(21) NAVIN PRATAP SINGH TOMAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 03-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 483 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 467, 468, 471 and 120-B — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7(b) and 8 — Regular bail — Scope of consideration — Absence of direct recovery and proof of demand — Applicant, working as Deputy General Manager in CSMCL, allegedly facilitated clearance of inflated manpower bills in exchange for illegal gratification — Held, court is not required to conduct a mini-trial at the bail stage — Lack of d India Law Library Docid # 2451115
(22) AVTAR SINGH BEDI Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (AIRPORT)- NEW DELHI (ICD TKD)[CUSTOMS, EXCISE & SERVICE TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL, PRINCIPAL BENCH, COURT NO. 4, NEW DELHI] 03-09-2026 Customs Act, 1962 — Section 28 — Jurisdiction of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officers — Issuance of Show Cause Notice — Validity — Appellant challenged the competence of DRI officers to initiate proceedings and issue show cause notices — Held, relying on the Supreme Court review judgment in the Canon India matter, DRI officers appointed as officers of customs and entrusted with the functions of a proper officer under relevant notifications, including Notification No. 44/2011, are f India Law Library Docid # 2451120
(23) SANTHOSH KUMAR Vs. M/S. SANDHU ROAD LINES PVT. LTD.[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 03-09-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation — Proof of disability — Requirement of expert medical evidence — Claimant sustained fractures of right forearm, wrist, and scaphoid, undergoing inpatient treatment for two days — Neither the treated doctor nor any medical specialist was examined to substantiate or quantify the extent of physical or functional disability — Held, while a wound certificate establishes immediate receipt of injury, it cannot substitute expert medical opinion to qu India Law Library Docid # 2451121
(24) NAVIN KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 03-09-2026 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Section 27 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 19(1)(g) — Debarment for indefinite period — Doctrine of proportionality — Petitioner, a Child Welfare Committee member, was discharged and debarred from future engagement in child welfare schemes following an enquiry — Challenge restricted to indefinite debarment — Held, an executive or statutory authority cannot debar or blacklist a person indefinitely, as it amounts to "ci India Law Library Docid # 2451143
(25) VIRAMBHAI GELABHAI BHARWAD Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 03-09-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 2020 — Sections 3, 4(1), 4(3) and 5(c) — Anticipatory bail — Alleged encroachment on 196.36 square metres of land adjoining a petrol pump — Applicant submitted an undertaking confirming demolition of the construction on the subject land and undertaking not to enter the area or claim any right or title over it in future — Absence of need for custodial interrogation and applicant's assurance to cooper India Law Library Docid # 2451154
(26) BRAJESH KUMAR AGARWAL Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 03-09-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 148 and Section 138 — Pre-deposit pending appeal — Applicability to non-drawer director — Petitioner, an erstwhile director, was convicted along with the company and another director who signed the dishonoured cheque — Sessions Court directed petitioner to deposit 20% of the fine amount under Section 148 — Revisional challenge — Held, Section 148 explicitly applies to an appeal preferred by the drawer of the cheque — Since petitioner was not the drawer India Law Library Docid # 2451094
(27) CHOLA MANDALAM MS GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. NISHA DEVI AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 03-09-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Statutory defences — Pleadings and proof — Lack of valid driving licence — Plea raised for the first time in appeal — Maintainability — Insurer sought to avoid liability alleging deceased was driving without a valid driving licence — Held, insurer failed to plead this defence in its written statement before the Tribunal and no issue was framed — A defence based on disputed facts must be pleaded and proved by the insurer — A new ground requiring factual examination cann India Law Library Docid # 2451095
(28) SANGEET KUMAR DUBEY Vs. KRITI TIWARI ALIAS KRITI KUMARI[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 03-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 114 and Order 47 Rule 1 — Review jurisdiction — Scope and limitations — Power of review is strictly circumscribed and cannot be exercised as an appeal in disguise to re-argue concluded issues or substitute an alternative view — An error apparent on the face of the record must be self-evident and patent, without requiring detailed examination or long-drawn reasoning — Distinction between an erroneous decision, challengeable before a higher forum, and a patent India Law Library Docid # 2451096
(29) THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TEACHERS EDUCATION Vs. ASSOCIATION OF NCTE APPROVED COLLEGES TRUST AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2026 National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 — Sections 12(k), 19 & 27 — Mandatory submission of Performance Appraisal Report (PAR) by Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs) — Public Notice issued by Member Secretary of Executive Committee — Validity and Regulatory Scope — The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and its Executive Committee possess ample statutory authority under Section 12(k) of the NCTE Act to evolve a suitable performance appraisal system and enforce accountability India Law Library Docid # 2451173
(30) THE AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE FOR GRANITE GATE PROPERTIES PRIVATE LIMITED, MS. RAKESH VERMA Vs. M/S NEW OKHLA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) — Lease terms and time extension charges as CIRP costs — Real estate developer in CIRP — Time extension charges levied by a industrial development authority (NOIDA) for delay in completion of real estate projects cannot be mulcted on homebuyers or the Successful Resolution Applicant (SRA) as CIRP costs — Time extension charges are penal in nature, designed to deter delay by the defaulting developer — Wher India Law Library Docid # 2451174
(31) KONDAPAKA SRIDHAR @SHEKAR @MADHU @GOPI @CHINNA Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 106 — Burden of proving fact especially within knowledge — Application to leased premises where body is recovered — Failure of prosecution to establish lease, tenancy, or occupation — High Court erred in drawing an adverse inference against appellant under Section 106 on the premise that he failed to explain the presence of the deceased's body in the apartment leased by him — Prosecution failed to produce any lease deed, prove the ownership of the flat, or establish India Law Library Docid # 2451175
(32) SANDEEP S. GHANDAT AND OTHERS Vs. RESERVE BANK OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 243ZL read with Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (BR Act) — Section 36AAA — Supersession of Board of Multi-State Co-operative Bank — Six-month constitutional limit — Applicability — Power of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to supersede the Board of Directors of a multi-State co-operative bank under Section 36AAA(1) of the BR Act is not circumscribed by the six-month limit prescribed under Article 243ZL(1) of the Constitution — The third proviso to Article 243ZL( India Law Library Docid # 2451171
(33) M/S. AMALGAM STEELS AND POWER LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. ENERGY WATCHDOG AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2026 Public Interest Litigation (PIL) — Maintainability and Locus Standi — Third-party participation in contractual breach proceedings — Interlocutory stage — In a PIL alleging illegal supply of captive power and non-payment of cross-subsidy surcharge, the High Court did not commit any perversity in permitting a third-party complainant to participate in proceedings initiated by the state distribution licensee (JBVNL) — Although the third party was not privy to the Captive Power India Law Library Docid # 2451172
(34) M/S ABC EXPRESS Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949 — Section 98(2) read with Section 132 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 497 [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 451] — Release of seized vehicle on interim custody — Statutory embargo — Scope of Section 98(2) of the Prohibition Act — Held, Section 98(2) does not impose an absolute embargo on the jurisdiction of the India Law Library Docid # 2450901
(35) EDELWEISS CUSTODIAL SERVICES LIMITED Vs. NSE CLEARING LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 — Section 9(3)(b) — Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Section 11B — Restitution/Disgorgement of liquidated securities — Power of Stock Exchange / Clearing Corporation to order restitution — Held, Section 9(3)(b) of the Securities Act empowers Stock Exchanges to make bye-laws providing for penalties, but explicitly excludes any penalty involving the payment of money — Power of disgorgement or restitution is specifically conferred by the India Law Library Docid # 2450902
(36) MAHAVIR @ AVNISH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 & Section 362 — Inherent powers of High Court — Recall of judgment — Plea of juvenility raised after final disposal — High Court dismissed Section 482 CrPC petition seeking recall of conviction on ground that the SLP against conviction had been dismissed as withdrawn and judgment attained finality — Held, bar under Section 362 CrPC against altering or reviewing judgments does not obliterate or render nugatory the inherent powers of the India Law Library Docid # 2450903
(37) BIJENDRA Vs. REKHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ib) — Divorce on the ground of desertion — Essential ingredients — Factum of separation and animus deserendi — Parties living separately since December 2005 with no cohabitation or children born out of wedlock — Appellant-husband along with witness went to bring the respondent-wife back to the matrimonial home, but she refused without reasonable India Law Library Docid # 2450904
(38) FISHERMAN CARE Vs. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, DAIRYING AND FISHERIES REP. BY ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Legislative Competence & Cooperative Federalism — Entry 57, List I & Entry 21, List II of the Seventh Schedule — Territorial Waters vs. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) — Distinction between regulatory provinces — State of Tamil Nadu prohibited purse seine net fishing within its territorial waters under the Tamil Nadu Marine Fishing Regulation Act, 1983 and 2020 Rules, India Law Library Docid # 2450905
(39) VIJAY GHANSHYAM GADIYA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Customs Act, 1962 — Section 114 — Adjudication Order — Reliance on Fake and Hallucinated AI-Generated Precedents — Nullity in Law — Order-in-Original passed by the adjudicating authority relying upon non-existent case laws, fake citations, or hallucinated AI-generated legal ratios is completely unsustainable and void — Adjudicating and judicial authorities must adopt a zero-tolerance policy against the use, citation, or reliance upon fake or unverified AI-generated material — India Law Library Docid # 2450990
(40) KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK LIMITED Vs. TRUPTI SANJAY MEHTA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-09-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Sections 2(1)(c), 2(1)(f), 2(1)(ha), 2(1)(k), 2(1)(m), 2(1)(zb), 2(1)(zc), 2(1)(zd), 2(1)(zf) & 13 — Recovery of Assigned Debt — Takeover of Loan Account from Non-Notified Entity by Bank — Applicability and Recourse to SARFAESI Act — Bank acquiring/taking over non-performing or live loan account from Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) or financial entity not notified under Section 2(1)(m) at India Law Library Docid # 2450987