNIVERSAL SPECIALITY CHEMICALS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226 and 227 — Maintainability and entertainability of writ petition — Alternative statutory remedy — Rule of exhaustion of statutory remedies is a matter of policy, convenience, and judicial discretion rather than an absolute rule of law — Where the controversy involves a pure question of law and does not require an investigation into disputed questions of fact, the High Court can legitimately exercise its extraordinary writ jurisdiction without relegating India Law Library Docid # 2455675
(14) SHRI SAHEBRAO NARAYAN SASTE AND OTHERS Vs. RATAN YASHWANT SASTE AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Article 110 — Joint Family Property — Suit for partition — Exclusion and ouster — Twin conditions — Article 110 requires a positive act or conduct by which exclusion is made known to the plaintiff — Mere denial of share in agricultural yield, exclusive possession by one co-heir, or oral refusal by father in anger does not constitute ouster — Possession of one co-heir is considered in law as possession of all — Raising a plea of adverse possession acknowledges the opposite India Law Library Docid # 2455680
(15) RAHUL GAJRAJ PATIL @ SARANG PATIL Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Regular bail — Governing principles — Object of bail is to secure the attendance of the accused at trial and is neither punitive nor preventative — Presumption of innocence is a cardinal principle rooted in Article 21 of the Constitution of India, 1950 — Discretion conferred upon the High Court to grant bail is unfettered by rigid classifications and must be exercised judiciously — Held, detention prior to conviction cannot be used as puni India Law Library Docid # 2455684
(16) NIKHIL @ SUSHIL @ LUCKY Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELH & ANR.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 69 — Regular Bail — Sexual intercourse by deceitful means — Consensual relationship — Prosecutrix, a 24-year-old graduate, alleged that accused deceitfully engaged in physical relations by misrepresenting his marital status — Complainant repeatedly unblocked accused and invited him home alone, without verifying his status from her father who knew him — Prosecutrix was an educated adult, not a gullible person, and the relationship prima facie appeared conse India Law Library Docid # 2455685
(17) SHEIKH FIROZUDDIN Vs. FARIDA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Mohammedan Law — Will (Wasiyat) — Bequest to heir — Statutory limit on testamentary capacity — Consent of legal heirs — Validity of bequest exceeding one-third share — Mother executed a Will bequeathing her entire 50% share in the suit property in favour of one son — Neither the execution of the Will was proved in accordance with law, nor was consent of all other legal heirs established — Under Mohammedan Law, a testator cannot bequeath more than one-third of the estate, and any bequest to an he India Law Library Docid # 2455686
(18) MOHD ISHA Vs. UNION OF INDIA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Railways Act, 1989 — Section 2(29) — Bona fide passenger — Recovery of journey ticket during jamatalashi — Direct evidence — Tribunal rejected claim on ground of family's unawareness of journey and dispute over manner of death — Held, recovery of a valid ticket from the deceased constitutes direct evidence of his passenger status — Such status cannot be negatived merely because family members were unaware of the journey or due to subsequent doubts about the manner of death — Initial burden on cl India Law Library Docid # 2455687
(19) SHASHI R. JATIA Vs. PRUDENT ARC[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 17 — Maintainability of writ petition against private Asset Reconstruction Company — Alternate statutory remedy — Rule requiring exhaustion of alternate remedy before Debts Recovery Tribunal is discretionary, not absolute — Where challenge goes to the root of the security interest alleging fraud and forgery supported prima facie by forensic an India Law Library Docid # 2455688
(20) PROSECUTRIX Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 227 and 228 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 354C and 376 — Scope of enquiry at stage of framing of charge — Discharge of accused — Court is not required to conduct a mini-trial or meticulously weigh probative value of evidence — Test is whether material taken at face value discloses grave suspicion or prima facie case — Trial Court erred in conclusively rejecting prosecutrix's allegations merely due to non-recovery of the alleged obscene video India Law Library Docid # 2455689