(101) SHAURYA SUNIL KUMAR SINGH Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 187(3) — Default bail — Non-filing of additional copies of charge-sheet under S.193(8) BNSS for supply to accused — Whether entitles accused to default bail — Held, no — The right to default bail under Section 187(3) BNSS (corresponding to Section 167(2) CrPC) is a conditional right that subsists only during the pendency of investigation and stands extinguished the moment a police report/charge-sheet, in compliance with the form India Law Library Docid # 2447198
(102) CHANDRIKABEN KISHOR DAFDA Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 — Gujarat Municipalities (Conduct of Elections) Rules, 1994 — Rule 7A(1) — Election affidavit — Non-disclosure of immovable property — Construction of Rule requiring disclosure of assets of "myself, my spouse and dependents" — Held, the comma after "myself" is a mere listing comma and does not create any distinction or exclusion — the word "of" governs all three categories India Law Library Docid # 2447199
(103) 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
(104) 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
(105) 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
(106) 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
(107) 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
(108) 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
(109) 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
(110) 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
(111) 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
(112) 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
(113) 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
(114) SHAILESH R. GANDHI AND OTHERS Vs. LATE RAMCHANDRA R. GANDHI THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Ss. 9, 7 and 16 — Composite family settlement comprising Memorandum of Agreement, Branding Agreement, Registered User Agreement and Irrevocable Power of Attorney — Agreements executed contemporaneously as part of single transaction — Prima facie held, disputes cannot be viewed as arising solely from Registered User Agreement — India Law Library Docid # 2447177
(115) RAMPHAL AHIRWAR Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Judicial review of departmental punishment — Acquittal of delinquent in criminal trial on benefit of doubt — Effect on disciplinary proceedings — Held, acquittal by criminal court does not ipso facto absolve delinquent from liability in departmental proceedings — Standard of proof in the two proceedings being different, findings recorded in departmental enquiry on India Law Library Docid # 2447180
(116) RAMEN ROY Vs. SAMBRIDDHI REAL ESTATE PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 2(1)(c)(vi) — "Commercial dispute" — Construction and infrastructure contracts — Development agreement contemplating transfer of ownership rights in addition to construction — Held, expression "dispute arising out of" construction and infrastructure contracts is of expansive connotation and sub-clause (vi) does not use the word "only" to India Law Library Docid # 2447183
(117) SOMANATH JANKA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 374(2) — Appeal against conviction — Offences under Ss. 363, 366 and 376(2)(n), IPC read with S. 6, POCSO Act, 2012 — Victim turning hostile — Absence of eye-witness — Held, conviction based mainly on circumstantial and medical evidence, in the absence of any supporting testimony from the victim herself (star witness) and no other India Law Library Docid # 2447184
(118) THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS Vs. UMESH KUMAR SINGH[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Service Law — Departmental enquiry — Principles of natural justice — Non-service of second show-cause notice along with copy of inquiry report before imposing major penalty — Held, admittedly, the second show-cause notice along with the inquiry report was not served on the delinquent employee before imposition of penalty — Following Managing India Law Library Docid # 2447185
(119) STATE OF SIKKIM Vs. BISHAL SAHA[SIKKIM HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 36A — Exclusive jurisdiction of Special Court — Charge-sheet filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate instead of Special Court — Effect — Held, once a Special Court is constituted for an area, it alone has exclusive jurisdiction, India Law Library Docid # 2447186
(120) All NEHU WORKERS’ UNION (ANWU) Vs. NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY (NEHU) AND OTHER[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 30-06-2026 Service Law — Regularization of casual/temporary workers — Long years of continuous service (10 to 30 years) without appointment against sanctioned posts or through regular selection process — Availability of vacant sanctioned posts — Held, a blanket denial of consideration for regularization would be unjustified where members of petitioner-Union have rendered long, continuous service and India Law Library Docid # 2447187