1. Bail – Murder -- Prolonged incarceration -- Successive bail petition -- Petitioner in custody for about five years, with only 14 of 25 prosecution witnesses examined and delay not attributable to him -- Continued incarceration -- Right to speedy trial under Article 21 -- Bail granted. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 01.09.2026 Decided on: 02.09.2026

2. MACT -- Fake driving licence -- Insurer cannot recover from owner without proving owner's knowledge of fake licence -- Knowledge of owner sine qua non for insurer's recovery rights. (H.P. HC) Decided on : 27.08.2026

3. MACT -- Gratuitous passenger -- Risk not covered under policy -- Insurer directed to pay compensation first and recover from owner and driver. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 24.08.2026 Decided on: 26.08.2026

4. Land Acquisition -- Inordinate delay in filing appeals -- Liberal approach to condonation -- Delay not a reason to deny just, fair and reasonable compensation. (P&H HC) Decided on: 25.08.2026

5. Execution -- Executing Court cannot go beyond decree or vary its terms. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 27.05.2026 Decided on: 25.08.2026

6. GST Assessment -- Extended period of limitation -- Section 74 -- Show Cause Notice -- Mere allegation of fraud, wilful misrepresentation or suppression insufficient -- Foundational facts must be evident from notice itself -- Mechanical recital of statutory expressions cannot justify extended limitation -- SCN and consequential order set aside. (SC) Decided on: 25.08.2026

7. Domestic Violence -- Settlement -- Waiver of claims -- Wife voluntarily relinquished all monetary claims, including maintenance -- Revival of such claims through subsequent proceedings cannot be permitted -- Proceedings constitute abuse of process, quashed. (SC) Decided on: 24.08.2026

8. Stamp duty -- Industrial property -- Manufacturing activity coupled with sale of manufactured goods -- Sale, including retail sale, of goods manufactured in premises does not change character of use of property from industrial to commercial. (SC) Decided on : 24.08.2026

9. NDPS -- Default bail -- Extension of time for presentation of challan granted without notice to accused -- Extension order set aside and accused held entitled to default bail. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 19.08.2026 Decided on: 21.08.2026

10. Suit for possession -- Owner of suit property entitled to recover possession from defendant held to be an illegal unauthorized encroacher, despite failure to prove relationship of landlord and tenant. (P&H HC) Decided on: 21.08.2026

11. Impleadment as party -- Mere assertion of an independent right in suit property does not, by itself, confer a right to be impleaded in a simpliciter suit for permanent injunction. (P&H HC) Decided on: 21.08.2026

12. Amendment of plaint -- Amendment after commencement of trial cannot be permitted in absence of due diligence. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 20.08.2026 Decided on: 21.08.2026

13. SARFAESI -- Auction sale -- Shortfall in EMD, subsequently made good by immediate deposit of 25% of sale price, does not affect validity of bid -- Extended time for balance payment during pending litigation valid -- Borrower entitled to surplus sale proceeds with 7% interest where Bank failed to keep excess amount in interest-bearing account. (SC) Decided on: 21.08.2026

14. Default bail -- Valid extension of time granted before expiry of 180 days -- No indefeasible right to default bail accrued. (P&H HC) Decided on: 20.08.2026

15. Striking out of written statement -- Mere inconsistency with earlier written statement or introduction of additional plea does not attract power under Order VI Rule 16 -- Statutory conditions must be satisfied. (P&H HC) Reserved on:18.08.2026 Decided on: 20.08.2026

16. Cease to occupy -- Once landlord establishes prima facie case, onus shifts to tenant to prove actual occupation or reasonable cause for non-occupation -- Failure to rebut -- Ejectment restored. (P&H HC) Reserved on:18.08.2026 Decided on: 20.08.2026

17. Regular bail – Murder -- Prolonged custody -- Speedy trial -- Appellant in custody for about 2 years and 7 months -- Fatal/grievous injury not attributed to him and only simple injury attributed to him -- Only 2 out of 34 prosecution witnesses examined and trial not likely to conclude shortly -- Appellant ordered to be released on bail. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 18.08.2026 Decided on: 20.08.2026

18. Sentence reduced -- Petitioner faced rigors of long criminal prosecution -- Accident had taken place about 26 years back -- Sentence reduced to period already undergone. (P&H HC) Decided on: 20.08.2026

19. Murder trial – S. 12 UP Gangsters Act, 1986 -- Precedence of trials -- Gangsters Act proceedings to be given preference in event of clash of dates -- No clash of dates -- Section 12 not attracted -- High Court order keeping murder trial in abeyance set aside. (SC) Decided on: 17.08.2026

20. Recall of order -- Change in legal position -- Basis of earlier dismissal having ceased to exist, order recalled and writ petition restored. (P&H HC) Decided on: 17.08.2026

21. Execution -- DRT – RC – Transfer of an execution proceeding to the DRT clothed the Recovery Officer with the power to recover the amount in accordance with the procedure prescribed under Section 29 of the 1993 Act read with the Second Schedule to the Income Tax Act, 1961, in supersession of the procedure under the Code. (SC) Decided on: 14.08.2026

22. Consortium -- In legal parlance, “consortium” is a compendious term which encompasses spousal, parental and filial consortium. (SC) Decided on: 14.08.2026

23. Abetment of suicide -- When Section 306 IPC is read with Section 107 IPC, it is clear that there must be direct or indirect instigation in close proximity to the commission of suicide, along with clear mens rea to abet the commission of suicide. (SC) Decided on: 14.08.2026

24. Oral evidence -- Internal documents held irrelevant and excluded from record -- Their contents cannot be brought on record indirectly by oral evidence. (SC) Decided on: 14.08.2026

25. Civil appeal -- Remand is not to be adopted as a matter of ordinary course -- Where the Trial Court framed comprehensive issues, a finding can be returned by appreciating the pleadings, issues, oral and documentary evidence instead of remitting the matter to the Trial Court. (SC) Decided on: 13.08.2026

26. Interest on Solatium -- If the award of the Reference Court or the Appellate Court does not specifically refer to the question of interest on solatium, and the claim for such interest has not been negatived either expressly or by necessary implication, then it would be open to the Executing Court to grant interest on solatium and permit its recovery from 19.09.2001, the date of the judgment in Sunder v. Union of India, 2001(7) SCC 211, and not for any prior period. (P&H HC) Decided on : 12.08.2026

27. Appointment of Local Commissioner -- A commission is intended to act as a facilitator to the Court for ascertainment or elucidation of a matter in dispute and not as a substitute for the evidence which the parties are required to produce -- The plaintiff cannot shift the burden of proving those assertions upon a Court-appointed Commissioner. (P&H HC) Decided on : 12.08.2026

28. Interim relief -- Protection from arrest -- While dismissing a petition seeking pre-arrest bail on the ground that the same is not maintainable, the high court or the sessions court cannot extend or grant protection which is in the nature of interim relief that could be granted during the pendency of the application. (SC) Decided on: 12.08.2026

29. Compensation for electrocution -- Writ Petition -- Maintainability -- If questions of fact are disputed, then Article 226 would not be an appropriate remedy. (SC) Decided on: 12.08.2026

30. Senior Citizens Act -- Coram of Maintenance Tribunal and Appellate Tribunal -- Haryana Government notification dated 17.11.2016 -- Tribunals required to comprise three members -- Impugned orders passed in absence of second and third members -- Orders coram non judice and nullity in eyes of law -- Set aside. (P&H HC) Decided on: 12.08.2026

31. Section 125 -- Interim maintenance -- Court granting interim maintenance, cannot be oblivious of the cumulative variables which ought to be considered, especially since a balance has to be struck between the rights and liabilities of the applicant and non-applicant. (Delhi HC) Reserved on: 29.07.2026 Decided on : 11.08.2026

32. S. 376 – Rape -- Acquittal -- Where the oral testimony of witnesses regarding injuries and bloodstains is contradicted by a negative FSL report and medical examination, the prosecution fails to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. (SC) Decided on: 11.08.2026

33. Impleadment of Party – Suit for Possession – Application under Order I Rule 10 CPC rightly declined where the petitioner claimed possession of land allegedly handed over by the defendant, but produced no document or revenue record to substantiate his claim and had no concern with the agreement to sell forming the basis of the suit. (P&H HC) Decided on : 11.08.2026

34. Land acquisition -- Petitioner withdrew challenge to acquisition notifications and award and sought liberty to invoke Section 101-A -- Permitted to file representation -- Respondents directed to consider and decide same, after affording opportunity of hearing, in accordance with law. (P&H HC) Decided on: 11.08.2026

35. Parking lot – Lease – Stamp duty -- Expression “lease” includes any instrument by which tolls of any description are let -- Contract for collecting parking fees is regarded as an instrument by which tolls of any description are let, falling within the ambit of a lease deed. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 04.08.2026 Decided on: 10.08.2026

36. Mutation -- Registered Will -- Revenue authorities have right to conduct summary inquiry when a document is produced for mutation but have no jurisdiction to comment upon the validity of a registered document. (P&H HC) Decided on: 10.08.2026

37. Matrimonial dispute -- Quashing of FIR -- Larger and substantial part of the alleged cause of action arose in Canada and not in India -- Allegations pertaining to India are omnibus, vague and devoid of necessary particulars -- FIR and all consequential proceedings quashed qua petitioner. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 05.08.2026 Pronounced on : 07.08.2026

38. Compulsory Retirement – The object of compulsory retirement is to weed out the dead wood – The order is not punitive in nature and is passed in public interest and thus, Judicial review is extremely narrow and restricted (SC) Decided on: 06.08.2026

39. Jurisdiction of Civil Courts -- 'Scheduled Areas', although referring to a specific geographical area, cannot be taken to mean, in view of the object and intent of Schedule V to the Constitution, to be applicable to non-tribal parties -- The Civil Court had the requisite jurisdiction to entertain the dispute pertaining to non-tribal parties. (SC) Decided on: 06.08.2026

40. S. 125 Cr.P.C. – Maintenance – Second marriage during subsistence of earlier marriage – A woman could claim maintenance from her second husband despite subsistence of her first marriage, where she was de facto separated from her first husband, was not deriving any rights or entitlements from the first marriage, and the second husband was aware of the circumstances. (P&H HC) Decided on : 06.08.2026

41. Negotiable Instruments – Dishonour of Cheque -- Compounding of the offence under Sec 138 can also be done by the High Court or Court of Session in a revision petition under Section 401 of Cr.P.C. (P&H HC) Date of decision: 04.08.2026

42. Anticipatory bail -- Benefit of anticipatory bail cannot be denied for the reason that some money is yet to be recovered -- Whether or not the money was indeed entrusted to the petitioner would be a matter of trial. (P&H HC) Decided on : 04.08.2026

43. Ratification -- A ratified act is deemed valid from the date of the original, unauthorised act, and not merely from the date of ratification. (SC) Decided on: 04.08.2026

44. Road safety -- Third-party insurance for four years for new cars and six years for new two-wheelers is now mandatorily required to be purchased. (SC) Decided on : 04.08.2026

45. Regular Bail -- Involvement of petitioner in other criminal cases cannot be the sole ground to deny him the concession of bail and the prayer for bail has to be considered in the light of facts and circumstances of each individual case. (P&H HC) Decided on: 04.08.2026

46. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Court -- Electricity theft -- Civil Court's jurisdiction is not barred merely because allegations of theft have been made -- Jurisdiction would be barred only where a complaint regarding theft of energy has been filed by the competent officer/authority before the Special Court and cognizance has been taken, or where an FIR has been registered by the police and the matter has proceeded in accordance with law. (P&H HC) Decided on : 04.08.2026

47. Subvention Scheme -- TMA Pai Foundation Case -- Payment of Subvention Amount beyond Academic Year 2002-03 -- It was impermissible to direct release of the subvention amount for the entire 5-year course even after academic year 2002-03 once the subvention scheme was declared unconstitutional on 31.10.2002. (SC) Decided on: 04.08.2026

48. Condonation of delay -- Appeal against conviction -- Liberal approach should be taken insofar as delay occasioned in filing an appeal from an order of conviction and sentence. (SC) Decided on: 04.08.2026

49. Regular bail -- NDPS Act -- Commercial quantity -- Prolonged incarceration -- Rigor imposed under Section 37 of NDPS Act stands diluted in light of Article 21 of Constitution -- Where trial is procrastinating and folly thereof cannot be saddled upon petitioner, further detention as undertrial not warranted. (P&H HC) Decided on : 04.08.2026

50. Senior Citizen case -- Maintainability of Complaint -- Not attained the age of 60 years -- Does not fall within the definition of “senior citizen” -- Complaint itself is not maintainable. (Madras HC) Decided on : 04.08.2026