(21) SANU VARGHESE Vs. SHOUKKATHALI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-09-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 & Section 145 — Evidence of accused on affidavit — Remand for fresh trial — High Court in revision remanded matter for fresh trial from stage of defence evidence relying on M/s Mandvi Cooperative Bank Limited v. Nimesh B. Thakore — Propriety — Accused never alleged or established any prejudice before India Law Library Docid # 2453958
(22) KUSUMAVATI GOWDA Vs. THE GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Right to fair investigation — Fair investigation is as much a part of constitutional rights guaranteed under Article 21 as a fair trial, without which the trial will naturally not be fair — Investigation must be fair, transparent, and judicious as the minimum requirement India Law Library Docid # 2452969
(23) I.S.D.S. PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S KHEMKA FOOD PRODUCTS PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Trade Marks Act, 1999 — Section 134 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Sections 3 and 21 — Jurisdiction to try suits for infringement — Restriction under Section 134 of Trade Marks Act to institute suit before any Court inferior to District Court vis-a-vis notifications issued under Commercial Courts Act designating Civil Judge (Senior Division) as Commercial Court — Apparent conflict between view India Law Library Docid # 2452970
(24) NEW OKHLA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND ANOTHER Vs. RAJVEER SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 28A — Redetermination of compensation — Scope and applicability — Provision enables a landowner who did not seek a reference under Section 18 to apply for redetermination based on an award made by the Reference Court under Part III, provided specific conditions are satisfied, including moving the application India Law Library Docid # 2452971
(25) MICKY TRADERS Vs. L.R.Y. LABOUR CONTRACTOR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Tenders — Eligibility criteria — Judicial review — Scope of judicial review in tender matters is extremely circumscribed, and courts do not sit in judgment over commercial wisdom of tendering authority unless process is arbitrary, mala fide, or dehors terms of the NIT — However, interpretation given by authority to its own tender must India Law Library Docid # 2452972
(26) M/S. NEW INDIA ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. M/S. HEMKUND DUPLEX AND BOARD PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 2(1)(g) — Fire insurance claim — Repudiation of claim by insurance company — Appellant insurance company repudiated respondent's claim citing violations of Policy Condition No. 6 (requirement of full disclosure and cooperation) and Policy Condition No. 8 (forfeiture for fraudulent means or false declarations) — Multiple reports by preliminary surveyor, investigative agency, and final surveyor highlighted serious abnormalities, including evidence that the t India Law Library Docid # 2452973
(27) THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER Vs. MOMIN MOIUDDIN GULAM HASAN @ MOIN MISTRI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 — Section 43D(2) — Extension of time for filing charge sheet — Investigation of crime is the exclusive domain of the police, and courts cannot curtail statutory powers of investigation or declare an investigation complete based on a solitary statement in an extension application — High Court committed a serious error by treating a prosecution statement that sufficient material existed as proof that India Law Library Docid # 2452974
(28) JASKARAN JEET SINGH DEOL Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 —Article 22(1) & (2) — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 50 & 57 [BNSS, 2023 — Section 47 & 58] — Re-arrest of accused after release for constitutional violations — Interplay between procedural defaults and constitutional safeguards — Non-furnishing of written grounds of arrest and detention beyond 24 hours without production before a Magistrate violate Articles 22(1) and 22(2) of the Constitution respectively — Infringement of these provisions vitiates India Law Library Docid # 2452975
(29) JOHN MATHEW Vs. SANTHA PAUL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 14 Rule 2(2) — Preliminary Issue — Stage at which power to try issue as preliminary issue can be exercised — Sub-rule (2) of Order 14 Rule 2 empowers the Court to try a pure question of law relating to jurisdiction or statutory bar first — The power to try an issue as a preliminary issue is a prospective ordering of trial and does not authorize a retrospective reordering of a trial already underway — Once the Court has embarked upon the trial of issues ge India Law Library Docid # 2452976
(30) M/S SAMTEX FASHIONS LTD Vs. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, NEW DELHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-09-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 28(iiia) to (iiie) read with Section 80HHC — Export quota sale premium — Deductibility — Administrative Circulars and Office Memorandums — Binding nature — Consideration earned from transfer of export quota rights allocated by Apparels Export Promotion Council (AEPC) does not fall under Sections 28(iiia) to (iiie) of the Act, 1961. Quota permits are general commercial rights, and premium realized on their domestic transfer constitutes a residual business benefit un India Law Library Docid # 2452692
(31) M/S BALAJI FORMALIN PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-09-2026 Maharashtra Poisons Rules, 1972 — Rules 18A, 18B & 18C (as inserted by 2011 Amendment) — Validity of rules restricting purchase of methanol and mandating addition of denaturant (bitterant and colourant) before sale to non-drug manufacturers — Arbitrariness and Disproportionality — Constitutional Validity — Rules 18A and 18B held manifestly arbitrary, disproportionate, and violative of Articles 14 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution. Restricting purchase of methanol by requiring verifying licence in India Law Library Docid # 2452687
(32) S.PANCHALINGU AND OTHERS Vs. PEOPLE'S EDUCATION TRUST (R) AND OTHERS ETC[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-09-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 92 — Suit against Public Charities — Power to pass interim orders pending grant of leave — A Civil Court seized of a plaint under Section 92 together with an application seeking leave to institute the suit is not empowered to pass protective or preservatory interim orders pending disposal of the leave application — Obtaining leave of the Court is a mandatory pre-condition to the institution of a suit against public charities — Consideration of leave is India Law Library Docid # 2452688
(33) KARTIKA @ KIRTAN @ KIRTAN CHARAN JENA AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF ODISHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 148, 506, 302 read with Section 149 — Murder, Rioting, and Criminal Intimidation — Eyewitness evidence — Identification in dark night — Torch light carried by assailants — Inconsistency and unreliability of evidence — High Court discarded ocular evidence on ground that witnesses could not have identified assailants or witnessed assault in pitch-dark night merely by sound of assault — Held, where torch light is carried by assailants themselves and pointed at vict India Law Library Docid # 2452689
(34) NATIONAL SEEDS CORPORATION LTD Vs. NATIONAL AGRO SEED CORPORATION (INDIA)[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 36 — Enforcement of Arbitral Award — Interest on decretal deposit — Interplay between conditional deposit and cessation of interest — High Court held appellant liable to pay 12% per annum interest on awarded sum from date of Arbitral Award till date deposited amount was unconditionally released — Award-debtor deposited sum in two tranches to obtain stay of award, but actively resisted its release/withdrawal by award-holder at every stage — Real ef India Law Library Docid # 2452690
(35) ORIENT CRAFTS LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, NEW DELHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-09-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 263 — Revisional Jurisdiction of Commissioner — Conditions Precedent — To exercise revisional jurisdiction under Section 263, the twin conditions that the Assessment Order is "erroneous" and "prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue" must co-exist — An Assessment Order becomes erroneous if passed without application of mind, on misapplication of law, or on an incorrect assumption of facts — Where the Assessing Officer completes the assessment without conducting India Law Library Docid # 2452691
(36) DEEPAK IN JC Vs. STATE GOVT. OF NCT DELHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-09-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 6 & 29 — Evidence — Ocular and medical evidence — Discrepancies and unreliability — Accused convicted by Trial Court and High Court under Section 6, POCSO Act and Section 363, IPC — Version of mother (PW-5) was crippled with material contradictions, embellishments, and uncorroborated by independent medical evidence — Private doctor (PW-1) and mother gave conflicting timelines regarding examination — Physical examination and FSL rep India Law Library Docid # 2452619
(37) THE BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. G.N. MANI RAVINDER AND OTHERS ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-09-2026 Service Law — Promotion — Officiating vs. Provisional Promotion — Applicability of Pre-existing Rules — Private respondents working as Assistant Director (Official Language) / 'Rajbhasha Adhikari' purely on a local officiating basis sought promotion under older administrative instructions and non-operational 2002 Rules without clearing the written test under 2005 Rules — Distinguishing Mishri Lal and Medini C. — Persons working on a purely India Law Library Docid # 2452620
(38) ARTH MICRO FINANCE PRIVATE LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. SHIVALIK SMALL FINANCE BANK LTD[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-09-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11 & Section 12 — Unilateral/Biased appointment of Arbitral Tribunal — Objections to appointment — Notice issued appointing Arbitral Tribunal allegedly on consent, but no proof of appellants' consent produced — Appellants raised specific objections pointing out close links and potential bias of Arbitral Tribunal — Undeterred by objections, Arbitral Tribunal passed severe interim orders against India Law Library Docid # 2452686
(39) THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Vs. VARINDER VERMA@JATTI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-09-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302/34 — Circumstantial Evidence — Standard of proof required to sustain conviction — In a case resting on circumstantial evidence, all incriminating circumstances must be proved beyond reasonable doubt and must be consistent only with the guilt of the accused — The chain of circumstances must be so complete as to exclude every hypothesis consistent with innocence and demonstrate that, in all human probability, the act was committed India Law Library Docid # 2452977
(40) K RASHIK Vs. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166(2) — Territorial jurisdiction of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal — Option of claimant — Accident occurring in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, where claimant and driver also resided — Claim petition filed before Tribunal at Chennai — Insurer raised objection to territorial jurisdiction at the initial stage before the Tribunal — Held, under Section 166(2), a claim application can be filed where the accident occurred, where the claimant resides or carries on busines India Law Library Docid # 2452510