(881) 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
(882) 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
(883) 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
(884) 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
(885) 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
(886) 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
(887) 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
(888) 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
(889) 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
(890) MEENU MALHOTRA Vs. JASBIR SINGH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of plaint — Application for amendment moved at initial stage after filing of written statement — Trial Court erred by dismissing application as belated India Law Library Docid # 2447210
(891) IMTIYAZ AHMAD BHAT Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Habeas Corpus — Preventive Detention — Petitioner sought release from preventive detention under the J&K Public Safety Act, 1978. The Court examined the grounds of detention and procedural safeguards. India Law Library Docid # 2447287
(892) JAYASURYA Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Appeal against dismissal of bail petition by Special Court for SC/ST (POA) Act — Appellant was already in jail for another case during the registration of the current FIR and his arrest — Despite conflicting claims regarding his presence and involvement, the period of incarceration already undergone by the appellant is a significant factor for considering bail. India Law Library Docid # 2447402
(893) PERIYAMMAL Vs. SUNDARAM AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Speedy Disposal of Suit — Senior Citizen Plaintiff — Court directed early disposal of a partition suit due to the plaintiff being a senior citizen, aged 75 years, and the suit pending for several years. India Law Library Docid # 2447403
(894) AMSAVALLI AND OTHERS Vs. SELVI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 8 — Property inherited by a son from his father after 1956 as a Class I heir does not become coparcenary property in relation to his children and he becomes the absolute owner with full power of alienation. India Law Library Docid # 2447404
(895) OM PRAKASH BARWADIYA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail Cancellation — Grounds for cancellation of bail are limited to misuse of liberty, supervening circumstances, or patent illegality/perversity in the original bail order — A mere possibility of another view on merits is insufficient. India Law Library Docid # 2447685
(896) SURYA PRATAP SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Service Law — Suspension — Extended duration — Uttarakhand Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 2003, R. 4 — Petitioner, a probationer, placed under suspension following his arrest in connection with a paper-leak FIR in which he was not originally named but later implicated post-investigation — Following Ajay Kumar Choudhary v. Union of India, (2015) 7 SCC 291, suspension ordinarily should not extend beyond three months absent service India Law Library Docid # 2447965
(897) MONU ALIAS GUFRAN Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Trial — Hostile witnesses — Unproved recovery — Failure of prosecution to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt — Section 302/34 IPC — Conviction for murder of a minor girl rested on alleged eyewitness account and recovery of knife/chunni from a third party's house at appellant's instance — Held, all material witnesses of fact, including informant-father, mother, uncle (recovery witness), and sister, turned hostile and did not support the prosecution case; informant categorically denied r India Law Library Docid # 2447967
(898) KRISHAN KANT ANAND Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Direction for registration of FIR — Availability of alternate statutory remedy — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S. 175(3) — Petitioner sought mandamus directing registration of FIR alleging attempt to murder by poisoning, without having approached the jurisdictional Magistrate under S. 175(3) BNSS (equivalent to S. 156(3) Cr.P.C.) — Held, where an efficacious statutory remedy exists for seeking registration of FIR, the extraordinary writ jur India Law Library Docid # 2447968
(899) DEVENDRA SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 31 — Sentences for multiple offences at one trial — Silence regarding concurrent or consecutive running — Effect — Petitioner convicted under Ss. 498-A, 304-B, 120-B IPC, with sentences confirmed up to the Supreme Court, but neither the High Court's appellate judgment nor the Supreme Court's order specified whether sentences were to run concurrently or consecutively — Held, S. 31 Cr.P.C. casts an India Law Library Docid # 2447969
(900) VENKATESH T Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 01-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Regular bail — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 7(a) — Trap case where bribe amount recovered from scooter of one accused, allegation of demand only against him and not co-accused — Accused, police officers with no criminal antecedents, having cooperated with investigation, major portion of which stood completed, save FSL report — No violation of interim bail conditions earlier granted — Regular bail granted subject to conditions, conside India Law Library Docid # 2447996