(1) AMRAVATI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION Vs. GANESH DADARAO ANASANE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Environmental Law — Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 — Institutionalisation & Environmental Compensation — Environmental governance requires institutionalizing enforcement mechanisms beyond framing rules — Under Rules 17 and 18, a Central Implementation Committee must be constituted to supervise implementation and formulate structured, objective guidelines for levying India Law Library Docid # 2448521
(2) K. BHARATHAMMA Vs. BANDARU SAKKU BAI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 18 Rule 17 & Section 151 — Scope and Parameters for Recalling Witness and Reopening Evidence — The power to recall and examine a witness under Order 8 Rule 17 is a discretionary power-cum-facilitator vested primarily in the court to clarify doubts or seeking clarifications regarding evidence already led — It cannot be routinely invoked at the instance of a party at the fag end of a trial to fill up lacunae, omissions, or gaps in evidence, nor to permit fu India Law Library Docid # 2448522
(3) KUNTEGOWDA Vs. THURUBAIAH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Sections 138, 118(a) and 139 — Presumption of Legally Enforceable Debt & Rebuttal by Accused — Once the execution of a cheque and the drawer's signature are admitted or proved, statutory mandatory presumptions arise under Sections 118 and 139 that the cheque was issued for consideration and in discharge of a legally enforceable debt — The burden shifts to the accused to disprove these presumptions by leading cogent direct or indirect India Law Library Docid # 2448523
(4) NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. SMT. THUNGALA DHANA LAXMI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 146, 147, 196 and 207 — Motor Insurance — Uninsured Vehicles & Mandatory Coverage — Public Interest Directions for Integration of Technology and Policy Reforms — Despite statutory mandate under Section 146 of the MVA, over 56% of vehicles on Indian roads remain uninsured, severely impeding prompt compensation to accident victims and drawing affected families into prolonged litigation — Recognising the safety of commuters India Law Library Docid # 2448524
(5) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND ANOTHER Vs. SRI DEVRAJ URS MEDICAL COLLEGE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 141 — Judicial Precedents — Retrospective Application — Judicial declarations of law by the Supreme Court operate retrospectively unless expressly stated to be prospective — The 11-Judge Bench decision in T.M.A. Pai Foundation (31.10.2002) declaring the subvention scheme unconstitutional took immediate retrospective effect, terminating executive India Law Library Docid # 2448517
(6) ARJUN JANI @ TUNTUN Vs. STATE OF ORISSA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Criminal Law — Access to Justice for Indigent Convicts — Constitutional Courts must adopt a proactive, liberal approach to condone inordinate delays in appeals filed by incarcerated, marginalized convicts to safeguard fundamental rights — High Court erred in refusing to condone a 3157-day delay in a jail appeal where the convict had already served 12 years of life imprisonment. India Law Library Docid # 2448518
(7) SPO/CONSTABLE IRB SATPAL SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 — Section 12 — Effect of Probation on Service Career — Release of a convict on probation under Section 3 or 4 of the 1958 Act does not obliterate conviction — The "disqualification" under Section 12 refers strictly to statutory disqualifications under other laws and does not bar disciplinary action, removal from public service, or override constitutional provisions like Article India Law Library Docid # 2448519
(8) DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Vs. B.S. RAWAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-08-2026 Service Law — Resignation — Unauthorized Acceptance & Doctrine of Ratification — An unauthorized acceptance of resignation by an incompetent authority takes effect and becomes valid from its inception once ratified by the competent authority, as ratification operates retrospectively under the doctrine of relation-back (ratihabitio mandato aequiparatur) — Where an employee voluntarily India Law Library Docid # 2448520
(9) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Vs. ADDITIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 04-08-2026 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) — Section 44(1)(c) — Committal of Scheduled Offence Case to Special Court — Conditions Precedent — Cognizance & Sanction — Section 44(1)(c) of the PMLA requires that the Special Court trying the money-laundering complaint must have already taken cognizance of that complaint before it can entertain an application to commit a pending scheduled-offence case from another court — Where the Special Court had merely issued a pre-cognizance notice under Se India Law Library Docid # 2448534
(10) JENORIN D. SANGMA Vs. STATE OF MEGHALAYA[MEGHALAYA HIGH COURT] 04-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302, Section 201 read with Section 34 — Circumstantial Evidence — Extra-Judicial Confession — Evidentiary Value & Corroboration — An extra-judicial confession is inherently a weak piece of evidence that must be examined by the Court with greater care and caution —To form the basis of a conviction, it must be voluntary, truthful, inspire confidence, and be supported by a chain of cogent, corroborative circumstances —Where the principal India Law Library Docid # 2448535
(11) RAVINDER SINGH SIDHU Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 04-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Regular Bail — High Magnitude Financial Fraud & Economic Offences –– Economic offences involving cheating, forgery, and unlawful financial schemes that impact a massive number of victims and destabilize public trust are offences of wide magnitude –– While dealing with a regular bail application in such matters, the Court cannot treat them at par with standard penal offences –– Granting bail to an accused facing serious India Law Library Docid # 2448536
(12) AMIT BHASIN AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 04-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent Powers — Quashing of FIR based on Compromise — Offences with Social Ramifications — Offences of child exploitation and child labour committed under special statutes—such as Section 323/374 IPC, Section 23 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, and Sections 3/14 of the Child Labour (Prohibition & India Law Library Docid # 2448537
(13) YASHWANT SINGH Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 04-08-2026 H.P. Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1968, Section 6 — Grant of Parole — Scope and Grounds for Rejection — Objections by Victim or Relatives — Relevancy of Heinous Nature of Offence — The petitioner sought a writ of mandamus directing the authorities to grant him parole for agricultural work and to maintain social ties, which was rejected solely based on objections from the victim’s relative — The High Court held that parole serves a vital reformatory purpose aimed at maintaining India Law Library Docid # 2448542
(14) 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
(15) 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
(16) 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
(17) 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
(18) MCNALLY BHARAT ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED Vs. METSO INDIA PVT. LTD[DELHI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 31 — Effect of approved resolution plan — Extinguishment of unclaimed claims — Once a resolution plan is approved by the Adjudicating Authority, it binds the corporate debtor and all creditors; claims not submitted to and incorporated in the plan stand extinguished and cannot thereafter be initiated, continued, or revived, on the "clean slate" principle. India Law Library Docid # 2448487
(19) SANJAY DUBEY Vs. NANDLAL[DELHI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 114 r/w Order 47 Rule 1 — Error apparent on the face of the record — Scope of review — A review does not permit rehearing of the appeal or re-appreciation of evidence, but is confined to correction of errors apparent on the face of the record, non-consideration of binding precedents, and omission to consider material submissions and statutory provisions; India Law Library Docid # 2448488
(20) SUDHIR KAWATRA Vs. SHAMLI KAWATRA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Public Provident Fund Act, 1968 — Section 10 — Bar under Act does not extend to civil recovery suit by beneficiary — The statutory immunity under Section 10 of the PPF Act, protecting acts done in good faith under the Act or Scheme, does not bar a suit by the beneficiary of a matured PPF account seeking recovery of the withdrawn corpus from the guardian who diverted it to his own use, India Law Library Docid # 2448489