(121) MANASH KAMAL BEZBORUAH Vs. M/S BOKAHOLA TEA COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 16, 5, 34 & 37 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Supervisory jurisdiction over orders of Arbitral Tribunal — Rejection by Tribunal of application under S. 16 (raised as Order 7 R. 11 r/w O. I R. 10(2) and S. 151 CPC application) seeking deletion of non-signatories from array of parties — Maintainability of revision petition under Art. 227 against such order — Held, remedy against rejection India Law Library Docid # 2447582
(122) VENKATESHA AND ANOTHER Vs. K.M. VENKATAMUNIYAPPA (D) THR. LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second appeal — Scope — First appellate court reversed reasoned findings of trial court based on conjectural comparison of boundaries and inference not founded on pleadings or evidence — High Court, instead of testing legality of reversal, independently re-appraised facts and introduced Section 43 India Law Library Docid # 2447583
(123) JASPAL SINGH Vs. ASHWANI KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 23 — Earnest money/refund clause — Effect on availability of specific performance — Agreement to Sell providing that if Sale Deed could not be executed "due to certain reason", vendor would refund earnest money — High Court construed this as an option to walk away from the bargain, barring specific performance — Held, erroneous; clause records bare consequence of non-execution India Law Library Docid # 2447584
(124) AMIT KATYAL Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 — Sections 44(1), 43 & 46 — Territorial jurisdiction of Special Court — Transfer of PMLA prosecution — Prosecution complaint filed at Gurugram where 'proceeds of crime' were acquired/attached, though part of proceeds (cash, jewellery, vehicles, FDs) also seized/attached at Delhi and connected scheduled India Law Library Docid # 2447585
(125) R. VERONICA AND ANOTHER Vs. RUDRAYANI DEVAKI(D) THROUGH LRS. S. SATHA KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second appeal — Formulation of substantial question of law — Mandatory requirement — High Court allowing second appeal without formulating any substantial question of law as required by S. 100 read with Or. 42 R. 2 CPC — Held, formulation of substantial question of law is a condition precedent to admission and hearing of second appeal; judgment rendered without India Law Library Docid # 2447586
(126) MAHINDER AND OTHERS Vs. PURAN SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 22 — Applicability to agricultural land — Held, applicable — Preferential right of Class I heirs to acquire a co-heir's share on proposed transfer applies equally to agricultural land; S. 22 is a succession-based, not a transfer-based, provision India Law Library Docid # 2447587
(127) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. BALI RAM NO. 850808321[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 — Section 47 — Non-discrimination in government employment — Employee acquiring disability during service — Mandatory obligation on employer to shift employee to alternate post with same pay and service benefits, or, failing that, to accommodate on supernumerary post till superannuation — Respondent, a India Law Library Docid # 2447570
(128) H.D.F.C. BANK LIMITED Vs. KISHORE K. MEHTA (DEAD) THR. LRS.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 — Section 9(2) — "Decree or order" — Whether includes a recovery certificate issued by a Debts Recovery Tribunal under the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (pre-2016 amendment) — Held, no — Insolvency Act, being weighed with grave civil consequence of "civil death", must be strictly construed — Expression "decree or order" must bear the India Law Library Docid # 2447571
(129) PRASAD PANDURANG TAPKIR AND ANOTHER Vs. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF TOWN PLANNING, PUNE DISTRICT, PUNE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 — Sections 37, 154 — Premium paid for additional Floor Space Index (FSI) — Refund of unutilized premium — Appellants paid premium for additional FSI to undertake group housing construction but subsequently abandoned the project in favour of plotting, without utilising the additional FSI — Refund claim rejected by authorities on ground that Development Control India Law Library Docid # 2447572
(130) MANJU SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. AVINASH SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor accident claims — Standard of proof — Preponderance of probabilities, and not proof beyond reasonable doubt as in criminal trials, is the applicable standard before a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Tribunal not a criminal court and must evaluate evidence pragmatically, keeping in view the beneficial object of the Act — Concurrent findings of Tribunal and High Court, India Law Library Docid # 2447573
(131) SABITRI DEY @ SWASTHI DEY AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 21 — Foreigners Act, 1946 — Section 9 — Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 — Para 3 — Declaration of foreigner status in ex parte or effectively ex parte proceedings — Held, statutory burden under S. 9 of 1946 Act to prove non-foreigner status lies on proceedee, notwithstanding Evidence Act, 1872 — However, such burden does not relieve Tribunal of its own obligation to conduct India Law Library Docid # 2447574
(132) ALOK KOTAHWALA AND OTHERS Vs. JAIPUR METRO RAIL CORPORATION LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 5-A — Right to hearing — Nature of — Held, S. 5-A engrafts a mandatory safeguard being the only opportunity available to a landowner to object to necessity and suitability of acquisition — Right to hearing under S. 5-A(2) need not be separately demanded by objector; it is the duty of the Collector to fix a date and give notice of hearing — However, on facts, appellants having appeared India Law Library Docid # 2447575
(133) ASIA SUGAR & CHEMICAL CO., DEVANGERE Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957 — Exemption entries — Construction — Fifth Schedule Entry exempting "sugar" (subsequently described by reference to Column 3 of First Schedule to Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957) — Held, reference to the Excise Act was only to identify the commodity and did not import any origin-based restriction — Entry, prior to Karnataka Act 5 of 2001, contained India Law Library Docid # 2447576
(134) A.K. GHOSH & COMPANY AND OTHERS Vs. BIMAN BOSE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rules 1, 6A(3), 6G and 9 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Written statement to counter-claim by plaintiff — Time-limit — Held, by virtue of Order 7 Rule 6G CPC, the amended proviso to Or. VIII R. 1 CPC (as applicable to commercial suits) governs filing of a plaintiff's India Law Library Docid # 2447560
(135) SAGAR Vs. THE STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Sections 19(1), 15 and 18(3) — Child in conflict with law aged 16-18 alleged to have committed heinous offence — Order under Section 19(1) by Children's Court — Mandatory nature — Held, upon receipt of the Board's preliminary assessment report under S. 15 transferred by virtue of S. 18(3), the Children's Court must, immediately on taking India Law Library Docid # 2447561
(136) KIRLOSKAR FERROUS INDUSTRIES LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Mines and Minerals — Royalty — Average Sale Price (ASP) — Sale value — Non-deduction of Royalty, DMF and NMET payments from sale value — Explanation to R. 38, Minerals (Other than Atomic and Hydro Carbons Energy Minerals) Concession Rules, 2016 and Explanation to R. 45(8)(a), Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 2017, providing that no deduction shall be made from gross sale amount in respect of Royalty, District Mineral Foundation India Law Library Docid # 2447562
(137) THE STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S FARIDABAD GURGAON MINERALS AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Mines and Minerals — Royalty and Dead Rent — Enhancement during subsistence of lease — Mining lease deed silent on enhancement, though preceding Auction Notice and Letter of Acceptance expressly stipulated applicability of Rules 10 and 21, Punjab Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1964 — Held, requirement to comply with Rules 10 and 21 formed an implied condition of the lease deed — India Law Library Docid # 2447563
(138) NAJMA KHATUN AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Education Law — Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008 (W.B.) — Sections 8, 10 to 12 — Validity — Sections 8, 10 to 12 of the Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008 upheld as intra vires by a coordinate Bench in Sk. Mohd. Rafique v. Managing Committee, Contai Rahamania High Madrasah, (2020) 6 SCC 689 — India Law Library Docid # 2447564
(139) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. MONIKA KIRAN SURYAWANSHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 120-B, 201/34 — Circumstantial evidence — Acquittal by High Court — Interference by Supreme Court — Appeal by State against acquittal, by the High Court, of respondents-accused convicted by the Trial Court for murder of the husband of accused no. 1 and criminal conspiracy — Prosecution case rested wholly on circumstantial evidence, there being no direct India Law Library Docid # 2447565
(140) STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S. JAI DURGAA FINVEST P. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Contract — Interpretation of commercial contracts — Rewriting of terms by courts, impermissibility of — Courts cannot re-write terms of a commercial contract, howsoever reasonable the substituted term may appear, where parties on equal footing have accepted unambiguous terms with free will — Agreed forfeiture/security India Law Library Docid # 2447566