(1) LACHCHAPPA AND OTHERS Vs. SPECIAL LAND ACQUISITION OFFICER UKP, BAGALKOT AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-08-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 4(1) and 18 — Equal Compensation / Parity in Compensation — Acquisition of land under same Notification — Determination of market value at a higher rate for adjacent/similarly situated lands acquired under the very same Notification — Held, landlosers whose lands are acquired under the same Section 4(1) Notification are entitled to parity in compensation with other claimants covered by the same Notification whose market India Law Library Docid # 2448705
(2) RAZIYA BEGUM AND OTHERS Vs. NAFISA BEGUM ABDUL HAMID AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-08-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 54 — Definition and Completion of Sale — Non-payment or Part-payment of Consideration — Effect on Passing of Title — Execution and registration of sale deeds upon payment of part consideration and retention of balance consideration by vendee to clear vendor's debts — Held, actual payment of the whole price at the time of execution is not a sine qua non for completion of sale — Non-payment of balance consideration does not invalidate the India Law Library Docid # 2448706
(3) S. SANGEETHA AND OTHERS Vs. TMT. P. PONNI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 13 Rule 3 — Rejection of Irrelevant or Inadmissible Documents — Application to Eschew Proof Affidavit and Exhibited Documents — Application seeking to eschew proof affidavit and documents on grounds of irrelevancy in a probate/testamentary suit — Single Judge rejected xerox copies filed without explanation, but allowed other documents subject to proof — Held, objections raised to other documents marked and exhibited do not make them India Law Library Docid # 2448707
(4) IN RE: 2 MILLION LIVES AT RISK, CONTAMINATION IN JOJARI RIVER, RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-08-2026 Environment Protection Act, 1986 — Riverine Pollution & Industrial Effluents — Integrated Governance & Compliance — Severe environmental degradation, illegal discharge of industrial effluents, contamination of Jojari-Bandi-Luni river system, and failure of statutory oversight — Supreme Court directed the State of Rajasthan to constitute an "Integrated Coordination Group" headed by the Chief Secretary to ensure multi-departmental coordination, review existing India Law Library Docid # 2448708
(5) WAHID KHAN Vs. STATE[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 5(l) & 6 — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault on minor — Age determination — School Admission Register vs. Unattested Certificate / Statement under S. 161 CrPC — Admissibility — Held, a written certificate issued by a school principal during investigation constitutes a statement under S. 161 CrPC and is inadmissible in evidence — However, the extract of the Student Admission and Withdrawal Register India Law Library Docid # 2448747
(6) A V INTERNATIONAL AND ANOTHER Vs. ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE INTELLIGENCE & ORS.[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Customs Act, 1962 — Sections 28, 28(9) & 28(9A) — Independent nature of Show Cause Notices (SCNs) originating from same investigation — Effect of interim stay on co-pending SCN — Held, two separate Show Cause Notices issued on different dates and dealing with distinct subject matters (e.g., one concerning seized goods and the other concerning earlier imports under Section 28) maintain their India Law Library Docid # 2448748
(7) XXXXX Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 (corresponding to Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 482) — Scope of inherent powers of High Court — Concurrent findings of discharge by lower courts — Non-interference — Held, the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court under Section 528 BNSS cannot be invoked to conduct a re-appreciation of evidence or substitute its India Law Library Docid # 2448749
(8) PRAKASH CHANDRA AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 07-08-2026 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay in filing appeal — Economic hardship — Beneficial legislation — Held, delay in filing an appeal under Section 23 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 can be condoned where the appellant belongs to an economically weaker section and was unable to contact counsel or secure timely legal advice due to paucity of funds — Keeping in view the India Law Library Docid # 2448750
(9) COMMISSIONER OF SERVICE TAX, CHENNAI Vs. M/S DIEBOLD SYSTEMS (P) LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-08-2026 Finance Act, 1994 — Sections 65(105)(zzd), 66 & 67 — "Commissioning or installation" service — Indivisible turnkey contracts — Vivisection, permissibility of — Respondent supplying, installing and commissioning ATMs for banks under turnkey contracts for single composite consideration — Revenue sought to tax 33% of gross consideration as value of installation/commissioning service — Held, during the period July 2003 to April 2006, Ss. 65, 66 and 67 contained neither charge nor machinery India Law Library Docid # 2448636
(10) SUSHIL SHARMA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Compulsory retirement — Judicial review, scope of — Order of compulsory retirement is neither punitive nor stigmatic, and is founded on subjective satisfaction of Government in public interest — Principles of natural justice, including audi alteram partem, inapplicable — Held, judicial review is not appellate in nature; interference permissible only where order is malafide, based on no evidence, or arbitrary and perverse — Order upheld as not vitiated India Law Library Docid # 2448637
(11) MUKKERA VENKATA RATNAM AND OTHERS Vs. VANTASALA CHINA VENKATESWARLU AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-08-2026 Andhra Pradesh Civil Courts Act, 1972 — Section 1(3), Notification dt. 30-10-1972 — Scope of exclusion of Scheduled Areas — The 1972 Act, extending civil jurisdiction across the State, was excluded from application to Scheduled Areas by government notification — Held, such exclusion is intended solely to protect Scheduled Tribes India Law Library Docid # 2448638
(12) COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE, HYDERABAD-IV Vs. M/S XEROX INDIA LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-08-2026 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section2(f) — "Manufacture" — Test for — Held, levy of excise duty requires two-fold test: (1) emergence of distinct commercial goods with new identity, character or use (transformation), and (2) marketability of transformed goods — A process leaving the commodity commercially the same article is not manufacture, however much labour, skill or expense bestowed — Addition to value alone does not convert a process into manufacture — Conversely, elaborateness or chemical a India Law Library Docid # 2448555
(13) M/S. PATEL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED Vs. M/S. ADITYA CONSTRUCTION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 — Question whether a buyer of goods/services from an MSME can independently invoke arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 for its claim against the MSME — Held, not answered — Respondent MSME having agreed to arbitration through Delhi International Arbitration Centre, appeal disposed of by consent with venue fixed at New Delhi — Question of law raised left open to be considere India Law Library Docid # 2448556
(14) KKH FINVEST PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. ASHIESH SHUKLA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11 — Group of Companies Doctrine/Veritable parties — Non-signatory to arbitration agreement — Held, non-signatory may be treated as a "veritable party" to an arbitration agreement where its legal relationship with signatory parties and involvement in performance of the underlying contract indicates intention to be bound — Participation of non-signatory in negotiation, performance India Law Library Docid # 2448557
(15) SHIB PRASAD PATRA AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 05-08-2026 West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973 — S. 114(B) read with West Bengal Panchayat (Gram Panchayat Administration) Rules, 2004, Rule 27(1A) — Sanctioning authority for construction plans — Held, a Gram Panchayat has no jurisdiction to sanction a building plan with plinth area exceeding 150 sq. mtrs. without the application being vetted by the Panchayat Samiti as mandated by Rule 27(1A); absence of a rule prescribing the specific procedure India Law Library Docid # 2448565
(16) SAHAJIT SARKAR Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 05-08-2026 Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 — S. 9(3) — Organ donation between non-near relatives — Approval by Authorisation Committee — Held, the Act imposes no absolute restriction on donation between persons who are not "near relatives"; the only requirement is prior approval of the Authorisation Committee, India Law Library Docid # 2448566
(17) AMIT KUMAR AGARWAL Vs. UNION OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS AND OTHER[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 05-08-2026 Passports Act, 1967 — S. 6(2)(f) read with S. 22 and Notification GSR 570(E) dated 25.08.1993 — Renewal of passport during pendency of criminal proceedings — Held, S. 6(2)(f) concerns the permissibility of issuance/renewal where criminal proceedings are pending, not the duration for which the passport is to be issued; Notification GSR 570(E), issued under S. 22 (power to exempt), cannot be read as conferring power upon a criminal court to determine passport validity, nor as restricting validity India Law Library Docid # 2448567
(18) STATE OF H.P. Vs. YASHPAL SINGH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 05-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of interference — Held, interference with acquittal is warranted only where the finding is patently perverse, based on misreading or omission of material evidence, and where only one conclusion — consistent with guilt — is reasonably possible; where two views are possible, the appellate court must not disturb the India Law Library Docid # 2448568
(19) MULKH RAJ Vs. STATE OF HP[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 05-08-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — S. 109 — Bail — Held, applying settled parameters for grant of bail (nature of accusation, severity of punishment, nature of evidence, likelihood of abscondence), where the injury was inflicted with a sharp-edged weapon on the neck — a vital body part — indicating intention to kill, and the offence attracts life imprisonment, bail was declined India Law Library Docid # 2448569
(20) LANKA SRI KALYAN RAM Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 05-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Ss. 8(c) and 20(b)(ii)(C) — Bail — Held, on second bail application, where charge sheet already filed beyond the statutory 180-day period, over 238 days undergone in custody, absence of adverse antecedents, fixed abode within jurisdiction, and co-accused on similar footing already released on bail, petitioner India Law Library Docid # 2448570