(721) GULABKALI Vs. AASHISH GAUTAM @ ARVIND KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Cancellation — Order granting bail can be cancelled or annulled by a superior court if it is perverse, passed on irrelevant material, or without fully appreciating the facts, circumstances, and gravity of the offence. India Law Library Docid # 2439599
(722) SUSHIL KAMALNAYAN BHARUKA AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-02-2026 Land Allotment — Auction Cancellation — High Court's contradictory orders — Principle of Judicial Consistency — Supreme Court's intervention. The Supreme Court set aside a High Court order that canceled an auction process, finding it contradictory to a previous order from the same High Court's principal bench which India Law Library Docid # 2440289
(723) C. VELUSAMY Vs. K INDHERA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-02-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 29A(5) — Extension of arbitrator's mandate — Court can entertain application to extend arbitrator's mandate even after an award is rendered, provided the award was made after the statutory time limit expired — Such an award is unenforceable, but it does not prevent the Court from exercising its power to extend the mandate. India Law Library Docid # 2438937
(724) SHUBHAM PAL AND OTHERS Vs. STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-02-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 19, 21 — Writ Petition — Re-evaluation of answer sheets — Courts should generally not interfere with examination results unless there is a clear, demonstrable error — Sympathy or compassion is not a basis for directing re-evaluation. India Law Library Docid # 2439595
(725) PRANTIK KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-02-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 406, 420, 504, 506, 120B read with Section 34 — Anticipatory bail — High Court order making grant of anticipatory bail conditional on deposit of disputed amount — Held, such condition is impermissible. India Law Library Docid # 2439597
(726) SATINDER SINGH BHASIN Vs. COL. GAUTAM MULLICK AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 7 — Initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process — Real Estate Project — Financial Creditors/Allottees — Threshold Requirement — Section 7(1) second proviso — Minimum number of allottees — Ascertained on the date of filing of the application. India Law Library Docid # 2438932
(727) SANDEEP SINGH BORA Vs. NARENDRA SINGH DEOPA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 — Section 131H — Election Disputes — Proper remedy for grievances arising from election matters, including improper rejection of nominations, is an election petition as prescribed by this Act — High Court should not entertain writ petitions in such cases as there is an efficacious alternative remedy. India Law Library Docid # 2438933
(728) THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 131 — Original jurisdiction of Supreme Court — Inter-State river water dispute — Suit instituted by one State against another State and Union of India for declaration, injunction, and direction concerning diversion of water from an inter-State river — Jurisdiction invoked based on dispute between States and failure of Union to act. India Law Library Docid # 2438970
(729) MISHA SOMANI Vs. RITURAJ SOMANI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13B(2) — Divorce by mutual consent — Cooling-off period — Supreme Court's power to waive the statutory period — High Court misconstrued earlier judgments in Amardeep Singh v. Harveen Kaur and Amit Kumar v. Suman Beniwal — The conditions for waiver are illustrative, not mandatory India Law Library Docid # 2439602
(730) RAJIA BEGUM Vs. BARNALI MUKHERJEE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 8 and 11 — Referral to arbitration — Appointment of arbitrator — Dispute regarding existence of arbitration agreement — Serious allegations of forgery and fabrication of Admission Deed — High Court's conflicting orders — Whether disputes can be referred to arbitration when arbitration agreement's existence is seriously disputed — Supreme Court held India Law Library Docid # 2438934
(731) STATE OF TELANGANA Vs. NALLA BALU @ DURGAM SHASHIDHAR GOUD AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Quashing of Proceedings — Social Media Posts — High Court's Guidelines — Supreme Court dismissed Special Leave Petitions against High Court's judgment quashing criminal proceedings related to social media posts, upholding the High Court's guidelines for police and magistrates. India Law Library Docid # 2439644
(732) ASHISH SATISH MITTAL Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Grant of — Supreme Court allowed appeals and directed Trial Court to release appellants on bail subject to conditions deemed appropriate by the Trial Court to ensure their presence in proceedings India Law Library Docid # 2444275
(733) BIKRAM SINGH MAJITHIA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Bail – Grant of – Supreme Court granted bail to the petitioner considering previous bail in another matter, dismissal of state's SLP against it, petitioner's seven months in custody, filing of police report, and the disproportionate assets case relating to a past period. India Law Library Docid # 2447007
(734) JAGDEV PURIA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — High Court dismissed petition without considering if allegations disclosed a criminal offence — Plea that dispute was civil in nature and no false document was created or intention to cheat existed — Held, High Court should have examined prima facie if India Law Library Docid # 2447008
(735) DONIYAR VILDANOV Vs. THE STATE OF U.P.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-01-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) — Sections 8, 20, 23 — Recovery of contraband — Search and seizure — Procedural safeguards — Failure to comply with mandatory provisions of the Act concerning search and seizure, including informing the accused of their rights to be searched before a Gazetted Officer or Magistrate, vitiates the entire process and raises reasonable doubt. India Law Library Docid # 2438791
(736) DR. JAYA THAKUR Vs. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-01-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Right to health — Includes right to menstrual health, sexual and reproductive health, and bodily autonomy for adolescent girls. India Law Library Docid # 2438921
(737) M/S SAISUDHIR ENERGY LTD. Vs. M/S NTPC VIDYUT VYAPAR NIGAM LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-01-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 37 — Appeal against order under Section 34 — Scope of interference by appellate court — Appellate court under Section 37 should only determine if the court under Section 34 exercised its jurisdiction properly and without exceeding its scope — Re-working and re India Law Library Docid # 2438825
(738) M/S. RHYTHM COUNTY Vs. SATISH SANJAY HEGDE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-01-2026 National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 — Sections 15, 20 — Environmental compensation — Quantification — Project cost — NGT has discretion to mould relief based on polluter pays principle, scale of offending activity, and capacity of violator — Project turnover or cost can be relevant yardstick for determining compensation — India Law Library Docid # 2438826
(739) CAPTAIN PRAMOD KUMAR BAJAJ Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-01-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Extraordinary Jurisdiction — Writ Petition — Petitioner claiming protracted persecution and targeted departmental vendetta — Sought remedy invoking extraordinary jurisdiction. India Law Library Docid # 2438827
(740) DR. S. MOHAN Vs. THE SECRETARY TO THE CHANCELLOR, PUDUCHERRY TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, PUDUCHERRY AND OTHERS ETC[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-01-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 254(2) and Seventh Schedule, List I, Entry 66 vs. List III, Entry 25 — Presidential Assent — Repugnancy — Doctrine of repugnancy and Arvind A. Patni v. State of Maharashtra, 2024 SCC OnLine SC 256 — The requirement of Presidential assent under Article 254(2) of the Constitution for India Law Library Docid # 2438828