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Civil Appeal · 2026 INSC 1094
An older qualification must still satisfy the eligibility rules governing the appointment sought. Here, the certificate's early date did not secure reinstatement, and rejection of eligibility should not be confused with a conclusive finding that the certificate was forged.
Civil Appeal · 2026 INSC 1095
A party benefiting from a conditional stay must meet its deposit requirement or face enforcement. The additional ₹15 crore deposit secures the pending dispute; it does not settle the land's final compensation or amount to an immediate payment to the landowners.
Criminal Appeal · 2026 INSC 1093
An alleged attempt to kill does not become a lesser offence simply because the victim avoided a fatal injury. Restoring this charge means the accusation must be tried; it does not establish that the accused is guilty.
Civil Appeal · 2026 INSC 1090
For the assessment in this case, assistance reducing ordinary manufacturing costs was taxable even though the government wanted to encourage industry. The purpose and actual operation of the particular subsidy mattered more than its general development label.
Criminal Appeal · 2026 INSC 1091
Proof that someone caused a serious injury does not by itself prove the additional ingredients of robbery. A court can substitute a lesser offence supported by the evidence; the sentencing reduction here depended on Appa's particular circumstances.
Special Leave Petition (Civil) · 2026 INSC 1092
Someone challenging an election must ensure that the personal-presentation requirement is met and can be proved. Merely entering the court building does not establish compliance, and a filing defect can end the challenge before the election allegations are examined.
Civil Appeal · 2026 INSC 1088
An employee who retires on 30 June may be entitled to the increment that falls due on 1 July after completing a year of service. Authorities that delay paying the amounts due must pay interest after the deadline set by the court.
Civil Appeal · 2026 INSC 1089
Recruitment must follow the qualifications stated in the advertisement and the governing Recruitment Rules. A court will not override a merit-based eligibility decision made under those rules merely because the candidate concerned was higher in the written test.
Writ Petition (Criminal) · 2026:DHC:8797
A person who occupied property only because of employment has no independent right to remain once the employment and decree end. Even when a petition fails, courts can make practical arrangements to let a person recover personal belongings.
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Log in to see moreA landlord sought eviction of his tenants from a shop premises in Lucknow over non-payment of rent, after earlier notices terminating the tenancy and demanding arrears. The trial court decreed eviction and recovery of rent arrears in the landlord's favour in 1992, but the tenants' second appeal succeeded before the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) in 2018, which held that the tenancy-termination notices were not validly served or had been effectively waived by the landlord's later conduct.
The Supreme Court held that the High Court's reasoning on waiver of the earlier notice was legally unsound, since a later notice (of April 1974) referring back to and reinforcing the earlier demand could not be read as forgiving it, and there was no evidence on record that the tenants had failed to receive that notice. The Court restored the trial court's decree of eviction and rent recovery with interest. However, taking into account that the tenants had been in possession for nearly three decades, the Court granted them time until 30 September 2020 to vacate, conditional on filing an undertaking and clearing all rent arrears and continuing to pay rent in the meantime.
A tenant cannot escape eviction by claiming a landlord's later, firmer rent-demand notice somehow "revived" or implied forgiveness of an earlier termination notice: courts will look at the substance and continuity of the landlord's demands, not technical gaps between successive notices.
