(1) NTPC LTD Vs. SOUTH DELHI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND ORS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 — Section 113(2)(d) — Constitution of India, 1950 — Seventh Schedule, List II, Entry 53 — Municipal electricity tax — Taxable event — Auxiliary consumption — Held, the taxable event under Section 113(2)(d) is consumption and not generation — Auxiliary electricity utilised to operate power plant equipment constitutes consumption of electrical energy, distinct from an excise duty on generation — Source of electricity, purpose of use, or consumer's identity is India Law Library Docid # 2457192
(2) SHAKEEL QURESHI & ORS. Vs. RASHID QURESHI & ORS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 10 — Territorial Jurisdiction — Exclusive Jurisdiction Clause — Return of plaint — Plaintiffs instituted suit in Delhi challenging share transfer as violating a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) — MoU was executed at Bareilly and expressly conferred exclusive jurisdiction on Bareilly Courts — Plaint averments and documents alone are to be examined under Order 7 Rule 10 — Having founded their cause of action entirely upon the MoU, plaintiffs cannot India Law Library Docid # 2457193
(3) MMTC LTD Vs. CHAUHAN JEWELLERS AND ORS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Scope of interference — Plausible view — Where the Arbitral Tribunal found that delay in realisation and shortfall in export proceeds were attributable to appellant's own conduct and departures from agreed export mechanisms, such factual determinations represent a permissible view of the record. An appellate court cannot sit in appeal or reappreciate evidence under Section 37 when the arbitral finding supplies an intelligible answer t India Law Library Docid # 2457194
(4) M/S. LAKSHMI SUGAR MILLS CO. LTD Vs. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, DELHI -II[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-10-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 43B r/w Section 145A — Disallowance of unpaid excise duty on closing stock — Exclusive method of accounting — Assessee following standard mercantile accounting method did not debit unpaid excise duty on uncleared closing stock stored in bonded warehouse to Profit & Loss Account nor claimed it as an allowable deduction — AO disallowed unpaid excise duty on closing stock under Section 43B read with Section 145A and added India Law Library Docid # 2457223
(5) RAJU SHANTARAM KOLI Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 31(1) — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 376 and 342 — Sentence — Imposition of consecutive life sentences in a single trial — Legality of — Appellant convicted for offences under Sections 302 and 376 read with 342 IPC and awarded two life sentences, directed to run consecutively — Held, life sentences awarded for multiple offences in a single trial cannot be directed to run consecutively — Since imprisonment for life implies India Law Library Docid # 2457224
(6) UNION OF INDIA Vs. MOHAMED RIFAS @ MOHAMED RIGBAS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-10-2026 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) — Section 43D(7) — Bar on grant of bail to foreign national — Applicability and essential conditions — Section 43D(7) commences with a non-obstante clause overriding sub-sections (5) and (6) of Section 43D. To invoke the bar under Section 43D(7), three conditions must conjunctively co-exist: (i) the person must be an accused of an offence under UAPA; (ii) such person must India Law Library Docid # 2457225
(7) ECL FINANCE LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. ABHINAV MUKHERJEE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-10-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Sections 5(8), 5(7), and 3(12) — Financial Debt and Default — Corporate Guarantee — Uninvoked Guarantee — Non-occurrence of default under a corporate guarantee or hypothecation agreement prior to the commencement of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) does not disqualify a lender from being a financial creditor — A facility qualifies as a financial debt under Section 5(8) regardless of whether a default has occurred — Any entity to whom a f India Law Library Docid # 2457226
(8) PREM RANJEET KUMAR SURAJ Vs. MUNNI KUMARI @ MONI[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 12(1)(b) read with Section 5(ii) — Annulment of marriage — Mental disorder — Burden of proof — Husband sought to declare marriage voidable alleging wife suffered from unsoundness of mind, rendering her unfit for marriage and procreation — Held, pleadings cannot substitute proof — Husband produced no documentary or medical evidence proving mental illness — Prescriptions and scan report produced merely showed pregnancy, failing to corroborate mental infirmity — W India Law Library Docid # 2457238
(9) GURJANT SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8, 15, 25 and 29 — Commercial quantity — Recovery of 150.271 kg Doda Post from vehicle — Occupants fled taking advantage of darkness after vehicle crashed — Petitioners identified through investigation — First petitioner sustained injuries during accident, identified recovery spot, and FASTag of offending vehicle was recovered from his possession — Communication and monetary t India Law Library Docid # 2457266
(10) BHAGWAN SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 27-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 14 — Service Law — Contractual Employment — Replacement of one contractual employee with another — Petitioners working as Block Coordinators on contractual basis had their tenure extended for FY 2025-26 — Respondents sought to replace them with other contractual personnel through another agency without performance deficiency or cessation of work — Held, State instrumentalities remain bound by Article 14 — An ad hoc or temporary employee cannot ordinarily be India Law Library Docid # 2457276
(11) GOPAL CHANDRA BOSE Vs. STATE[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 High Court of Delhi Rules for Video Conferencing for Courts, 2021 — Rule 8.12, Rule 8.15 — Electronic Evidence and Video Conferencing Rules, 2025 — Rule 13(8), Rule 13(9), Rule 27(2)(a) — Video conferencing permitted due to infirmity — Saving clause — Although the 2021 Rules were repealed by the 2025 Rules, prior proceedings were saved under Rule 27(2)(a) — Both regulatory regimes authorize video conferencing where sickness, infirmity, or undue delay prevents physical appearance — No impediment India Law Library Docid # 2457319
(12) SH. SOMNATH KHARBANDA AND OTHERS Vs. SMT. ARVINDER KAUR AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Indian Contract Act, 1872 — Section 74 — Forfeiture of earnest money — Breach of Agreement to Sell — Right of forfeiture is not an automatic consequence of breach — Section 74 awards reasonable compensation, making damage or legal injury a sine qua non — Where loss is capable of proof, it must be strictly proved, and the stipulated amount merely sets the maximum limit — Defendants claimed forfeiture on ground that they lost earnest money in a forward transaction, but failed to produce original d India Law Library Docid # 2457320
(13) AMIT AND OTHERS Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI) AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Anticipatory Bail — Principles governing grant — Pre-arrest bail is an extraordinary privilege and not a matter of rule — Absence of need for custodial interrogation or impending completion of investigation does not automatically entitle an accused to anticipatory bail — Courts must consider prima facie case, gravity of offence, severity of punishment, and accused's conduct — Preparation or filing of a supplementary charge-sheet under Sect India Law Library Docid # 2457321
(14) NARESHI DEVI Vs. UOI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Railways Act, 1989 — Section 124-A — Untoward incident — Principle of no-fault liability — Negligence versus self-inflicted injury — Deceased fell from a running train while vomiting near the gate — Railway claimed exception under Section 124-A alleging negligence for not using compartment toilets or washbasins — Held, statutory liability under Section 124-A is based on no-fault liability — Mere imprudence or negligence cannot be equated with an intentional act of self-injury or a criminal act — India Law Library Docid # 2457322
(15) DR. XXXXXXXX AND ANR. Vs. UNIVERSITY OF DELHI & ORS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 — Section 11(4) — UGC Regulations, 2015 — Natural justice — Absence of personal hearing — Scope of appellate authority — Vice-Chancellor set aside defective ICC report and directed a fresh inquiry by a newly constituted committee — Held, mere absence of a personal hearing does not vitiate proceedings unless real prejudice is demonstrated. The appellate authority rightly remitted the matter for a de novo inq India Law Library Docid # 2457323
(16) DR. I.A KHAN Vs. STATE & ANR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Sections 118(a), 139 and 138 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Sections 397/401 — Dishonour of cheque — Scope of revision — Rebuttal of statutory presumption — Cheques issued pursuant to settlement agreement — Accused admitted signatures and delivery of cheques but pleaded they were issued as security for construction under collaboration agreement — Revisional court cannot reappreciate evidence unless findings are perverse or arbitrary — Evidence of attestin India Law Library Docid # 2457324
(17) AMAN KASHYAP AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Criminal Law — Police Eyewitnesses — Evidentiary Value — Absence of Test Identification Parade (TIP) — Communal Riots — Testimony of police personnel cannot be discarded solely on account of their official status. Substantive identification of accused persons in court by a beat constable possessing prior familiarity with them does not require corroboration through a formal TIP. Delay in recording statements of police witnesses under Section 161 CrPC, when satisfactorily explained by the chaotic India Law Library Docid # 2457325
(18) RISHI LEVI Vs. CBI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226 and 227 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Maintainability of writ petition through General Power of Attorney holder — Accused detained abroad — Defect of un-apostilled instrument with blank witness details raised — Held, while an attorney cannot substitute for personal appearance before the criminal court, a writ petition challenging judicial orders ascertainable from the record cannot be r India Law Library Docid # 2457326
(19) THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE PINNACLE SCHOOL Vs. THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND ANR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Delhi School Education Rules, 1973 — Rules 96 and 98 — Appointment and Promotion — Evidentiary value of staff statements — Teacher claimed appointment as TGT in 1994 and promotion to PGT in 2006 relying on annual staff statements — Held, substantive appointment or promotion must strictly comply with statutory recruitment procedures and Managing Committee approval — Mere designations in staff returns or financial upgradation under ACP scheme cannot confer substantive promotion to a higher post wi India Law Library Docid # 2457327
(20) RAM ROOP JAIN AND ANR. Vs. KALPANA JAIN AND ANR.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-10-2026 Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 — Section 14(1)(e) and Section 25-B — Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 — Section 151 — Eviction petition — Leave to defend — Subsequent events — Additional documents — Petitioners sought to introduce judicial records and photographs via Section 151 CPC at the stage of arguments on leave to defend — Dismissal of application upheld — Summary procedure under Section 25-B cannot be bypassed to afford successive opportunities to bolster defence — Subsequent events must compl India Law Library Docid # 2457328