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(1) TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA Vs. M/S POLIMER CABLE NETWORK AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 — Section 11, 13, 14, 29, 34 & 36 — Adjudicatory jurisdiction — Distinction between regulatory/enforcement functions of TRAI and adjudicatory jurisdiction of TDSAT — Held, TRAI's power under Ss. 11(1)(b) and 13 to issue directions for compliance with regulations is regulatory/administrative, not adjudicatory — Direction issued to MSO to restore signals pursuant to IC Regulations, and consequent show cause notice under S.
India Law Library Docid # 2447943

(2) ARVIND KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026
Uttar Pradesh Industrial Training Institutes (Instructors) Service Rules, 2014 — Rules 9(B), 16(3)(a)(iii) and 17(3) — Craft Instructor Training Scheme (CITS) certificate reduced from essential to preferential qualification — Challenge thereto — Appellants having participated in selection process without objection, held estopped from challenging validity
India Law Library Docid # 2447944

(3) RUTVIJ BHAGAT SINGH WAKHARE Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026
Cyber Fraud — Multiple FIRs across States — Clubbing declined — Clubbing/consolidation of FIRs registered in different States was declined where each FIR was lodged by a different complainant induced to part with money on separate occasions, with distinct victims, amounts and transactions, notwithstanding a common bank account
India Law Library Docid # 2447945

(4) MIRA SHAW Vs. WEST BENGAL STATE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Electricity Act, 2003 — S. 163(1), (2), (3) — Disconnection of supply — Prior notice — Refusal of access — Held, licensee duly served notice for inspection/meter replacement; consumer's repeated refusal of access, despite challenges to the notice being unsuccessful before courts, justified disconnection after expiry of statutory notice period; plea of absence of prior
India Law Library Docid # 2447990

(5) EK PRAYAAS EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY Vs. ABDUL MAJEED AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rules 97-101, 103 — Executing Court declining jurisdiction — Nature of order — Held, an order rejecting an application under Order XXI Rule 101 solely on the ground of lack of jurisdiction, without any inquiry into rights, title or interest of parties, does not amount to "adjudication" and cannot be treated as a deemed decree under Order XXI Rule 103; such order is not appealable.
India Law Library Docid # 2447991

(6) ANIL VAILAPARAMPIL ABRAHAM Vs. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT, KOLKATA ZONE – I[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 — Section 45 — Twin conditions for bail — Held, statutory bar under S. 45 requires positive satisfaction that accused is not guilty and unlikely to commit offence while on bail; economic offences involving public deposits are "class apart" and cannot be equated with ordinary offences; petitioner, holding top-tier position in Crisis Management Team, failed to displace presumption of guilt.
India Law Library Docid # 2447992

(7) ABDUR RAHAMAN @ ABDUR RAHMAN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 319(2), 336(3), 338, 340(2) — Foreigners Act, 1946 — S. 14A(b) — Appeal against sentence on plea of guilt — Held, no appeal lies on merits of conviction where accused pleaded guilty, but appeal challenging quantum of sentence is maintainable; sentence reduced to period already undergone (1 year 6 months out of maximum 3 years) considering deportation already effected pursuant to earlier order. [Paras 4, 7]
India Law Library Docid # 2447993

(8) HPSEBL AND ANR Vs. NARENDER KUMAR[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Service Law — Revised Pay Regulations — Option for pay fixation — Delay in filing writ — Held, limitation for challenging denial of benefit of 15% pay hike runs from date of employee's actual knowledge, not from date of mere uploading of order on department's website; publication on website insufficient to fix constructive notice for orders having serious financial implications on individual employees.
India Law Library Docid # 2447994

(9) THE COMMANDANT 510 ARMY BASE WORKSHOP AND ANOTHER Vs. SUDARSHAN PAREEK[DELHI HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Government litigant — Held, Government does not enjoy preferential treatment in matters of condonation of delay; mere narration of movement of file through various departments without explaining inaction does not constitute "sufficient cause"; delay of 1241 days not condoned, following Postmaster General v. Living Media India Ltd., (2012) 3 SCC 563 and State of M.P. v. Bherulal, (2020) 10
India Law Library Docid # 2447995

(10) M/S THAKUR DASS MURARI LAL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 — Sections 4 and 6 — Essential Commodities Act, 1955 — Sections 7, 12AA — Benefit of probation, grant of — Appellants convicted for contravention of Fertilizer Control Order under EC Act, sentenced to two years' RI — Litigation pending for nearly 30 years, substantive sentence already undergone — Held, Probation Act is a reformative measure aimed at preventing conversion of first offenders into hardened criminals through jail association, and its beneficial provi
India Law Library Docid # 2448104

(11) RAGHBIR SINGH Vs. PUNJAB STATE POWER CORPORATION LIMITED AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Punjab Civil Services Rules, Vol. II — R. 3.17-A — Pensionary benefits — Counting of work-charge/ad hoc service — Petitioner's work-charge/ad hoc service prior to regularisation denied for pension on ground of non-fulfilment of educational/experience conditions under departmental Memo — Held, once services stand regularised, work
India Law Library Docid # 2448105

(12) RAVI KUMAR @ GOLU Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 316(4), 318(4), 336(3), 338, 340(2) — Regular bail — Grant of — Petitioner alleged to have facilitated fraudulent loan accounts causing pecuniary loss to financial company — Investigation concluded, charges not yet framed, case based on documentary evidence already with investigating agency, similarly placed co-accused already granted bail — Held, principle of parity applies; pre-trial incarceration
India Law Library Docid # 2448106

(13) LOVEPREET SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 21-C, 27, 29 — Anticipatory bail — Refusal of — Petitioner, driving vehicle used as taxi on date of recovery of heroin from co-accused, alleged to have joined in delivering contraband — Held, custodial interrogation necessary to determine extent of involvement and manner of commission of offence — Person under comparative safety of anticipatory bail unlikely to make full disclosure; denial of custodial interrogation would create inv
India Law Library Docid # 2448107

(14) RANJIT SINGH Vs. DARSHNA DEVI[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 24-07-2026
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Sections 138, 141, 142 — Prosecution of signatory without arraigning company — Maintainability — Cheque admittedly drawn on account of an LLP of which petitioner was designated partner, complaint filed against petitioner alone without arraigning the LLP — Held, commission of offence by the company is sine qua non for vicarious liability under S. 141; prosecution of director/signatory alone, without arraigning company, impermissible as vicarious liability cannot
India Law Library Docid # 2448108

(15) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. HARBANS LAL VERMA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026
Service Law — Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS) — Grade Pay convergence — Effect on promotions within cadre — Convergence of Grade Pay pursuant to Sixth Central Pay Commission does not obliterate separate identity of promotional posts within a cadre — Promotions carry promotional
India Law Library Docid # 2447898

(16) M/S BIRLA CORPORATION LIMITED Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026
Stamp Act, 1899 — Section 26, proviso — Mining lease — Stamp duty on instrument with indeterminate value — Determinant of stamp duty — Where value of subject-matter is indeterminate at execution, proviso to S.26 specifically governs mining leases, directing that estimated royalty or value of share, as estimated by the Collector where State is lessor, suffices for stamp duty purposes — Proviso held not inconsistent with main provision — actual value of mining lease is
India Law Library Docid # 2447899

(17) MRS. MAHABANOO CONTRACTOR AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S. KALIKUND DEVELOPERS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026
Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976 — Section 2(25) — "Occupier" — Scope of definition — The MHAD Act defines only "occupier," which includes any person liable to pay rent, an owner in occupation, a rent-free tenant, a licensee, or one liable to pay damages for use and occupation — Occupancy is not a statutory tenancy dependent on the owner's will, and even a person in
India Law Library Docid # 2447900

(18) JAGANNATH TIKARAM MAHAVAR Vs. OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LTD AND ANR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 23-07-2026
Service Law — Promotion — Merit-based promotion — Corporation's promotion regulations stipulated that promotions to higher levels (E-5 and above) were based on merit, assessed through quantification, experience, performance appraisals, and interviews — The court found that the petitioner, despite being ranked third in a seniority-based list, was not promoted because his merit-based ranking was significantly lower (43rd out of 46), and
India Law Library Docid # 2447905

(19) M/S VVS CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD. Vs. INDIAN YOUTH CENTRE TRUST AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 23-07-2026
Construction Contract — Recovery of Retention Money — Plaintiff claimed retention money based on contract clauses, but failed to provide specific documentation proving the exact amount retained by the defendant.
India Law Library Docid # 2447906

(20) SHAILENDRA MANIKRAO BAKARE Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 23-07-2026
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2] — Demand of illegal gratification is a sine qua non for an offence under Section 7 — Mere recovery of tainted currency notes is insufficient to prove guilt unless it is established beyond reasonable doubt that the accused voluntarily accepted the money as a bribe, which can only be proven if there is proof of demand.
India Law Library Docid # 2448017

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