(41) SUNITA LAHU PANCHPANDE Vs. THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Service Law — Appointment — Eligibility Criteria — Anganwadi Supervisor — Recruitment advertisement explicitly required ten years of experience as Anganwadi Sevika in Nashik District, pursuant to Government Resolution dated 17.11.2001 — Appellant possessed the required experience but in Jalgaon District — Divisional Commissioner clarified that experience in the same district was not mandatory — Held, Divisional Commissioner India Law Library Docid # 2452514
(42) ABDUL RAJIK Vs. STATE OF M.P.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 42 and 50 — Applicability — Search and seizure in open public place — Accused persons apprehended at a public road carrying bags containing suspected contraband (charas) — Held, since the recovery was effected from bags carried by the accused who were intercepted in an open public place, neither Section 42 nor Section 50 of the NDPS Act applies India Law Library Docid # 2452515
(43) ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S. OMAXE LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Sections 147, 148, Chapter XIX-A, Section 245D(4) and Section 245-I — Settlement Commission order — Reopening of assessment by Assessing Officer — Conclusiveness and finality — Assessee’s settlement application for India Law Library Docid # 2452516
(44) BHARAT RAJ MEENA Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 13(1)(d), 13(2) and 20 — Proof of demand and acceptance — Indispensable foundation — Presumption under Section 20 — Appellant, Divisional Security Commissioner, RPF, convicted for demanding and accepting bribes through intermediaries for transfers — Tainted money recovered from intermediary, not appellant — Trap abruptly closed without tracing money to appellant — Held, proof of demand and acceptance is sine qua non for establishing offences under India Law Library Docid # 2452517
(45) HARI DUTTA SHARMA Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Banking Regulation Act, 1949 — Section 35-A — Reserve Bank of India Guidelines on Fair Practices Code — Recovery of secured loans — Self-help repossession — Financier's contractual right to repossess a financed vehicle is not an unbridled licence to seize property by force, stealth, or in the dead of night — RBI directions issued under Section 35-A possess statutory force and bind banks and Non-Banking Financial Companies — Lenders cannot resort to undue harassment or use muscle India Law Library Docid # 2452518
(46) VINIT KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. THROUGH SECRETARY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Recruitment and Selection Process — Scope of scrutiny confined by interim order — Binding effect inter partes — Petitioners challenged selection of Technician Grade-2 (Trainee) Electrical, alleging higher merit than selected candidates — Interim order recorded that petitioners confined relief solely to claim of higher merit — Held, an order is effective inter partes and binds them until avoided or challenged India Law Library Docid # 2452519
(47) THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS Vs. M.A. GARDEN FUNCTION HALL AND OTHERS ETC[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-09-2026 Constitution of India — Article 226 — Writ Jurisdiction — Disputed questions of possession — Maintainability of writ petition by lessees — Eviction proceedings under Andhra Pradesh Land Encroachment Act, 1905 — Division Bench held writ court cannot decide disputed possession — Trust withdrew its Special Leave Petition with liberty to institute a civil suit, without interim protection — Lessees claiming through Trust subsequently filed writ petitions seeking protection against dispossession — Hel India Law Library Docid # 2452520
(48) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. COL. NC ISAAC (RETD.)[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-09-2026 Pension Regulations for Army, 1961 — Regulation 179 read with Entitlement Rules for Casualty Pensionary Awards, 1982 — Rule 5, Rule 9, Rule 14(b) and Rule 20 — Entitlement to disability pension — Onus of proof and presumption of sound condition — A member of the Armed Forces is presumed to be in sound physical and mental condition upon entering service, unless any physical disability or disease is explicitly noted or recorded at the time of entrance — In the absence of any prior record of diseas India Law Library Docid # 2452437
(49) SOBARAN SINGH (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. Vs. GORDHAN SINGH (DEAD) THR. LRS.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-09-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 20 — Discretionary relief of specific performance — Agreement to sell agricultural land — Reversal of Trial Court’s decree by First Appellate Court and modification by High Court in Second Appeal — High Court upheld Trial Court’s findings in favor of plaintiff but directed refund of enhanced money (Rs. 15,00,000/-) to settle equities instead of granting specific performance — Imperiality of decreeing specific performance when agreement is duly proved and posse India Law Library Docid # 2452685
(50) 3S AND OUR HEALTH SOCIETY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 & 47 — Right to Health — Front-of-Package Labelling (FoPL) on packaged foods — Public Health Mandate — Primary duty of the State to take affirmative steps to protect public health and facilitate informed decision-making for consumers — Right to life under Article 21 encompasses right to health — High in Fat, Sugar or Salt (HFSS) and Ultra-Processed Foods (UPF) have scientifically substantiated nexus with non-communicable diseases — State obligated to intr India Law Library Docid # 2451720
(51) DAKSCHINANCHAL VIDYUT VITRAN NIGAM LTD Vs. VIDUT LOKPAL, UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 56(2) — Limitation for recovery of electricity charges — Minimum Consumption Guarantee Charges (MCGC) — Demand raised after a gap of nine years — Appellant raised a demand in 2007 towards MCGC for the period February 1998 to September 1998 in respect of an additional load offered to, but not accepted or availed by, the consumer — Electricity Ombudsman set aside the demand on the grounds of lack of consumer consent, non-release of load, and being time-barred under India Law Library Docid # 2451721
(52) PYNCHEMALANGAKI BAREH Vs. STATE OF MEGHALAYA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) — Section 3 & 4 — Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Section 94 — Age determination of minor victim — Evidentiary value of Baptismal Certificate — Investigation agency did not obtain school date of birth certificate, matriculation certificate, or birth certificate issued by a municipal authority/panchayat, nor was an ossification test conducted under Section 94 of JJ Act — Prosecution relied solely on a Bap India Law Library Docid # 2451722
(53) BHAG SINGH (D) THR. MAHANT KASHMIR SINGH Vs. BASANT KAUR (D) THR. LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Land Revenue & Property Law — Revenue Entries — Evidentiary Value — Entries in revenue records, including Jamabandis and Khasra Girdawaris, are primarily maintained for fiscal purposes and are admissible as evidence of possession, but they do not confer or extinguish title, nor do they constitute conclusive evidence of ownership — Description of possession in revenue records as "gair marusi bila lagan bawaja Dharam Arth" does not by itself establish an irrevocable India Law Library Docid # 2451723
(54) ABU SALEM ABDUL QAYOOM ANSARI Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Extradition Act, 1962 — Extradition Assurance and Computation of Period of Custody — Overlapping Sentences — Appellant convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in two separate TADA cases directed to run concurrently — Appellant contended that by combining undertrial period leading to later conviction and post-conviction period starting from earlier conviction, alongside earned remissions, he completed over 26 years — Held, selection of inconsistent bases results in an improper overlapping co India Law Library Docid # 2451724
(55) INDIAN KAYAKING AND CANOEING ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 14 — Administrative Discretion and Judicial Review — Timely consideration of requests — Absence of an absolute or indefeasible right to obtain a favourable decision cannot be equated with the absence of a right to fair, reasonable, non-arbitrary, and timely consideration of a request — Executive authority must consider requests on relevant grounds, exclude extraneous considerations, and act within a reasonable time, especially in time-sensitive matters — A s India Law Library Docid # 2451725
(56) REGIONAL PROVIDENT FUND COMMISSIONER-II Vs. MS. MAMTA BINANI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 61(2) — Limitation — E-filing technical glitch — Maxim "actus curiae neminem gravabit" — Appeal was delayed by one day beyond the 45-day outer limit due to OTP delivery failures on NCLAT's portal — NCLAT dismissed the appeal as time-barred — Held, limitation runs only when the tribunal is functional and capable of receiving pleadings — Litigants cannot suffer for the tribunal's system failure — Tribunal ought to exempt the non-functional India Law Library Docid # 2452521
(57) V. SUMITRA REDDY AND ANOTHER Vs. K. RANGANADHA REDDY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Partnership Act, 1932 — Sections 46, 47, and 48 — Dissolution of partnership at will — Winding up and settlement of accounts — Escalation in value of partnership land — Valuation of outgoing partner's share — Preliminary decree fixed the date of dissolution of partnership at will as 18.10.1983 — Date 18.10.1983 was relevant strictly for the ascertainment of profits and losses of the firm till dissolution, but has no relevance to the right of partners to receive the value in the residue of assets India Law Library Docid # 2451690
(58) SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA Vs. VEDANTA LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Securities and Exchange Board of India (Buyback of Securities) Regulations, 1998 — Regulations 14(3), 15B(8) — Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (PFUTP) — Regulations 2(1)(c), 3, 4 — Scope of inquiry under Regulation 15B(8) — Inter-relation between release/forfeiture of escrow amount under Buyback Regulations and allegation of fraud under PFUTP Regulations — Fulfilment of conditions India Law Library Docid # 2451691
(59) S.S. DAS Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Service Law — Fundamental Rules — Rule 56(j) — Compulsory Retirement — Scope of Judicial Review — Arbitrariness and Malice in Law — Order of compulsory retirement issued under FR 56(j) retiring appellant prematurely from Indian Trade Service (ITS) — Upheld by CAT and High Court — Held: Scope of judicial review under FR 56(j) is restricted, but court can interfere if decision is arbitrary, perverse, or vitiated by malice in law — FR 56(j) cannot be invoked as a shortcut to avoid regular proceedin India Law Library Docid # 2451693
(60) M/S KERALA INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Vs. CENTRAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 30(2)(e), 36(4)(b)(iii) and 53(1) — Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 — Section 11(2) — Resolution Plan — Dues of workmen — Statutory first charge — Dues relating to provident fund and gratuity remain outside the liquidation estate and cannot be made subject to the waterfall mechanism under Section 53(1) of the IB Code. Successful Resolution Applicant is obligated to pay the provident fund and India Law Library Docid # 2452522