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(261) RUPESH R. GAONKAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF GOA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026
Service Law — Regularisation — Engagement through State-constituted Labour Supply Society — Appellants were engaged through a Society headed by the Principal Chief Engineer, PWD, formed to eliminate exploitation of contract labour — After scrutiny, State conferred temporary status with parity in pay and emoluments, recognising entitlement to absorption — Held, temporary status granted after a structured administrative exercise is not an empty label devoid of legal consequence — Having extracted
India Law Library Docid # 2450994

(262) SATVIR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 18 — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 8 and 12 — Anticipatory bail — Maintainability and grant — Appellant, aged 69 years, charged under SC/ST Act, POCSO Act, and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Charge-sheet filed citing 27 witnesses, but charges yet to be framed and trial likely to take time — Appellant joined investigation — Statutory bar under Section 18 of SC/ST Act held n
India Law Library Docid # 2451741

(263) GANESH PRASAD NIGAM ALIAS G.P. NIGAM Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026
Penal Code, 1860, Sections 420, 166, 467, 468, 471, 120-B — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 7 — High Court dismissed anticipatory bail application on grounds that appellant abused legal process by failing to appear before trial court — Supreme Court held that interests of justice warrant grant of pre-arrest bail — Impugned order set aside — Bail granted subject to conditions including appearing before trial court on all fixed dates physically or virtually, and not dissuading witnesse
India Law Library Docid # 2451803

(264) IN RE: VICTIMS OF DIGITAL ARREST RELATED TO FORGED DOCUMENTS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026
Criminal Law — Cyber Crime — Digital Arrest Scams — Institutional Coordination and Public Awareness — Supreme Court issued comprehensive interim directions to combat digital-arrest scams, noting declining complaints and encouraging progress — States and Union Territories directed to operationalize Grievance Redressal and Money Restoration Modules, notify State Cybercrime Coordination Centres, and adopt e-Zero FIR mechanisms — Inter-Departmental Committee instructed to examine a shared-liability
India Law Library Docid # 2451825

(265) DR. LOKESH B.H. AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 498A — Applicability to "Live-In Relationships" / "Relationships in the Nature of Marriage" — Purposive Interpretation — Scope of the term "Husband" — Criminal liability for domestic cruelty — The term "husband" occurring in Section 498A IPC is not restricted strictly to a man in a legally solemnized or valid marriage — Keeping in view the social and reformative
India Law Library Docid # 2448450

(266) GAYATREE PATTNAIK FOR SHREEJITA PATTNAIK Vs. ARUNDHATI SAHOO AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Child victims — Special category — Claims involving children suffering catastrophic permanent disability form a distinct category; compensation cannot be confined to conventional heads but must account for lifelong deprivation, future care, loss of amenities, marriage prospects and destruction of quality of life.
India Law Library Docid # 2448451

(267) SURAJ BHAN AND OTHERS Vs. ASHVARYA ESTATE PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1953 and Haryana Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 — Section 2(g)(1) — Vesting of shamilat deh — Effect of — On promulgation of 1953 Act, all land classified as shamilat deh vested absolutely in gram panchayats without exception, extinguishing pre-existing proprietary rights — No notice or hearing to proprietors was required before
India Law Library Docid # 2448452

(268) NIRMALA BAI DEVIDAS CHAVHAN Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302 r/w S. 149 — Identical/stereotyped ocular testimony — Effect on conviction based on unlawful assembly — Where six witnesses to a sudden, violent group assault gave testimony correspondingly identical as to the name of every assailant, the weapon carried by each, the victim held by each and the precise body part struck, such completeness of correspondence bears the
India Law Library Docid # 2448453

(269) SUHAS APPASAHEB PATIL Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Regular Bail — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 406 and 34 — Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 — Section 3 — Parity and prolonged pre-trial incarceration — Chargesheet was filed citing twenty-seven witnesses, but not a single witness had been examined post-framing of charges — Trial was likely to take time — Appellants were in custody for substantial periods with no criminal antecedents — Co-accus
India Law Library Docid # 2451746

(270) MAJID HUSSAIN AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF U.P[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 304B, 498A and 323/34 — Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — Sections 3 and 4 — Suspension of sentence pending appeal — Substantial period of sentence undergone — Appellants were convicted and sentenced to maximum ten years' rigorous imprisonment — High Court dismissed their application for suspension of sentence during pendency of appeal — Appellants had already undergone over six years nine months and seven years t
India Law Library Docid # 2451771

(271) PRIYA SRIVASATAVA Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — Section 34 — Public Employment — Horizontal reservation for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) — Domicile restriction — Writ petitions challenging clause restricting PwBD reservation to residents of Haryana for recruitment to prosecutorial post — Petitioners failed to clear preliminary examination, rendering issue academic — State submitted it was reconsidering its policy restricting reservation to
India Law Library Docid # 2451773

(272) GHANSHYAMBHAI @ GOTI KAKA NATHABHAI GOTI Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Parity — Delay in trial — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 386, 365, 342, 323, 504, 506(2), 120B and 34 — Gujarat Police Act, 1951 — Section 135 — Appellant was arrested and charge-sheet was filed citing sixteen witnesses, but charges were not framed and trial would take time to conclude — Co-accused was granted anticipatory bail by High Court, entitling appellant to claim parity — Continued detention deemed unnecessary — Supre
India Law Library Docid # 2451778

(273) GAURAV SUSHIL MUNSHI Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Dissolution of marriage — Irretrievable breakdown — Settlement through mediation — Parties arrived at an amicable settlement before the Supreme Court Mediation Centre — Husband paid Rs. 1,13,00,000/- as permanent alimony towards full and final settlement of all claims — Personal diary returned — Undertaking given to remove online materials and not defame each other — In exercise of plenary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution of India, Supreme
India Law Library Docid # 2451821

(274) MAHENDRA SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 299 — Evidence recorded against absconding accused — Use in subsequent trial — S. 299(1) contains two distinct parts: first, proof of jurisdictional facts (accused absconding and no immediate prospect of arrest) enabling recording of witness evidence in the accused's absence; second, the conditions under which such evidence may be used against the
India Law Library Docid # 2448335

(275) V.N.A.S. CHANDRAN Vs. S. VENILA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026
Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 20 — Specific performance — Discretionary and equitable relief — Clean hands — Grant of specific performance is discretionary, not automatic even where a valid contract subsists; a plaintiff must approach the Court with clean hands. Where the plaintiff's spouse lodged a criminal complaint seeking recovery of the advance paid, alleging the vendor fraudulently suppressed a
India Law Library Docid # 2448336

(276) HIMANSHU CHORDIA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125(4) — Bar of adultery — Effect on interim maintenance — Stage of adjudication — The bar under S. 125(4) applies equally to interim and final maintenance; if a S. 125(4) application demonstrates adultery ex facie or the fact is admitted, interim maintenance stops forthwith. Where proof requires evidence to be led in accordance with law, interim
India Law Library Docid # 2448337

(277) NISHA Vs. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL SANGRUR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Disputed questions of fact — Effect of long pendency — Where a writ petition seeking compensation had remained pending for over a decade and a half before being dismissed on the ground of "disputed questions of fact," relegating the claimant to a fresh remedy before the Civil Court after such efflux of time would render the claimant remediless — On this short ground alone, interference with the impugned
India Law Library Docid # 2448338

(278) TEHRI HYDRO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. Vs. S.P. SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026
Court Fees Act, 1870 — Section 8 — Appeal against statutory benefits under Land Acquisition Act — Whether attracts ad valorem court fee — Appeal under Section 54, Land Acquisition Act, 1894 challenging grant of additional amount under Section 23(1-A), solatium under Section 23(2) and statutory interest under Section 28, without disputing market value — Held, such statutory benefits are integral and inseparable
India Law Library Docid # 2448339

(279) G. SAMINATHAN AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE, REPRESENTED BY THE SUB-INSPECTOR OF POLICE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 405 and 406 — Criminal Breach of Trust — Entrustment — Refundable security deposit paid under Joint Development Agreement (JDA) — Held, mere payment of refundable security deposit as consideration for GPA does not amount to "entrustment" of property — FIR and chargesheet silent on manner of misappropriation/conversion — Bald, omnibus allegation of dishonest
India Law Library Docid # 2448340

(280) 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

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