(1) 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
(2) 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
(3) 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
(4) 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
(5) 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
(6) 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
(7) 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
(8) 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
(9) 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
(10) 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
(11) 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
(12) 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
(13) 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
(14) 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
(15) BHUVAN KUMAR @ BHUWAN KUMAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF HP AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B — Quashing of FIR based on compromise — Offences involving forgery of public regulatory documents — FIR registered for alleged forgery of No Objection Certificates (NOCs) purportedly issued by the Fire Department and Pollution Control Board — Amicable settlement arrived India Law Library Docid # 2449440
(16) YASH PAL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 528 [corresponding to Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973] — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) — Sections 121(1) and 115(2) — Quashing of FIR based on compromise — Offence of voluntarily causing hurt and obstructing public servant/person — Scuffle between bus conductor and car occupants over parking dispute leading to India Law Library Docid # 2449441
(17) STATE OF H.P. Vs. PARKASH CHAND[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 18-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 325 — Voluntarily causing grievous hurt — Appeal against acquittal — Allegation of assault with a stick resulting in fracture of proximal phalanx of the big toe — Evaluation of evidence — Strained relationship between parties — Informant claimed to have been rescued by accused’s wife, whereas alleged eye-witness contradicted this assertion — Eye-witness was a close India Law Library Docid # 2449442
(18) 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
(19) 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
(20) 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