(141) MR. NILESH SHAH AND OTHERS Vs. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Section 15Z — Appeal to Supreme Court — Scope — Appeal under S. 15Z confined to substantial questions of law arising from order of Securities Appellate Tribunal — Supreme Court neither expected nor entitled to pronounce on economics of securities market — Commercial wisdom behind a bona fide risk that fortuitously results in gain, notwithstanding India Law Library Docid # 2447567
(142) BRAJESH KUMAR @ BIRJESH KUMAR SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 156(3), 158, 173(3) and 190 — Split investigation on directions of Superintendent of Police — Charge-sheet against some accused, further investigation against remaining — Validity — First charge-sheet finding offence made out against all seventeen accused but charge-sheeting only two on directions of S.P., with investigation continued against India Law Library Docid # 2447568
(143) STATE OF JHARKHAND Vs. JAGDISH LAKRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Arms Act, 1959 — Sections 25(1-B)(a) and 26 — Recovery of firearm from house — Conscious possession, need to establish — Mere recovery of a country-made stein gun and other incriminating articles from the house of the accused, held, not sufficient to sustain conviction unless prosecution establishes that the articles were in conscious India Law Library Docid # 2447569
(144) M. SABITHA AND OTHERS Vs. BRAHMA SWAMULU AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Apportionment amongst claimants — Rectification of omission — Appellate judgment enhancing compensation having omitted to apportion the amount amongst the claimants (wife, two children and mother of the deceased) — Death of the mother-claimant during pendency of appeal, and her heirs' impleadment — Held, enhanced award of Rs India Law Library Docid # 2447588
(145) MANOJ GOYAL Vs. RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Withdrawal of writ petition with liberty — Effect on prior order dismissing specific prayer — Coordinate Bench's order declining to interfere with finalised appointments held a substantive judicial determination, not an interim direction — Subsequent order permitting withdrawal "with all contentions open" pertained only to the surviving challenge to vires of Rule 41, not to the already-dismissed prayer for India Law Library Docid # 2447589
(146) DEBOJIT PANKIKA CHARAIDEO SONARI Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 201 — Murder — Non-recovery of dead body — Doctrine of corpus delicti — Corpus delicti in murder comprises two components: death as result, and criminal agency of another as means — Non-recovery of dead body not fatal to conviction where death and homicidal nature established through direct or circumstantial evidence — Insistence on recovery as absolute necessity would afford immunity to accused who India Law Library Docid # 2447679
(147) M/S. LEVITATE MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD. Vs. M/S. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Orrder 11 Rules 1(4) & 5 (as amended by Commercial Courts Act, 2015, Sch.) — Additional documents, filing of — Standard of "reasonable cause" — Held, plaintiff obliged to file all documents in its possession along with plaint; leave to file additional documents within 30 days of institution of suit permissible only on establishing reasonable cause for non-disclosure and India Law Library Docid # 2447455
(148) BEJLA ORAON Vs. KALI DAS ORAON AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Hindu Law — Customary Law (Tribal) — Oraon Custom — Ghardamad (custom of adopted son-in-law) — Who may effect such adoption — Suit for declaration of title to ancestral land, contested on plea that a collateral (Punai) had been taken as ghardamad by plaintiff's grand-uncle Ledura, who died issueless, and thereby acquired inheritable rights transmissible to his wife Budhain — Concurrent findings India Law Library Docid # 2447456
(149) BRITISH MOTOR CAR COMPANY (1939) LTD. Vs. M/S HINDUSTAN COMMERCIAL BANK LTD. SINCE HAS BEEN MERGED INTO PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 — Section 14(1)(b) — Subletting, assignment or parting with possession — Whether involuntary transfer pursuant to statutory scheme of bank amalgamation attracts the provision — Original tenant-bank (HCB) amalgamated with another bank (PNB) pursuant to a Scheme framed by RBI and notified by the Central Government under S. 45 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 India Law Library Docid # 2447457
(150) AAA Vs. LINDA SEMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 19(1) & 21 — "Knowledge that such an offence has been committed" — Meaning and scope — Held, not confined to direct/personal knowledge of commission of offence based on person's own senses — Includes awareness founded on receipt of credible information regarding commission of offence punishable under the Act — Where such information is received India Law Library Docid # 2447458
(151) BIHAR STATE FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER Vs. BHUSHAN SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 — Sections 29 & 30 — Auction sale of mortgaged property by Financial Corporation for recovery of dues — Judicial review of, scope — Borrowers persistently defaulting over eight years despite multiple opportunities, repayment schedules fixed by High Court, and statutory notices — Financial Corporation auctioning mortgaged property after affording repeated chances India Law Library Docid # 2447460
(152) AJAY VIJH Vs. INDIAN BANKS ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ jurisdiction — Maintainability — Inclusion of advocate's name in IBA "Caution List" — High Court dismissing writ petition on ground that Indian Banks' Association (IBA) is not "State" under Art. 12 — Held, focus of maintainability has shifted from formal character of respondent body to nature of function performed and effect of impugned action on legally protected rights — Caution List operates as sector-wide adverse accreditation mechanism with p India Law Library Docid # 2447430
(153) SARDARI LAL Vs. BISHAN DASS AND OTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second appeal — Scope of interference with concurrent findings on genuineness of a Will — Whether suspicious circumstances surrounding execution of a Will exist, and stand explained, is essentially a question of fact; a second appellate court cannot re-appreciate evidence and substitute its own view merely because another view is possible — Interference is permissible only where the finding is perverse, based on circumstances that are mere India Law Library Docid # 2447390
(154) POOJA RAMESH SINGH Vs. JAMMU AND KASHMIR BANK LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 7 and 14 — Corporate guarantee — Effect of demerger/amalgamation of corporate debtor — NCLT admission order under S. 7 relying on six judicial precedents to reject corporate guarantor's plea that liability stood extinguished on demerger/amalgamation — NCLAT dismissing appeal and reproducing the same precedents — On independent India Law Library Docid # 2447196
(155) PARVEEN KUMAR @ PARVEEN CHAUHAN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Remission — Premature release of life convicts — Applicable policy — Conflict between Haryana's 2002 Policy (dated 12.4.2002) and 2008 Policy (dated 13.8.2008) — Source of power — Held, the 2002 Policy, being in substance and effect referable to Article 161 of the Constitution of India (papers to be routed to the Governor for orders), is constitutional in origin, notwithstanding that it does not expressly recite the India Law Library Docid # 2447197
(156) 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
(157) 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
(158) 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
(159) 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
(160) 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