(241) 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
(242) 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
(243) 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
(244) DEEPAK @ DEEPAK TEWATIA Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 — Anticipatory bail — Agricultural land dispute between relatives — Cross-FIRs — Sessions Court and High Court rejected anticipatory bail citing gravity of allegations and requirement of custodial interrogation — Propriety — Held, dispute arose between close relatives regarding agricultural land, resulting in cross-FIRs and injuries to both parties — Accused in cross-case lodged by appellant were already granted bail — Intervenor placed no mater India Law Library Docid # 2451752
(245) THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Vs. AJMAL BEG AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 304B and 498A — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 80 and 85 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 309 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 346 — Directions for expeditious trial — Cases under Sections 304B and 498A IPC to be treated as priority matters — District Judiciary directed to monitor cases pending over three years — Directory timelines prescribed, including framing of charges within 60 to 9 India Law Library Docid # 2451834
(246) FIFTH GENERATION INC. Vs. TITO'S RESORTS AND HOSPITALITIES PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure / Trademark Dispute — Settlement Agreement — Mediation — Disposal of Transfer Petitions in terms of compromise — Co-existence of trademarks — Dispute over the mark "TITO'S" resolved amicably through Supreme Court Mediation Centre — Parties executed a Settlement Agreement governing co-existence of marks in India, restrictions on mark usage and trade dress, and withdrawal of pending civil suits, trademark oppositions, rectifications, excise complaints, and criminal proceedings — Se India Law Library Docid # 2451729
(247) 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
(248) 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
(249) AFIKMIYA AHMEDMIYA MALEK AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 12, 13(1)(d), and 20 — Demand and acceptance of illegal gratification — Requisites for drawing statutory presumption — Appellants (A1: Talati-cum-Mantri; A2: Peon) were convicted for demanding and accepting bribe for issuing an Income Certificate — High Court upheld conviction drawing statutory presumption under Section 20 — Validity — Held, statutory presumption under Section 20 of the 1988 Act can be drawn only after the initial demand of bribe India Law Library Docid # 2449434
(250) REENA Vs. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, KARNATAKA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166, 168 & 173 — Contributory Negligence & Evidentiary Value of Police Records — Reversal of MACT Order by High Court — In a head-on collision between a light motor vehicle (Santro car) and a heavy passenger bus (KSRTC), the High Court apportioned 50% contributory negligence to the driver of the Santro car based solely on a topographical scene sketchq India Law Library Docid # 2449435
(251) SINGAPOGU BABU RAO AND OTHERS Vs. SPECIAL DEPUTY COLLECTOR (LAND ACQUISITION) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 29, 30, and 31 — Apportionment of Compensation and Reference to Civil Court — Nature of Enjoyment Survey vs. Legal Title — Dispute as to entitlement over compensation cannot be conclusively determined by an enjoyment survey — Land Acquisition Officer referred title and apportionment disputes to the Civil Court under Sections 30 and 31 — Pending writ India Law Library Docid # 2449436
(252) P. SAKTHI AND OTHERS Vs. THIRU DHEERAJ KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Contempt of Court — Service Law — Wrongful Denial of In-Service Recruitment — Retrospective Appointment and Consequential Benefits — Petitioner was wrongfully denied participation in the 2019 departmental quota selection for Sub-Inspector based on a disciplinary punishment that had already been set aside in appeal. State resisted compliance claiming the quota entailed recruitment via written examination rather than promotion. Held, even in recruitment, an employee cannot be prejudiced where non- India Law Library Docid # 2451824
(253) M/S G.R. INFRA PROJECTS LIMITED RATLAM Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Administrative Law — Validity of Show Cause Notice or Order — Supplanting reasons by Counter-Affidavit — Impermissibility — When a statutory authority issues a notice or an order, the essential requirements and grounds establishing its validity must be contained in the notice or order itself — Where a notice is challenged for invalidity, non-application of mind, or failure to satisfy statutory conditions, the issuing authority cannot cure such deficiencies or supplant reasons by introducing fres India Law Library Docid # 2451832
(254) SURESH CHAND KATOCH Vs. THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Appeal against acquittal — Interference by High Court — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 120-B and 471 — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 — Section 4 — High Court reversed Trial Court's acquittal and convicted appellant for alleged misappropriation of muster roll wages — Appellant established his tour programme through defence and prosecution witnesses, showing the alleged money receipt was fictitious, and author of fingerprint report was not examined — India Law Library Docid # 2451738
(255) PATEL JOSHNABEN PRAVINKUMAR PATEL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 306 & 114 — Abetment of suicide — Quashing of FIR — Essential ingredients of abetment — FIR registered against in-laws under Sections 306/114 IPC following the suicide of the deceased husband — Allegations in FIR and suicide note centered on marital dispute, wife leaving matrimonial home, and initiation of criminal/maintenance proceedings by wife — Held, to sustain an FIR for abetment of suicide, the essential ingredients under India Law Library Docid # 2449636
(256) HEMANT KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Service Law — Deputation and Absorption — Backdoor Entry — Political Interference — Four officers of the Development and Panchayat Department were transferred on deputation and subsequently absorbed into the Public Works Department (Building and Roads) as Assistant Engineers/Sub-Divisional Engineers — The Court found these deputations and absorptions were initiated on individual India Law Library Docid # 2449431
(257) RAJENDRA PRASAD Vs. STATE OF GOA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Grant of bail — Claim of parity and prolonged incarceration — Petitioner facing trial for murder under Sections 342, 302, 201 read with Section 120-B, IPC — Application for bail on ground of parity with co-accused who were granted bail, as well as prolonged incarceration of nearly three years — Held — Parity is not a mechanical mathematical formula and must be assessed based on the specific role attributed to each accused in the factual matrix — Pr India Law Library Docid # 2449437
(258) BAPPA BARAI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Railway Protection Force Rules, 1987 — Rules 52 and 67 — Employment Notice — Attestation Form — Discharge from service — Non-disclosure and deliberate suppression of pending criminal antecedents during recruitment process — Appellants, candidates for the post of Constable in RPF/RPSF, suppressed details of pending criminal cases in their attestation forms — Orders of discharge passed after India Law Library Docid # 2449356
(259) M/S. UTKARSH ENTERPRISES AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Government Contracts and Tenders — Tender Conditions — Challenge to Eligibility Criteria — Delay and Laches — Public Procurement — Directorate of Education issued tenders for procurement of sports goods and gym equipment for government schools — Appellants challenged conditions relating to past performance, India Law Library Docid # 2449357
(260) GOPI @ SAHAYA PURUNA Vs. THE STATE, REP. BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 386(b) & 397/401 — Enhancement of sentence — Revisional jurisdiction vs. Appellate jurisdiction — Appellant challenged his conviction and life sentence before the High Court — High Court exercised suo motu revisional power and enhanced sentence to imprisonment for remainder of natural life — Held, in an appeal against conviction filed by the India Law Library Docid # 2449358