(901) NEERAJ VOHRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability — Contractual obligations and monetary claims against State instrumentalities — Petitioner sought release of pending payments for executed contractual works — Respondents contended writ petition was not maintainable due to disputed questions of fact — Held, there is no absolute bar to entertaining a writ petition arising from contractual obligations or involving factual disputes — When State or its instrumentalities act arbitrarily or u India Law Library Docid # 2452453
(902) M/S KERALA INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Vs. CENTRAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 30(2)(e), 36(4)(b)(iii) and 53(1) — Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 — Section 11(2) — Resolution Plan — Dues of workmen — Statutory first charge — Dues relating to provident fund and gratuity remain outside the liquidation estate and cannot be made subject to the waterfall mechanism under Section 53(1) of the IB Code. Successful Resolution Applicant is obligated to pay the provident fund and India Law Library Docid # 2452522
(903) UTTAR PRADESH SUBORDINATE SERVICE SELECTION COMMISSION Vs. ASHOK YADAV AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Public Examinations — Judicial Review — Scope of interference with key answers — Presumption of correctness — Held, constitutional courts must exercise great restraint when examining challenges to key answers selected by examining authorities. Interference is permissible only where a glaring, apparent mistake is demonstrated without resort to any inferential process or reasoning. The court must presume the correctness of the answer key, and in the event of doubt, the benefit must India Law Library Docid # 2452523
(904) ANITA RATHORE AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 — Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 38 — Interim Injunction — Lawful possession versus long-standing possession — Suit for permanent injunction restraining State authorities from interfering with possession — Plaintiffs claimed continuous possession since 1942 under a renewed lease and pending freehold application — Held, lawful possession has a wider import and cannot be established solely on the ground of long duration — Possession must be India Law Library Docid # 2452553
(905) BHURE URF MOHAMMAD HASAN Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 87, 70(2), 127(2) — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Section 5(G)/6 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 180, 183 — Grant of bail — Gang rape — FIR lodged after unexplained delay of seven months — Contradiction in victim's statements — Victim stated before doctor that no rape was committed and medico-legal report did not support sexual assault, though she alleged gang rape in statements under Sections 180 and 183 BN India Law Library Docid # 2452554
(906) POOJA YADAV AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 21 and 226 — Live-in relationship — Right to life and personal liberty — Protection of adults — Petitioners, being unmarried consenting adults living in a live-in relationship, sought protection from family threats. Held, once an adult chooses a partner, family members or others cannot interfere with their peaceful existence. The right to life under Article 21 is sacrosanct, operates on a high pedestal, and is not contingent upon solemnization of marriage. India Law Library Docid # 2452555
(907) PRATAP Vs. RAM BHAROSE AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Direction for time-bound disposal of pending suit — Discretion of trial court — Petitioner sought a direction to expedite and conclude proceedings in an Original Suit within a time-bound schedule — High Court declined the relief, holding that Constitutional Courts should ordinarily refrain from fixing time-bound schedules for case disposal, save in exceptional circumstances — Issue of prioritising disposal is best left to the discretion of the court wh India Law Library Docid # 2452568
(908) STS GLADIES Vs. BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Bar Council of India Rules, 1965 — Rules of Legal Education, 2008 — Rule 5 — Enrolment as advocate — Eligibility where LL.B. obtained through regular mode but a preceding qualification (school/Bachelor's degree) obtained through open, distance or correspondence mode — Controversy as to interpretation and application of Rule 5 pending final adjudication before Supreme Court — Court declined to enter into merits of interpretation India Law Library Docid # 2452621
(909) CHETNA HADA[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 09-09-2026 Service Law — Upgradation of educational qualification — Rejection on ground of not having studied Mathematics in Secondary School Examination — Validity — Circulars versus Statutory Rules — Rules prescribed Secondary School Examination Certificate without requiring study of any specific subject — Administrative instructions and circulars cannot supersede statutory rules — Held, where service rules do not mandate passing an examination with a specific subject, the department cannot impose such a India Law Library Docid # 2452663
(910) PRAVEEN @ PANNI Vs. THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 09-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 103(1), 115(2), 126(2) and 189(2) — Grant of regular bail — Offence of murder — Deceased suffered only a single gunshot injury as per the post-mortem report — Eyewitness statements recorded under Section 180 BNSS revealed that the fatal gunshot was fired by a co-accused, who was the principal assailant — Said principal assailant had already been enlarged on bail by the trial court — No active role a India Law Library Docid # 2452672
(911) GOPAL GOENKA Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Inherent powers of High Court — Rejection of discharge application — Scope of interference — Applicant sought quashing of criminal proceedings and order rejecting discharge for offences under Sections 120-B, 420, 447, 467, 468, and 471 of IPC — Inherent powers are to be exercised sparingly and with circumspection to prevent abuse of process or secure the ends of justice — High Court cannot conduct a roving inquiry, mini-trial, or meticulou India Law Library Docid # 2453165
(912) TRIVENI SHIVHARI AND ANOTHER Vs. SANJAY VYAS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 1 Rule 10 — Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887 — Section 25 — Eviction suit — Necessary and proper parties — Scope of enquiry — In an eviction suit filed by a landlord against a tenant, only the landlord and tenant are necessary parties — The question of title to the suit property is not germane to the decision in an eviction suit — Plaintiff being dominus litis cannot be compelled to implead a third party claiming title — Trial Court rightly rejecte India Law Library Docid # 2453166
(913) NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Vs. SURYA WIRES PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 7(5) read with 2(1)(h) and 37 — Multi-document commercial transaction — Incorporation of arbitration clause by reference — Binding nature on non-signatory guarantor — Appellant extended loan facilities to respondent-company for setting up training centres — Contemporaneous execution of Loan Agreements and Personal Guarantees by Respondent No. 2 (Managing India Law Library Docid # 2451611
(914) M/S. GVV CONSTRUCTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 16 — Competence of Arbitral Tribunal to rule on its jurisdiction (Kompetenz-Kompetenz) — "Excepted Matters" clause in contract — Scope of Arbitral Tribunal’s enquiry — The question whether a particular claim is covered by, or falls outside, an "excepted matters" clause of a works contract is a matter squarely within the competence of the Arbitral Tribunal under Section 16, and not a question for a court — Neither a referral court under Section India Law Library Docid # 2451612
(915) NEW OKHLA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND OTHERS Vs. M/S SUNSHINE TRADE TOWER PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act, 1976 — Section 12 — Read with U.P. Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973 — Section 41(3) — Allotment of Commercial Plot — Zero Period Policy (28.03.2016) — Clause 5 — Grant of benefit on non-availability of access road — Land allotted to developer with proposed 45-metre Front Road and 24-metre Side Road as per site plan — 45-metre Front Road was encroached, unacquired ‘Abadi’ land, and unconstructed — NOIDA failed to clear encroachment or acquire India Law Library Docid # 2451613
(916) MANAV BHANOT Vs. NATIONAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 National Highways Act, 1956 — Section 3G(1) & (5) — Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 11 & 18 — Nature of determination of compensation by Competent Authority under NH Act — Determination of compensation made by Competent Authority under Section 3G(1) of the NH Act corresponds to an award passed by the Collector under Section 11 of the 1894 Act — Determination of dispute by an Arbitrator India Law Library Docid # 2451614
(917) SANTOSH SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 read with 34 / 149 — Reversal of acquittal — Overt acts and common intention — High Court acquitted A6 on the premise that holding the victim at close-range gunshot would have caused injury to A6, and acquitted A12 for lack of reliable evidence regarding exhortation — Held, the bullet entered the victim's chest and remained embedded inside, leaving no possibility of injury to the person holding him India Law Library Docid # 2451615
(918) ANNU KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY ROHTAK AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Constitution of India — Article 226 — Writ of Quo Warranto — Service Law — Qualification for appointment — Burden of Proof — Primary onus lies on the writ petitioner, who may even be a stranger, to establish through unimpeachable evidence that an appointee lacks essential qualifications or suffers from a disqualification to hold a public office. Once established, the onus shifts to the appointer and appointee to demonstrate legality India Law Library Docid # 2451616
(919) ASHOK UPADHYAY AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 r/w 34 — Arms Act, 1959 — Section 27 — Conviction for murder and firearm offense — Benefit of Doubt — Conviction of appellants based primarily on eyewitness testimony of close relatives — High Court affirmed conviction — Assailed before Supreme Court — Held, serious discrepancies and inconsistencies in eyewitness accounts — Omission of alleged injured witnesses' details in Section 161 statements and lack of medical corroboration for their injuries — Conduct India Law Library Docid # 2451617
(920) KHANINDRA KR. DUTTA Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) and Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 120B — Offence of criminal misconduct by public servant — Essential ingredients — Requirement of obtaining valuable thing or pecuniary advantage — Appellant store-in-charge certified receipt of medicines without actual supply based on false entries made by storekeeper — High Court acquitted appellant under Sections 420, 465, 471, and 477A of IPC but India Law Library Docid # 2451618