(81) STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS Vs. ZAFAR ALI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2026 U.P. Excise (Settlement of Licences for Retail Sale of Country Liquor) Rules, 2002 — Rules 14, 15 — Minimum Guaranteed Quota (MGQ) — Annual vs monthly compliance — Where a licensee has lifted the entire annual MGQ, penalty cannot be levied for isolated monthly shortfall by ignoring the "credit balance" of licence fee earned through excess lifting in prior months — Definition of "licence fee" under R.2(m), being equal to duty on annual MGQ, does not support demand based solely India Law Library Docid # 2448197
(82) TEJAS J.SHAH & AMISHA T. SHAH AND OTHERS Vs. MANTRI TECHNOLOGY CONSTELLATIONS PVT.LTD. (NOW KNOWN AS BUOYANT TECHNOLOGY CONSTELLATIONS PVT.LTD.) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 14 — Moratorium — Scope and ambit — Held, moratorium under S.14 operates against the corporate debtor alone and cannot be judicially enlarged to cover other categories such as subsidiary companies, directors/managers, promoters or co-respondents, unless specifically provided by statute — Adjudicating authority or Court cannot expand the India Law Library Docid # 2448130
(83) KRISHNAN NARAYANA Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 451 & 457 — Interim custody of seized property — Nature of Court's power — Held, Court's power under Ss.451/457 CrPC is discretionary, to be exercised judicially and expeditiously, with limited object of preventing waste, misuse or deterioration of seized property pending trial — Exercise involves only prima facie assessment of who is best entitled to India Law Library Docid # 2448131
(84) SANJIV KUMAR Vs. SHAKUNTLA DEVI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 11 — Res judicata — Applicability to interlocutory applications and erroneous decisions — Held, doctrine of res judicata applies to subsequent stages of same proceedings where issue has been decided at an earlier stage, and a judicial decision binds whether right or wrong — An error of law or fact by a judicial/quasi-judicial body cannot be India Law Library Docid # 2448132
(85) THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH Vs. SUDA SURESH VEERA VENKATA NAGA RAJU[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 27-07-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 187(2) & (3) — Police custody — Statutory window enlarged — Held, unlike erstwhile S.167 CrPC, S.187(2) & (3) BNSS enlarges the window during which police custody (aggregating up to fifteen days) may be sought in parts during first 40/60 days of permissible detention, rather than confined to first fifteen days of remand — Intended to meet situations where fresh facts/discoveries/leads emerge during investigation — Rigid or India Law Library Docid # 2448133
(86) TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA Vs. M/S POLIMER CABLE NETWORK AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 — Section 11, 13, 14, 29, 34 & 36 — Adjudicatory jurisdiction — Distinction between regulatory/enforcement functions of TRAI and adjudicatory jurisdiction of TDSAT — Held, TRAI's power under Ss. 11(1)(b) and 13 to issue directions for compliance with regulations is regulatory/administrative, not adjudicatory — Direction issued to MSO to restore signals pursuant to IC Regulations, and consequent show cause notice under S. India Law Library Docid # 2447943
(87) ARVIND KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026 Uttar Pradesh Industrial Training Institutes (Instructors) Service Rules, 2014 — Rules 9(B), 16(3)(a)(iii) and 17(3) — Craft Instructor Training Scheme (CITS) certificate reduced from essential to preferential qualification — Challenge thereto — Appellants having participated in selection process without objection, held estopped from challenging validity India Law Library Docid # 2447944
(88) RUTVIJ BHAGAT SINGH WAKHARE Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026 Cyber Fraud — Multiple FIRs across States — Clubbing declined — Clubbing/consolidation of FIRs registered in different States was declined where each FIR was lodged by a different complainant induced to part with money on separate occasions, with distinct victims, amounts and transactions, notwithstanding a common bank account India Law Library Docid # 2447945
(89) N. DAMODARAN Vs. STATE REP. BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) — Trap case — Proof of demand and acceptance of bribe — Conviction upheld where complainant's testimony regarding demand was corroborated by an accompanying witness and an independent trap witness, and recovery of tainted currency from accused's pocket was confirmed by positive chemical test — Defence of prior enmity India Law Library Docid # 2448198
(90) MOHAMMADALI ANSARAHMAD KHAN Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 24-07-2026 Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 — Applicability — Compensation to purchaser of ceiling-vested land subsequently acquired — Where purchaser acquired land in 2016, after it had already been developed as an industrial estate decades earlier under a mala fide/surreptitious transaction, and had no equity in the earlier development, held not India Law Library Docid # 2448199
(91) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. HARBANS LAL VERMA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026 Service Law — Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS) — Grade Pay convergence — Effect on promotions within cadre — Convergence of Grade Pay pursuant to Sixth Central Pay Commission does not obliterate separate identity of promotional posts within a cadre — Promotions carry promotional India Law Library Docid # 2447898
(92) M/S BIRLA CORPORATION LIMITED Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026 Stamp Act, 1899 — Section 26, proviso — Mining lease — Stamp duty on instrument with indeterminate value — Determinant of stamp duty — Where value of subject-matter is indeterminate at execution, proviso to S.26 specifically governs mining leases, directing that estimated royalty or value of share, as estimated by the Collector where State is lessor, suffices for stamp duty purposes — Proviso held not inconsistent with main provision — actual value of mining lease is India Law Library Docid # 2447899
(93) MRS. MAHABANOO CONTRACTOR AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S. KALIKUND DEVELOPERS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026 Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976 — Section 2(25) — "Occupier" — Scope of definition — The MHAD Act defines only "occupier," which includes any person liable to pay rent, an owner in occupation, a rent-free tenant, a licensee, or one liable to pay damages for use and occupation — Occupancy is not a statutory tenancy dependent on the owner's will, and even a person in India Law Library Docid # 2447900
(94) STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS Vs. DEV KANT MEENA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 19 — Review/reconsideration of order declining sanction — Permissibility — Absent express statutory power of review, sanctioning authority cannot reconsider a refusal of sanction on the very same materials — Mere change of opinion on identical materials, without fresh material and proper application of mind thereto, cannot justify reversal of an earlier order India Law Library Docid # 2448200
(95) ARCHANA AVINASH SHELKE Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 164 — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 — Section 8 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 354 — FIR quashed — Allegations of sexual molestation by paternal aunt against nephew — FIR filed by divorced mother as a counterblast to FIR filed by divorced father — Victim boy's statement under Section 164 CrPC indicated no assault India Law Library Docid # 2448275
(96) DILIP AGARWAL Vs. RAJSHRI AGARWAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 165, 166 — Death allegedly caused by murder inside a motor vehicle — Claim for compensation — Requirement of causal link between death and "use" of motor vehicle — Held, mere presence of a motor vehicle in the chain of circumstances leading to death does not attract liability under MVA — Some nexus between the vehicle and the death must be established. India Law Library Docid # 2447896
(97) IN RE: ILLEGAL SAND MINING IN THE NATIONAL CHAMBAL SANCTUARY AND THREAT TO ENDANGERED AQUATIC WILDLIFE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-07-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 218(3) — Notification protecting public servants discharging duties connected with maintenance of public order — Forest Officers/Guards protecting a wildlife sanctuary from organised illegal sand mining, poaching, and allied unlawful activities held, prima facie, to be discharging functions intrinsically connected with maintenance of public order — India Law Library Docid # 2448201
(98) DR. ABDUL HAMEED Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-07-2026 Criminal Law — Fair Trial — Constitutional Guarantee — Right to effective legal representation — Denial of fair trial due to lack of legal representation vitiates conviction, even if accused has remained incarcerated for a long period. India Law Library Docid # 2447825
(99) X Vs. STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-07-2026 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Section 2(33) — "Heinous offences" — Offence punishable under Section 302 IPC, which prescribes punishment of "death or imprisonment for life", carries life imprisonment as its minimum punishment and is thus categorized as a "heinous offence". India Law Library Docid # 2447826
(100) VIJAYALAKSHMI R. Vs. C. L. BALAJI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-07-2026 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 19(1) read with Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Section 36, Order 21 Rule 10 — Execution Petition — Interpretation of settlement terms — Consent decree based on settlement petition — Clauses 8, 9, and 10 of settlement petition — Dispute over Clause 9 being an independent and continuing obligation for maintenance versus an interim measure — Held, Clause 9 India Law Library Docid # 2447827