(1) DIPTI MADHUKAR SHETH Vs. BORIVALI EDUCATION SOCIETY AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Maharashtra Employees of Private Schools (Conditions of Service) Regulation Act, 1977 — Shikshan Sevak — Status and Statutory Protection under MEPS Act, 1977 — Following the amendment by Maharashtra Act 14 of 2007, the appointment and service conditions of a Shikshan Sevak cease to be a matter of mere contract and are statutorily converted into a status — The definition of "employee" under the Act India Law Library Docid # 2448321
(2) CHHAYA KASHINATH SHINDE Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 — Section 3E — Restriction on transfer of rehabilitation tenements — Scope of expression "or otherwise" — Held, words "sale, gift, exchange, lease or otherwise" are not confined to registered conveyances — Expression "or otherwise" is a word of extension, not limitation, intended to cover indirect arrangements through which an India Law Library Docid # 2448325
(3) SHAKUNTALA AND OTHERS Vs. ROBERT ANTHONY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Succession Act, 1925 — Sections 33, 35 and 38 — Hindu/Christian Succession — Applicability of S. 33 confined to property owned by deceased male; erroneous application by High Court set aside — Where property was purchased and registered in the joint names of two wives, the same is owned by them and not by the husband, India Law Library Docid # 2448312
(4) STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER Vs. PRABHU SHANKAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Scope of inquiry — Mini-trial impermissible — At the stage of considering quashing of an FIR, the Court's inquiry is confined to whether the allegations, taken at face value, prima facie disclose commission of a cognizable offence — Court cannot conduct a "mini-trial" by sifting evidence, assessing probabilities, or evaluating witness credibility — High Court India Law Library Docid # 2448313
(5) RELIANCE GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. OM PARKASH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 3 and 5 — Validity of driving license — Burden to prove renewal — Insurer's liability — Where the driver's license had lapsed for a period spanning the date of accident and was purportedly renewed only later upon payment of penalty, the onus to establish valid renewal for the intervening period lies on the driver/owner — Absence of official record establishing continuous validity, coupled India Law Library Docid # 2448314
(6) S.P. CHANDRAKAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 General Clauses Act, 1897 — Section 21 — Cooperative Societies — Registrar's rule-making power — Includes power to amend/delete — General Clauses Act, 1897, S. 21 applied — A statutory authority empowered to frame rules governing service conditions inherently possesses the power to amend, alter, or delete such rules, by application of the India Law Library Docid # 2448315
(7) THE DIRECTOR OF INCOME TAX, (INTERNATIONAL TAXATION) Vs. M/S STAR CRUISES (INDIA) P. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 44B — "Carriage" of passengers — Meaning and scope of — Cruise operations by non-resident shipping entity — Held, the word "carriage" under Section 44B cannot be restrictively construed to mean movement only from Port A to Port B. A round-trip cruise voyage, where passengers have the option to disembark at intermediate ports without compulsion to return to the originating port, India Law Library Docid # 2448316
(8) VISHNU KUMAR GUPTA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 415 — Appeal — Maintainability — Conviction recorded for first time by appellate court reversing acquittal — An appeal under Section 374 CrPC (Section 415 BNSS) is not maintainable against a judgment of conviction recorded by a Sessions Court while exercising appellate jurisdiction and reversing an order of acquittal passed by the Trial India Law Library Docid # 2448317
(9) KAMAL SINGH Vs. PINPOINT MULTI STRATEGY MASTER FUND (FORMERLY KNOWN AS PINPOINT MULTI STRATEGY FUND) AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 30-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rule 41 — Disclosure order against judgment debtor — Scope — Held, disclosure order directing Appellant to disclose assets, bank accounts and alienations from commencement of foreign litigation, and restraining dealing with assets, upheld — Disclosure order does not determine attachability but merely locates assets in aid of prospective attachment; India Law Library Docid # 2448329
(10) JAYSHREE KAUSHIK Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 30-07-2026 Service Law — Reduction of Pay — Principles of Natural Justice — Order reducing petitioner's basic pay and grade pay passed without issuing show cause notice or affording opportunity of hearing — Deduction effected prior to service of notice — Such re-fixation resulting in civil consequences held unsustainable in absence of compliance with principles of natural justice — Impugned order set aside. India Law Library Docid # 2448333
(11) GIRNAR (SANTACRUZ) CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY LIMITED Vs. DISTRICT DEPUTY REGISTRAR AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 30-07-2026 Maharashtra Ownership of Flats Act, 1963 — Section 11 — Scope and ambit of Competent Authority's jurisdiction — Held, enquiry before the Competent Authority under S. 11 is directed towards identifying and enforcing the promoter's statutory obligation under the agreement executed under S. 4 of MOFA — It is an exercise of statutory enforcement, not adjudication of proprietary rights — Competent Authority India Law Library Docid # 2448326
(12) RAMASREY @ FAKKAD Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 45, 53 — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 2(17), 4 — "Life imprisonment" — Meaning — Life imprisonment under Section 53 read with Section 45 IPC (and correspondingly under the BNS) means imprisonment for the rest of the convict's natural life, terminable only by India Law Library Docid # 2448277
(13) CONTAINER CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED Vs. RISHI RANJAN MISHRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 2(28), S. 2(34) — "Motor vehicle" — "Public place" — Inland Container Depot — A Reach Stacker weighing 71.8 to 102 metric tonnes, far exceeding the permissible gross vehicle weight for vehicles on public roads, is a vehicle of special type adapted for use only within enclosed premises and falls within the exclusionary limb of Section 2(28); the internal roads of an ICD, being a customs-bonded area accessible only to authorized personnel, do not constitute a "pu India Law Library Docid # 2448278
(14) HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN Vs. ABHAY JAIN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 2010 — Rules 49, 50 — Full Court Resolution dated 15.01.2011 — Selection Scale/Super Time Scale — Application on facts — Applying the valid ACRs for 2013 and 2014 (Parts I & II) — all rated "Very Good"/"Good" with integrity certified — the Judicial Officer, having completed five years' notional service considering reinstatement with continuity, was held entitled to Selection Scale with India Law Library Docid # 2448279
(15) THE STATE OF UTTARAKHAND Vs. JAGDISH CHANDRA KANDPAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Uttaranchal Civil Services (Executive Branch) Rules, 2005 — Rule 24(4) — Uttaranchal Public Service Commission (Limitations of Functions) Regulations, 2003 — Regulation 5(a) — Nature of Requirement — Requirement of consulting Commission before continuation of officiating appointment beyond one year held directory, not mandatory, applying the classic test of statutory construction; non-compliance does not invalidate the appointment where treating it as void would cause India Law Library Docid # 2448280
(16) M/S OTIS ELEVATOR CO. (INDIA) LTD. Vs. RASHMI HANDA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Deficiency of Service — Maintenance Contractor's Liability — Elevator Malfunction — Comprehensive maintenance contractor, being both manufacturer and repair contractor with exclusive technical knowledge of safety interlocks and brake mechanisms, held principally deficient in service for failing to act on its own identified remedy (voltage stabiliser) despite India Law Library Docid # 2448281
(17) NAKHAT SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Armed Forces — Air Force Order No. 33/2017 — Prior Permission for Civil Post — Mandatory Nature — Requirement of seeking prior permission before applying for a civil post, and subsequent grant of NOC, held mandatory and not merely procedural/directory, since AFO 33/2017 has necessary nexus with regulating premature discharge of Airmen and its object of maintaining India Law Library Docid # 2448282
(18) MARAGADHAM Vs. PERIYARAJA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 15(1)(a) — Devolution of Female Intestate's Property — Properties of a Hindu female dying intestate devolve, in the absence of sons/daughters' issue predeceasing her, upon her husband and daughter in equal shares under Section 15(1)(a); such undivided share in the husband's hands does not partake the character of coparcenary property. India Law Library Docid # 2448283
(19) AMARJIT SINGH Vs. AIIMS AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 29-07-2026 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Section 25-B — Proof of 240 Days' Continuous Service — Burden and Evidentiary Onus — Legal burden of establishing 240 days' continuous service rests throughout on the workman, but where he lays the foundational factual basis through cogent evidence and calls upon the employer to produce employment India Law Library Docid # 2448284
(20) SHAH NAWAZ Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 29-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 232 — Non-compliance — Effect — Non-compliance with the mandatory hearing under Section 232 Cr.P.C. after questioning the accused under Section 313(1)(b) does not ipso facto vitiate the trial unless the accused demonstrates serious and substantial prejudice resulting therefrom. India Law Library Docid # 2448285