(1) POOJA RAMESH SINGH Vs. JAMMU AND KASHMIR BANK LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 7 and 14 — Corporate guarantee — Effect of demerger/amalgamation of corporate debtor — NCLT admission order under S. 7 relying on six judicial precedents to reject corporate guarantor's plea that liability stood extinguished on demerger/amalgamation — NCLAT dismissing appeal and reproducing the same precedents — On independent India Law Library Docid # 2447196
(2) RAJ PAL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302, 498-A r/w S. 34 — Dowry death/cruelty and murder — Reliance on dying declarations — Multiple, inconsistent dying declarations of deceased wife — Sustainability of conviction — Deceased sustained 100% burn injuries and gave three different accounts of the occurrence: (i) to hospital staff, recorded in the MLC, that she was burnt accidentally while cooking; (ii) orally to a visiting relative, that she was set afire by a named sister-in-law with India Law Library Docid # 2447229
(3) SALEEM @ KALUA Vs. THE STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 161 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 432, 433, 433-A — Premature release/remission policies — Haryana Policy dated 12.4.2002 and Policy dated 13.8.2008 — Question whether 2002 Policy traceable to Art. 161 or to Ss. 432/433 CrPC — Held, 2002 Policy, being in pari materia with the 1993 Policy (already held to be an exercise of the India Law Library Docid # 2447230
(4) INDIACAN EDUCATION PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Territorial jurisdiction of Court — Arbitration Clause silent on seat/venue — Held, where the arbitration clause does not specify the seat, venue or place of arbitration, territorial jurisdiction of the Court under S. 11 is to be determined by recourse India Law Library Docid # 2447231
(5) PRADEEP SHARMA Vs. THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Regular Bail — Forgery of Will, rent receipts and lease documents to grab immovable property — Accused sons of deceased priest allegedly forging Will of original owner and rent receipts of tenants to claim ownership/mutation of temple property and evict tenants — Contention that India Law Library Docid # 2447232
(6) KARAN CHOPRA Vs. STATE AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 02-07-2026 Transnational child custody — Maintainability — Petition seeking production and repatriation of minor child retained in India in defiance of foreign court's order — Objection that petition amounts to seeking enforcement of a foreign decree under garb of habeas corpus — Held, petition under Art. 226 for habeas corpus concerning a minor is not rendered non-maintainable merely because its factual backdrop overlaps with consequences flowing from a foreign court's order — Writ court's jurisdiction to India Law Library Docid # 2447233
(7) PARVEEN KUMAR @ PARVEEN CHAUHAN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Remission — Premature release of life convicts — Applicable policy — Conflict between Haryana's 2002 Policy (dated 12.4.2002) and 2008 Policy (dated 13.8.2008) — Source of power — Held, the 2002 Policy, being in substance and effect referable to Article 161 of the Constitution of India (papers to be routed to the Governor for orders), is constitutional in origin, notwithstanding that it does not expressly recite the India Law Library Docid # 2447197
(8) SHAURYA SUNIL KUMAR SINGH Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 187(3) — Default bail — Non-filing of additional copies of charge-sheet under S.193(8) BNSS for supply to accused — Whether entitles accused to default bail — Held, no — The right to default bail under Section 187(3) BNSS (corresponding to Section 167(2) CrPC) is a conditional right that subsists only during the pendency of investigation and stands extinguished the moment a police report/charge-sheet, in compliance with the form India Law Library Docid # 2447198
(9) CHANDRIKABEN KISHOR DAFDA Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 — Gujarat Municipalities (Conduct of Elections) Rules, 1994 — Rule 7A(1) — Election affidavit — Non-disclosure of immovable property — Construction of Rule requiring disclosure of assets of "myself, my spouse and dependents" — Held, the comma after "myself" is a mere listing comma and does not create any distinction or exclusion — the word "of" governs all three categories India Law Library Docid # 2447199
(10) SHOBHA VASANT BHOIR AND OTHERS Vs. SONI @ VANDANA GURUMUKHDAS JAGIASI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(d) — Rejection of plaint — Suit barred by limitation — Suit for specific performance filed 38 years after an unregistered agreement to sell, seeking to enforce it — Held, plaint liable to be rejected — On a complete reading of the plaint, its foundation was the agreement to sell dated 21.08.1984, and no explanation was forthcoming for the respondents' India Law Library Docid # 2447200
(11) KRISHNA KUMAR OJHA AND OTHERS Vs. JITENDRA CHAUDHARY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 23 Rule 3 — Compromise decree — Requirement of signature/voluntary authorisation — Compromise petition in a partition suit signed on behalf of defendant not personally but through counsel, absent express authorisation or exigent circumstance — Held, invalid — A compromise, to be lawful under Order XXIII Rule 3, must be in writing and signed by the parties India Law Library Docid # 2447201
(12) RASHMIREKHA TRIPATHY AND ANOTHER Vs. THE BRANCH MANAGER (LEGAL CLAIMS), SRIRAM GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166, 168 — Compensation — Assessment of annual income of deceased/claimant on the basis of Income Tax Returns — Whether the ITR of the previous year alone, or the average of the previous two/three years, is to be taken — Held, no hard and fast formula governs computation of annual income; ITRs, being statutory documents, are an important reference point, but a bifurcation must be made between salaried and self-employed individuals — (i) For India Law Library Docid # 2447202
(13) RAJANI AND OTHERS Vs. MUKESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166, 168 — Compensation — Assessment of annual income of a self-employed deceased (Insurance Agent) from Income Tax Returns — High Court had averaged the last four ITRs on record — Held, erroneous — Following the principles laid down in Rashmirekha Tripathy and Anr. v. The India Law Library Docid # 2447204
(14) SMT. REKHA AND OTHERS Vs. DINESH PORWAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections166, 168 — Compensation — Assessment of annual income of a self-employed deceased (wholesale grocery business) — Two ITRs filed after the death of the deceased excluded by the High Court altogether from the assessment of income — Held, following the principles in Rashmirekha Tripathy India Law Library Docid # 2447205
(15) NEERAJ GUPTA Vs. PARDEEP KUMAR BANSAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 209, 244 — Commitment of case exclusively triable by Court of Session — Whether Magistrate is required to record prosecution evidence under Section 244 CrPC before committing such a case, where the complaint is one instituted otherwise than on a police report — Held, no — Section 244 CrPC, which mandates the Magistrate to hear the prosecution and take India Law Library Docid # 2447203
(16) PRAN NATH ARORA Vs. SATISH KUMAR ARORA (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Section 151 — Revisional powers of High Court — Rejection of application to examine handwriting expert — Trial Court rejected application of defendant to examine handwriting expert to compare disputed and standard signatures of plaintiff — High Court, in revision, set aside the trial court's order — High Court held that the expert should be allowed to examine the documents to determine if India Law Library Docid # 2447211
(17) DALBIR Vs. M/S CLOUD BUILD CON PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 — Ad interim injunction — Suit for permanent injunction — Plaintiff sought to restrain defendants from changing nature of suit land and alienating it without partition — Both lower courts dismissed application for injunction — High Court found no perversity in concurrent findings of lower courts. India Law Library Docid # 2447212
(18) TARA CHAND (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. RAMESHWAR (DECEASED) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Sections 14(1), 15 — Property of deceased woman — Limited interest converted to absolute estate upon her death — Smt — Bohti, widow of Deepa, inherited property from her husband — Initially she may have held limited interest, but under Section 14(1) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, her interest became absolute, granting her full ownership — Upon her death without issue, succession would India Law Library Docid # 2447213
(19) KRISHAN DASS AND OTHERS Vs. SWARAN KAUR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Adverse Possession — Claim for ownership based on adverse possession requires clear and cogent evidence of possession that is open, continuous, hostile, and with the animus possidendi (intention to dispossess the true owner) — Mere long occupation is insufficient; the possessor must demonstrate overt acts asserting a hostile title against the true owner — Previous possession described as permissive or based on a compromise India Law Library Docid # 2447214
(20) GIRWAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Land Reforms — Inclusion of Banjar Qadim Land in Surplus Area — Land recorded as banjar qadim (uncultivated for a long period) from 1956-57 onwards could not legally be included in a landowner's holding for the purpose of determining surplus area — Such inclusion is a jurisdictional defect that renders the order void ab initio and cannot be India Law Library Docid # 2447215