(441) STATE REP. BY THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE Vs. M.MUNEER AHAMED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 197 — Sanction for prosecution — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 217 — Delay in granting sanction — High Court’s direction for deemed sanction if authority fails to decide within one month — Supreme Court notes that the earlier judgment in Dr. Subramanian Swamy vs. Manmohan Singh (2012) 3 SCC 64 does not support the concept of deemed India Law Library Docid # 2439531
(442) MARYAMAA JOSH AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Writ Petition — Challenging Judicial Orders — Parties aggrieved by a judicial order must challenge it according to prescribed procedure, not by filing a writ petition seeking to declare it per incuriam/sub silentio. India Law Library Docid # 2439535
(443) 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
(444) 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
(445) 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
(446) 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
(447) 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
(448) 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
(449) BHAGABAN GANTYAYAT Vs. THE STATE OF ORISSA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 156(3) — FIR Registration — Offences under Indian Penal Code, 1860, Sections 420, 423, 468, 471, 201 — Allegations of forging gift deed and fraudulent transfers of property — Dispute primarily civil in nature, given criminal colour — No prima facie material to establish India Law Library Docid # 2439895
(450) STATE REP. BY THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE Vs. M.MUNEER AHAMED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 197 — Sanction for prosecution — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 217 — Delay in decision on sanction — High Court's direction for deemed sanction if decision not taken within one month — Supreme Court notes a Coordinate Bench decision India Law Library Docid # 2440293
(451) HARBINDER SINGH SEKHON AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act, 1995 — Master Plan — Binding force — Change of Land Use (CLU) — Master Plan is a statutory instrument that governs land use and development; it is not a mere policy document and has binding force. Any development contrary to the operative plan is impermissible unless the plan is altered according to law. India Law Library Docid # 2439501
(452) M/S. AIRAVAT INDUSTRIES AND ANOTHER Vs. BANK OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-02-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 14 — Powers of District Magistrate/Chief Judicial Magistrate — Nature of function — The function of a Magistrate under this section is ministerial, not adjudicatory. (Para 4) India Law Library Docid # 2439650
(453) M/S EVEREST AUTOMOBILES Vs. M/S RAJIT ENTERPRISES[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-02-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Complaint under — Victim’s right to appeal — A co-ordinate bench held that a complainant in a Section 138 case is a 'victim' entitled to file an appeal against acquittal under Section 372 of the CrPC without special leave under Section 378(4) CrPC. India Law Library Docid # 2439537
(454) SANJAY KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-02-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 313 — Examination of accused — Requirements — Duty of court and prosecutor — It is mandatory to pose specific questions to the accused regarding each piece of incriminating evidence adduced against them — Failure to do so renders the examination inadequate and incurable injustice to the accused. India Law Library Docid # 2439539
(455) 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
(456) 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
(457) 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
(458) 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
(459) 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
(460) 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