1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Section 482 Cr.P.C. -- Quashing of FIR -- Abetment of suicide -- Mere demands for repayment of money or harassment in connection with financial transactions, without anything more, do not satisfy ingredients of "abetment" -- No overt act, proximate instigation or intentional aid -- FIR and consequential proceedings quashed. (P&H HC) Decided on : 29.07.2026

14. S. 34 IPC -- Constructive liability -- One who keeps watch to enable companions to commit an offence is as much a participant in the common intention as the principal offender. (All. H.C.) Reserved on: 02.07.2026 Decided on: 29.07.2026

15. Constitution of India -- Article 338 -- Powers of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) -- Legislature has prescribed for the NCSC a role that is recommendatory and advisory, but certainly not adjudicatory. (SC) Decided on: 28.07.2026

16. Writ -- Delay and laches -- If the writ petitioner is guilty of delay and latches, the High Court can dismiss the petition on that sole ground itself, in as much as the writ courts are not to indulge in permitting such indolent litigant to take advantage of his own wrong (All. H.C.) Decided on: 28.07.2026

17. Interim custody of seized property -- Scope of jurisdiction -- While exercising powers under Sections 451 and 457 CrPC, the Court determines only prima facie entitlement to interim possession and not title or ownership -- Registration certificate is a relevant but not conclusive factor for grant of interim custody. (SC) Decided on: 27.07.2026

18. S. 319 Cr.P.C -- Summoning of additional accused -- Where persons found innocent during investigation are sought to be summoned subsequently, the evidence which emerges during trial must necessarily be of a much higher quality than a mere repetition of the earlier allegations and must disclose something more than what was already before the investigating agency (P&H HC) Reserved on: 22.07.2026 Pronounced on: 27.07.2026

19. Service Law -- Estoppel by participation -- A candidate who participates in a selection process without objection cannot ordinarily challenge the process after being declared unsuccessful -- However, where arbitrariness or illegality in the selection process is writ large and vitiates the selection, participation would not preclude the candidate from questioning the process and seeking appropriate relief. (SC) Decided on: 24.07.2026

20. Apportionment of compensation -- If a dispute arises between parties in the sense of a lis, with each party propounding a different share for himself based on past transactions and the law applicable, the dispute can alone be determined by the Principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction within whose jurisdiction the acquired land is situated (All. H.C.) Decided on: 24.07.2026

21. Estoppel -- Developer is estopped from resiling from a Permanent Alternate Accommodation Agreement (PAAA) after obtaining vacant possession, demolishing the old premises and completing redevelopment. (SC) Decided on : 23.07.2026

22. Declaration of law -- Dismissal of Special Leave Petition expressly reserving question of law does not constitute binding precedent. (SC) Decided on: 23.07.2026

23. Preventive detention -- Mere fact that the dossier and the detention order share the same date cannot lead to an automatic presumption of arbitrariness. (J&K&L HC) Reserved on: 16.07.2026 Decided on: 23.07.2026

24. Foreigners Act, 1946 -- Section 7 cannot be invoked merely on the basis that a person is a trustee, office bearer, or member of an organization owning or managing the premises. (J&K&L HC) Reserved on: 15.07.2026 Decided on: 23.07.2026

25. Maintenance -- Without evidence of marriage or specific pleadings of a live-in relationship, a claimant seeking maintenance under Section 125 Cr.P.C. cannot claim benefit available to persons in a live-in relationship (All. H.C.) Decided on: 23.07.2026

26. SC/ST Act – Ss. 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) -- Caste-related abusive words used over the telephone to son of complainant do not satisfy the basic ingredient of the offence. (P&H HC) Decided on : 23.07.2026

27. Cyber Fraud -- Bail -- Clean antecedents, completion of investigation and prolonged custody, coupled with doubtful evidentiary value of the co-accused's disclosure statement, justified grant of regular bail. (P&H HC) Decided on: 22.07.2026

28. Writ jurisdiction -- Compensation in exercise of writ jurisdiction or inherent jurisdiction is an exceptional public law remedy available only when there is an established violation of fundamental rights, coupled with malafides or gross abuse of process causing demonstrable harm. (J&K&L HC) Reserved on: 15.07.2026 Decided on: 22.07.2026

29. Right of reproduction and right to employment -- A woman cannot be forced to choose between bearing a child and employment (All. H.C.) Decided on: 22.07.2026

30. Rent laws -- Bonafide need -- Alternate accommodation is used for storing waste material does not negate the landlord's bona fide requirement to use the demised premises for a business. (SC) Decided on: 21.07.2026

31. FERA -- Cognizance of offence -- Mandatory opportunity notice -- Service of an adequate and meaningful opportunity notice under the proviso to Section 61(2) is a mandatory statutory prerequisite for instituting a complaint under Section 56 or 57. (SC) Decided on : 21.07.2026

32. Service Law -- Minor Penalty -- Effective Date -- Promotion -- Minor penalty imposed in substitution of termination relates back to the date of the original termination -- Promotion granted pursuant to Review DPC must carry all consequential benefits and cannot be restricted to notional promotion alone. (SC) Decided on: 21.07.2026

33. Juvenile Justice Act -- Classification of Offences -- Heinous offence -- Offence punishable under Section 302 IPC carries life imprisonment as its minimum punishment by necessary implication and therefore falls within definition of "heinous offence". (SC) Decided on: 21.07.2026

34. Consent decree -- Article 142 cannot be employed to supplant the concluded and acted upon terms of a consensual arrangement between the parties. (SC) Decided on : 21.07.2026

35. Attempt to culpable homicide -- Grievous injury -- Intention or knowledge to cause death -- Where only lathis were allegedly used and no sharp-edged weapon was recovered, a grievous injury pertaining to a fracture of a metacarpal bone cannot by itself be construed as an injury dangerous to life or indicative of an intention or knowledge to cause death. (P&H HC) Decided on : 20.07.2026

36. Pension and Family Pension -- Monetary crunch of the Corporation cannot come in the way of petitioners receiving the benefits to which they are entitled on account of their father having served the respondent-Corporation (H.P. HC) Decided on: 20.07.2026

37. Summoning of accused -- At the time of considering the issuance of process against the accused, the Magistrate is required not only to take into consideration the allegations made in the complaint, but also the material collected by the Inquiry Officer, to whom the inquiry has been entrusted under Section 202 CrPC. (J&K&L HC) Reserved on: 07.07.2026 Decided on: 17.07.2026

38. Cheque bounce complaint -- Second complaint -- Delay liable to be condoned by excluding the period spent by the complainant in prosecuting the previous complaint dismissed on account of its prematurity. (J&K&L HC) Reserved on: 07.07.2026 Decided on: 17.07.2026

39. Property Law -- Ancestral estate -- Where several settlements and consolidations have intervened, plaintiffs claiming a share in the ancestral estate must establish that the suit property was allotted in lieu of the estate left by the common ancestor -- Failure to establish such nexus warrants dismissal of the suit. (P&H HC) Reserved on : 17.04.2026 Pronounced on : 16.07.2026

40. Commercial Disputes -- A party cannot invoke the procedural doctrine of "relation back" of amended pleadings to bypass the mandatory document disclosure requirements under the Commercial Courts Act. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 14.07.2026 Pronounced on: 16.07.2026

41. Clog on equity of redemption -- Right to redeem cannot be postponed -- A mortgagor's right to redeem the mortgaged property accrues on the date the term postponing redemption is read down as a clog on redemption. (P&H HC) Reserved on : 20.04.2026 Pronounced on : 16.07.2026

42. NDPS -- An uncorroborated disclosure statement holds limited evidentiary value and cannot be the sole basis for implication. (P&H HC) Decided on : 16.07.2026

43. NDPS -- Bail involving commercial quantity -- Prolonged incarceration and inordinate delay in trial without fault of the accused -- The fundamental right to a speedy trial under Article 21 dilutes the statutory embargo created under Section 37 of the NDPS Act. (P&H HC) Decided on: 16.07.2026

44. Supernumerary post -- Section 20(4) of RPwD Act attracted only when employee acquires disability during service -- Scheme of Act does not provide for creation of supernumerary post for person appointed as a person with disability. (H.P. HC) Decided on: 14.07.2026

45. Interrogatories are intended to secure admissions on material facts and not to satisfy curiosity or conduct a fishing enquiry; leave to administer them is discretionary and will not be granted unless necessary for fair adjudication or saving costs. (P&H HC) Decided on: 10.07.2026

46. Rent laws -- A tenant cannot enlarge the scope of eviction proceedings by seeking impleadment of a third party inducted into possession without the landlord's consent or nay internal arrangements or arbitral disputes with such person. (P&H HC) Reserved on: 06.07.2026 Decided on: 09.07.2026

47. Filing of additional documents -- A "stop and go" or piecemeal approach cannot be permitted -- Evidence, however voluminous, cannot water down the statutory intent and rigours of the Commercial Courts Act. (SC) Decided on: 09.07.2026

48. NDPS -- Bail -- Long incarceration coupled with non-commencement of trial and the petitioner's prospects of rehabilitation justified grant of regular bail despite recovery of commercial quantity of heroin. (P&H HC) Decided on: 09.07.2026

49. Partition suit -- Co-sharers reflected in the revenue record are not required to be impleaded where the suit relates to a constructed house situated in an abadi area and such co-sharers have no concern with the property in dispute. (P&H HC) Decided on: 08.07.2026

50. Rejection of plaint -- Disputed questions requiring evidence or founded on incomplete extraneous material cannot form the basis for rejecting the plaint at the threshold. (P&H HC) Decided on: 08.07.2026