(41) LAKSHMI MOHAN (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S. AIRTECH PROJECTS ENGINEERS PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-08-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 13(4) — Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 — Rule 8 & Rule 9 — Auction Sale — Minor Shortfall in Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) — Essential vs. Non-Essential Tender Conditions — Clause 7 of Possession-cum-Sale Notice required bidders to deposit Rs. 21,50,000/- as EMD — Bidders deposited Rs. 21,15,000/-, resulting in a shortfall of Rs. 35,000/- — Auction-purchasers deposited full 2 India Law Library Docid # 2449992
(42) MADURAI FAROOQ AHMED Vs. THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 136 — Public Interest Litigation / Bonafide Civic Engagement — Issuance of directions for infrastructure project — Resident filed appeal seeking time-bound completion of Limited Use Subway (LUS) at Level Crossing No. 81 in Vaniyambadi — Matter pending for almost 20 years with multiple revisions from ROB to RUB and finally to LUS — State and Railway authorities filed affidavits confirming initiation of land acquisition, design India Law Library Docid # 2449645
(43) REHANA KHAN Vs. RIZWAN SIDDHIQUEE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-08-2026 Advocates Act, 1961 — Section 35 — Professional Misconduct — Breach of Professional Confidentiality and Media Exposure — Duty of Advocate towards Client — Disciplinary Committee of Bar Council of India removed advocate’s name from roll for two years and imposed fine/costs for disclosing privileged communications and making derogatory public remarks against client on television channels — Respondent advocate argued that he spoke to media in self-defence after being named in an FIR by the appellan India Law Library Docid # 2449646
(44) LUCKNOW DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 131 vs Article 12 — Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court — Maintainability of proceedings by a statutory authority — High Court dismissed writ petition filed by Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) holding that dispute between State of UP and Union of India cannot be decided by it and granted liberty to parties to approach Supreme Court under Article 131 — Impugned order set aside — LDA is a body corporate constituted under Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and India Law Library Docid # 2450678
(45) NEELAM SHARMA AND OTHERS Vs. AMITA PASSAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of plaint — Non-payment of ad-valorem court fee — Scope of inquiry under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC — Court has to consider averments in plaint only — Plaintiffs asserted joint possession of inherited property as co-owners and challenged transfer deed/allotment letter as fraudulent without being executants or parties to it — Plaintiffs sought India Law Library Docid # 2449991
(46) RAVI KUMAR SINGH MALHOTRA Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Criminal Law — Reversal of Acquittal — Scope of Appellate Interference — Double Presumption of Innocence — Reversal of judgment of acquittal by High Court — Permissibility — High Court reversed Trial Court's order of acquittal and convicted appellant under Sections 302 and 201 IPC — Held, an appellate court interfering with an acquittal must bear in mind the double presumption of innocence operating in favour of the accused — Where two reasonable views are possible based on the evidence on recor India Law Library Docid # 2449628
(47) JAMNABAI AND OTHERS Vs. VASUDEV AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Scope of Second Appeal — Interference with Concurrent Findings of Fact — High Court reversed concurrent findings of trial court and first appellate court regarding title, limitation, and validity of relinquishment — Permissibility — Held, Section 100 CPC confers a restricted jurisdiction and a second appeal can be entertained only where a substantial question India Law Library Docid # 2449629
(48) SHAILENDRA KUMAR PATEL Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Public Employment — Selection Process — Rights of Selected Candidates — Recommendation by Public Service Commission — Mere inclusion of a candidate's name in a select list or recommendation by the selection body does not confer an indefeasible right to appointment — Selection confers a right to fair, non-arbitrary, and equitable consideration, but does not crystallise into an absolute right to India Law Library Docid # 2449630
(49) STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER Vs. BRIJ PAL SINGH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (PCPNDT) — Sections 17, 17A, 27, 28, 30 and Rule 18A(3) of PCPNDT Rules, 1996 — Registration of FIR and Police Investigation — Permissibility — Role of Police — PCPNDT Act is a complete special law providing a specialized regulatory and enforcement mechanism — Power of investigation under the Act is India Law Library Docid # 2449631
(50) PARBATSINH DOLATSANG DODIYA AND OTHERS Vs. RAMESHBHAI HARJIBHAI MAKWANAAND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1 read with Section 151 — Scope of appellate power in execution proceedings — Division Bench traversing beyond the subject-matter of intra-court appeal — High Court Division Bench while considering an appeal against an interim order erred in withdrawing and disposing of the main interim application pending before the Single Judge without adjudication on India Law Library Docid # 2449632
(51) SUJATA KUMARI AND OTHERS Vs. RAHUL KUMAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Interim maintenance to minor children — Both parents gainfully employed and earning sufficient income — High Court reducing interim maintenance awarded to minor daughters on the ground that wife is also earning — Sustainability — The fact that the wife is gainfully employed is not, by itself, a reason to halve the father's liability toward maintenance India Law Library Docid # 2449633
(52) RAMKRISHNA CHAUHAN Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) — Essential ingredients of offences — "Any place within public view" — Scope and applicability — Incident alleged to have occurred inside an enclosed school office room — Site plan showing place of occurrence as room "A" with no public access — Absence of specific caste-based slurs in FIR or witness India Law Library Docid # 2449634
(53) K. SUMAN CHANDRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Service Law — Regularisation of Service and Pension Scheme — Contention for retrospective effect of regularisation to claim General Provident Fund-cum-Pension Scheme (GPF) over Contrum Provident Fund Scheme (CPF) — Unchallenged terms and conditions of regularisation order — Estoppel by conduct — Employee was regularised as Professor via Office Order dated 04.05.2012, which explicitly provided India Law Library Docid # 2449635
(54) SHIV PRATAP SINGH ALIAS CHINU Vs. STATE OF U.P AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 — Sections 2, 3 and 23 — Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Rules, 2021 — Rule 3 — Creation of Offence — Requisite elements of a penal statute — Principles of nulla poena sine lege and actus reus — The U.P. Act of 1986 merely provides definitions for "gang" and "gangster" under Section 2 and prescribes penalties under Section 3 without explicitly defining or creating a distinct substantive crim India Law Library Docid # 2449483
(55) K. SUMAN CHANDRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Service Law — Regularisation — Date of Effect — Entitlement to General Provident Fund (GPF) Scheme vs. Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) Scheme — Office Order regularising contractual service explicitly stating that regularisation shall take effect from the date of issuance of order and services shall continue to be governed by existing CPF Scheme — Conditions of regularisation India Law Library Docid # 2449484
(56) STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Vs. JAI BIR SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (ID Act) — Section 2(j) — "Industry" — Reference to Nine-Judge Bench — Maintainability — Objection raised that reference ought not to be entertained in view of Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa having held the field for nearly five decades and attracting the principle of stare decisis — Held, preliminary objection to maintainability rejected — Reference had been validly made in conformity with the procedure governing references to larger Benches India Law Library Docid # 2449647
(57) PRADEEP AND OTHERS Vs. JAGADISHWARI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 39(4) & Order 21 Rule 2 — Execution of decree — Compromise recorded outside local limits of territorial jurisdiction — Validity of — Decreed share in immovable property located in Solapur — Executing court at Belgaum originally ordered transfer of execution proceedings to Solapur under Section 39(4) CPC, but records were returned unexecuted — Decree Holder subsequently entered into a compromise with purchasers/Judgment Debtors (JDs 12–15) residing in po India Law Library Docid # 2450096
(58) YASH MAHESH GAIKWAD Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 —Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 307, 323, 109, 504 and 506 read with Section 34 — Grant and Cancellation of Bail — Premeditated and brutal attack — Common Intention — Assailants arrived together in a vehicle at night carrying a can of petrol, launched repeated threats at the victim's residence, and set the victim ablaze after dousing him in petrol while co-accused recorded the act — High Court and trial court granted bail to co-accused ( India Law Library Docid # 2449990
(59) M/S TVS MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE, CHENNAI-III[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Finance Act, 1994 — Section 65 (105) (zzb) — Business Auxiliary Service (BAS) — Taxability of referral charges — Referral charges obtained by automobile dealer from banks/financial institutions and insurance companies for promoting and marketing their loan and insurance products to vehicle buyers constitute taxable "Business Auxiliary Service" — Assessee acts as a link in the economic activity of India Law Library Docid # 2449432
(60) PRAMOD KUMAR SHUKLA Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 156(3) & Section 154 — Rejection of Section 156(3) application — Effect on subsequent registration of FIR — Rejection of an application under Section 156(3) Cr.PC does not operate as res judicata or create a legal bar against the subsequent registration of an FIR or continuation of criminal proceedings on same or similar allegations — Order under India Law Library Docid # 2449433