(21) K. RAMALINGAM AND OTHERS Vs. GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU REP. BY ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1959 — Section 41 — Gift of Inam Property — Nullity and Voidability — Temporary or hereditary trustee executed a Gift Deed transferring temple inam land to the State Government for the construction of a Taluk Office — Section 41(1) explicitly declares any gift of inam property granted for the support/maintenance of a religious institution to be null and void, with no statutory provision for subsequent validation or sanction by the India Law Library Docid # 2455895
(22) SATINDER PAL SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. BEDI HOSPITAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 — Rule 5 — General Terms and Conditions for Sale of Nursing Home Sites by E-Auction — Clauses IV and VI — Agreement to Sell vs. Enforceable Contract — Cancellation of bid contract and Agreement to Sell prior to issuance of allotment letter and execution of conveyance deed — Scope of administrative power to recall auction for price maximization — An Agreement to Sell contemplated under Rule 5(iv) of the 2007 Rules is not an enforceable contract under Section 2(h) of India Law Library Docid # 2455896
(23) MAHESH CHANDRA JOSHI Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) / Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Grant of regular bail — Factors to be considered — Allegations of large-scale financial impropriety, corruption, and forged work certificates in public tenders under "Jal Jeevan Mission" — Investigation qua appellants stands completed with chargesheets/supplementary chargesheets filed, resting overwhelmingly on documentary records and electronic trails already in custody of investigating agency — No further India Law Library Docid # 2455897
(24) MS SHARMA ENTERPRISES Vs. NATIONAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 31(7)(a) r/w 28(3) — Pre-reference and pendente lite interest — Contractual bar on interest — Clause 26 of Special Conditions of Contract (SCC) providing that no claim for interest shall be entertained in respect of balance payments, deposits, delay in payments "or otherwise" — Power of Arbitral Tribunal to award pre-award interest under Section 31(7)(a) is subject to contract between parties ("Unless otherwise agreed by the parties") — Arbitrator India Law Library Docid # 2455807
(25) DEEPAK RAHEJA AND ANOTHER Vs. OMKARA ASSETS RECONSTRUCTION PRIVATE LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 7, Section 3(12) and Section 5(7) — Initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) by Financial Creditor — Scope of Section 7 proceedings — Evidentiary threshold to prove default — Standard of proof — Held, Section 7 establishes a summary jurisdiction — The evidentiary threshold for satisfying the Adjudicating Authority that a "default" has occurred is a summary, prima facie threshold, to be discharged upon the preponderance of probabi India Law Library Docid # 2455808
(26) YES BANK LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. AXIS TRUSTEE SERVICES LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2026 Banking Regulation Act, 1949 — Sections 36ACA and 45 — Yes Bank Limited Reconstruction Scheme, 2020 — Clause 6 — Deletion of write-down clause from Draft Scheme — Validity of Administrator's order writing down AT-1 Bonds — A draft reconstruction scheme initially included a specific provision to write down Additional Tier 1 (AT-1) Bonds permanently — However, following objections and deliberative consultations, the Central Government deliberately omitted the write-down clause from the final notif India Law Library Docid # 2455809
(27) MADHU KUDAPA (FORMERLY KNOWN AS K. MADHUSUDHAN RAO) Vs. M/S LODHA HEALTHY CONSTRUCTIONS AND DEVELOPER PRIVATE LIMITED (LHCPL) AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2026 Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 23 — Delay in delivery of residential apartment — Refund and Unjust Enrichment — Retention of sale consideration by builder without delivering possession is plainly unjust — However, directing refund of the entire sale consideration (including funds disbursed directly by the lending bank under a tripartite agreement) to the borrower would result in unjust enrichment — Borrowed money remaining unpaid does not convert into borrower's own money merely because India Law Library Docid # 2455810
(28) THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT Vs. SAMEER AHAMED N. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 15(4) and 16(4) — Conversion from Hinduism to Islam — Continuance of backward-class status — A person who converts from the Hindu social order to a non-Hindu social order cannot claim affirmative action merely on the basis of social backwardness associated with his pre-conversion status — Backwardness arising within the antecedent social order cannot, by itself, be carried forward to confer backward-class status in the religion to which the person has conve India Law Library Docid # 2455811
(29) SUNIL KUMAR (TOTALLY DISABLE REP. BY WIFE) Vs. IFFCO TOKIO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Permanent Disability — Functional Disability vs. Medically Certified Physical Disability — Distinction reiterated — Assessment of loss of earning capacity — Held, a conceptual distinction exists between medically certified disability resulting from physical impairment and long-term functional repercussions on the victim's life, daily activities, and earning capacity in the open competitive India Law Library Docid # 2455903
(30) SANJAY SUREKA @SANJAY KUMAR SUREKA Vs. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) — Section 19(2) — Forwarding of arrest order and material — There is no strict timeline mentioned in the PMLA to forward the arrest order and material in possession to the Adjudicating Authority, except that it must be done "immediately". The word "immediately" means the material must be transferred expeditiously and simultaneously with the arrest, and minor administrative India Law Library Docid # 2455664
(31) B. ANASUYAMMA (DIED) PER LR AND ANOTHER Vs. B. MADHUSUDHAN REDDY (DIED) PER LRS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Limitation and Family Law / Property Law — Partition and Title Dispute — Family settlement and subsequent compromise decree — Validity and evidentiary value — Trial Court and High Court erred in holding that a compromise decree recorded by the High Court had no evidentiary value and ignoring past family settlements and valid compromises — Once a compromise India Law Library Docid # 2455665
(32) SANJAY PRASAD Vs. MADHUSUDAN DWIVEDI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Section 2(b) and 19 — Maintainability of Special Appeal/Intra-court appeal against interlocutory orders passed by Single Judge in contempt proceedings — Appellant challenged interim order of Single Judge rejecting compliance affidavit and directing personal appearance of officer for alleged non-compliance of writ court's order — Supreme Court held that civil contempt proceedings are essentially in the nature of a 'Special Civil Jurisdiction' and are not resolved in India Law Library Docid # 2455658
(33) THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL TAX, CGST DIVISION Vs. SREENIVASA RAO RAVINUTHALA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 61 and 62 — Limitation and appeal — IBC is a complete, self-contained code with strict, time-bound limitation architecture designed to preserve asset value and economic health. Under Section 62, absolute outer limit for filing an appeal to the Supreme Court is 60 days (45-day standard period plus a 15-day grace period upon showing sufficient cause), beyond which the court loses jurisdiction to condone delay. India Law Library Docid # 2455659
(34) ALLADIN CHARITIES AND ZAKAT WAKF Vs. MOHAMMED SALEEM ALIAS MOHD. WAJID ALI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rule 58 and Rules 97 to 101 — Execution of decree for possession and third-party objections — Where a stranger or third-party objector resists the execution of a decree for possession, an application under Order 21 Rule 58 is not maintainable as it governs objections to attachment; the correct remedy and procedure are governed by Order 21 Rules 97 to 101. Quoting a wrong provision of law is not India Law Library Docid # 2455660
(35) MOHD. ASAD CHOUDHARY Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Education and Universities — Verification of Academic Credentials — Where a student's name is duly reflected in the university's primary internal records (Green Sheet Register) as having been admitted against an allotted seat and having successfully cleared all examinations, an administrative or clerical omission by the university's previous administration in including the name in the admission disclosure list sent India Law Library Docid # 2455661
(36) DR. B.C. ROY ENGINEERING COLLEGE AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Education and Higher Educational Institutions — Fee Fixation and Regulation — Fixation of fees for professional education conducted by self-financing higher educational institutions must balance the certainty and predictability of reasonable fees for students and parents with the need for adequate resources and development for institutions. Fee fixation committees and regulatory bodies perform important public functions and must operate with institutional efficiency India Law Library Docid # 2455662
(37) M/S DHANLAXMI MERCHANDISE PVT. LTD Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2026 Mines and Minerals — Sand Mining (Mining, Transportation, Storage and Trading) Rules, 2019 — Cancellation of e-tender-cum-auction — Where an MDO surrenders a lease under Rule 16 and re-participates in a subsequent tender where it emerges as the H1 bidder, the tendering authority cannot reject the bids and cancel the process solely because the fresh offers are lower than the bidder's previous contract bids, without establishing through contemporaneous valuation or market material that the bids ar India Law Library Docid # 2455663
(38) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. SUDHIR S/O MOTIRAMJI HIWARKAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 300 / Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Necessary Party — Impleadment — State as a necessary party — Writ petition filed seeking direction for absorption of a lecturer into service, which fastens direct and continuous financial and administrative liability upon the State — State of Maharashtra was not arrayed as a party respondent in the writ petition ab initio, and a belated application merely impleaded India Law Library Docid # 2455667
(39) KUSUMLAL SAO Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 201 — Murder and Causing Disappearance of Evidence — Circumstantial Evidence — Last Seen Theory — Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt — In a case resting entirely on circumstantial evidence, all circumstances must be fully established and form a complete chain unerringly pointing towards the guilt of the accused, excluding every other hypothesis — High Court and Trial Court erred in holding that deceased was last seen alive in company India Law Library Docid # 2455904
(40) ARCIS CLEAN ENERGY PVT. LTD Vs. PARSHVA INNOVATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-10-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Territorial Jurisdiction — Seat vs. Venue of Arbitration — High Court appointed an arbitrator under Section 11(6) in respect of disputes arising out of a Franchise Agreement — Impugned order questioned on the ground that the Delhi High Court lacked territorial jurisdiction as the juridical seat of arbitration was in Goa — Held: Determination of whether a place is a "seat" or a mere "venue" requires an evaluation India Law Library Docid # 2455427