(1) 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
(2) 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
(3) 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
(4) 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
(5) SUDHIR RAI @ SUDHIR MAHATO Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 17-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 300, 302 and 304 Part II — Murder vs Culpable homicide not amounting to murder — Absence of intention to kill — Sudden dispute — Deceased intervened to pacify an ongoing dispute between appellant and another person — Appellant fired a single gunshot causing death — No prior enmity existed between appellant and deceased — Act done without premeditation — Firing India Law Library Docid # 2449257
(6) 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
(7) 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
(8) NEPAL SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302/149, 324/149, 148 & 147 — Eyewitness testimony — Unreliable and contradictory evidence — Acquittal — Conviction of accused based on testimonies of alleged injured eyewitness (PW-6) and deceased's wife (PW-7) set aside — PW-6 admitted falling unconscious upon the first blow and not personally witnessing his father being struck — PW-7 admitted reaching the spot after the incident occurred, contradicting her examination-in-chief — Their India Law Library Docid # 2449294
(9) THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER Vs. PRATHIK PARASRAMPURIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Election Law — Electoral Integrity and Free and Fair Elections — Role of Money Power / Black Money — Money power and undeclared/black money used to influence voters strike at the very heart of representative government and compromise the core of a democratic polity — Free and fair elections demand that voters exercise their choice unencumbered by monetary gratification or inducements — The three foundational concepts—democracy, the rule of law, and the electoral process—are India Law Library Docid # 2449295
(10) KESHVENDRA SINGH Vs. SHANKAR SINGH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 — Section 12— Scope & Interpretation — Priority of Proceedings — Section 12 of the Gangsters Act does not operate to freeze, stay, or indefinitely stall trials for predicate/underlying offences (such as murder) pending in other courts until the gangster trial concludes — The true purpose of Section 12 is to provide priority in the India Law Library Docid # 2449296
(11) ILABEN Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Offence of cheating and sexual favors on false promise to marry — Allegations against mother of main accused — Proceedings were initiated alleging that the appellant’s son obtained sexual favors and financial gains on a false promise of marriage with the appellant’s active connivance — Held, the First Information Statement revealed a consensual relationship and contained India Law Library Docid # 2449360
(12) KANAD SAHA Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 9CrPC) — Section 482 —Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 506, 509, and 34 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Absence of specific allegations in FIR and Chargesheet — Abuse of process — Second respondent (a advocate) filed a complaint alleging intimidation and abusive language against the appellant, who was a friend of her client (3rd respondent) in a fee dispute — High Court declined to quash, noting that a chargesheet had been filed — Held, the FIR and voluminous India Law Library Docid # 2449361
(13) SAMEEM BEGUM AND OTHERS Vs. K. VENKAT SWAMY AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166(1)(c) — Claim for compensation — Maintainability of claim by legal representatives — Expression "legal representative" includes major children irrespective of complete financial dependency — Liability to pay compensation does not cease due to absence of dependency — Legal representatives entitled to maintain claim petition and seek compensation under conventional heads. India Law Library Docid # 2449020
(14) SHEELA GEHLOT AND OTHERS Vs. MOHINI HARDAYAL SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 60(1)(ccc) (as applicable to Delhi) — Exemption from attachment and sale — Main residential house — Protection under Section 60(1)(ccc) CPC is personal to the judgment-debtor and is not available to his legal representatives — Legal representative is a distinct juridical concept from judgment-debtor, with liability limited to the estate in hand, and cannot claim personal India Law Library Docid # 2449021
(15) RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED Vs. NTPC LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 60 — Admissibility of oral evidence in respect of excluded documents — Parties cannot be permitted to adduce oral evidence regarding contents of internal communications/documents that have already been held irrelevant and excluded from record — Where previous orders excluding internal documents have attained finality, adducing oral evidence to depose India Law Library Docid # 2449022
(16) PAVHARI PRASAD KUSHVAHA @ PAHWARI PRASAD Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 324 — Medical Evidence — Non-examination of medical officers — Tender of injury reports through advocate's clerk — Effect — Conviction under Section 324 requires proof of weapon/means used to cause hurt — Advocate's clerk proved only the existence of injury reports, not their contents — Defence denied opportunity to cross-examine doctors on nature of injuries — Medical India Law Library Docid # 2449271
(17) KUNAL KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Power to proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty — Scope and standard of proof — Power under Section 319 Cr.P.C. can be exercised at any stage during trial to summon any person not facing trial, including those named in FIR but not charge-sheeted — Standard of proof required is higher than the prima facie case needed for framing India Law Library Docid # 2449279
(18) NAGENDRA PRASAD MISHRA AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 498A and 323 — Quashing of matrimonial proceedings on basis of settlement — Complaint alleging torture and demand of dowry filed against in-laws — Trial Court rejected discharge petition — During pendency, parties resolved matrimonial dispute through mediation and entered into a Memorandum of India Law Library Docid # 2449290
(19) KANAK KUMARI Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 14-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 438 and 442 — Scope of Revisional Jurisdiction — High Court exercising revisional jurisdiction does not act as a court of appeal and is forbidden from re-appreciating evidence unless there is manifest illegality or perversity — Findings of subordinate courts cannot be reversed merely because an alternative view is possible — Revisional interference is restricted India Law Library Docid # 2449291
(20) VINOD SHIVAKUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 306 r/w Section 107 — Abetment of Suicide — Essential Ingredients & Mens Rea — To sustain a charge for abetment of suicide under Section 306 read with Section 107 IPC, the prosecution must establish direct or indirect instigation, incitement, or goading in close proximity to the time of commission, accompanied by a clear mens rea to drive the victim to commit suicide — Allegations of continuous harassment, workplace stress, or stern behaviour alone, India Law Library Docid # 2449297