(1) MANOJ Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Essential Commodities Act, 1955 — Sections 3, 7 — Cement Control Order, 1967 — Maharashtra Cement (Licensing and Control) Order, 1973 — Decontrol of cement price and distribution from March 1, 1989 — Conviction for offences relating to cement contravention after decontrol — Unsustainable in law — Prosecution fundamentally unsustainable due to absence of operative control order on relevant date. India Law Library Docid # 2439380
(2) BALMUKUND SINGH GAUTAM Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Absconding accused — General rule is that an absconder is not entitled to anticipatory bail, exception being when court is prima facie satisfied that no case is made out against the accused after perusing FIR, case diary, and other materials — Accused absconded for almost six and a half years, threatened victim, had criminal India Law Library Docid # 2439381
(3) PAWAN KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Service Law — Regularisation of Services — Casual Workers — Supreme Court held that casual workers who were similarly situated to those whose services had been regularised in previous judgments, should also have their services regularised. The Court noted that the work performed was perennial and fundamental to the functioning of the department, and that excluding these workers amounted to discrimination. India Law Library Docid # 2439382
(4) THE TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION Vs. ANNA NAGAR CRICKET CLUB AND ANOTHER ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Cricket Association Rules — Applicability of Supreme Court Judgments — A district cricket association's rules and bye-laws are not necessarily required to be identical to those of the national cricket governing body (BCCI) based on previous Supreme Court judgments, as the specific rulings in those cases did not mandate such precise conformity for district associations. India Law Library Docid # 2439383
(5) STATE BANK OF INDIA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 14, Section 238 — Telecom laws — Spectrum — Nature of — Can spectrum, even if treated as an asset in corporate debtor's books, be subjected to proceedings under IBC? — Held, No. Spectrum is a natural resource, the right to use which is granted by the Government under a licence, not ownership. The IBC cannot override the specific statutory regime governing telecommunications law. India Law Library Docid # 2439384
(6) ZUBAIR. P Vs. STATE OF KERALA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Kerala Education Rules, 1959 — Rule 6(2)(24)(iii) of Chapter XXXII — State Eligibility Test (SET) for Higher Secondary School Teacher (HSST) — Purposive interpretation — While the rule does not explicitly mention "in the concerned subject" for SET qualification, context, purpose, and the scheme of the SET examination (Paper II based on post-graduate specialization) indicate that the SET must be in the subject of appointment. India Law Library Docid # 2439385
(7) R. SAVITHRI NAIDU Vs. M/S THE COTTON CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-02-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 36 — Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 21 Rule 102 — Enforcement of Arbitral Award — Deemed Decree — Protection for bona fide claimants under Rules 98 and 100 do not apply to a transferee pendente lite — Transferee pendente lite is someone to whom property is transferred after the institution of the suit or arbitration in which the decree was passed — If India Law Library Docid # 2439372
(8) UNION OF INDIA THROUGH ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS Vs. SGT GIRISH KUMAR AND ORS. ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-02-2026 Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007 — Section 22 — Arrears of disability pension — Limitation period — Claims for arrears of disability pension due to broad banding are not barred by limitation or delay and laches, especially when the legal position was settled by a Supreme Court judgment in Ram Avtar case. India Law Library Docid # 2439373
(9) MANGRA CHAMPIA Vs. LALA CHAMPIA[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 12-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 374(2) — Appeal against conviction — Appellants convicted under Sections 302/34 of the Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Grounds for appeal included failure of prosecution to establish charges beyond reasonable doubt and lack of evidence for common intention. India Law Library Docid # 2439343
(10) B. PRASHANTH HEGDE Vs. STATE BANK OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-02-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 7 — Application for initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) — Limitation period — Acknowledgement of debt — Balance sheets as acknowledgement — Corporate Debtor’s balance sheets, signed by a director and produced by the Corporate Debtor itself in other proceedings, can serve as a valid acknowledgement of debt under Section 18 of the Limitation Act, 1963, extending the period of limitation. India Law Library Docid # 2439386
(11) ZEBA KHAN Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 — Forgery, Cheating and using forged documents — Grant of bail — High Court order granting bail to accused set aside — Inconsistent facts and suppressed material antecedents considered by High Court — Forged LL.B degree relied upon by accused for India Law Library Docid # 2439283
(12) N. MANOHARAN, ETC. Vs. THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-02-2026 Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972— Section 2(e)— Applicability to employees of Heavy Water Plant (HWP), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)— HWP is a project managed by the Heavy Water Projects Board of the DAE and is an adjunct or ancillary to the DAE, not a separate legal entity— Employees are considered Central Government servants and fall within the exclusionary clause of Section 2(e) India Law Library Docid # 2439284
(13) K. RAJAIAH Vs. THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-02-2026 Disciplinary proceedings — Fabrication of medical certificate — Duty of inquiry officer — Where a charge of forgery is alleged, and the key evidence involves a disputed signature, the inquiry officer must take greater caution, including potentially referring the matter to a handwriting expert, especially when the consequences of a proved charge include mandatory dismissal. Failure to do so, if it leads to a finding India Law Library Docid # 2439285
(14) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. RAFIQUE DADU DAL. AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 11-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — High Court can review, reappreciate and reconsider evidence, but must be mindful of double presumption of innocence in favour of accused, and should not interfere if trial court's view is a possible and reasonable conclusion on evidence. India Law Library Docid # 2439287
(15) BAIJU ORAON Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 11-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 304 Part I, 34 — Murder vs. Culpable Homicide not amounting to Murder — Dispute over house construction — Brothers quarreling, leading to one brother's death — Held to be culpable homicide not amounting to murder due to lack of premeditation, acting in heat of passion during a India Law Library Docid # 2439288
(16) RAM BABU YADAV Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 11-02-2026 Railways Act, 1989 — Sections 66 & 73 — Penalty for false declaration — Mens Rea — For punitive action, deliberate intent to defraud must be proven; mere operational variations or clerical errors do not constitute a false declaration without evidence of concealment or loss of freight. India Law Library Docid # 2439289
(17) SMTI TEILYNTI LYNGDOH Vs. STATE OF MEGHALAYA AND OTHERS[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 11-02-2026 All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Regulations — Mandatory PhD Requirement for Promotion — Prospective Application — Requirement of a PhD for promotion to a higher grade payment under Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) is prospective and applies only to those joining service after a specified date India Law Library Docid # 2439290
(18) HOTEL NEW METRO Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (SRINAGAR BENCH)] 11-02-2026 Hotels and Hospitality — Hiring of Hotel Premises for Protected Persons — Government Liability — Claims for accommodation and catering charges incurred by a hotel for protected political persons are legally binding on the government. India Law Library Docid # 2439291
(19) LAMA TENZIN Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 11-02-2026 Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Aст, 2013 — Section 26(2) and First Schedule — Multiplication Factor — Purpose and Determination — The Act mandates the application of a multiplication factor between 1.00 and 2.00 when determining compensation for land India Law Library Docid # 2439292
(20) MUTHU NADAR ARUN SANDRON AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHER[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 11-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 420 — Cheating — Dishonest intention and fraudulent inducement from inception — Allegations revolved around non-payment in a commercial transaction — No evidence of fraudulent inducement or dishonest intention at the commencement of dealings — Dispute appears to be primarily civil in nature. India Law Library Docid # 2439293