(821) SRI SINGIRIKONDA SRINIVASULU AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS[TELANGANA HIGH COURT] 13-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Auction of Commercial Plot — Cancellation and forfeiture of deposit — Petitioners defaulted in paying balance consideration for plot auctioned by Telangana Housing Board — Allotment was cancelled and deposit forfeited, citing non-payment and pending writ petition — High Court held that pending litigation involved distinct survey numbers and did not affect subject land in Survey No. 108 — As petitioners agreed to accept available reduced plot area and p India Law Library Docid # 2451292
(822) PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK Vs. LEARNED DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, PALI AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 12-08-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 14 — Role and jurisdiction of District Magistrate — Administrative and non-adjudicatory function — Bank filed application under Section 14 for taking physical possession of mortgaged industrial plot — District Magistrate orally refused to proceed due to an interim status quo order passed in a collateral partition suit — Held, powers of District Magistrate under Section 14 are purely adm India Law Library Docid # 2449547
(823) SHUBHAM GURJAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 12-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 482 — Registration of second FIR — Test of sameness — Scheme of criminal procedure contemplates registration and investigation of the earliest information relating to a cognizable offence — Subsequent information relating to same occurrence cannot ordinarily give rise to a fresh FIR, and further investigation should proceed under Section 173(8) CrPC — However, there is no absolute bar against a se India Law Library Docid # 2449554
(824) JUGAL KISHORE Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 12-08-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 3(cc), 3(e) and Part VII — Acquisition of land for RIICO — Applicability of Part VII procedure — State Industrial Development Corporation (RIICO) is a Government Company owned and controlled by the State Government under Section 3(cc) — Expressly excluded from definition of "Company" under Section 3(e) — Provisions contained in Part VII of the Act of 1894 governing acquisition for private companies are wholly inapplicable — Statutory procedure under Part VII India Law Library Docid # 2449558
(825) MAGEBA BRIDGE PRODUCTS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. M/S. TRADE CENTRE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Partnership Act, 1932 — Section 69(2) — Proof of registration of firm — Memorandum of Registration — Held, a Memorandum issued by the Registrar of Firms acknowledging receipt and recording the registration number and date of registration of a firm constitutes sufficient proof of registration for purposes of S. 69(2), and is further corroborated by a certified copy of Form-VIII of the Registrar of India Law Library Docid # 2448918
(826) DINESH KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Circumstantial evidence — Chain of circumstances — Last-seen, recent unexplained possession, and recovery of deceased's articles — Held, conviction based on circumstantial evidence can be sustained only when each circumstance is firmly proved, forms a complete chain, and is consistent solely with guilt — The circumstance of last-seen, though insufficient by itself, was materially India Law Library Docid # 2448919
(827) RASPELLI BHAGYA KISHAIYA AND OTHERS Vs. GENERAL MANAGER, WESTERN COALFIELDS LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 National Coal Wage Agreement-VI — Cl. 9.3.4 — Compassionate appointment — Determination of relevant date for reckoning upper age limit of 35 years — Held, in the absence of any express stipulation in Cl. 9.3.4 fixing the cut-off date, age eligibility for compassionate appointment cannot be reckoned with reference to the date on which the application is ultimately taken up for consideration by the employer — Where the dependent was within the prescribed age limit on the India Law Library Docid # 2448920
(828) UNION OF INDIA Vs. SUNIL BIYANI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Interim relief on dismissal of writ petition — Whether High Court can grant protection against arrest while dismissing petition as not maintainable — Held, an interim relief can only be granted in aid of and ancillary to the main relief; once a court finds no merit in the main challenge and dismisses the petition, the question of granting further relief, India Law Library Docid # 2448921
(829) KARNATAKA POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LIMITED Vs. REKHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition involving disputed questions of fact — Electrocution claims — Held, where a claim for compensation on account of electrocution involves disputed questions of fact, a writ petition under Article 226 is not the proper remedy — the High Court ought to have relegated the writ petitioners to the civil court instead of proceeding to India Law Library Docid # 2448922
(830) PARAG KISHORE SATOSKAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 318(4) — Cheating — Dishonest intention must exist at inception — Mere breach of commercial contract insufficient — Held, mere breach of contract cannot give rise to criminal prosecution for cheating unless fraudulent or dishonest intention is shown right from inception of the transaction — A promise as to future performance becomes deception only if India Law Library Docid # 2448923
(831) R.K. YADAV AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 16 — Pay fixation — Scope of judicial review — Held, pay fixation is essentially an executive function and equation of posts and salaries is a complex matter best left to expert bodies; courts are not suited to evaluate the justifiability of differentiation in pay scales on affidavits and pleadings, and will not interfere unless mala fides or apparent anomaly is India Law Library Docid # 2448924
(832) SHRUTI MANAV SHARMA AND ANOTHER Vs. SUNANINA SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1(r) — Scope of appellate interference with discretionary orders — An appellate court exercising jurisdiction under Order XLIII Rule 1(r) does not undertake a fresh reconsideration of the entire matter, nor substitute its own view merely because it might have reached a different conclusion on the same material — interference India Law Library Docid # 2448925
(833) BASSANNA SINCE DECEASED BY LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. BHIMANNA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 and Order 41 Rule 1 — Maintainability of composite appeal against common judgment in two suits by same plaintiff — A composite appeal filed under Section 96 challenging a common judgment rendered in two suits filed by the same plaintiff, where the suits were clubbed and tried together with common evidence, certified copies of India Law Library Docid # 2448926
(834) SRINIVASA REDDY VELAGALA Vs. SRAVANTHI INFRATECH PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 3(12), 5(21), 9 and 238A — Termination vs. frustration of contract — Effluxion of time and frustration are distinct concepts — an EPC contract does not terminate merely because the timeline lapses, nor is it "frustrated" by delay caused by a party's own default — Frustration under S. 56, Contract Act requires an unforeseen supervening India Law Library Docid # 2448928
(835) BALESH KUMAR KURAITI Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Section 6 (pre and post-2019 Amendment) — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 20(1) — Retrospective application of enhanced criminal punishment — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a 3-year-old victim — Incident occurred prior to 2019 Amendment to POCSO India Law Library Docid # 2448949
(836) KASHMIR RAM @ PAPPI Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) — Section 42 — Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant — Non-reduction of secret information into writing prior to search — Substantial compliance — Information received by empowered officer while on patrol/move regarding illicit contraband in a transit vehicle — Immediate action required — Officer dispatched ruqa to police station for FIR registration prior to search and orally informed superior officer who arrived India Law Library Docid # 2448950
(837) KAPLESHWAR YADAV AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH PRINCIPAL SECRETARY . DEPTT. OF REVENUE. GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA AND OTHERS[PATNA HIGH COURT] 12-08-2026 Bihar Tenancy Act, 1885 — Sections 48C and 48D — Acquisition of Raiyati rights — Non-transferability of Sikmi rights — Effect of possession originating from invalid transfer — Appellants claimed Raiyati rights under Section 48D based on long possession originating from an alleged sale deed transferring Sikmi rights to their ancestors — Held, Sikmi rights are non-transferable and could not be validly India Law Library Docid # 2449283
(838) BALMIKI RAI Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 12-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 34 and 201 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 106 — Disappearance of wife — Burden of proof — Scope of Section 106 — Trial Court convicted husband and in-laws for murder and causing disappearance of evidence by applying Section 106 — Held, Section 106 comes into play only when a fact is especially within the knowledge of a person — Prosecution must first establish foundational facts of murder or unnatural death — Court cannot presume guilt or shift India Law Library Docid # 2449284
(839) NAND LAL BIND Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 12-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Evidence — Ocular testimony vs. Medical evidence — Alleged contradiction — Eyewitnesses stated accused shot deceased from behind — Autopsy report showed inverted wound of entry on left back of chest and exit wound on front — Medical evidence fully corroborated ocular account — Principle that medical evidence discredits ocular testimony applies only India Law Library Docid # 2449285
(840) AKSHAY SINH DALPAT SINH CHAUHAN @ AKSHAY SINGH DALPAT SINGH CHAUHAN AND OTHER Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 12-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 403 and 417 — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Complaint alleged non-payment of cash loan taken by petitioners — No documentary evidence submitted to substantiate monetary transaction — Unimpeachable workplace presence certificate proved petitioner was present at work in Gujarat on date of alleged India Law Library Docid # 2449286