https://thedailybench.in/Daily summaries of latest judgments from the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Telangana High Court and the Supreme Court of Indiahttps://thedailybench.in/judgment/sci-2026_7_113_141/sci-2026_7_113_141Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Supreme Court of India — A Town Inspector who was caught in a trap case by the Special Police Establishment (SPE) asked under the RTI Act for information on how sanction to prosecute him was granted. The request was refused on the basis of a 2011 State notification exempting the SPE from the RTI Act as an 'intelligence and security' organisation. The Supreme Court upheld the High Court's order and struck the notification down.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/sci-2026_7_175_186/sci-2026_7_175_186Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Supreme Court of India — While hearing appeals over compensation in a motor accident claim, the Supreme Court held that the right to walk, including the right to demarcated and well-maintained footpaths, is a fundamental right under Part III of the Constitution. It converted the matter into a separate petition on the subject and brought the Union Government in as a party.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/aphc-aphc010076242026_1_2026-09-22/aphc-aphc010076242026_1_2026-09-22Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court of Andhra Pradesh — Relatives of five men said they were illegally held by forest officials from 5 February 2026 before being produced before the Special Court for red sanders cases at Tirupati on 10 February, and asked for their release and compensation. A Division Bench of the High Court dismissed the habeas corpus petition: the men were in custody under a magistrate's remand order and were later granted bail.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/tshc-hbhc010036642016_1_2026-09-15/tshc-hbhc010036642016_1_2026-09-15Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court for the State of Telangana — An officer of National Insurance Company Limited was dismissed in 2002 after a departmental inquiry into medical-claim settlements, and the appellate authority upheld the penalty in 2016. He was later tried on substantially the same allegations in a corruption case and honourably acquitted. The High Court held that removal from service, after about 24 years of service, was unduly harsh and disproportionate.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/sci-2026_8_218_253/sci-2026_8_218_253Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Supreme Court of India — A CRPF constable (driver) was medically invalidated out of service after losing sight in one eye and suffering impaired vision in the other, and was given only Rs 15,000. The Single Judge ordered his reinstatement under Section 47 of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, and the Division Bench upheld it. The Supreme Court dismissed the Union's appeal but, since the respondent is now in his sixties, replaced reinstatement with a payment of Rs 1.25 crore.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/tshc-hbhc010566752026_1_2026-09-17/tshc-hbhc010566752026_1_2026-09-17Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court for the State of Telangana — An accused challenged a Magistrate's one-line docket order of 18 May 2026, in a Kukatpally court, that took cognizance and issued summons without recording any satisfaction. The Additional Public Prosecutor did not oppose the challenge. The High Court quashed the order and sent the matter back to the Magistrate to take cognizance afresh.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/tshc-hbhc010572772026_1_2026-09-17/tshc-hbhc010572772026_1_2026-09-17Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court for the State of Telangana — A director of a Hyderabad company, accused of wrongly claiming about Rs 98.47 crore of input tax credit on invoices from non-genuine suppliers, sought protection from arrest under the Central and Telangana GST Acts. The High Court held that the seriousness of an economic offence is not enough on its own: what matters is whether custodial interrogation is actually necessary, and here the evidence was largely documents already seized.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/tshc-hbhc010537022026_1_2026-09-18/tshc-hbhc010537022026_1_2026-09-18Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court for the State of Telangana — A plaintiff in a pending title suit before the Junior Civil Judge at Miryalaguda asked to correct the southern boundary of the suit property from 'Road leads to Adavidevulapally to Chityala' to 'Flood Flow Canal and Road'. The trial court refused. The High Court set that order aside in a civil revision petition and allowed the amendment.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/aphc-aphc010491692026_1_2026-09-21/aphc-aphc010491692026_1_2026-09-21Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court of Andhra Pradesh — A 72-year-old jaggery merchant from Guntakal asked the High Court to quash a case against him under the A.P. Prohibition (Amendment) Act, 2020 and the Gur (Regulation of Use) Order, 1968. His counsel argued that he had no link to the allegations beyond a co-accused's confession, and the Assistant Public Prosecutor accepted that the issue was already settled by earlier High Court orders.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/aphc-aphc010488412026_1_2026-09-25/aphc-aphc010488412026_1_2026-09-25Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court of Andhra Pradesh — A lender sued to recover Rs 4 lakh on a 2021 promissory note. The trial court at Jammalamadugu rejected the plaint as time-barred, because the debtor's later insolvency petition listing the lender as a creditor was, it said, only an admission and not an acknowledgment that extends limitation. The High Court set that order aside and sent the case back.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/aphc-aphc010260892026_1_2026-09-25/aphc-aphc010260892026_1_2026-09-25Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court of Andhra Pradesh — Judgment debtors opposed execution of a 2010 Permanent Lok Adalat award of Rs 50 lakh, arguing that the Lok Adalat had no power to pass an award above Rs 10 lakh, so it was a nullity that could be challenged in execution. The trial court refused to dismiss the execution petition at that stage. The High Court upheld that order.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/aphc-aphc010252562026_1_2026-09-25/aphc-aphc010252562026_1_2026-09-25Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court of Andhra Pradesh — The Collector of Sri Sathya Sai district detained a man under the A.P. Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act, 1986 (the 'Goondas Act') on the basis of nine criminal cases, and the State confirmed the order in May 2026. In a habeas corpus writ, a Division Bench of the High Court found that bail orders in two of those cases had not been placed before the detaining authority, and quashed the detention.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/sci-2026_8_472_479/sci-2026_8_472_479Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Supreme Court of India — In a matrimonial dispute, a mother challenged the maintenance fixed by the Delhi High Court for herself and two children, arguing that the father's income had been reduced by deductions that were really voluntary. The Supreme Court agreed that provident fund and employee stock plan contributions are not compulsory deductions in the way income tax and professional tax are, and increased the maintenance.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/tshc-hbhc010376392025_1_2026-09-22/tshc-hbhc010376392025_1_2026-09-22Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court for the State of Telangana — A Division Bench of the Telangana High Court set aside a Jagtial sessions court's life sentence for murder and destruction of evidence. The prosecution had proved a homicidal death but not who caused it. Its key 'last seen together' link rested on statements of two witnesses recorded before a magistrate who were never examined at trial, and the recovery of a towel did not connect the accused to the death.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/aphc-aphc010060652023_1_2026-09-28/aphc-aphc010060652023_1_2026-09-28Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court of Andhra Pradesh — A man who had been named in one criminal case asked the High Court to close a suspect sheet the Visakhapatnam police opened against him in 2019. The police said the sheet was meant to curb his alleged unlawful activity near the Steel Plant. The High Court held that this general claim was not enough, because nothing showed he fell within the categories in the Police Standing Orders or was a habitual offender.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/sci-2026_8_550_563/sci-2026_8_550_563Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Supreme Court of India — An employee of the Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd. was terminated for giving false information about his criminal antecedents, after a non-cognizable police report under Sections 323 and 504 IPC turned up against him. The Supreme Court held that he genuinely did not know about the report, and that the employer had not properly considered whether the matter justified dismissal.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/sci-2026_8_489_505/sci-2026_8_489_505Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Supreme Court of India — Two electrocution victims' claimants had won compensation of about Rs 25.5 lakh and Rs 44.3 lakh from the Karnataka High Court against the state power transmission company, which treated its liability as absolute and ignored disputed facts. The Supreme Court held that such cases involve strict liability, which has recognised exceptions, and that a writ petition is not the right remedy when negligence and other facts are genuinely disputed.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/tshc-hbhc010234832026_1_2026-09-22/tshc-hbhc010234832026_1_2026-09-22Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court for the State of Telangana — The State appealed against a Single Judge's order quashing a 2020 resumption of about 13 acres in Nizampet village, Medchal-Malkajgiri district, under the Telangana Assignment (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977. A Division Bench of the High Court dismissed three connected writ appeals, holding that the State acted far too late and could not show the land was assigned land with a bar on transfers.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/aphc-aphc010217482012_1_2026-09-28/aphc-aphc010217482012_1_2026-09-28Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court of Andhra Pradesh — A lorry owner appealed against a tribunal award for the death of an 18-year-old cyclist, arguing his insurance premium was paid on the day of the accident. The High Court found the policy was taken after the accident, so the owner remains liable, but it increased the compensation on its own after finding the tribunal had calculated it wrongly.https://thedailybench.in/judgment/tshc-hbhc010663002026_1_2026-09-24/tshc-hbhc010663002026_1_2026-09-24Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000High Court for the State of Telangana — A student who had secured a seat in the 5-year LL.B. course through TG LAWCET-2026 said his previous junior college refused to release his transfer and study certificates unless he paid Rs 50,000, which put his admission at risk because counselling deadlines were close. The High Court ordered the college to release the documents immediately.