(361) RANVEER GAUTAM ALLAHABADIA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Quashing of FIRs and criminal proceedings — Demeaning speech on digital platforms — Multiple FIRs registered in different States against content creators for obscene and disparaging comedy content — Petitioners complied with court directions, tendered unconditional apologies, organized awareness and fundraising events for persons suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and deposited costs — Continuation of criminal proceedings found to serve no c India Law Library Docid # 2451733
(362) AUDI AUTOMOBILES AND OTHERS Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX, INDORE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 35L — Maintainability of appeal before Supreme Court — Preliminary objection raised by Department that appeal does not come under Section 35L as issue had no relation to rate of duty or valuation — Held, issue raised regarding extended period of limitation on ground of non-inclusion of certain costs in assessable value has an inextricable link with valuation of goods for purposes of assessment — Issue raised in show cause notice fundamentally dealt with valuati India Law Library Docid # 2448945
(363) SHIVAPPA Vs. SHANTAVVA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 41 Rules 23 and 24 — Power of Appellate Court to remand — Remand of case to Trial Court for framing of additional issues and fresh evidence — Permissibility — High Court remitted suit regarding one item of property for framing issues on whether sale deed was sham, limitation, and possession — Held, India Law Library Docid # 2448946
(364) NAZIM SHAIKH HASAN Vs. NASIR MUSHTAQ SHAIKH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 111(e) & (f) — Landlord and Tenant — Determination of lease by express or implied surrender — Execution of agreement to sell by landlord in favour of tenant — Effect on jural relationship — Held, mere execution of an agreement to sell between landlord and tenant does not ipso facto determine the subsisting India Law Library Docid # 2448947
(365) BALKU ORAM Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 read with 34 — Murder — Witch-hunting — Sole eyewitness testimony — Corroboration — Appellant along with co-accused dragged deceased out of her house on allegation of practicing witchcraft and brutally assaulted her with lathis, causing her death — Incident witnessed by 15-year-old daughter of deceased (P.W.3) — Reliability of sole witness — Held, direct ocular evidence India Law Library Docid # 2448948
(366) PAZHANATHAL (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. ALAMATHAL (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Succession Act, 1925 — Section 63(c) — Evidence Act, 1872 — Sections 68 and 69 — Proof of execution and attestation of Will — Invocation of Section 69 — Mandatory conditions — Propounder must first establish that no attesting witness can be found or is available before invoking Section 69 — Failure to lead cogent evidence India Law Library Docid # 2449023
(367) TAHER VAJIYUDDIN RANGWALA AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302, 201 read with Section 120B — Circumstantial evidence — Failure to prove homicidal death — Medical evidence leaning towards accidental drowning — Reversal of conviction — The prosecution alleged that the appellants murdered their friend by hitting him with a broken soda bottle and drowning him in a river, relying on circumstantial evidence including last seen together theory, India Law Library Docid # 2449024
(368) M/S INDO ENGINEERING WORKS Vs. RASHTRIYA ISPAT NIGAM LIMITED (RINL) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 — Section 8 — Referral to Arbitrator — Reference of legal issue to Larger Bench — Waiver of MSMED Act benefits upon consent to regular arbitration — Appellant, a small-scale industry, approached the Facilitation Council for arbitration without having filed a memorandum under Section 8 of the MSMED Act — High Court stalled proceedings citing a pending reference to a larger bench of the Supreme Court regarding Section 8 memorandum requireme India Law Library Docid # 2449362
(369) SAPNA Vs. ARUN SINDHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Matrimonial Disputes — Family Settlement Agreement — Closure of proceedings — During the pendency of a challenge against a divorce decree, the parties reached an amicable settlement resolving all differences — Husband paid a lump sum of Rs. 68,00,000 towards maintenance, permanent alimony, stridhan, and transfer of wife's undivided half-share in immovable property, with custody of the minor daughters remaining with the wife — Satisfied that the agreeme India Law Library Docid # 2451759
(370) 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
(371) 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
(372) 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
(373) 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
(374) 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
(375) 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
(376) 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
(377) 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
(378) 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
(379) 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
(380) 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