(1) MODERN ASSET Vs. KNK CONSTRUCTION PRIVATE LIMITED.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Section 31(1) — Clean Slate Principle — Right of Successful Resolution Applicant (SRA) to pursue pre-CIRP claims vs. Counterclaim by Operational Creditor (OC) — Equitable Set-Off — Operational Creditor suffered a major haircut on its pre-CIRP claim under the approved resolution plan — Subsequent to CIRP completion, SRA invoked arbitration seeking recovery of pre-CIRP dues from the same Operational Creditor arising out of the very same contract — Secti India Law Library Docid # 2454912
(2) SHUBHAM EQUIPMENT PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. ROTHWELL WATER COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6-A) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Scope of Inquiry — Minimal Judicial Intervention — Referral Court's jurisdiction under Section 11(6-A) is restricted to examining the prima facie existence of an arbitration agreement — Once the prima facie existence of an arbitration agreement is established, the Court ought to appoint an arbitrator and refer the parties to arbitration — Contentions regarding overlapping claims under a prior agreement fall wi India Law Library Docid # 2454913
(3) FEDERATION OF MEDICAL AND SALES REPRESENTATIVES ASSOCIATION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 and 32 — Right to Health — Unethical Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices — Public Interest Litigation seeking statutory force for Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) or framing of judicial guidelines — Health forms an integral part of right to life — Unethical practices including direct or indirect monetary benefits, gifts, hospitality, sponsored travel, and inducements to medical practitioners result in over-prescription India Law Library Docid # 2454914
(4) RAMKRUSHNA PRAHLLAD DONGARDIVE Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 409 — Criminal Breach of Trust by Public Servant — Misappropriation of Government funds — Reversal of acquittal by High Court — Legality of — Onus lies affirmatively on prosecution to prove entrustment of property and dishonest intention beyond reasonable doubt — Prosecution failed to produce original cashbook, daily registers, stock registers, or audit reports to prove collection and non-deposit of funds — Non-production of material documents in complainant's India Law Library Docid # 2454915
(5) APPA Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 394 — Voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery — Non-recovery of stolen articles — Conviction unsustainable — The conviction under Section 394 IPC cannot be sustained where the allegation of robbery is not supported by recovery or seizure of the allegedly stolen property — Absence of purchase receipts or independent evidence establishing ownership, identity, or value of the articles, coupled with the failure to connect scattered beads found at the spot to India Law Library Docid # 2454905
(6) V. PON. PANEERSELVAM Vs. S. REGUPATHY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-10-2026 Representation of the People Act, 1951 — Sections 81(1) and 86(1) — Mandatory requirement of personal presentation — Non-compliance — Dismissal at threshold — Presentation of an election petition by the petitioner in person under Section 81(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 is a mandatory requirement — Compliance with Section 81 is not a mere procedural formality, but directly impacts the maintainability of the petition; any defect in this regard is incurable — Under India Law Library Docid # 2454906
(7) M/S. MEPCO INDUSTRIES LTD. Vs. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, MADURAI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-10-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 28(i) & Section 4 — Revenue vs. Capital Receipt — Electricity/Power Subsidy — Application of the "Purpose Test" — The character of a subsidy receipt in the hands of an assessee must be determined by applying the "Purpose Test" — The point of time of payment, source, and form of the subsidy are not decisive; the determinative factor is the object and purpose sought to India Law Library Docid # 2454907
(8) ABHISHEK Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-10-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 307 — Attempt to murder — Ingredients — Seat and gravity of injury not sole determinant — Attempt to strike vital parts warded off defensively — To attract Section 307 IPC, it is not essential that a fatal or life-threatening bodily injury must actually be sustained — The section distinguishes between the act of the accused and its result; the determinative criterion is whether the act was executed with the requisite intention or knowledge — Intention or knowledg India Law Library Docid # 2454908
(9) THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS Vs. NANDESHWAR KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-10-2026 Bihar Panchayat Elementary Teacher (Employment and Service Conditions) Rules, 2006 — Rule 8(a) — Eligibility Criteria — Requirement of NCTE Recognized Qualification — Date of Determination — The eligibility of a candidate for appointment to a public post must be adjudged on the last date of submission of application forms or, at best, by the date of appointment — Where recruitment is India Law Library Docid # 2454909
(10) M/S JK PAPER LTD AND OTHERS Vs. BIPINCHANDRA NATWARLAL SHAH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-10-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Powers and Duty of First Appellate Court — Scope of Judicial Interference under Article 136 of the Constitution — An appeal is a continuation of the original proceedings, and the first appellate court is a court of fact and law required to decide the case by re-appreciating evidence, giving reasons, and dealing with all issues of India Law Library Docid # 2454910
(11) BRIJ LAL AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 07-10-2026 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 107 and 117 — Nature and scope of preventive proceedings — Distinction from punitive proceedings — Proceedings under Sections 107 and 117 CrPC are preventive in character, aimed at preventing breach of peace and repetition of similar incidents, whereas registration of an FIR and filing of a charge-sheet in respect of a criminal offence are punitive in nature, aimed at punishing the offender — The objective and purpose of preventive proceedings u India Law Library Docid # 2454939
(12) RAJ SHARMA (BHARTI) Vs. COLLECTOR LAND ACQUISITION AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 07-10-2026 J&K Land Acquisition Act, Svt. 1990 — Section 18 — Constitution of India — Article 19(1)(f) and Constitutional Right to Property — Exchange of alternate land in lieu of cash compensation — Obligation to deliver actual physical possession — The predecessor-in-interest of appellants opted for alternate land, but physical possession of 4 kanals was never delivered due to Army occupation — Held, an acquisition award is not satisfied until complete physical possession of all allotted land is delivere India Law Library Docid # 2454950
(13) ROMELU RAM Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 07-10-2026 Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Section 8 — Preventive detention — Grounds of detention — Lack of material and non-application of mind — Petitioner was branded as an overground worker of banned outfits and a history sheeter without any criminal case ever registered against him or any specific outfit identified — Dossier merely relied upon two preventive proceedings under Section 129 of BNSS without any final order under Section 136, and two hearsay daily diary entries — Detention based India Law Library Docid # 2454951
(14) ROHIT SHARMA AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J AND K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 07-10-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 156(3), 397(2) and 482 — Revisional bar — Maintainability of petition under Section 482 — Order directing police investigation under Section 156(3) CrPC is an interlocutory order against which a revision petition is barred under Section 397(2) CrPC — Accused has no right of hearing at that stage — However, where the order is alleged to have been passed without jurisdiction or in disregard of mandatory legal requirements, inherent powers under Section 482 India Law Library Docid # 2454917
(15) ANKUSH SHARMA Vs. U. T. OF J&K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 07-10-2026 Ranbir Penal Code, 1989 — Section 471 — Using as genuine a forged document — Essential ingredients — To constitute an offence under Section 471, the prosecution must establish that the document is forged, that the accused used it as genuine, that the accused knew or had reason to believe it was forged, and that the accused used it fraudulently or dishonestly — Mere production of a fake document without establishing that the accused possessed the requisite knowledge or reason to believe it was fo India Law Library Docid # 2454928
(16) SANTOSH B. NAIK Vs. STATE OF GOA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-10-2026 Service Law — Recruitment — Essential Educational Qualifications — Interpretation of Recruitment Rules — Expression "Passed 10th standard under 10+2 system of education" prescribed for the post of Vocational Instructor (Practical) in the trade of Plumber cannot be ignored or treated as interchangeable with any qualification recognized generally as equivalent — Words "under 10+2 system of education" form an integral part of the qualification framework prescribed by the recruiting India Law Library Docid # 2454660
(17) CHHAGANBHAI KOHYABHAI PATELIYA AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-10-2026 Service Law — Retirement benefits — Annual increment — Denial of annual increment falling due on 1st of July to employees retiring on 30th of June of preceding years — Legality — Right to be paid an increment is a legitimate right of an employee upon successful completion of a year of employment. India Law Library Docid # 2454661
(18) KAMAL KRISHAN CHIBBER Vs. UT OF J&K (PREVIOUSLY STATE OF J&K) AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 06-10-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1997 — Sections 34, 37 and 43 — Setting aside of arbitral award — Time-barred claims — Public Policy — Limitation Act applies directly to arbitral proceedings pursuant to Section 43 — Entertaining and awarding claims that are patently stale and barred by limitation violates the statutory mandate, rendering the resulting arbitral award vulnerable to being set aside under Section 34(2)(b)(ii) for being in conflict with Public Policy — Single Judge committed no err India Law Library Docid # 2454935
(19) DIN MOHD WANI Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 06-10-2026 Constitution of India — Article 22(5) — Preventive Detention — Right to make representation — Duty to convey time limit — Detaining authority informed the detenue of his right to represent before it, but failed to convey the specific time limit available for filing such representation before the detention order is approved by the Government — Held, once approved by the Government, the detaining authority becomes functus officio and cannot review its order — Omission to communicate the essential India Law Library Docid # 2454952
(20) ABDUL QAYOOM @BITTU Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 06-10-2026 Constitution of India — Article 22(5) — Preventive Detention — Unexplained delay in deciding representation — Detenue submitted representation which was received on 28.01.2025, but rejected on 19.06.2025 after a delay of nearly five months — No satisfactory explanation provided for the prolonged delay — Article 22(5) mandates prompt and expeditious consideration of a detenue's representation — Unexplained and inordinate delay in disposing of the representation infringes constitutional safeguards India Law Library Docid # 2454953