(1) BALASAHEB KARBHARI UPHADE AND OTHERS Vs. TAHASILDAR, DINDORI AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 29-09-2026 Mamlatdars' Courts Act, 1906 — Section 5 — Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 — Section 143 — Scope of summary jurisdiction — Removal of obstruction versus creation of new road — Section 5 confers summary jurisdiction to remove obstructions caused to an already existing road or customary way — Mamlatdar cannot create a new road or grant a fresh right of way merely because a party lacks alternative access — Power to grant a new right of way over agricultural boundaries resides exclusively under India Law Library Docid # 2454011
(2) BOMBAY GARAGE AHMEDABAD LIMITED AND OTHERS Vs. JP ISCON PRIVATE LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 2 Rule 2 — Bar of suit — Omission to sue for one of several reliefs — Plaint in subsequent suit seeking specific performance based on an oral agreement — Plaintiff had previously instituted a suit for permanent injunction against alienation of suit property based on the same cause of action — Said earlier suit was withdrawn seeking liberty to file a fresh suit — Held, a subsequent suit claiming specific performance is barred by Order 2 Rule 2 when no leav India Law Library Docid # 2454043
(3) SANJAY BADAYA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Grant of Regular Bail — Pre-trial Incarceration — Prolonged Delay in Trial — Chargesheets filed and investigation complete qua the appellants — Evidence predominantly rests on voluminous documentary records and electronic trails already in safe custody of investigating agency — Trial yet to commence due to pending investigation against co-accused, absconding accused, and recent grant of sanction for prosecution — P India Law Library Docid # 2454044
(4) SURINDER AHUJA AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-09-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 23(1) First Clause — Determination of market value — Spatial contiguity, project-wide parity, and suburban potential — Acquisition of land across six contiguous villages for the construction of Aspal Extension Drain — Reference Court enhanced the market value to Rs. 5,00,000/- per acre relying on the 1996 Sultanpur benchmark (Ex. PW-7/1) and local evidence establishing that the acquired land fell within 5 km of municipal limits ("Special Village" classificati India Law Library Docid # 2454041
(5) MULLA AFROZ Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-09-2026 National Security Act, 1980 — Section 3(2) — Preventive Detention — Inadmissibility of extra-judicial confession before police — Subjective satisfaction resting on uncorroborated confession — Appellant detained under NSA following violence during mosque survey — Confessional statement made while in police custody formed a core basis for the detention order — Held, an accused enjoys fundamental rights against self-incrimination under Article 20(3) of the Constitution, which finds statutory reflec India Law Library Docid # 2454042
(6) M/S ASJ FINSOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. Vs. VIKRAM BAJAJ[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-09-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Schedule I to Liquidation Process Regulations — Public Auction — Default in payment of balance sale consideration — Forfeiture of Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) and part consideration — Successful bidder in liquidation e-auction deposited 25% of the bid amount (comprising 10% EMD and part balance consideration) but failed to pay the remaining balance consideration within the stipulated time — Bidder sought refund on grounds of absence of explicit forfeit India Law Library Docid # 2453813
(7) BIHAR STATE ARDH SARKARI ARAJPATI KARAMCHARI MAHA SANGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Non-payment of legitimate dues — Fundamental right to life and dignity — Protracted delay in recognizing and discharging legitimate monetary entitlements of workmen over several decades violates fundamental rights — Court under constitutional jurisdiction can mold public law remedies to alleviate long-standing deprivations. India Law Library Docid # 2453814
(8) SHIKHA W/O VARUN SUREKHA @SHIKHA D/O SHARADKUMAR RANIWALA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-09-2026 Constitution of India — Article 142(1) — Matrimonial Dispute — Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent and quashing of proceedings — Exercise of extraordinary powers — Marriage between parties had broken down irretrievably with parties living separately since 2022 — Multiple civil and criminal proceedings were pending between the parties and their family members — During pendency of transfer petitions, husband filed application under Article 142 seeking dissolution of marriage — Parties mutual India Law Library Docid # 2453815
(9) HARI RAM AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 307 — Evidence of injured and related eyewitnesses — Credibility — Testimonies of eyewitnesses who were family members and closely related to deceased cannot be discarded solely on grounds of relationship or alleged enmity — Relationship is not equivalent to being an interested witness — Courts are only required to scrutinize such evidence with care and caution — Evidence of an injured eyewitness carries high probative value and cannot be rejected lightl India Law Library Docid # 2453818
(10) AMIT SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND 2 OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 36A(4) — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 167(2) — Extension of investigation period — Validity of complaint — Special Court extended investigation by 60 days, which was quashed by High Court with liberty to file a fresh application — Investigating agency failed to file fresh application but filed complaint within previously extended time — Held, complaint filed without a valid order of extension is barred by time and contr India Law Library Docid # 2453829
(11) MOHAMMAD ZUBAIR USMAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Habeas Corpus — Child Custody — Maintainability and scope — Extraordinary and discretionary remedy — Writ of habeas corpus is maintainable for determining minor child custody even when the child is in the custody of another parent — Parens patriae jurisdiction — The primary duty of the court is to ascertain whether custody is unlawful and whether the child's welfare requires changing custody — Competing statutory or legal rights of parents cannot overr India Law Library Docid # 2453839
(12) UMENDRA EXPORTS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. FOUR CUBES INVESTMENTS LTD AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 20, Order 1 Rule 3 and Order 2 Rule 3 — Territorial Jurisdiction — Joinder of Causes of Action — Scope — Plaint combined claims arising from an underlying sale transaction with claims arising from a subsequent multimodal transportation contract — Held, joinder of parties and causes of action does not enlarge the territorial jurisdiction of a Court — Each independent cause of action must have its own jurisdictional foundation — Pleading a common narrative or c India Law Library Docid # 2453844
(13) M/S AIRPORT HANDLING SERVICES Vs. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KANPUR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 12(5), 14(1)(a) and Seventh Schedule — Distinction between de jure ineligibility and de jure inability — Ineligibility under Section 12(5) strictly flows from relationships or categories specified in the Seventh Schedule — De jure inability under Section 14(1)(a) is the genus, whereas Section 12(5) ineligibility is a species — While an arbitrator falling under the Seventh Schedule is de jure unable to act, every legal incapacity or disability ari India Law Library Docid # 2453845
(14) KURUKSHETRA EXPRESSWAY PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. NATIONAL HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 37(1)(c) read with Section 34 — Scope of appellate jurisdiction — Scope under Section 37 is narrower than Section 34, functioning as a double filter — Appellate court under Section 37 is not a first appellate forum over the arbitral award and cannot re-appreciate evidence or merits of the dispute — Role of the Section 37 court is strictly confined to testing whether the Section 34 court exercised its jurisdiction properly within the statutory grou India Law Library Docid # 2453846
(15) VISHAL OIL AND LUBRICANTS CO. Vs. THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (IMPORT)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Customs Act, 1962 — Sections 28 and 125 — Confiscation and redemption — Computation of interest on delayed payment — Imported goods were seized and confiscation proceedings remained pending for over seven years before culminating in an Order-in-Original — Department sought interest from the date of the original assessment in May 2015 — Held, liability under Section 125(2) arises upon the exercise and acceptance of the redemption option and is determined under Section 28 — Interest cannot be calc India Law Library Docid # 2453847
(16) LICHFL CARE HOMES LIMITED. Vs. DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ANTI-PROFITEERING, CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES AND CUSTOMS & ORS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Section 171 — Anti-profiteering — Real Estate Sector — Computation Methodology — Compliance with Reckitt Benckiser — Rejection of ITC-to-turnover ratio does not bar use of purchase value — DGAP quantified additional ITC availed against post-GST purchase value, determined total project savings, and divided same by total project area to arrive at per-square-foot benefit for sold area — Held, such methodology is materially different from the rejected ITC-t India Law Library Docid # 2453848
(17) WELLO RETAIL PVT LTD Vs. SANT PARMANAND BLIND RELIEF MISSION[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 17 and Section 37(2)(b) — Interim measures by Arbitral Tribunal — Overlap with final relief — Fact that interim prayers are co-extensive with reliefs sought in the Statement of Claim does not ipso facto mean they tantamount to final determination or pre-judging the dispute — Interim protective orders are frequently required to balance contrasting rights between parties during arbitral proceedings — Acceding to the view that co-extensive prayers ca India Law Library Docid # 2453849
(18) VINITA KUMARI Vs. THE STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 U.P. Government Servants' Conduct Rules, 1956 — Rule 29 — Bigamous marriage — Quantum of punishment — Deletion of Sub-rule (3) — Binding precedent — Petitioner challenged charge-sheet issued under Rule 14(1) of 1991 Rules alleging bigamous marriage, contending only minor penalty could be imposed under Rule 29(3) — Held, Sub-rule (3) was deleted by the 1976 Amendment Rules — Prior judgments restricting punishment to a minor penalty were rendered per incuriam as they relied on unamended provisions India Law Library Docid # 2453850
(19) SANJAY KUMAR TIWARI Vs. THE STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Criminal Procedure — Joint Trial and Consolidation — Applicability of precedent — Petitioner sought consolidated trial of pending FIR alongside three interconnected FIRs relying on Supreme Court ruling requiring joint trial for offences arising from the same transaction — Held, the proceedings emanating from the other three FIRs had already culminated in closure — Principle requiring joint trial does not apply where connected cases have already been disposed of — Relief seeking clubbing or conso India Law Library Docid # 2453851
(20) MS G Vs. STATE NCT OF DELHI AND ANR.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 483(2), 483(3) and 528 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439(1A) — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 69 — Victim's participatory rights — Hearing on bail application — A victim who sets the criminal justice machinery into motion possesses an independent, substantive, and legally enforceable right to participate and be heard at every crucial stage of criminal proceedings, including the India Law Library Docid # 2453852