(1) M/S TVS MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE, CHENNAI-III[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Finance Act, 1994 — Section 65 (105) (zzb) — Business Auxiliary Service (BAS) — Taxability of referral charges — Referral charges obtained by automobile dealer from banks/financial institutions and insurance companies for promoting and marketing their loan and insurance products to vehicle buyers constitute taxable "Business Auxiliary Service" — Assessee acts as a link in the economic activity of India Law Library Docid # 2449432
(2) PRAMOD KUMAR SHUKLA Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 156(3) & Section 154 — Rejection of Section 156(3) application — Effect on subsequent registration of FIR — Rejection of an application under Section 156(3) Cr.PC does not operate as res judicata or create a legal bar against the subsequent registration of an FIR or continuation of criminal proceedings on same or similar allegations — Order under India Law Library Docid # 2449433
(3) AFIKMIYA AHMEDMIYA MALEK AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 12, 13(1)(d), and 20 — Demand and acceptance of illegal gratification — Requisites for drawing statutory presumption — Appellants (A1: Talati-cum-Mantri; A2: Peon) were convicted for demanding and accepting bribe for issuing an Income Certificate — High Court upheld conviction drawing statutory presumption under Section 20 — Validity — Held, statutory presumption under Section 20 of the 1988 Act can be drawn only after the initial demand of bribe India Law Library Docid # 2449434
(4) REENA Vs. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, KARNATAKA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166, 168 & 173 — Contributory Negligence & Evidentiary Value of Police Records — Reversal of MACT Order by High Court — In a head-on collision between a light motor vehicle (Santro car) and a heavy passenger bus (KSRTC), the High Court apportioned 50% contributory negligence to the driver of the Santro car based solely on a topographical scene sketchq India Law Library Docid # 2449435
(5) SINGAPOGU BABU RAO AND OTHERS Vs. SPECIAL DEPUTY COLLECTOR (LAND ACQUISITION) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-08-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 29, 30, and 31 — Apportionment of Compensation and Reference to Civil Court — Nature of Enjoyment Survey vs. Legal Title — Dispute as to entitlement over compensation cannot be conclusively determined by an enjoyment survey — Land Acquisition Officer referred title and apportionment disputes to the Civil Court under Sections 30 and 31 — Pending writ India Law Library Docid # 2449436
(6) 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
(7) 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
(8) 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
(9) 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
(10) HEMANT KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Service Law — Deputation and Absorption — Backdoor Entry — Political Interference — Four officers of the Development and Panchayat Department were transferred on deputation and subsequently absorbed into the Public Works Department (Building and Roads) as Assistant Engineers/Sub-Divisional Engineers — The Court found these deputations and absorptions were initiated on individual India Law Library Docid # 2449431
(11) RAJENDRA PRASAD Vs. STATE OF GOA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2026 Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Grant of bail — Claim of parity and prolonged incarceration — Petitioner facing trial for murder under Sections 342, 302, 201 read with Section 120-B, IPC — Application for bail on ground of parity with co-accused who were granted bail, as well as prolonged incarceration of nearly three years — Held — Parity is not a mechanical mathematical formula and must be assessed based on the specific role attributed to each accused in the factual matrix — Pr India Law Library Docid # 2449437
(12) 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
(13) 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
(14) 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
(15) 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
(16) 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
(17) 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
(18) 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
(19) 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
(20) 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