(1) MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LIMITED Vs. AIRPORTS AUTHORITY OF INDIA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 16-10-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Scope of interference — Non-speaking judgment — Legality of reproducing arbitral award — Mere reproduction of substantial portions of an arbitral award in a Section 34 judgment does not render it non-speaking or demonstrate non-application of mind, provided the court meaningfully adjudicates the challenge — Appellate jurisdiction under Section 37 is supervisory and narrower than Section 34 — Court cannot reassess merits or re-apprecia India Law Library Docid # 2455816
(2) SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICER Vs. MOHAMMED KAMRAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 483 — Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Sections 16(2)(b), 132(1)(b), 132(1)(c), 132(1)(f) and 135 — Abuse of process of law and suppression of material facts — Pursuit of parallel remedies — Respondent filed criminal petition for bail before High Court and simultaneously filed another bail application before Sessions Court, followed by a writ petition under Article 226 challenging arrest and seeking interim release — Rejection o India Law Library Docid # 2455898
(3) NAGENDRA RAY Vs. STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 & Section 439 — Grant of Anticipatory Bail and Regular Bail — Non-consideration of material evidence by High Court — Video footage and witness statements — Non-application of mind — High Court granted anticipatory bail to one accused and regular bail to co-accused without considering key evidence, including video footage of the incident showing the presence of accused at the scene and statements of witnesses under India Law Library Docid # 2455899
(4) SRI. RAJKUMAR MADKI Vs. DR. SHAILENDRA BELDALE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Representation of the People Act, 1951 — Section 125-A — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 195(1)(a) & Section 200 — Maintainability of private complaint against candidate for filing false affidavit — High Court held that a private complaint under Section 125-A of RoP Act cannot be directly filed by a voter and must pass muster the rigours of Section 195(1) CrPC, requiring complaint only by Election Commission/public servant — Held, Section 195(1)(a) CrPC specifically lists IPC o India Law Library Docid # 2455900
(5) SMT. RANO SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. SH. GURBAX SINGH (D) TH LRS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 54 — Agreement to Sell vs. Registered Sale Deed — Effect on Title — An Agreement to Sell does not, by itself, transfer title or create any interest or charge in immovable property — Absolute ownership rights can crystallize only upon the execution and registration of a valid Sale Deed in accordance with law — Where the original allottee entered into an Agreement to Sell containing a mandatory condition to complete construction within three years, but fail India Law Library Docid # 2455901
(6) R. SARAVANAN Vs. PERIYAR UNIVERSITY REP BY ITS REGISTRAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Letters Patent (Madras) — Clause 15 — Intra-Court Appeal — Scope of interference with writ Court's discretion — Appeal before Division Bench against order of writ Court — Extent of jurisdiction — Letters Patent Bench sitting as a Court of Correction exercises the same jurisdiction as is vested in the Single Judge, but must give due weight to the decision of the writ Court where it has exercised its discretion on relevant considerations — Division Bench cannot interfere with the decision rendered India Law Library Docid # 2455902
(7) TEJARAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 17A — Requirement of prior approval for investigation — Applicability to demand of illegal gratification — Section 17A contemplates prior approval before initiating enquiry or investigation into offences relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by a public servant in the discharge of official functions or duties — Act of demanding illegal gratification is a pure criminal act unconnected to discharge of official functions and not relatabl India Law Library Docid # 2455893
(8) S. GURURAJ Vs. THE ADDITIONAL CHIEF SECRETARY/COMMISSIONER OF LAND ADMINISTRATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-10-2026 Tamil Nadu Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 — Sections 3(15), 3(16), 11 and 14-A — Grant of Ryotwari Patta over waterbody poramboke — Validity of — Subject matter recorded as "Government Poramboke Kanakkan Kuttai" in 1911 Resettlement Register and Town Survey records — District Revenue Officer granted Ryotwari Patta treating land as non-kuttai ryoti land under G.O.Ms. No. 1300 — Commissioner of Land Administration set aside patta holding it fraudulent, barred by limitat India Law Library Docid # 2455894
(9) 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
(10) 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
(11) 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
(12) 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
(13) 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
(14) 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
(15) 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
(16) 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
(17) NAYAN N RAHEJA Vs. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT[DELHI HIGH COURT] 15-10-2026 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 — Sections 3, 4, 45 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Anticipatory Bail — Twin conditions — Standalone offence — Directorate of Enforcement is not bound or restricted by the quantum of proceeds of crime quantified in the predicate agency's chargesheet. Offence of money laundering under Section 3 is an independent offence. A person not named or chargesheeted in the predicate offence can nonetheless be prosecuted under the Act if fo India Law Library Docid # 2455817
(18) ANSXXX AND ANR Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 15-10-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 70 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 376D — Gang rape — Charge against female accused — Maintainability — Gang rape is a distinct, substantive offence separate from individual rape under Section 63 BNS or Section 375 IPC — The statutory phrase "one or more persons constituting a group or acting in furtherance of a common intention" employs the word "persons" in a gender-neutral sense — Liability is not restricted to men alone — A woman who acts in furthe India Law Library Docid # 2455818
(19) MINOR P THR HER MOTHER A Vs. STATE & ANR.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 15-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 21 and 226 — Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 — Reproductive autonomy — Minor rape survivor — Gestational age exceeding statutory limit — Constitutional Courts exercising writ jurisdiction are not constrained by statutory gestational ceilings under the MTP Act. Reproductive choice and decisional autonomy are integral facets of the right to personal liberty and dignity under Article 21. In cases of unwanted pregnancy resulting from sexual assault, India Law Library Docid # 2455819
(20) PAWAN Vs. AMIT GUPTA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 15-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 9 Rule 13 — Setting aside ex-parte decree — "Sufficient cause" — Scope and test — The words "prevented by any sufficient cause" must be liberally construed to ensure substantial justice, provided no negligence, inaction, or mala fides is imputable to the erring party — "Sufficient cause" strictly refers to the date on which absence led to ex-parte proceedings — The decisive test is whether the defendant honestly and sincerely intended to remain present when the India Law Library Docid # 2455820