(1) RAMANPREET KAUR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Habeas Corpus — Child custody — Maintainability and scope — Writ of habeas corpus is maintainable for restoration of custody of a minor whose detention is illegal or without authority of law, even against a parent or where alternative statutory remedies under the Guardians and Wards Act or Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act are available — Primary consideration is determining whether detention is unlawful and whether the paramount welfare of t India Law Library Docid # 2451664
(2) KULWINDER SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Summoning of additional accused — Scope of power — Power under Section 319 is discretionary and extraordinary, to be exercised sparingly where strong and cogent evidence emerges during trial — Placement of a person in column No. 2 of the police report does not bar the court from summoning him if sufficient evidence appears against him during the trial — Deposition of an injured eye-witness specifically naming the accused and attributing a defi India Law Library Docid # 2451666
(3) 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
(4) 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
(5) 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
(6) 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
(7) 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
(8) 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
(9) 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
(10) 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
(11) ANNU KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY ROHTAK AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Constitution of India — Article 226 — Writ of Quo Warranto — Service Law — Qualification for appointment — Burden of Proof — Primary onus lies on the writ petitioner, who may even be a stranger, to establish through unimpeachable evidence that an appointee lacks essential qualifications or suffers from a disqualification to hold a public office. Once established, the onus shifts to the appointer and appointee to demonstrate legality India Law Library Docid # 2451616
(12) ASHOK UPADHYAY AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 r/w 34 — Arms Act, 1959 — Section 27 — Conviction for murder and firearm offense — Benefit of Doubt — Conviction of appellants based primarily on eyewitness testimony of close relatives — High Court affirmed conviction — Assailed before Supreme Court — Held, serious discrepancies and inconsistencies in eyewitness accounts — Omission of alleged injured witnesses' details in Section 161 statements and lack of medical corroboration for their injuries — Conduct India Law Library Docid # 2451617
(13) KHANINDRA KR. DUTTA Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) and Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 120B — Offence of criminal misconduct by public servant — Essential ingredients — Requirement of obtaining valuable thing or pecuniary advantage — Appellant store-in-charge certified receipt of medicines without actual supply based on false entries made by storekeeper — High Court acquitted appellant under Sections 420, 465, 471, and 477A of IPC but India Law Library Docid # 2451618
(14) PUNJAB SCHOOL EDUCATION BOARD AND ANOTHER Vs. SATNAM SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2026 Service Law — Regularization vs. Fresh Appointment — Standard for determining nature of engagement — Appellant-Board adopted Government Regularization Policy dated 23.01.2001 mutatis mutandis and issued appointment letters to contract/ad-hoc/daily-wage employees on regular basis — Appellant contended that issuance of appointment letters constituted fresh appointments post-01.01.2004 — Court held that substance of engagement must prevail over form — Public notice and internal communications expli India Law Library Docid # 2451619
(15) MOHAMMAD RAFEEQ KARNAI Vs. BASHIR AHMAD KARNAI AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 08-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Reference to Sole Arbitrator — Family Settlement Deed — Parties entered into a comprehensive Settlement Deed dividing joint family properties, which culminated in a consent decree — Deed contained an arbitration clause covering disputes regarding interpretation, operation, or enforcement of its terms — Subsequent disputes arose regarding management of hotel properties, rendition of accounts, and recall of the consent decree — By consensus India Law Library Docid # 2451623
(16) HASSAN SHEIKH AND OTHERS Vs. ABDUL HAMID TUREY AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 08-09-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 38 — Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 96 — Suit for permanent prohibitory injunction simpliciter — Maintainability without declaration of title — Settled possession — Suit land an existing apple orchard under active cultivation — Proof of settled possession on preponderance of probabilities suffices to restrain third-party interference — Trial court rightly granted possessory injunction leaving title open — Unsubstantiated caretaker plea by defendants did India Law Library Docid # 2451624
(17) PEER SAIF DIN Vs. UNION OF INDIA[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 08-09-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 37 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 439 — Grant of bail — Commercial quantity — Meaning of "reasonable grounds" — Court while examining a bail application is not required to conduct a preliminary trial or determine guilt beyond reasonable doubt — Expression "reasonable grounds" means credible and plausible grounds enabling a person of ordinary prudence to prima facie believe that the accused is not guilty — It requires mo India Law Library Docid # 2451625
(18) GUMMAT RAM Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 08-09-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 20(b)(ii)(B) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 479 — Suspension of sentence — First-time offender — Sentence of 10 years imprisonment awarded — Appellant sought suspension of sentence citing witness contradictions and custody duration — High Court held that assessing contradictions at this stage amounts to hearing the appeal — However, Section 479 BNSS applies to suspension of sentence — Appellant, a first-time off India Law Library Docid # 2451626
(19) MOHAMMAD RAFEEQ KARNAI Vs. BASHIR AHMAD KARNAI AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 08-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) and Section 17 — Family Settlement Deed maturing into Consent Decree — Comprehensive Arbitration Clause — Multiplicity of Proceedings — Consensus between Parties — Family settlement containing an arbitration clause covered all disputes regarding interpretation, operation, and enforcement. Disputes arose concerning hotel management, diversion of funds, and rendition of accounts, leading to execution proceedings, recall application under Order India Law Library Docid # 2451633
(20) KAILASH CHAND Vs. RAKESH KANWAR SECRETARY EDUCATION AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 08-09-2026 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rule 32 — Scope of contempt jurisdiction — Direction to decide representation — Execution of judgment — Petitioner sought release of consequential benefits after respondents refixed pay following directions to decide representation — Held, contempt proceedings cannot be utilized as a substitute for execution of a judgment where the court did not specifically mandate the release of consequential benefits or arrears — Appro India Law Library Docid # 2451634