(1) DAULAT Vs. NARENDRA PARMAR AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 13-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 6 Rule 17 and Order 7 Rule 11 — Amendment vs. Rejection of Plaint — A pending application for amendment of pleadings under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC should generally be decided before an application for rejection of the plaint under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC, especially if the amendment seeks to address defects India Law Library Docid # 2447518
(2) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. BALI RAM NO. 850808321[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 — Section 47 — Non-discrimination in government employment — Employee acquiring disability during service — Mandatory obligation on employer to shift employee to alternate post with same pay and service benefits, or, failing that, to accommodate on supernumerary post till superannuation — Respondent, a India Law Library Docid # 2447570
(3) H.D.F.C. BANK LIMITED Vs. KISHORE K. MEHTA (DEAD) THR. LRS.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 — Section 9(2) — "Decree or order" — Whether includes a recovery certificate issued by a Debts Recovery Tribunal under the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (pre-2016 amendment) — Held, no — Insolvency Act, being weighed with grave civil consequence of "civil death", must be strictly construed — Expression "decree or order" must bear the India Law Library Docid # 2447571
(4) PRASAD PANDURANG TAPKIR AND ANOTHER Vs. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF TOWN PLANNING, PUNE DISTRICT, PUNE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 — Sections 37, 154 — Premium paid for additional Floor Space Index (FSI) — Refund of unutilized premium — Appellants paid premium for additional FSI to undertake group housing construction but subsequently abandoned the project in favour of plotting, without utilising the additional FSI — Refund claim rejected by authorities on ground that Development Control India Law Library Docid # 2447572
(5) MANJU SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. AVINASH SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor accident claims — Standard of proof — Preponderance of probabilities, and not proof beyond reasonable doubt as in criminal trials, is the applicable standard before a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Tribunal not a criminal court and must evaluate evidence pragmatically, keeping in view the beneficial object of the Act — Concurrent findings of Tribunal and High Court, India Law Library Docid # 2447573
(6) SABITRI DEY @ SWASTHI DEY AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 21 — Foreigners Act, 1946 — Section 9 — Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 — Para 3 — Declaration of foreigner status in ex parte or effectively ex parte proceedings — Held, statutory burden under S. 9 of 1946 Act to prove non-foreigner status lies on proceedee, notwithstanding Evidence Act, 1872 — However, such burden does not relieve Tribunal of its own obligation to conduct India Law Library Docid # 2447574
(7) ALOK KOTAHWALA AND OTHERS Vs. JAIPUR METRO RAIL CORPORATION LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 5-A — Right to hearing — Nature of — Held, S. 5-A engrafts a mandatory safeguard being the only opportunity available to a landowner to object to necessity and suitability of acquisition — Right to hearing under S. 5-A(2) need not be separately demanded by objector; it is the duty of the Collector to fix a date and give notice of hearing — However, on facts, appellants having appeared India Law Library Docid # 2447575
(8) ASIA SUGAR & CHEMICAL CO., DEVANGERE Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957 — Exemption entries — Construction — Fifth Schedule Entry exempting "sugar" (subsequently described by reference to Column 3 of First Schedule to Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957) — Held, reference to the Excise Act was only to identify the commodity and did not import any origin-based restriction — Entry, prior to Karnataka Act 5 of 2001, contained India Law Library Docid # 2447576
(9) A.K. GHOSH & COMPANY AND OTHERS Vs. BIMAN BOSE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rules 1, 6A(3), 6G and 9 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Written statement to counter-claim by plaintiff — Time-limit — Held, by virtue of Order 7 Rule 6G CPC, the amended proviso to Or. VIII R. 1 CPC (as applicable to commercial suits) governs filing of a plaintiff's India Law Library Docid # 2447560
(10) SAGAR Vs. THE STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Sections 19(1), 15 and 18(3) — Child in conflict with law aged 16-18 alleged to have committed heinous offence — Order under Section 19(1) by Children's Court — Mandatory nature — Held, upon receipt of the Board's preliminary assessment report under S. 15 transferred by virtue of S. 18(3), the Children's Court must, immediately on taking India Law Library Docid # 2447561
(11) KIRLOSKAR FERROUS INDUSTRIES LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Mines and Minerals — Royalty — Average Sale Price (ASP) — Sale value — Non-deduction of Royalty, DMF and NMET payments from sale value — Explanation to R. 38, Minerals (Other than Atomic and Hydro Carbons Energy Minerals) Concession Rules, 2016 and Explanation to R. 45(8)(a), Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 2017, providing that no deduction shall be made from gross sale amount in respect of Royalty, District Mineral Foundation India Law Library Docid # 2447562
(12) THE STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S FARIDABAD GURGAON MINERALS AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Mines and Minerals — Royalty and Dead Rent — Enhancement during subsistence of lease — Mining lease deed silent on enhancement, though preceding Auction Notice and Letter of Acceptance expressly stipulated applicability of Rules 10 and 21, Punjab Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1964 — Held, requirement to comply with Rules 10 and 21 formed an implied condition of the lease deed — India Law Library Docid # 2447563
(13) NAJMA KHATUN AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Education Law — Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008 (W.B.) — Sections 8, 10 to 12 — Validity — Sections 8, 10 to 12 of the Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008 upheld as intra vires by a coordinate Bench in Sk. Mohd. Rafique v. Managing Committee, Contai Rahamania High Madrasah, (2020) 6 SCC 689 — India Law Library Docid # 2447564
(14) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. MONIKA KIRAN SURYAWANSHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 120-B, 201/34 — Circumstantial evidence — Acquittal by High Court — Interference by Supreme Court — Appeal by State against acquittal, by the High Court, of respondents-accused convicted by the Trial Court for murder of the husband of accused no. 1 and criminal conspiracy — Prosecution case rested wholly on circumstantial evidence, there being no direct India Law Library Docid # 2447565
(15) STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S. JAI DURGAA FINVEST P. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Contract — Interpretation of commercial contracts — Rewriting of terms by courts, impermissibility of — Courts cannot re-write terms of a commercial contract, howsoever reasonable the substituted term may appear, where parties on equal footing have accepted unambiguous terms with free will — Agreed forfeiture/security India Law Library Docid # 2447566
(16) MR. NILESH SHAH AND OTHERS Vs. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Section 15Z — Appeal to Supreme Court — Scope — Appeal under S. 15Z confined to substantial questions of law arising from order of Securities Appellate Tribunal — Supreme Court neither expected nor entitled to pronounce on economics of securities market — Commercial wisdom behind a bona fide risk that fortuitously results in gain, notwithstanding India Law Library Docid # 2447567
(17) BRAJESH KUMAR @ BIRJESH KUMAR SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 156(3), 158, 173(3) and 190 — Split investigation on directions of Superintendent of Police — Charge-sheet against some accused, further investigation against remaining — Validity — First charge-sheet finding offence made out against all seventeen accused but charge-sheeting only two on directions of S.P., with investigation continued against India Law Library Docid # 2447568
(18) STATE OF JHARKHAND Vs. JAGDISH LAKRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Arms Act, 1959 — Sections 25(1-B)(a) and 26 — Recovery of firearm from house — Conscious possession, need to establish — Mere recovery of a country-made stein gun and other incriminating articles from the house of the accused, held, not sufficient to sustain conviction unless prosecution establishes that the articles were in conscious India Law Library Docid # 2447569
(19) AMAR THAPA Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 37 — Commercial Quantity — Bail Application — Grant of bail for offences involving commercial quantity requires satisfaction of two conditions: reasonable grounds to believe accused is not guilty and not likely to commit offence while on bail, after India Law Library Docid # 2447506
(20) MS PHARMACEUTICALS Vs. NITYAM PHARMA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-07-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Statutory notice — Validity must reflect legally enforceable debt — Notice demanding less than cheque amount due to admitted part payments is not per se invalid if computation is disclosed — Whether such demand makes the notice valid India Law Library Docid # 2447507