(101) UNION OF INDIA Vs. HARISH CHANDER NARULA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2026 Property Law — Alternative Allotment — Resolution of 53-Year-Old Dispute — Cancellation of auction sale — Auction of a fuel depot plot finalized in 1973 was cancelled due to Master Plan restrictions — To resolve the protracted litigation spanning over five decades, the Union of India identified alternative plots — Respondent opted for a plot situated on the north side of Plot No. Q-4, Jangpura Extension — Supreme Court directed allotment of the said plot for consideration of Rs. 2,00,00,000/- pa India Law Library Docid # 2451823
(102) PRAMOD KUMAR RAO @ MUNNA SINGH Vs. LEGAL HEAD SAHARA INDIA COMMERCIAL CORPORATION LTD. OFFICE SAHARA INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order VII Rule 11 — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 8 — Rejection of plaint — Delay in invoking arbitration — Defendant appeared in civil suit but failed to file written statement and raised an arbitration plea after four years — Application did not specify the exact arbitration clause — Prayer in suit was for injunction against eviction rather than declaration or possession, making the original allotment agreement irrelevant — Trial court and India Law Library Docid # 2451830
(103) M/S ABC EXPRESS Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949 — Section 98(2) read with Section 132 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 497 [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 451] — Release of seized vehicle on interim custody — Statutory embargo — Scope of Section 98(2) of the Prohibition Act — Held, Section 98(2) does not impose an absolute embargo on the jurisdiction of the India Law Library Docid # 2450901
(104) EDELWEISS CUSTODIAL SERVICES LIMITED Vs. NSE CLEARING LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 — Section 9(3)(b) — Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Section 11B — Restitution/Disgorgement of liquidated securities — Power of Stock Exchange / Clearing Corporation to order restitution — Held, Section 9(3)(b) of the Securities Act empowers Stock Exchanges to make bye-laws providing for penalties, but explicitly excludes any penalty involving the payment of money — Power of disgorgement or restitution is specifically conferred by the India Law Library Docid # 2450902
(105) MAHAVIR @ AVNISH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 & Section 362 — Inherent powers of High Court — Recall of judgment — Plea of juvenility raised after final disposal — High Court dismissed Section 482 CrPC petition seeking recall of conviction on ground that the SLP against conviction had been dismissed as withdrawn and judgment attained finality — Held, bar under Section 362 CrPC against altering or reviewing judgments does not obliterate or render nugatory the inherent powers of the India Law Library Docid # 2450903
(106) BIJENDRA Vs. REKHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ib) — Divorce on the ground of desertion — Essential ingredients — Factum of separation and animus deserendi — Parties living separately since December 2005 with no cohabitation or children born out of wedlock — Appellant-husband along with witness went to bring the respondent-wife back to the matrimonial home, but she refused without reasonable India Law Library Docid # 2450904
(107) FISHERMAN CARE Vs. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, DAIRYING AND FISHERIES REP. BY ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Legislative Competence & Cooperative Federalism — Entry 57, List I & Entry 21, List II of the Seventh Schedule — Territorial Waters vs. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) — Distinction between regulatory provinces — State of Tamil Nadu prohibited purse seine net fishing within its territorial waters under the Tamil Nadu Marine Fishing Regulation Act, 1983 and 2020 Rules, India Law Library Docid # 2450905
(108) VIJAY GHANSHYAM GADIYA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Customs Act, 1962 — Section 114 — Adjudication Order — Reliance on Fake and Hallucinated AI-Generated Precedents — Nullity in Law — Order-in-Original passed by the adjudicating authority relying upon non-existent case laws, fake citations, or hallucinated AI-generated legal ratios is completely unsustainable and void — Adjudicating and judicial authorities must adopt a zero-tolerance policy against the use, citation, or reliance upon fake or unverified AI-generated material — India Law Library Docid # 2450990
(109) KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK LIMITED Vs. TRUPTI SANJAY MEHTA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Sections 2(1)(c), 2(1)(f), 2(1)(ha), 2(1)(k), 2(1)(m), 2(1)(zb), 2(1)(zc), 2(1)(zd), 2(1)(zf) & 13 — Recovery of Assigned Debt — Takeover of Loan Account from Non-Notified Entity by Bank — Applicability and Recourse to SARFAESI Act — Bank acquiring/taking over non-performing or live loan account from Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) or financial entity not notified under Section 2(1)(m) at India Law Library Docid # 2450987
(110) M.R.R. SETTY (DEAD), BY LRS Vs. GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 — Section 56(3) Proviso — Revisional Power of Revenue/Survey Officer — Statutory Limitation of Three Years — Bar on Inordinate Delay — Revisional power under Section 56(1) of the Act of 1964 in respect of an order against which no appeal has been preferred can only be exercised within a strict statutory timeframe of three years from the date of the order sought to be revised — Provisions of the Limitation Act, 1963, cannot be imported to override India Law Library Docid # 2450988
(111) SAHAB SINGH ALIAS SAT PAL Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 27 [now Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 — Proviso to Section 23(2)] — Information Leading to Discovery of Fact — Inadmissibility of Disclosure Statement when Facts Already Known — Confession made to a police officer while in custody is inadmissible except to the extent permitted under Section 27, which requires the discovery of a new fact in consequence of the information received — Where the alleged disclosure statement India Law Library Docid # 2450989
(112) PANNEER Vs. KOKILESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Sections 118 and 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Presumption and sentence modification — Accused convicted for dishonour of two cheques of Rs. 10,00,000/- each — Pleas regarding loss of cheques and lack of financial source of complainant were rejected — Execution and issuance of cheques admitted, invoking statutory presumption — Accused paid Rs. 12,00,000/- during proceedings and spent time in custody — Held, while upholding conviction, sentence is modified to the India Law Library Docid # 2451756
(113) IN RE: INACTION OF THE GOVERNMENTS IN APPOINTING PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS/STAFF OF DISTRICTS AND STATE CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION AND INADEQUATE INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS INDIA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Consumer Protection — National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) — Institutional strength and pendency of cases — Pursuant to Court directions, the President of NCDRC submitted a report detailing total case pendency, Commission composition, average disposal rate, and the necessity to enhance institutional strength — Held, issues highlighted in the report warrant immediate governmental attention — Union of India directed to objectively consider the report and undertake remedial measu India Law Library Docid # 2451764
(114) NITIN KUMAR SRIVASTAVA Vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Regular Bail — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 406, 506, 419, 420, 467 and 468 — Prolonged pre-trial detention — Appellant remained in custody for nearly five years — Charge-sheet had been filed and incriminating documents were collected, but charges were yet to be framed — Trial was likely to take substantial time to conclude once commenced — Held, further detention of the appellant was unnecessary — High Court order rejecting regular bail set aside — Ap India Law Library Docid # 2451779
(115) SOUMYAK MISHRA Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 85 and 80(2) — Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — Sections 3 and 4 — Anticipatory Bail — Factors for grant — Second anticipatory bail application dismissed by High Court — Charge-sheet already filed and prosecution proposed to examine 28 witnesses, but charges yet to be framed — Trial likely to take time to conclude — Held, detention of appellant for custodial interrogation is not required — High Court order set aside and appellant directed to be released on b India Law Library Docid # 2451790
(116) SURESH K. Vs. CHIDAMBER S. NANAVATE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Sections 138 and 147 — Dishonour of cheque — Conviction — Compounding of offence upon amicable settlement — High Court reversed the trial court's acquittal and convicted the appellant under Section 138, imposing a fine — In appeal before the Supreme Court, the parties resolved all disputes and executed a Deed of Settlement upon payment of the agreed amount towards full and final satisfaction of claims — Joint application filed for compounding — Taking the settl India Law Library Docid # 2451730
(117) DHRUB SINGH ETC. Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 307, 147, 148, 149 read with Arms Act, 1959 — Section 27 — Conviction for murder and rioting — Material contradictions between eye-witness version and medical/expert evidence — Reliability of interested witnesses — Eye-witnesses claimed accused ambushed the party from behind and shot the victim while walking in a straight line, whereas medical expert opined that India Law Library Docid # 2450805
(118) V. BALAKRISHNAN Vs. STATE REP BY THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 420 read with Section 120B — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) — Alleged fraudulent sanction of bank loans by Branch Manager in conspiracy with co-accused — Complete failure of prosecution to prove allegations — Sanctions for loans were granted by Regional Office of Bank and not solely by Branch Manager (A1) — Entire India Law Library Docid # 2450806
(119) M/S. SAUDI ARABIAN AIRLINES Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-09-2026 Finance Act, 1979 — Sections 35(2), 35A, 38(3) and 38(4) — Foreign Travel Tax Rules, 1979 — Rules 4 and 9 — Foreign Travel Tax (FTT) — Delay in payment vs. Failure to pay — Applicability of penalty under Section 38(3) — Section 38(3) contemplates a scenario where there is a complete failure to pay or non-payment of tax into the credit of the Central Government — Delayed payment of tax cannot be India Law Library Docid # 2450807
(120) RAS AL KHAIMAH INVESTMENT AUTHORITY Vs. MATRIX PHARMACORP PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 44A, Section 47 and Section 60 — Reciprocal enforcement of foreign decree — Foreign decree of superior court of reciprocating territory — Efficacy of execution — Protection of decree-holder's rights — Interlocutory protective orders — UAE is a reciprocating territory for the execution of foreign decrees under Section 44A of CPC — Where a foreign decree passed by a superior court of a reciprocating territory remains substantially unsatisfied and executio India Law Library Docid # 2450808