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Judgment Digest
Ten Supreme Court and High Court developments covering written grounds of arrest, a trademark commercial-court reference, prolonged-custody bail in NIA cases, software services despite EU sanctions, VAT on crane hire and NPPA ceiling-price methodology.
Supreme Court of India
21 September 2026
Written grounds of arrest in a language the arrested person understands are mandatory under Article 22(1); non-compliance renders the arrest unconstitutional and requires immediate release, with safeguards framed for any re-arrest.
Supreme Court of India
SLP(C) No. 6793/2026 · 21 September 2026
Reference order: an apparent conflict on whether Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act is displaced when a Civil Judge (Senior Division) is notified as a Commercial Court was referred to a larger Bench, and the pending commercial suit was stayed.
Supreme Court of India
22 September 2026
Supervisory order: Uttar Pradesh was directed to identify a senior public prosecutor for the Lakhimpur Kheri trial, and the Allahabad High Court Chief Justice was requested to examine allegations concerning the trial judge in a sealed report; no findings were made.
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Supreme Court of India
18 September 2026
Monitoring order: the Court sought a progress affidavit within two weeks on implementation of the Nandan Nilekani committee’s examination-reform recommendations; no final ruling on the reforms.
Supreme Court of India
22 September 2026
Notice-stage: notice was issued to the Union and the States of Maharashtra and Haryana on clubbing multiple FIRs arising from the same public remark; no view was expressed on the merits.
Delhi High Court
18 September 2026
Bail was granted in seven NIA cases given more than eight years’ custody, slow trials (40 of 123 witnesses examined) and a 2025 acquittal in a similar prosecution, subject to conditions including passport surrender.
Delhi High Court
21 September 2026
SAP India was directed to restore full and uninterrupted software services to Nayara Energy despite a suspension linked to EU sanctions, and a request to keep the judgment in abeyance was declined.
Bombay High Court
2026:BHC-OS:20829-DB · 22 September 2026
Crane hire where the supplier retained ownership and effective control was a service, not a deemed sale under the Maharashtra VAT Act; the contrary tribunal determination with interest and penalty was quashed.
Bombay High Court
2026:BHC-OS:20781-DB · 22 September 2026
The NPPA could not apply another formulation’s ceiling price to Cartigen Forte without the statutory calculation under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995; the notifications were quashed and the reported ₹13.41 crore recovery demand displaced.
Karnataka High Court
18 September 2026
Criminal proceedings against an NRI student over an offensive social-media post were quashed after a warning, considering the career impact; the order is fact-specific and confers no general immunity for unlawful online speech.