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Cyberabad police arrested CPI (Maoist) leader Sanjoy Deepak Rao in Hyderabad on 15 September 2023. The National Investigation Agency filed a chargesheet against him on 12 March 2024. As of the hearing listed on 6 February 2026, the matter is proceeding before the Telangana High Court.
Abhishek Jha, the husband of a Jharkhand IAS officer, sought anticipatory bail in a money laundering and corruption case following the rejection of his plea by the High Court. The Supreme Court dismissed his anticipatory bail application on 8 August 2023, and subsequently dismissed a further application filed by Jha and his father on 3 February 2026.
The Supreme Court set aside a Calcutta High Court order in a PIL concerning land use in Shantiniketan, cautioning against the use of PILs for selective challenges and emphasizing the need for evidence-based claims.
The Supreme Court set aside a Madras High Court order that had granted bail to an accused in a matrimonial fraud case on the condition that he marry the complainant. The High Court had previously dismissed the accused's petition to quash criminal proceedings in the case, C.C. No. 1102 of 2023, and had directed authorities to consider regulations for matrimonial websites as reported on 28 August 2023.
The Allahabad High Court has ordered a CBI probe into alleged irregularities surrounding the development of the Noida Sports City project in Sector 150. The investigation follows allegations of financial and regulatory mismanagement involving the Noida Authority and private developers.
The Supreme Court set aside a 14-year-old Rajasthan High Court order on 19 January 2026, effectively reopening a land dispute between the Jaipur Development Authority and the family of Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari regarding a property worth Rs 400 crore. This development follows the Supreme Court's closure of separate, unrelated appeals concerning hotel property disputes among members of the Jaipur royal family as reported on 20 December 2021.
Muzaffarpur resident Raj Narayan Thakur alleged that his son, Dilip Thakur, fraudulently declared him dead on official documents to facilitate the sale of ancestral land. As reported on 19 January 2026, the High Court recorded a settlement of the land dispute after observing that the raiyati lands were transferred via registered sale deeds, acknowledging the legal basis of the transfer claims.
Chandra Bhushan Prasad was the prime accused in a case involving the custodial deaths of two suspects while serving as the Station House Officer of Dumra police station. Following a 2019 incident where he escaped from police custody, the Patna High Court delivered its judgment in the criminal case against him on 12 January 2026.
Prakash Industries Limited (PIL) is accused of obtaining Chotia and Fatehpur coal block allocations through fraud and misrepresentation in applications. The case involves allegations of submitting false documents to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction, generating proceeds of crime through coal extraction and sale, and money laundering via share price manipulation and property acquisition. The Supreme Court cancelled the allocations in 2014. PIL remains accused (not convicted) across CBI/corruption cases and ED/PMLA enforcement proceedings, with ongoing trials and appellate litigation in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court.
The Telangana State Narcotics Control Bureau investigated actor Navdeep Pallapolu in connection with a drug abuse case involving Tollywood personalities. The Telangana High Court quashed the criminal case against the actor on 9 January 2026, noting that no narcotic substances were found in his possession.
Arvind Dham, the former director of the Amtek group, faces a money laundering investigation involving an alleged Rs 2,700 crore bank fraud. After the Delhi High Court denied interim bail on 30 May 2025 and regular bail on 20 August 2025 due to the magnitude of the economic offence, the court issued a digitally signed order in the matter on 9 January 2026.
Nikhil Priyadarshi and his father were arrested by the Patna Police in 2017 following allegations of sexual exploitation involving the daughter of a former minister. On 6 January 2026, the Patna High Court quashed the criminal proceedings against Nikhil Priyadarshi, Manish Priyadarshi, and Krishna Bihari Sinha.
The Gujarat High Court granted bail to an accused person alleged to have obtained an Indian birth certificate and passport despite their parents being Bangladeshi nationals.
Actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra and businessman Raj Kundra have approached the Bombay High Court to quash an FIR involving a ₹60 crore cheating complaint, and have urged the court to direct police not to file a chargesheet.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda faces ongoing trial proceedings concerning an alleged land acquisition scam in Manesar. The Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected a petition from the former Chief Minister to stay these proceedings as reported on 7 November 2025.
A Delhi court accepted the Enforcement Directorate's closure report in the 2010 Commonwealth Games money laundering case on 29 April 2025, citing a lack of evidence after a 13-year investigation. Following an appeal filed by the Enforcement Directorate regarding simultaneous proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the Delhi High Court delivered a judgment on 15 September 2025.
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court ordered the formation of a Special Investigation Team on 14 August 2025 to probe the custodial death of Dalit law student Somnath Suryawanshi after a magisterial inquiry report found police officials responsible. Following these events, the Maharashtra government issued new guidelines on 7 October 2025 prohibiting investigating officers from closing custodial death cases without incorporating conclusions from executive inquiries. The matter continues to be monitored by the court.
In Criminal Appeal No. 238 of 2019, the Supreme Court quashed an FIR, chargesheet, and all consequential criminal proceedings involving allegations under IPC sections 406, 420, 109, and 34. The court observed that offences of criminal breach of trust and cheating cannot co-exist based on the same allegations. As of 9 August 2026, the case is closed.
Former AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal was convicted for the abetment of suicide of a doctor who died in April 2020. Following his conviction, the former MLA moved to the Delhi High Court to challenge the verdict as reported on 24 September 2025.
The CBI's prosecution of gangster Chhota Rajan for the 2001 murder of Mumbai hotelier Jaya Shetty. A special court in Mumbai sentenced him to life imprisonment on 30 May 2024; in September 2025 the Supreme Court cancelled the bail the Bombay High Court had granted him while his appeal is pending.
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