(21) SUJATA KUMARI AND OTHERS Vs. RAHUL KUMAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Interim maintenance to minor children — Both parents gainfully employed and earning sufficient income — High Court reducing interim maintenance awarded to minor daughters on the ground that wife is also earning — Sustainability — The fact that the wife is gainfully employed is not, by itself, a reason to halve the father's liability toward maintenance India Law Library Docid # 2449633
(22) RAMKRISHNA CHAUHAN Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) — Essential ingredients of offences — "Any place within public view" — Scope and applicability — Incident alleged to have occurred inside an enclosed school office room — Site plan showing place of occurrence as room "A" with no public access — Absence of specific caste-based slurs in FIR or witness India Law Library Docid # 2449634
(23) K. SUMAN CHANDRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Service Law — Regularisation of Service and Pension Scheme — Contention for retrospective effect of regularisation to claim General Provident Fund-cum-Pension Scheme (GPF) over Contrum Provident Fund Scheme (CPF) — Unchallenged terms and conditions of regularisation order — Estoppel by conduct — Employee was regularised as Professor via Office Order dated 04.05.2012, which explicitly provided India Law Library Docid # 2449635
(24) STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Vs. JAI BIR SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (ID Act) — Section 2(j) — "Industry" — Reference to Nine-Judge Bench — Maintainability — Objection raised that reference ought not to be entertained in view of Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa having held the field for nearly five decades and attracting the principle of stare decisis — Held, preliminary objection to maintainability rejected — Reference had been validly made in conformity with the procedure governing references to larger Benches India Law Library Docid # 2449647
(25) 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
(26) 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
(27) 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
(28) 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
(29) 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
(30) 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
(31) 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
(32) 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
(33) 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
(34) 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
(35) THE NEW INDIA ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS Vs. M/S LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES INDIA PVT. LTD[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Insurance Act, 1938 — Section 64VB — Marine Cargo Annual Turnover Policy — Advance payment of premium — Statutory embargo on risk assumption — Insured obtained a Marine Cargo Annual Turnover Policy for INR 1200 Crores, but its actual turnover exceeded the insured limit prior to a fire loss at its freight station — Additional premium to enhance coverage was paid after the incident India Law Library Docid # 2449359
(36) 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
(37) 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
(38) 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
(39) M/S SANTOSH ASSOCIATE PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. HARYANA STATE INDUSTRIAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 16, 37(2) & 18 — Mandatory pre-deposit clause for initiating arbitration — Validity and maintainability of reference — Arbitrator dismissed contractor's claim for failing to deposit 10% of claim amount as pre-deposit per contractual clause — Commercial Court affirmed order relying on S.K. Jain [(2009) 4 SCC 357] — Held, pre-deposit clauses requiring India Law Library Docid # 2449292
(40) UNION OF INDIA Vs. CHIDIEBERE KINGSLEY NAWCHARA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8(c), 21(c), 23(c), 27A, 28, 29 & 37 — Grant and Cancellation of Bail to Foreign National — Non-compliance with statutory conditions and jumping of bail — Held, grant of bail under special statutes like the NDPS Act requires strict compliance with the twin conditions under S. 37(1)(b)(ii) — The court must be satisfied on reasonable grounds that the accused is not guilty and is unlikely to commit any offence while on bail — India Law Library Docid # 2449293