(181) REGIONAL PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER-II Vs. MS. MAMTA BINANI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 61(2) — Limitation — E-filing technical glitch — Maxim "actus curiae neminem gravabit" — Appeal was delayed by one day beyond the 45-day outer limit due to OTP delivery failures on NCLAT's portal — NCLAT dismissed the appeal as time-barred — Held, limitation runs only when the tribunal is functional and capable of receiving pleadings — Litigants cannot suffer for the tribunal's system failure — Tribunal ought to exempt the non-functional India Law Library Docid # 2452521
(182) 3S AND OUR HEALTH SOCIETY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 & 47 — Right to Health — Front-of-Package Labelling (FoPL) on packaged foods — Public Health Mandate — Primary duty of the State to take affirmative steps to protect public health and facilitate informed decision-making for consumers — Right to life under Article 21 encompasses right to health — High in Fat, Sugar or Salt (HFSS) and Ultra-Processed Foods (UPF) have scientifically substantiated nexus with non-communicable diseases — State obligated to intr India Law Library Docid # 2451720
(183) DAKSCHINANCHAL VIDYUT VITRAN NIGAM LTD Vs. VIDUT LOKPAL, UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 56(2) — Limitation for recovery of electricity charges — Minimum Consumption Guarantee Charges (MCGC) — Demand raised after a gap of nine years — Appellant raised a demand in 2007 towards MCGC for the period February 1998 to September 1998 in respect of an additional load offered to, but not accepted or availed by, the consumer — Electricity Ombudsman set aside the demand on the grounds of lack of consumer consent, non-release of load, and being time-barred under India Law Library Docid # 2451721
(184) PYNCHEMALANGAKI BAREH Vs. STATE OF MEGHALAYA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) — Section 3 & 4 — Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Section 94 — Age determination of minor victim — Evidentiary value of Baptismal Certificate — Investigation agency did not obtain school date of birth certificate, matriculation certificate, or birth certificate issued by a municipal authority/panchayat, nor was an ossification test conducted under Section 94 of JJ Act — Prosecution relied solely on a Bap India Law Library Docid # 2451722
(185) BHAG SINGH (D) THR. MAHANT KASHMIR SINGH Vs. BASANT KAUR (D) THR. LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Land Revenue & Property Law — Revenue Entries — Evidentiary Value — Entries in revenue records, including Jamabandis and Khasra Girdawaris, are primarily maintained for fiscal purposes and are admissible as evidence of possession, but they do not confer or extinguish title, nor do they constitute conclusive evidence of ownership — Description of possession in revenue records as "gair marusi bila lagan bawaja Dharam Arth" does not by itself establish an irrevocable India Law Library Docid # 2451723
(186) ABU SALEM ABDUL QAYOOM ANSARI Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Extradition Act, 1962 — Extradition Assurance and Computation of Period of Custody — Overlapping Sentences — Appellant convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in two separate TADA cases directed to run concurrently — Appellant contended that by combining undertrial period leading to later conviction and post-conviction period starting from earlier conviction, alongside earned remissions, he completed over 26 years — Held, selection of inconsistent bases results in an improper overlapping co India Law Library Docid # 2451724
(187) INDIAN KAYAKING AND CANOEING ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 14 — Administrative Discretion and Judicial Review — Timely consideration of requests — Absence of an absolute or indefeasible right to obtain a favourable decision cannot be equated with the absence of a right to fair, reasonable, non-arbitrary, and timely consideration of a request — Executive authority must consider requests on relevant grounds, exclude extraneous considerations, and act within a reasonable time, especially in time-sensitive matters — A s India Law Library Docid # 2451725
(188) 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
(189) 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
(190) V. SUMITRA REDDY AND ANOTHER Vs. K. RANGANADHA REDDY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Partnership Act, 1932 — Sections 46, 47, and 48 — Dissolution of partnership at will — Winding up and settlement of accounts — Escalation in value of partnership land — Valuation of outgoing partner's share — Preliminary decree fixed the date of dissolution of partnership at will as 18.10.1983 — Date 18.10.1983 was relevant strictly for the ascertainment of profits and losses of the firm till dissolution, but has no relevance to the right of partners to receive the value in the residue of assets India Law Library Docid # 2451690
(191) SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA Vs. VEDANTA LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Securities and Exchange Board of India (Buyback of Securities) Regulations, 1998 — Regulations 14(3), 15B(8) — Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (PFUTP) — Regulations 2(1)(c), 3, 4 — Scope of inquiry under Regulation 15B(8) — Inter-relation between release/forfeiture of escrow amount under Buyback Regulations and allegation of fraud under PFUTP Regulations — Fulfilment of conditions India Law Library Docid # 2451691
(192) S.S. DAS Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Service Law — Fundamental Rules — Rule 56(j) — Compulsory Retirement — Scope of Judicial Review — Arbitrariness and Malice in Law — Order of compulsory retirement issued under FR 56(j) retiring appellant prematurely from Indian Trade Service (ITS) — Upheld by CAT and High Court — Held: Scope of judicial review under FR 56(j) is restricted, but court can interfere if decision is arbitrary, perverse, or vitiated by malice in law — FR 56(j) cannot be invoked as a shortcut to avoid regular proceedin India Law Library Docid # 2451693
(193) 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
(194) M/S OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LTD Vs. SURYAKAND D. LAD AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 — Sections 2 and 4 — Payment of gratuity — Employer-employee relationship — Principal employer and contractor's workmen — Private respondents claiming gratuity were engaged through a contractor and were not "employees" of the appellant (ONGC); contract explicitly stipulated it was a job contract at arm's length and did not create any employer-employee relationship; provisions of the Gratuity Act are not applicable in the absence of an employer-employee relationship India Law Library Docid # 2455702
(195) SURENDER KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 307 — Attempt to murder — Essential ingredients and nature of injury — Grievousness of injuries or capability of causing death is not an indispensable prerequisite to attract Section 307 — Determinative test is the intention or knowledge with which the overt act was committed, to be discerned from the surrounding circumstances — Bodily hurt, whether simple or grievous, is not a precondition to establish culpability, but merely serves as a statutory ground under t India Law Library Docid # 2453245
(196) 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
(197) 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
(198) 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
(199) 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
(200) 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