(821) SHOBHA VASANT BHOIR AND OTHERS Vs. SONI @ VANDANA GURUMUKHDAS JAGIASI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(d) — Rejection of plaint — Suit barred by limitation — Suit for specific performance filed 38 years after an unregistered agreement to sell, seeking to enforce it — Held, plaint liable to be rejected — On a complete reading of the plaint, its foundation was the agreement to sell dated 21.08.1984, and no explanation was forthcoming for the respondents' India Law Library Docid # 2447200
(822) KRISHNA KUMAR OJHA AND OTHERS Vs. JITENDRA CHAUDHARY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 23 Rule 3 — Compromise decree — Requirement of signature/voluntary authorisation — Compromise petition in a partition suit signed on behalf of defendant not personally but through counsel, absent express authorisation or exigent circumstance — Held, invalid — A compromise, to be lawful under Order XXIII Rule 3, must be in writing and signed by the parties India Law Library Docid # 2447201
(823) RASHMIREKHA TRIPATHY AND ANOTHER Vs. THE BRANCH MANAGER (LEGAL CLAIMS), SRIRAM GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166, 168 — Compensation — Assessment of annual income of deceased/claimant on the basis of Income Tax Returns — Whether the ITR of the previous year alone, or the average of the previous two/three years, is to be taken — Held, no hard and fast formula governs computation of annual income; ITRs, being statutory documents, are an important reference point, but a bifurcation must be made between salaried and self-employed individuals — (i) For India Law Library Docid # 2447202
(824) NEERAJ GUPTA Vs. PARDEEP KUMAR BANSAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 209, 244 — Commitment of case exclusively triable by Court of Session — Whether Magistrate is required to record prosecution evidence under Section 244 CrPC before committing such a case, where the complaint is one instituted otherwise than on a police report — Held, no — Section 244 CrPC, which mandates the Magistrate to hear the prosecution and take India Law Library Docid # 2447203
(825) RAJANI AND OTHERS Vs. MUKESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166, 168 — Compensation — Assessment of annual income of a self-employed deceased (Insurance Agent) from Income Tax Returns — High Court had averaged the last four ITRs on record — Held, erroneous — Following the principles laid down in Rashmirekha Tripathy and Anr. v. The India Law Library Docid # 2447204
(826) SMT. REKHA AND OTHERS Vs. DINESH PORWAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections166, 168 — Compensation — Assessment of annual income of a self-employed deceased (wholesale grocery business) — Two ITRs filed after the death of the deceased excluded by the High Court altogether from the assessment of income — Held, following the principles in Rashmirekha Tripathy India Law Library Docid # 2447205
(827) MEENU MALHOTRA Vs. JASBIR SINGH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of plaint — Application for amendment moved at initial stage after filing of written statement — Trial Court erred by dismissing application as belated India Law Library Docid # 2447210
(828) IMTIYAZ AHMAD BHAT Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Habeas Corpus — Preventive Detention — Petitioner sought release from preventive detention under the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978. The Court examined the grounds of detention and procedural safeguards. India Law Library Docid # 2447287
(829) JAYASURYA Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Appeal against dismissal of bail petition by Special Court for SC/ST (POA) Act — Appellant was already in jail for another case during the registration of the current FIR and his arrest — Despite conflicting claims regarding his presence and involvement, the period of incarceration already undergone by the appellant is a significant factor for considering bail. India Law Library Docid # 2447402
(830) PERIYAMMAL Vs. SUNDARAM AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Speedy Disposal of Suit — Senior Citizen Plaintiff — Court directed early disposal of a partition suit due to the plaintiff being a senior citizen, aged 75 years, and the suit pending for several years. India Law Library Docid # 2447403
(831) AMSAVALLI AND OTHERS Vs. SELVI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 8 — Property inherited by a son from his father after 1956 as a Class I heir does not become coparcenary property in relation to his children and he becomes the absolute owner with full power of alienation. India Law Library Docid # 2447404
(832) OM PRAKASH BARWADIYA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail Cancellation — Grounds for cancellation of bail are limited to misuse of liberty, supervening circumstances, or patent illegality/perversity in the original bail order — A mere possibility of another view on merits is insufficient. India Law Library Docid # 2447685
(833) SMT. SANGEETA ARAWALIA AND OTHERS Vs. ESCORTS HEART INSTITUTE & RESEARCH CENTRE LTD. AND OTHERS[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 01-07-2026 Medical Negligence — Angioplasty and Stenting — Death of patient post-procedure — Allegations of incorrect treatment choice, doctor's inexperience, and hasty discharge — Court found no negligence as procedure was technically feasible, scientifically correct, and performed with informed consent after considering alternatives like CABG, India Law Library Docid # 2447864
(834) BRANCH MANAGER, LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER Vs. MORE ANITHA[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 01-07-2026 Insurance Law — Repudiation of Life Insurance Claim — Non-disclosure of Pre-existing Ailment — Insurer repudiated claim based on undisclosed lung cancer — The insured had undergone treatment for lung cancer prior to policy inception, which was a material fact that should have been disclosed. India Law Library Docid # 2447935
(835) YASHODA HEALTHCARE SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. CHEKURI LAKSHMI NARAYANA[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 01-07-2026 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 34(2) — Jurisdiction for filing a consumer complaint — A complaint can be filed where the complainant resides, even if the cause of action arose elsewhere, provided the complainant has established residence there. India Law Library Docid # 2447936
(836) SURYA PRATAP SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Service Law — Suspension — Extended duration — Uttarakhand Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 2003, R. 4 — Petitioner, a probationer, placed under suspension following his arrest in connection with a paper-leak FIR in which he was not originally named but later implicated post-investigation — Following Ajay Kumar Choudhary v. Union of India, (2015) 7 SCC 291, suspension ordinarily should not extend beyond three months absent service India Law Library Docid # 2447965
(837) MONU ALIAS GUFRAN Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Trial — Hostile witnesses — Unproved recovery — Failure of prosecution to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt — Section 302/34 IPC — Conviction for murder of a minor girl rested on alleged eyewitness account and recovery of knife/chunni from a third party's house at appellant's instance — Held, all material witnesses of fact, including informant-father, mother, uncle (recovery witness), and sister, turned hostile and did not support the prosecution case; informant categorically denied r India Law Library Docid # 2447967
(838) KRISHAN KANT ANAND Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Direction for registration of FIR — Availability of alternate statutory remedy — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S. 175(3) — Petitioner sought mandamus directing registration of FIR alleging attempt to murder by poisoning, without having approached the jurisdictional Magistrate under S. 175(3) BNSS (equivalent to S. 156(3) Cr.P.C.) — Held, where an efficacious statutory remedy exists for seeking registration of FIR, the extraordinary writ jur India Law Library Docid # 2447968
(839) DEVENDRA SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 31 — Sentences for multiple offences at one trial — Silence regarding concurrent or consecutive running — Effect — Petitioner convicted under Ss. 498-A, 304-B, 120-B IPC, with sentences confirmed up to the Supreme Court, but neither the High Court's appellate judgment nor the Supreme Court's order specified whether sentences were to run concurrently or consecutively — Held, S. 31 Cr.P.C. casts an India Law Library Docid # 2447969
(840) VENKATESH T Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Regular bail — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 7(a) — Trap case where bribe amount recovered from scooter of one accused, allegation of demand only against him and not co-accused — Accused, police officers with no criminal antecedents, having cooperated with investigation, major portion of which stood completed, save FSL report — No violation of interim bail conditions earlier granted — Regular bail granted subject to conditions, conside India Law Library Docid # 2447996