(61) RAKHIBEN W/O SANJAYKUMAR AGRAWAL Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 14 — Moratorium & Preservation of Corporate Debtor’s Assets — Pre-condition Deposit for Anticipatory Bail from Corporate Debtor's Funds — Where a Director of a Corporate Debtor (CD) deposits funds in Court to comply with a pre-condition for the grant of anticipatory bail in a criminal proceeding (alleging cheating), and such amount is transferred from the bank account of the CD, the deposited funds constitute India Law Library Docid # 2448525
(62) M/S VIMLA FUELS AND METALS LIMITED Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 14 — Moratorium — Effect on funds deposited in criminal proceedings — Held, where a Corporate Debtor's director had deposited amounts, traceable to the CD's bank account, in a criminal proceeding as a condition for anticipatory India Law Library Docid # 2448558
(63) SHAKUNTALA AND OTHERS Vs. ROBERT ANTHONY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Succession Act, 1925 — Sections 33, 35 and 38 — Hindu/Christian Succession — Applicability of S. 33 confined to property owned by deceased male; erroneous application by High Court set aside — Where property was purchased and registered in the joint names of two wives, the same is owned by them and not by the husband, India Law Library Docid # 2448312
(64) STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER Vs. PRABHU SHANKAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Scope of inquiry — Mini-trial impermissible — At the stage of considering quashing of an FIR, the Court's inquiry is confined to whether the allegations, taken at face value, prima facie disclose commission of a cognizable offence — Court cannot conduct a "mini-trial" by sifting evidence, assessing probabilities, or evaluating witness credibility — High Court India Law Library Docid # 2448313
(65) RELIANCE GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. OM PARKASH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 3 and 5 — Validity of driving license — Burden to prove renewal — Insurer's liability — Where the driver's license had lapsed for a period spanning the date of accident and was purportedly renewed only later upon payment of penalty, the onus to establish valid renewal for the intervening period lies on the driver/owner — Absence of official record establishing continuous validity, coupled India Law Library Docid # 2448314
(66) S.P. CHANDRAKAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 General Clauses Act, 1897 — Section 21 — Cooperative Societies — Registrar's rule-making power — Includes power to amend/delete — General Clauses Act, 1897, S. 21 applied — A statutory authority empowered to frame rules governing service conditions inherently possesses the power to amend, alter, or delete such rules, by application of the India Law Library Docid # 2448315
(67) THE DIRECTOR OF INCOME TAX, (INTERNATIONAL TAXATION) Vs. M/S STAR CRUISES (INDIA) P. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 44B — "Carriage" of passengers — Meaning and scope of — Cruise operations by non-resident shipping entity — Held, the word "carriage" under Section 44B cannot be restrictively construed to mean movement only from Port A to Port B. A round-trip cruise voyage, where passengers have the option to disembark at intermediate ports without compulsion to return to the originating port, India Law Library Docid # 2448316
(68) VISHNU KUMAR GUPTA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 415 — Appeal — Maintainability — Conviction recorded for first time by appellate court reversing acquittal — An appeal under Section 374 CrPC (Section 415 BNSS) is not maintainable against a judgment of conviction recorded by a Sessions Court while exercising appellate jurisdiction and reversing an order of acquittal passed by the Trial India Law Library Docid # 2448317
(69) SUDHENDU PRAKASH GAUTAM Vs. S.L. CHAUDHARY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Advocates Act, 1961 — Sections 35 and 38 — Professional Misconduct — Duty of Advocate to Act Decently in Court Premises — Every advocate owes a duty to maintain proper, decent, and professional behavior within the Court premises toward their own clients, opposing counsel, and opposing litigants — Any act of violence, physical assault, threats, or indecent behavior committed by a lawyer against India Law Library Docid # 2448526
(70) RAMASREY @ FAKKAD Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 45, 53 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 2(17), 4 — "Life imprisonment" — Meaning — Life imprisonment under Section 53 read with Section 45 IPC (and correspondingly under the BNS) means imprisonment for the rest of the convict's natural life, terminable only by India Law Library Docid # 2448277
(71) CONTAINER CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED Vs. RISHI RANJAN MISHRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 2(28), S. 2(34) — "Motor vehicle" — "Public place" — Inland Container Depot — A Reach Stacker weighing 71.8 to 102 metric tonnes, far exceeding the permissible gross vehicle weight for vehicles on public roads, is a vehicle of special type adapted for use only within enclosed premises and falls within the exclusionary limb of Section 2(28); the internal roads of an ICD, being a customs-bonded area accessible only to authorized personnel, do not constitute a "pu India Law Library Docid # 2448278
(72) HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN Vs. ABHAY JAIN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 2010 — Rules 49, 50 — Full Court Resolution dated 15.01.2011 — Selection Scale/Super Time Scale — Application on facts — Applying the valid ACRs for 2013 and 2014 (Parts I & II) — all rated "Very Good"/"Good" with integrity certified — the Judicial Officer, having completed five years' notional service considering reinstatement with continuity, was held entitled to Selection Scale with India Law Library Docid # 2448279
(73) THE STATE OF UTTARAKHAND Vs. JAGDISH CHANDRA KANDPAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Uttaranchal Civil Services (Executive Branch) Rules, 2005 — Rule 24(4) — Uttaranchal Public Service Commission (Limitations of Functions) Regulations, 2003 — Regulation 5(a) — Nature of Requirement — Requirement of consulting Commission before continuation of officiating appointment beyond one year held directory, not mandatory, applying the classic test of statutory construction; non-compliance does not invalidate the appointment where treating it as void would cause India Law Library Docid # 2448280
(74) M/S OTIS ELEVATOR CO. (INDIA) LTD. Vs. RASHMI HANDA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Deficiency of Service — Maintenance Contractor's Liability — Elevator Malfunction — Comprehensive maintenance contractor, being both manufacturer and repair contractor with exclusive technical knowledge of safety interlocks and brake mechanisms, held principally deficient in service for failing to act on its own identified remedy (voltage stabiliser) despite India Law Library Docid # 2448281
(75) NAKHAT SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Armed Forces — Air Force Order No. 33/2017 — Prior Permission for Civil Post — Mandatory Nature — Requirement of seeking prior permission before applying for a civil post, and subsequent grant of NOC, held mandatory and not merely procedural/directory, since AFO 33/2017 has necessary nexus with regulating premature discharge of Airmen and its object of maintaining India Law Library Docid # 2448282
(76) MARAGADHAM Vs. PERIYARAJA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 15(1)(a) — Devolution of Female Intestate's Property — Properties of a Hindu female dying intestate devolve, in the absence of sons/daughters' issue predeceasing her, upon her husband and daughter in equal shares under Section 15(1)(a); such undivided share in the husband's hands does not partake the character of coparcenary property. India Law Library Docid # 2448283
(77) VANASHAKTI Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Environment Law — Environmental Clearance — Prior clearance — Mandatory character — Prior environmental clearance under EIA Notification, 2006 is mandatory, being founded on the precautionary principle and couched in imperative terms — Word "prior" and the graded four-stage screening, scoping, India Law Library Docid # 2448300
(78) MUNU SEN Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Conviction based solely on "last seen" theory — Impermissibility — Absence of corroborative incriminating circumstances — Conviction for murder cannot be sustained merely on the basis of the "last seen" theory in the absence of any other incriminating circumstance — Where the testimony of witnesses relied upon to establish the last seen theory lacks India Law Library Docid # 2448454
(79) KHALIL PASHA AND OTHERS Vs. ABDUL RASHEED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 401(4), 372 proviso, 378 — Revision at instance of victim against acquittal — Maintainability — After insertion of proviso to S. 372 by Act 5 of 2009 conferring victim a statutory right of appeal against acquittal without need for special leave, no revision is maintainable at victim's instance where such appellate remedy is available — Section 401(4) bars revision India Law Library Docid # 2448195
(80) MUMBAI PORT AUTHORITY Vs. NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR SCHEDULED CASTE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 338(5)(b), (8) — National Commission for Scheduled Castes — Nature of powers — NCSC's power to inquire into deprivation of "rights and safeguards" of Scheduled Castes is recommendatory/advisory and not adjudicatory — Civil court powers under clause (8) (summoning witnesses, India Law Library Docid # 2448196