(381) 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
(382) 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
(383) 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
(384) 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
(385) 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
(386) 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
(387) 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
(388) 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
(389) 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
(390) PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK Vs. M/S. SHREE JYOTI EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT TRUST WORLD AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 — Section 2(g) — "Debt" — Includes interest — Held, "debt" under S. 2(g) includes any liability, inclusive of interest, claimed as due by a bank or financial institution from a person — The interest component maintained in a separate suspense account by a bank, subsequent to classification of a loan account as a non-performing asset, forms part of the debt India Law Library Docid # 2448915
(391) M/S. CARESTREAM HEALTH INDIA PVT. LTD. Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Customs Tariff Act, 1975 — Chapter 90, Note 2 — Classification of accessories — Rule 2(b) vis-a-vis Rule 2(c) — Held, Note 2(b) to Chapter 90 applies only to parts/accessories suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, or with machines falling under the same tariff heading; where an accessory is compatible with machines falling under different tariff headings, Rule 2(b) is inapplicable and the accessory must be classified under residuary CTH 9033 00 00 as India Law Library Docid # 2448916
(392) LAHRA BAI TAMRE AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Custodial Death — Compensation in public law — Inadequate quantification by High Court — Held, compensation awarded in public law under Article 226 for violation of fundamental rights is in the nature of exemplary damages against the wrongdoer, independent of remedies in tort or prosecution under penal law — Where the High India Law Library Docid # 2448917
(393) MOHIT SINGH Vs. STATE OF U.P.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 323 and 504 — Murder — Grant of regular bail — Appellant arraigned for allegedly instigating an unlawful group to assault the deceased — Informant (PW-1) deposed that another individual struck the fatal lathi blow on the head, yet prosecution did not chargesheet that person — Appellant in custody since November 2023 with chargesheet filed citing thirty-three witnesses — Apprehension of influencing witnesses can India Law Library Docid # 2451748
(394) ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Service Conditions of District Judiciary — Administration of Justice — Tagging of matters — Multiple petitions concerning recruitment, service conditions, pay scales, and pensions of district judiciary judicial officers pending on a pan-India basis — Overlapping issues — Supreme Court directed tagging of W.P.(C) No. 1022/1989 and W.P.(C) No. 643/2015, treating W.P.(C) No. 1022/1989 as the main case — Amici Curiae directed to prepare a common note categorising pending applications and connected m India Law Library Docid # 2451750
(395) SURAJ Vs. STATE GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 106 — Burden of proving fact especially within knowledge — Recovery of dead body — Appellant contended Section 106 could not be invoked as he was not a resident of the house where the bodies were recovered — Held, applicability of Section 106 is not contingent on whether the place of occurrence belongs to or is inhabited by the accused — Since the deceased was last seen fleeing after being assaulted by the appellant and his body was recovered from the same house shor India Law Library Docid # 2451762
(396) K KAMALA ANANTH AND ANOTHER Vs. B.N.LALITHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Partition Suit — Division based on pleadings and compromise — In a partition suit between sisters concerning Bangalore and Anantapur properties, High Court allocated Anantapur property to plaintiff-aunt and Bangalore property to legal heirs of defendant-mother pursuant to a compromise — Appellant challenged the decree — Held, division of properties between the branches was final and valid — Allocation matched the written statement filed on behalf of defendant-m India Law Library Docid # 2451737
(397) SHATRUGHN YADAV Vs. THE FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS TRAVANCORE LTD. (F.A.C.T.) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Service Law — Termination — Suppression of criminal antecedents in verification form — Writ jurisdiction — Maintainability — Held, existence of alternative remedy under Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 does not operate as absolute bar to writ jurisdiction, particularly where challenge is to legality of termination order itself — High Court's finding that disputed questions of fact rendered writ petition India Law Library Docid # 2448883
(398) BASUDEV AND OTHERS Vs. SANJAY KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rules 6A to 6D and Section 96 — Suit and counterclaim disposed of by common judgment — Maintainability of composite appeal — Held, a suit and counterclaim, when adjudicated by a single common judgment, can be challenged by a composite appeal — Rule 6A treats counterclaim as cross-suit facilitating a common judgment — Rule 6C's exclusion of India Law Library Docid # 2448884
(399) SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA Vs. RAJEEV VASANT SHETH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Section 12A(d)(e) and 15G — Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 — Regulation 4(1) — Insider trading — Trading while in possession of UPSI — Purpose of proceeds irrelevant — Held, once it is established that a person traded while in possession of unpublished price sensitive India Law Library Docid # 2448885
(400) NATIONAL PROJECTS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION LTD. Vs. ISHVAKOO (INDIA) PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 9 — Maintainability of post-award application by unsuccessful party (Award Debtor) — Held, a Section 9 application filed post-award by a party that has lost in arbitration is maintainable — denying such relief would leave an unsuccessful party remediless where the challenge under Section 34 is pending, since Sections 34 and 36 provide no protective remedy for a losing party — however, the threshold for grant of interim relief is higher for an India Law Library Docid # 2448886