(1) DR. LOKESH B.H. AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 498A — Applicability to "Live-In Relationships" / "Relationships in the Nature of Marriage" — Purposive Interpretation — Scope of the term "Husband" — Criminal liability for domestic cruelty — The term "husband" occurring in Section 498A IPC is not restricted strictly to a man in a legally solemnized or valid marriage — Keeping in view the social and reformative India Law Library Docid # 2448450
(2) GAYATREE PATTNAIK FOR SHREEJITA PATTNAIK Vs. ARUNDHATI SAHOO AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Child victims — Special category — Claims involving children suffering catastrophic permanent disability form a distinct category; compensation cannot be confined to conventional heads but must account for lifelong deprivation, future care, loss of amenities, marriage prospects and destruction of quality of life. India Law Library Docid # 2448451
(3) SURAJ BHAN AND OTHERS Vs. ASHVARYA ESTATE PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026 Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1953 and Haryana Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 — Section 2(g)(1) — Vesting of shamilat deh — Effect of — On promulgation of 1953 Act, all land classified as shamilat deh vested absolutely in gram panchayats without exception, extinguishing pre-existing proprietary rights — No notice or hearing to proprietors was required before India Law Library Docid # 2448452
(4) NIRMALA BAI DEVIDAS CHAVHAN Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-08-2026 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302 r/w S. 149 — Identical/stereotyped ocular testimony — Effect on conviction based on unlawful assembly — Where six witnesses to a sudden, violent group assault gave testimony correspondingly identical as to the name of every assailant, the weapon carried by each, the victim held by each and the precise body part struck, such completeness of correspondence bears the India Law Library Docid # 2448453
(5) MCNALLY BHARAT ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED Vs. METSO INDIA PVT. LTD[DELHI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 31 — Effect of approved resolution plan — Extinguishment of unclaimed claims — Once a resolution plan is approved by the Adjudicating Authority, it binds the corporate debtor and all creditors; claims not submitted to and incorporated in the plan stand extinguished and cannot thereafter be initiated, continued, or revived, on the "clean slate" principle. India Law Library Docid # 2448487
(6) SANJAY DUBEY Vs. NANDLAL[DELHI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 114 r/w Order 47 Rule 1 — Error apparent on the face of the record — Scope of review — A review does not permit rehearing of the appeal or re-appreciation of evidence, but is confined to correction of errors apparent on the face of the record, non-consideration of binding precedents, and omission to consider material submissions and statutory provisions; India Law Library Docid # 2448488
(7) SUDHIR KAWATRA Vs. SHAMLI KAWATRA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Public Provident Fund Act, 1968 — Section 10 — Bar under Act does not extend to civil recovery suit by beneficiary — The statutory immunity under Section 10 of the PPF Act, protecting acts done in good faith under the Act or Scheme, does not bar a suit by the beneficiary of a matured PPF account seeking recovery of the withdrawn corpus from the guardian who diverted it to his own use, India Law Library Docid # 2448489
(8) SHRI NARESH BALYAN Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 03-08-2026 Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (as extended to NCT of Delhi) — Section 2(1)(d) — "More than one chargesheet in preceding ten years" is syndicate-centric, not individual-centric — The requirement of more than one chargesheet in the preceding ten years for invoking MCOCA relates to the continuing unlawful activity of the organised crime syndicate as a whole, not to the individual accused; an accused's role must be assessed from a wider angle as to whether he acted India Law Library Docid # 2448490
(9) 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
(10) 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
(11) MAHENDRA SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 299 — Evidence recorded against absconding accused — Use in subsequent trial — S. 299(1) contains two distinct parts: first, proof of jurisdictional facts (accused absconding and no immediate prospect of arrest) enabling recording of witness evidence in the accused's absence; second, the conditions under which such evidence may be used against the India Law Library Docid # 2448335
(12) V.N.A.S. CHANDRAN Vs. S. VENILA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 20 — Specific performance — Discretionary and equitable relief — Clean hands — Grant of specific performance is discretionary, not automatic even where a valid contract subsists; a plaintiff must approach the Court with clean hands. Where the plaintiff's spouse lodged a criminal complaint seeking recovery of the advance paid, alleging the vendor fraudulently suppressed a India Law Library Docid # 2448336
(13) HIMANSHU CHORDIA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125(4) — Bar of adultery — Effect on interim maintenance — Stage of adjudication — The bar under S. 125(4) applies equally to interim and final maintenance; if a S. 125(4) application demonstrates adultery ex facie or the fact is admitted, interim maintenance stops forthwith. Where proof requires evidence to be led in accordance with law, interim India Law Library Docid # 2448337
(14) NISHA Vs. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL SANGRUR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Maintainability of writ petition — Disputed questions of fact — Effect of long pendency — Where a writ petition seeking compensation had remained pending for over a decade and a half before being dismissed on the ground of "disputed questions of fact," relegating the claimant to a fresh remedy before the Civil Court after such efflux of time would render the claimant remediless — On this short ground alone, interference with the impugned India Law Library Docid # 2448338
(15) TEHRI HYDRO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. Vs. S.P. SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Court Fees Act, 1870 — Section 8 — Appeal against statutory benefits under Land Acquisition Act — Whether attracts ad valorem court fee — Appeal under Section 54, Land Acquisition Act, 1894 challenging grant of additional amount under Section 23(1-A), solatium under Section 23(2) and statutory interest under Section 28, without disputing market value — Held, such statutory benefits are integral and inseparable India Law Library Docid # 2448339
(16) G. SAMINATHAN AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE, REPRESENTED BY THE SUB-INSPECTOR OF POLICE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 405 and 406 — Criminal Breach of Trust — Entrustment — Refundable security deposit paid under Joint Development Agreement (JDA) — Held, mere payment of refundable security deposit as consideration for GPA does not amount to "entrustment" of property — FIR and chargesheet silent on manner of misappropriation/conversion — Bald, omnibus allegation of dishonest India Law Library Docid # 2448340
(17) M/S SHAKUN & COMPANY (SERVICES) PRIVATE LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. SH. ASHOK DUGGAL[DELHI HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Surrender of tenancy — Handing over possession to one of several co-owner landlords — Tenant Company claimed to have validly vacated premises by handing over keys to Defendant No. 2, who was simultaneously a Director of the tenant Company and a co-owner landlord — Held, such handing over, in the peculiar facts, did not constitute valid surrender to both co India Law Library Docid # 2448358
(18) RAJINDER KUMAR Vs. SEWA RAM (SINCE DECEASED) THR HIS LRS AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Proof of disputed documents — Mere exhibiting insufficient — Marking of a document as an exhibit during trial does not dispense with the requirement of proving its execution in accordance with law — A disputed Ikrarnama/MoU containing signatures of attesting witnesses, none of whom were examined, and whose executant could not recall attestation, registration, or stamp India Law Library Docid # 2448359
(19) PAYAL AGARWAL AND ANOTHER Vs. SAWARMAL AGARWAL AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Hindu Succession — Partition Suit — Preliminary Decree — Grant of, where uncontested — Petitioners (widow and daughter of deceased) sought preliminary decree for partition of immoveable properties and shares in family companies as per their entitlement upon intestate death of the propositus. Defendant Nos. 1 to 4 neither contested the suit nor filed any written statement denying petitioners' rights. Held, in absence of any denial by principal contesting parties, and petitioners having India Law Library Docid # 2448360
(20) POULAMI TARAFDAR (SAHA) Vs. DIBESH SAHA[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance to child — Direction to keep amount in fixed deposit instead of monthly maintenance — Impermissibility of — Trial Magistrate, instead of granting monthly maintenance to the minor child, directed the husband to keep Rs.11,00,000 as fixed deposit in the child's name with the wife as nominee — Held, a fixed deposit securing future interest India Law Library Docid # 2448361