(1) 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
(2) 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
(3) 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
(4) 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
(5) 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
(6) 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
(7) 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
(8) 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
(9) 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
(10) NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS IN MEDICAL SCIENCES Vs. DR. ADITI PANWAR AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 29-07-2026 Reservation — Educational admissions — General category candidate cannot claim reserved seat — A candidate belonging to the general/unreserved category cannot stake a claim against a seat reserved for a particular category. The converse, however, is permissible, and a reserved-category candidate may compete against permissible other categories, being India Law Library Docid # 2448286
(11) SANDEEP GOEL Vs. JUGAL KISHOR TOSHNIWAL[DELHI HIGH COURT] 29-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rule 1 — Commercial suits — Filing of written statement beyond 30 days — Requirement of satisfactory explanation — A defendant in a commercial suit must file the written statement within 30 days of service of summons; extension up to the outer limit of 120 days may be granted only for reasons recorded in writing. Filing within 120 days does not India Law Library Docid # 2448287
(12) VANASHAKTI Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-07-2026 Environment Law — Environmental Clearance — Prior clearance — Mandatory character — Prior environmental clearance under EIA Notification, 2006 is mandatory, being founded on the precautionary principle and couched in imperative terms — Word "prior" and the graded four-stage screening, scoping, India Law Library Docid # 2448300
(13) KHALIL PASHA AND OTHERS Vs. ABDUL RASHEED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 401(4), 372 proviso, 378 — Revision at instance of victim against acquittal — Maintainability — After insertion of proviso to S. 372 by Act 5 of 2009 conferring victim a statutory right of appeal against acquittal without need for special leave, no revision is maintainable at victim's instance where such appellate remedy is available — Section 401(4) bars revision India Law Library Docid # 2448195
(14) MUMBAI PORT AUTHORITY Vs. NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR SCHEDULED CASTE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 338(5)(b), (8) — National Commission for Scheduled Castes — Nature of powers — NCSC's power to inquire into deprivation of "rights and safeguards" of Scheduled Castes is recommendatory/advisory and not adjudicatory — Civil court powers under clause (8) (summoning witnesses, India Law Library Docid # 2448196
(15) STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS Vs. ZAFAR ALI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2026 U.P. Excise (Settlement of Licences for Retail Sale of Country Liquor) Rules, 2002 — Rules 14, 15 — Minimum Guaranteed Quota (MGQ) — Annual vs monthly compliance — Where a licensee has lifted the entire annual MGQ, penalty cannot be levied for isolated monthly shortfall by ignoring the "credit balance" of licence fee earned through excess lifting in prior months — Definition of "licence fee" under R.2(m), being equal to duty on annual MGQ, does not support demand based solely India Law Library Docid # 2448197
(16) AKEEL AZHAR @ RINKU Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 376(2), 323, 506(1); POCSO Act, 2012 — Section 6 — Sole testimony of child victim — Corroboration — Conviction for aggravated penetrative sexual assault upheld on the consistent, cogent testimony of the child victims, corroborated by medical evidence — Non-support by the youngest child witness does not dilute the credibility of the other victims — Sole testimony of prosecutrix, if trustworthy, suffices for conviction; India Law Library Docid # 2448210
(17) THE NEW INDIA ASSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. ATIKURRAHAMAN LAIS MOHAMMAD AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 28-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 147 — "Use of the motor vehicle" — Meaning — Phrase not restricted to a vehicle in motion but includes passive use for purposes connected with its movement — Repairs are an integral part of a vehicle's movement from one place to another — A vehicle stationed at a workshop/garage for repair is a vehicle "in use" — Restrictive interpretation of "use" impermissible while India Law Library Docid # 2448305
(18) NAHAR BUILDERS LTD. (FORMERLY KNOWN AS M/S. NAHAR ENTERPRISES) AND OTHERS Vs. ORCHID ENCLAVE CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY LTD. AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 28-07-2026 Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act, 1963 — Deemed Conveyance — Effect of consent decree — Jurisdiction of Competent Authority under Section 11(3) — Mere execution of consent terms/consent decree between promoter and flat purchasers' society does not divest the Competent Authority of jurisdiction under Section 11(3) of MOFA to grant unilateral deemed conveyance. Occurrence of "failure" by the India Law Library Docid # 2448306
(19) M/S. JASRAJ RESTAURANTS PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 28-07-2026 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI) — Sections 13(4) and 14 — Locus standi of auction purchaser to file writ petition for possession — Auction purchaser, having deposited entire consideration and obtained registered sale certificate, held entitled to invoke writ jurisdiction seeking implementation of Magistrate's order under S.14, notwithstanding objection that only secured creditor can maintain such petition — India Law Library Docid # 2448307
(20) SALMAN ABDUL LATIF MADAR Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 28-07-2026 Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 — Section 15 — Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 — Section 48(9) — Minor minerals — Whether Gitti, Metal Stone, Grit Powder constitute minor mineral "stone" — Held, "stone" as notified minor mineral is wide enough to include Gitti, Metal Stone and Grit Powder produced by crushing stone boulders, crushing thereof not creating a new India Law Library Docid # 2448308