(181) ASIT BARAN MONDAL AND ANOTHER Vs. DR. RITA SINHA MBBS MS (OBST. GYNAE) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Public Health and Medical Infrastructure — Critical Care Facilities — ICU Standards and Upgradation — Expert Committee Recommendations — Directions for implementation — Supreme Court interacted with an expert medical committee regarding infrastructural gaps in public and private hospitals — A proposal was considered to require hospitals to implement Committee-prescribed parameters for Level 1, 2, and 3 ICUs within three months — The Court directed the Committee to deliberate and formulate consol India Law Library Docid # 2451765
(182) PULAK DAS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302/34 and 307/34 — Suspension of sentence and grant of bail pending appeal — Factors to be considered — Appellant convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment — High Court declined suspension of sentence — Appellant was on bail throughout trial without violating any condition — Role attributed was limited to catching hold of an intervening witness — Key prosecution witnesses did not implicate appellant — Appe India Law Library Docid # 2451777
(183) SRI K. SAMPATH KUMAR Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 — Rule 19(i) — Show cause notice — Premature challenge — Scope of judicial review — Appellant convicted in a criminal trial was issued a show cause notice proposing dismissal from service — Challenge rejected by Tribunal and High Court as premature — Held, courts and tribunals ordinarily do not interfere at the show cause notice stage unless it is issued without jurisdiction or mala fide — As the appeal against conviction wa India Law Library Docid # 2451787
(184) M/S UNICON ENGINEERS Vs. M/S SUPER STEAM BOILER ENGINEERS PVT LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 — Section 19 — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Pre-deposit requirement — Nature and scope of Court's discretion — Section 19 mandates pre-deposit of 75% of the awarded amount for entertaining an application to set aside an arbitral award — Court has no discretion to waive or reduce the mandatory 75% pre-deposit — The phrase "in the manner directed by such court" merely empowers the court to grant instalments for depo India Law Library Docid # 2451799
(185) RAJA KHATEEK @ RAJA SONKAR Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 20(B) — Regular bail — Implication based on co-accused's statement — Seizure of 45.360 kgs ganja from a vehicle carrying co-accused — Appellant alleged to have financed and organized consignment — Appellant was in judicial custody at the time of seizure and contraband was not in his conscious possession — Held, a mere co-accused's statement cannot itself form the sole basis to implicate an accused — Substantial trial completed — Regu India Law Library Docid # 2451810
(186) REKHARAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8, 15 and 29 — Grant of regular bail — Delay in trial and prolonged custody — Allegation of conscious possession of 84.42 kgs of poppy husk recovered from a fodder storage area — Appellant in judicial custody for one year and six months — Charges framed, but trial proceeding at a snail's pace — Delay not attributable to the accused — Absence of criminal antecedents — Continued detention not warranted — Regular bail granted subject t India Law Library Docid # 2451811
(187) ROMANI BANSAL Vs. ABHISHEK KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 9 — Irretrievable breakdown of marriage — Dissolution of marriage and quashing of proceedings — Wife sought transfer of restitution of conjugal rights petition — Both parties were medical professionals living separately with two children — Court interacted with the parties and found the marriage irretrievably broken down — Wife claimed no alimony for herself — Supreme Court invoked powers under Article 142 to dissolve India Law Library Docid # 2451822
(188) LIC HOUSING FINANCE LIMITED AND OTHERS Vs. VIVEK V AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 12 — Instrumentality of State — Reinstatement — Challenge to High Court order directing reinstatement of employee — Petitioner company submitted that respondent No. 1 would be reinstated into service pursuant to the impugned order — Placing the submission on record, notice was issued to respondents — Notice was also issued on the larger question regarding whether petitioner constitutes an instrumentality of the State under Article 12 of the Constitution, not India Law Library Docid # 2451831
(189) MAGEBA BRIDGE PRODUCTS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. M/S. TRADE CENTRE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Partnership Act, 1932 — Section 69(2) — Proof of registration of firm — Memorandum of Registration — Held, a Memorandum issued by the Registrar of Firms acknowledging receipt and recording the registration number and date of registration of a firm constitutes sufficient proof of registration for purposes of S. 69(2), and is further corroborated by a certified copy of Form-VIII of the Registrar of India Law Library Docid # 2448918
(190) DINESH KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Circumstantial evidence — Chain of circumstances — Last-seen, recent unexplained possession, and recovery of deceased's articles — Held, conviction based on circumstantial evidence can be sustained only when each circumstance is firmly proved, forms a complete chain, and is consistent solely with guilt — The circumstance of last-seen, though insufficient by itself, was materially India Law Library Docid # 2448919
(191) RASPELLI BHAGYA KISHAIYA AND OTHERS Vs. GENERAL MANAGER, WESTERN COALFIELDS LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 National Coal Wage Agreement-VI — Cl. 9.3.4 — Compassionate appointment — Determination of relevant date for reckoning upper age limit of 35 years — Held, in the absence of any express stipulation in Cl. 9.3.4 fixing the cut-off date, age eligibility for compassionate appointment cannot be reckoned with reference to the date on which the application is ultimately taken up for consideration by the employer — Where the dependent was within the prescribed age limit on the India Law Library Docid # 2448920
(192) UNION OF INDIA Vs. SUNIL BIYANI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Interim relief on dismissal of writ petition — Whether High Court can grant protection against arrest while dismissing petition as not maintainable — Held, an interim relief can only be granted in aid of and ancillary to the main relief; once a court finds no merit in the main challenge and dismisses the petition, the question of granting further relief, India Law Library Docid # 2448921
(193) KARNATAKA POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LIMITED Vs. REKHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition involving disputed questions of fact — Electrocution claims — Held, where a claim for compensation on account of electrocution involves disputed questions of fact, a writ petition under Article 226 is not the proper remedy — the High Court ought to have relegated the writ petitioners to the civil court instead of proceeding to India Law Library Docid # 2448922
(194) PARAG KISHORE SATOSKAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 318(4) — Cheating — Dishonest intention must exist at inception — Mere breach of commercial contract insufficient — Held, mere breach of contract cannot give rise to criminal prosecution for cheating unless fraudulent or dishonest intention is shown right from inception of the transaction — A promise as to future performance becomes deception only if India Law Library Docid # 2448923
(195) R.K. YADAV AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 16 — Pay fixation — Scope of judicial review — Held, pay fixation is essentially an executive function and equation of posts and salaries is a complex matter best left to expert bodies; courts are not suited to evaluate the justifiability of differentiation in pay scales on affidavits and pleadings, and will not interfere unless mala fides or apparent anomaly is India Law Library Docid # 2448924
(196) SHRUTI MANAV SHARMA AND ANOTHER Vs. SUNANINA SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1(r) — Scope of appellate interference with discretionary orders — An appellate court exercising jurisdiction under Order XLIII Rule 1(r) does not undertake a fresh reconsideration of the entire matter, nor substitute its own view merely because it might have reached a different conclusion on the same material — interference India Law Library Docid # 2448925
(197) BASSANNA SINCE DECEASED BY LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. BHIMANNA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 and Order 41 Rule 1 — Maintainability of composite appeal against common judgment in two suits by same plaintiff — A composite appeal filed under Section 96 challenging a common judgment rendered in two suits filed by the same plaintiff, where the suits were clubbed and tried together with common evidence, certified copies of India Law Library Docid # 2448926
(198) SRINIVASA REDDY VELAGALA Vs. SRAVANTHI INFRATECH PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 3(12), 5(21), 9 and 238A — Termination vs. frustration of contract — Effluxion of time and frustration are distinct concepts — an EPC contract does not terminate merely because the timeline lapses, nor is it "frustrated" by delay caused by a party's own default — Frustration under S. 56, Contract Act requires an unforeseen supervening India Law Library Docid # 2448928
(199) BALESH KUMAR KURAITI Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Section 6 (pre and post-2019 Amendment) — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 20(1) — Retrospective application of enhanced criminal punishment — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a 3-year-old victim — Incident occurred prior to 2019 Amendment to POCSO India Law Library Docid # 2448949
(200) KASHMIR RAM @ PAPPI Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) — Section 42 — Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant — Non-reduction of secret information into writing prior to search — Substantial compliance — Information received by empowered officer while on patrol/move regarding illicit contraband in a transit vehicle — Immediate action required — Officer dispatched ruqa to police station for FIR registration prior to search and orally informed superior officer who arrived India Law Library Docid # 2448950