(401) JAMNABAI AND OTHERS Vs. VASUDEV AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Scope of Second Appeal — Interference with Concurrent Findings of Fact — High Court reversed concurrent findings of trial court and first appellate court regarding title, limitation, and validity of relinquishment — Permissibility — Held, Section 100 CPC confers a restricted jurisdiction and a second appeal can be entertained only where a substantial question India Law Library Docid # 2449629
(402) SHAILENDRA KUMAR PATEL Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Public Employment — Selection Process — Rights of Selected Candidates — Recommendation by Public Service Commission — Mere inclusion of a candidate's name in a select list or recommendation by the selection body does not confer an indefeasible right to appointment — Selection confers a right to fair, non-arbitrary, and equitable consideration, but does not crystallise into an absolute right to India Law Library Docid # 2449630
(403) STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER Vs. BRIJ PAL SINGH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (PCPNDT) — Sections 17, 17A, 27, 28, 30 and Rule 18A(3) of PCPNDT Rules, 1996 — Registration of FIR and Police Investigation — Permissibility — Role of Police — PCPNDT Act is a complete special law providing a specialized regulatory and enforcement mechanism — Power of investigation under the Act is India Law Library Docid # 2449631
(404) PARBATSINH DOLATSANG DODIYA AND OTHERS Vs. RAMESHBHAI HARJIBHAI MAKWANAAND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1 read with Section 151 — Scope of appellate power in execution proceedings — Division Bench traversing beyond the subject-matter of intra-court appeal — High Court Division Bench while considering an appeal against an interim order erred in withdrawing and disposing of the main interim application pending before the Single Judge without adjudication on India Law Library Docid # 2449632
(405) SUJATA KUMARI AND OTHERS Vs. RAHUL KUMAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Interim maintenance to minor children — Both parents gainfully employed and earning sufficient income — High Court reducing interim maintenance awarded to minor daughters on the ground that wife is also earning — Sustainability — The fact that the wife is gainfully employed is not, by itself, a reason to halve the father's liability toward maintenance India Law Library Docid # 2449633
(406) RAMKRISHNA CHAUHAN Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) — Essential ingredients of offences — "Any place within public view" — Scope and applicability — Incident alleged to have occurred inside an enclosed school office room — Site plan showing place of occurrence as room "A" with no public access — Absence of specific caste-based slurs in FIR or witness India Law Library Docid # 2449634
(407) K. SUMAN CHANDRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Service Law — Regularisation of Service and Pension Scheme — Contention for retrospective effect of regularisation to claim General Provident Fund-cum-Pension Scheme (GPF) over Contrum Provident Fund Scheme (CPF) — Unchallenged terms and conditions of regularisation order — Estoppel by conduct — Employee was regularised as Professor via Office Order dated 04.05.2012, which explicitly provided India Law Library Docid # 2449635
(408) INST.OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND ALLI Vs. RAMESHWAR AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Section 2(oo)(bb) read with Section 25F — Exception to Retrenchment — Burden of Proof — Continuous Service — Engagement of workmen as peons on repeated 89-day fixed-term appointment letters with intermittent short breaks spread over two years — Employer contended that non-renewal of contractual engagement falls under exception in Section 2(oo)(bb) and that workmen failed to complete 240 days of continuous service — Held: Burden of proof India Law Library Docid # 2449639
(409) NUGENESYS PHARMACEUTICALS PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. CELAGENEX RESEARCH (INDIA) PVT. LTD.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13(1A) read with Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC), Order XXXIX Rules 1 & 2 and Order XLIII Rule 1(r) — Ex-parte ad-interim injunction — Misrepresentation and Wilful Suppression of Material Facts — Effect of Unclean Hands — Suit filed by Respondent alleging trademark infringement and passing off — Learned Single Judge granted ex-parte ad-interim injunction — Appellants contended that Respondent suppressed cease-and-desist notice and opposition filed before India Law Library Docid # 2449640
(410) AXIS BANK LTD Vs. ASSETS RECONSTRUCTION CO[DELHI HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 37 — Scope of Appeal / Judicial Review — Appeal against Single Judge’s order upholding an arbitral award. The jurisdiction under Section 37 is even more circumscribed than under Section 34. Courts cannot re-evaluate evidence, review merits, or substitute their own contractual interpretation for that of the Arbitral Tribunal. Interference is warranted only when India Law Library Docid # 2449641
(411) ALTHION TECH INNOVATIONS PVT. LTD. THR. AUTHORISED SIGNATORY Vs. UNION OF INDIA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Public Procurement — Tender/Government Contracts — Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) — Exemption from turnover criteria — Public safety and health procurements — Petitioner (a registered micro enterprise) challenged the tender conditions for procurement of 13 Ultra Pure RO water plants for Hemodialysis floated by Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS). Minimum India Law Library Docid # 2449642
(412) RAVINDER SINGH Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Section 6 — Conviction and Sentence — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a minor child — Onus on prosecution — Sole testimony of victim — Testimony of PW3 (minor victim) was consistent, natural, and unimpeached throughout the proceedings — Statements under India Law Library Docid # 2449477
(413) SHIV PRATAP SINGH ALIAS CHINU Vs. STATE OF U.P AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 — Sections 2, 3 and 23 — Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Rules, 2021 — Rule 3 — Creation of Offence — Requisite elements of a penal statute — Principles of nulla poena sine lege and actus reus — The U.P. Act of 1986 merely provides definitions for "gang" and "gangster" under Section 2 and prescribes penalties under Section 3 without explicitly defining or creating a distinct substantive crim India Law Library Docid # 2449483
(414) K. SUMAN CHANDRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Service Law — Regularisation — Date of Effect — Entitlement to General Provident Fund (GPF) Scheme vs. Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) Scheme — Office Order regularising contractual service explicitly stating that regularisation shall take effect from the date of issuance of order and services shall continue to be governed by existing CPF Scheme — Conditions of regularisation India Law Library Docid # 2449484
(415) STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Vs. JAI BIR SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (ID Act) — Section 2(j) — "Industry" — Reference to Nine-Judge Bench — Maintainability — Objection raised that reference ought not to be entertained in view of Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa having held the field for nearly five decades and attracting the principle of stare decisis — Held, preliminary objection to maintainability rejected — Reference had been validly made in conformity with the procedure governing references to larger Benches India Law Library Docid # 2449647
(416) PRADEEP AND OTHERS Vs. JAGADISHWARI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 39(4) & Order 21 Rule 2 — Execution of decree — Compromise recorded outside local limits of territorial jurisdiction — Validity of — Decreed share in immovable property located in Solapur — Executing court at Belgaum originally ordered transfer of execution proceedings to Solapur under Section 39(4) CPC, but records were returned unexecuted — Decree Holder subsequently entered into a compromise with purchasers/Judgment Debtors (JDs 12–15) residing in po India Law Library Docid # 2450096
(417) MUZAHID Vs. SHAHNAWZ AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — U.P. Motor Vehicles Rules, 1998 — Rule 220A — Assessment of compensation — Loss of future earnings — Functional disability versus physical disability — Appellant sustained severe spine injuries causing quadriplegia — Chief Medical Officer certified 70% physical disability — Tribunal mechanically fixed loss of earning capacity at 70% — Held, physical disability cannot be automatically equated to economic loss — Appellant being completely bedridden and immo India Law Library Docid # 2450770
(418) DR. SHYAM BIHARI UPADHAYAY Vs. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. DEPTT. HOME AFFAIRS LKO. AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT (LUCKNOW BENCH)] 20-08-2026 Service Law — Pension — Minimum Qualifying Service — Counting of Past Central Government Service — Conditional Office Memorandum — Petitioner sought pension under the State Government by combining past service under the Central Government pursuant to Office Memorandum dated 31.03.1982 — Held, benefit of combining Central and State service is conditional upon tendering technical resignation for administrative reasons, obtaining proper permission/No Objection Certificate, and making proper entries India Law Library Docid # 2450771
(419) SANA MARIYAM AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 21 — Protection of Life and Personal Liberty — Right to marry person of choice — Petitioners, both majors, solemnized marriage (Nikah) voluntarily without force, coercion, or undue influence — Opposed by father and brother of Petitioner No. 1 who extended threats to their life and personal liberty — Process initiated for marriage registration under Uniform Civil Code, Uttarakhand — Held, adult individuals entering into marriage voluntarily and residing toget India Law Library Docid # 2450689
(420) M/S DECCAN CHARTERS PVT. LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 20-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Alternate statutory remedy — Maintainability of writ petition — Land acquisition — Availability of an alternate statutory remedy under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 does not operate as an absolute bar to the exercise of writ jurisdiction under Article 226 — Writ court can entertain petition where there is an alleged violation of the principles of natural justice and the ch India Law Library Docid # 2450694