(1) SAMEEM BEGUM AND OTHERS Vs. K. VENKAT SWAMY AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166(1)(c) — Claim for compensation — Maintainability of claim by legal representatives — Expression "legal representative" includes major children irrespective of complete financial dependency — Liability to pay compensation does not cease due to absence of dependency — Legal representatives entitled to maintain claim petition and seek compensation under conventional heads. India Law Library Docid # 2449020
(2) SHEELA GEHLOT AND OTHERS Vs. MOHINI HARDAYAL SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 60(1)(ccc) (as applicable to Delhi) — Exemption from attachment and sale — Main residential house — Protection under Section 60(1)(ccc) CPC is personal to the judgment-debtor and is not available to his legal representatives — Legal representative is a distinct juridical concept from judgment-debtor, with liability limited to the estate in hand, and cannot claim personal India Law Library Docid # 2449021
(3) RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED Vs. NTPC LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 60 — Admissibility of oral evidence in respect of excluded documents — Parties cannot be permitted to adduce oral evidence regarding contents of internal communications/documents that have already been held irrelevant and excluded from record — Where previous orders excluding internal documents have attained finality, adducing oral evidence to depose India Law Library Docid # 2449022
(4) AUDI AUTOMOBILES AND OTHERS Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX, INDORE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 35L — Maintainability of appeal before Supreme Court — Preliminary objection raised by Department that appeal does not come under Section 35L as issue had no relation to rate of duty or valuation — Held, issue raised regarding extended period of limitation on ground of non-inclusion of certain costs in assessable value has an inextricable link with valuation of goods for purposes of assessment — Issue raised in show cause notice fundamentally dealt with valuati India Law Library Docid # 2448945
(5) SHIVAPPA Vs. SHANTAVVA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 41 Rules 23 and 24 — Power of Appellate Court to remand — Remand of case to Trial Court for framing of additional issues and fresh evidence — Permissibility — High Court remitted suit regarding one item of property for framing issues on whether sale deed was sham, limitation, and possession — Held, India Law Library Docid # 2448946
(6) NAZIM SHAIKH HASAN Vs. NASIR MUSHTAQ SHAIKH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 111(e) & (f) — Landlord and Tenant — Determination of lease by express or implied surrender — Execution of agreement to sell by landlord in favour of tenant — Effect on jural relationship — Held, mere execution of an agreement to sell between landlord and tenant does not ipso facto determine the subsisting India Law Library Docid # 2448947
(7) BALKU ORAM Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 read with 34 — Murder — Witch-hunting — Sole eyewitness testimony — Corroboration — Appellant along with co-accused dragged deceased out of her house on allegation of practicing witchcraft and brutally assaulted her with lathis, causing her death — Incident witnessed by 15-year-old daughter of deceased (P.W.3) — Reliability of sole witness — Held, direct ocular evidence India Law Library Docid # 2448948
(8) PAZHANATHAL (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. ALAMATHAL (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Succession Act, 1925 — Section 63(c) — Evidence Act, 1872 — Sections 68 and 69 — Proof of execution and attestation of Will — Invocation of Section 69 — Mandatory conditions — Propounder must first establish that no attesting witness can be found or is available before invoking Section 69 — Failure to lead cogent evidence India Law Library Docid # 2449023
(9) TAHER VAJIYUDDIN RANGWALA AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302, 201 read with Section 120B — Circumstantial evidence — Failure to prove homicidal death — Medical evidence leaning towards accidental drowning — Reversal of conviction — The prosecution alleged that the appellants murdered their friend by hitting him with a broken soda bottle and drowning him in a river, relying on circumstantial evidence including last seen together theory, India Law Library Docid # 2449024
(10) MAGEBA BRIDGE PRODUCTS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. M/S. TRADE CENTRE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Partnership Act, 1932 — Section 69(2) — Proof of registration of firm — Memorandum of Registration — Held, a Memorandum issued by the Registrar of Firms acknowledging receipt and recording the registration number and date of registration of a firm constitutes sufficient proof of registration for purposes of S. 69(2), and is further corroborated by a certified copy of Form-VIII of the Registrar of India Law Library Docid # 2448918
(11) DINESH KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Circumstantial evidence — Chain of circumstances — Last-seen, recent unexplained possession, and recovery of deceased's articles — Held, conviction based on circumstantial evidence can be sustained only when each circumstance is firmly proved, forms a complete chain, and is consistent solely with guilt — The circumstance of last-seen, though insufficient by itself, was materially India Law Library Docid # 2448919
(12) RASPELLI BHAGYA KISHAIYA AND OTHERS Vs. GENERAL MANAGER, WESTERN COALFIELDS LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 National Coal Wage Agreement-VI — Cl. 9.3.4 — Compassionate appointment — Determination of relevant date for reckoning upper age limit of 35 years — Held, in the absence of any express stipulation in Cl. 9.3.4 fixing the cut-off date, age eligibility for compassionate appointment cannot be reckoned with reference to the date on which the application is ultimately taken up for consideration by the employer — Where the dependent was within the prescribed age limit on the India Law Library Docid # 2448920
(13) UNION OF INDIA Vs. SUNIL BIYANI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Interim relief on dismissal of writ petition — Whether High Court can grant protection against arrest while dismissing petition as not maintainable — Held, an interim relief can only be granted in aid of and ancillary to the main relief; once a court finds no merit in the main challenge and dismisses the petition, the question of granting further relief, India Law Library Docid # 2448921
(14) KARNATAKA POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LIMITED Vs. REKHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition involving disputed questions of fact — Electrocution claims — Held, where a claim for compensation on account of electrocution involves disputed questions of fact, a writ petition under Article 226 is not the proper remedy — the High Court ought to have relegated the writ petitioners to the civil court instead of proceeding to India Law Library Docid # 2448922
(15) PARAG KISHORE SATOSKAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 318(4) — Cheating — Dishonest intention must exist at inception — Mere breach of commercial contract insufficient — Held, mere breach of contract cannot give rise to criminal prosecution for cheating unless fraudulent or dishonest intention is shown right from inception of the transaction — A promise as to future performance becomes deception only if India Law Library Docid # 2448923
(16) R.K. YADAV AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 16 — Pay fixation — Scope of judicial review — Held, pay fixation is essentially an executive function and equation of posts and salaries is a complex matter best left to expert bodies; courts are not suited to evaluate the justifiability of differentiation in pay scales on affidavits and pleadings, and will not interfere unless mala fides or apparent anomaly is India Law Library Docid # 2448924
(17) SHRUTI MANAV SHARMA AND ANOTHER Vs. SUNANINA SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1(r) — Scope of appellate interference with discretionary orders — An appellate court exercising jurisdiction under Order XLIII Rule 1(r) does not undertake a fresh reconsideration of the entire matter, nor substitute its own view merely because it might have reached a different conclusion on the same material — interference India Law Library Docid # 2448925
(18) BASSANNA SINCE DECEASED BY LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. BHIMANNA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 and Order 41 Rule 1 — Maintainability of composite appeal against common judgment in two suits by same plaintiff — A composite appeal filed under Section 96 challenging a common judgment rendered in two suits filed by the same plaintiff, where the suits were clubbed and tried together with common evidence, certified copies of India Law Library Docid # 2448926
(19) SRINIVASA REDDY VELAGALA Vs. SRAVANTHI INFRATECH PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 3(12), 5(21), 9 and 238A — Termination vs. frustration of contract — Effluxion of time and frustration are distinct concepts — an EPC contract does not terminate merely because the timeline lapses, nor is it "frustrated" by delay caused by a party's own default — Frustration under S. 56, Contract Act requires an unforeseen supervening India Law Library Docid # 2448928
(20) PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK Vs. M/S. SHREE JYOTI EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT TRUST WORLD AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 — Section 2(g) — "Debt" — Includes interest — Held, "debt" under S. 2(g) includes any liability, inclusive of interest, claimed as due by a bank or financial institution from a person — The interest component maintained in a separate suspense account by a bank, subsequent to classification of a loan account as a non-performing asset, forms part of the debt India Law Library Docid # 2448915