Top Legal Developments This Week [10-16 August 2026] | Tarun Tejpal’s Conviction; Bar Council Co-option; UPI Charges Clarified; and 20+ more stories
A quick roundup to cover all the important legal developments and cases this week.
Shaurya Chakra
“Supreme Sacrifice Made”; SC Invokes Article 142 to extend extraordinary pension benefits to widow of Shaurya Chakra awardee, grants an additional ₹10 lakhs relief
The deceased had made the “supreme sacrifice” in the performance of his duty and had thereafter been posthumously decorated with the Shaurya Chakra, India’s third-highest peacetime gallantry award.
GREF Overseer services at Indo-China Border falls under Armed Forces, not Workmen: Punjab and Haryana HC
“The instant case cannot be termed as a ‘simple accident’ as is understood in common parlance, however, it definitely falls within the definition of ‘accident’ under Rule 3 (1) (ii) of the EOP Rules, which covers within its ambit a mishap due to an act of devotion to duty in an emergency arising otherwise than by violence out of and in the course of service.”