6 judgments and 5 notifications dated October 2026. Each is summarised from the judgment, Act or notification itself, with the source linked and a note on how CLAT could test it.
Ruling on a batch of writ petitions by government doctors in Chhattisgarh seeking an extra year of study leave, the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur held that a later government order relaxing the maximum period of study leave from 24 to 36 months could not retrospectively enlarge study leave already sanctioned and availed before that order was issued.
The Madras High Court struck off part of an election petition seeking a declaration that a losing candidate be declared duly elected in place of a successful MLA whose election was challenged on grounds of corrupt practices under Sections 123(1) and 123(2) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court set aside a trial court's order confiscating properties linked to a Sub-Registrar and his wife convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 for amassing wealth disproportionate to known income.
The High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Indore dismissed a writ petition by the State of Madhya Pradesh against an order of the Board of Revenue that had restored three private respondents as recorded cultivators (Adhipati Krishak) of land otherwise entered as belonging to a temple deity in Jhabua district.
The Supreme Court acquitted a man convicted of rape and murder of his minor niece under Sections 376(2)(i), 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 4 and 6 of the POCSO Act, 2012, after the Sessions Court and the Sikkim High Court had both upheld his conviction on circumstantial evidence.
The Supreme Court dismissed Himachal Pradesh's appeal against the acquittal of a woman, Anchla alias Chanchla, in the 2011 murder of her stepmother and minor stepbrother at Diur.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment detailed the measures the Centre has taken to strengthen enforcement of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, both of which are implemented primarily by the States and Union Territories.
The National Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognizance of two separate incidents of labour-rights violations reported in the past week.
The Reserve Bank of India issued a Master Circular on Credit Facilities to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), consolidating 21 separate circulars it had issued between 1978 and 2013 into a single current statement of the rules, applicable to all scheduled commercial banks, including small finance banks.
The Reserve Bank of India notified four parallel sets of Amendment Directions — covering commercial banks, small finance banks, payments banks and local area banks — simplifying the approval process under which mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds can acquire major shareholding in a banking company.
SEBI directed all stock brokers to prominently display investor awareness messages on their websites and trading apps as part of 'Project Jagrook,' its nationwide investor-education initiative, timed to the upcoming World Investor Week 2026.
Answer: B. The release states that Sessions Courts may be designated as Special Courts in districts with comparatively fewer cases, with the concurrence of the Chief Justice of the concerned High Court.
Read the story →Answer: A. The Court held that, absent express words or necessary implication showing retrospective intent, a legal instrument is presumed not to operate retrospectively — 'law passed today cannot apply to the events of the past.'
Read the story →Answer: B. The Court held, following Prakash Khandre and Muniraju Gowda, that a declaration under Section 101(b) in favour of another candidate is available only in a two-candidate contest, since votes cast for a disqualified candidate cannot reliably be presumed to redistribute in any particular way among three or more rivals.
Read the story →Answer: D. The Court held that after Section 18A's insertion in 2018, confiscation of proceeds of corruption must follow attachment under the 1944 Ordinance; since the properties were never attached, the trial court's confiscation order under Section 452 CrPC could not stand.
Read the story →Answer: A. Relying on the Supreme Court's ruling in Suraj Bhan v. Financial Commissioner, the Court held that revenue entries serve a fiscal purpose and do not confer title; title can only be settled by a civil court.
Read the story →Answer: C. The NHRC directed the authorities to issue Bonded Labour Release Certificates to the rescued victims as part of processing their rehabilitation assistance.
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