(261) BALESH KUMAR KURAITI Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Section 6 (pre and post-2019 Amendment) — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 20(1) — Retrospective application of enhanced criminal punishment — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a 3-year-old victim — Incident occurred prior to 2019 Amendment to POCSO India Law Library Docid # 2448949
(262) KASHMIR RAM @ PAPPI Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) — Section 42 — Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant — Non-reduction of secret information into writing prior to search — Substantial compliance — Information received by empowered officer while on patrol/move regarding illicit contraband in a transit vehicle — Immediate action required — Officer dispatched ruqa to police station for FIR registration prior to search and orally informed superior officer who arrived India Law Library Docid # 2448950
(263) 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
(264) M/S. CARESTREAM HEALTH INDIA PVT. LTD. Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Customs Tariff Act, 1975 — Chapter 90, Note 2 — Classification of accessories — Rule 2(b) vis-a-vis Rule 2(c) — Held, Note 2(b) to Chapter 90 applies only to parts/accessories suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine, or with machines falling under the same tariff heading; where an accessory is compatible with machines falling under different tariff headings, Rule 2(b) is inapplicable and the accessory must be classified under residuary CTH 9033 00 00 as India Law Library Docid # 2448916
(265) LAHRA BAI TAMRE AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Custodial Death — Compensation in public law — Inadequate quantification by High Court — Held, compensation awarded in public law under Article 226 for violation of fundamental rights is in the nature of exemplary damages against the wrongdoer, independent of remedies in tort or prosecution under penal law — Where the High India Law Library Docid # 2448917
(266) MOHIT SINGH Vs. STATE OF U.P.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 323 and 504 — Murder — Grant of regular bail — Appellant arraigned for allegedly instigating an unlawful group to assault the deceased — Informant (PW-1) deposed that another individual struck the fatal lathi blow on the head, yet prosecution did not chargesheet that person — Appellant in custody since November 2023 with chargesheet filed citing thirty-three witnesses — Apprehension of influencing witnesses can India Law Library Docid # 2451748
(267) ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Service Conditions of District Judiciary — Administration of Justice — Tagging of matters — Multiple petitions concerning recruitment, service conditions, pay scales, and pensions of district judiciary judicial officers pending on a pan-India basis — Overlapping issues — Supreme Court directed tagging of W.P.(C) No. 1022/1989 and W.P.(C) No. 643/2015, treating W.P.(C) No. 1022/1989 as the main case — Amici Curiae directed to prepare a common note categorising pending applications and connected m India Law Library Docid # 2451750
(268) SURAJ Vs. STATE GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 106 — Burden of proving fact especially within knowledge — Recovery of dead body — Appellant contended Section 106 could not be invoked as he was not a resident of the house where the bodies were recovered — Held, applicability of Section 106 is not contingent on whether the place of occurrence belongs to or is inhabited by the accused — Since the deceased was last seen fleeing after being assaulted by the appellant and his body was recovered from the same house shor India Law Library Docid # 2451762
(269) K KAMALA ANANTH AND ANOTHER Vs. B.N.LALITHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Partition Suit — Division based on pleadings and compromise — In a partition suit between sisters concerning Bangalore and Anantapur properties, High Court allocated Anantapur property to plaintiff-aunt and Bangalore property to legal heirs of defendant-mother pursuant to a compromise — Appellant challenged the decree — Held, division of properties between the branches was final and valid — Allocation matched the written statement filed on behalf of defendant-m India Law Library Docid # 2451737
(270) SHATRUGHN YADAV Vs. THE FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS TRAVANCORE LTD. (F.A.C.T.) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Service Law — Termination — Suppression of criminal antecedents in verification form — Writ jurisdiction — Maintainability — Held, existence of alternative remedy under Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 does not operate as absolute bar to writ jurisdiction, particularly where challenge is to legality of termination order itself — High Court's finding that disputed questions of fact rendered writ petition India Law Library Docid # 2448883
(271) BASUDEV AND OTHERS Vs. SANJAY KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rules 6A to 6D and Section 96 — Suit and counterclaim disposed of by common judgment — Maintainability of composite appeal — Held, a suit and counterclaim, when adjudicated by a single common judgment, can be challenged by a composite appeal — Rule 6A treats counterclaim as cross-suit facilitating a common judgment — Rule 6C's exclusion of India Law Library Docid # 2448884
(272) SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA Vs. RAJEEV VASANT SHETH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Section 12A(d)(e) and 15G — Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 — Regulation 4(1) — Insider trading — Trading while in possession of UPSI — Purpose of proceeds irrelevant — Held, once it is established that a person traded while in possession of unpublished price sensitive India Law Library Docid # 2448885
(273) NATIONAL PROJECTS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION LTD. Vs. ISHVAKOO (INDIA) PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 9 — Maintainability of post-award application by unsuccessful party (Award Debtor) — Held, a Section 9 application filed post-award by a party that has lost in arbitration is maintainable — denying such relief would leave an unsuccessful party remediless where the challenge under Section 34 is pending, since Sections 34 and 36 provide no protective remedy for a losing party — however, the threshold for grant of interim relief is higher for an India Law Library Docid # 2448886
(274) RAHUL Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of proceedings — Dowry death — Plea of alibi supported by unimpeachable official record — Held, Where the accused places on record an official, contemporaneous service certificate issued by an Armed Forces unit, never disputed as to authenticity or issuing authority, and never impugned by the prosecution at any stage, such material India Law Library Docid # 2448887
(275) JUPUDI SURESH Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Evidence Act, 1872 — Dying declaration — Reliability — Two dying declarations recorded on same day by different persons but overlapping in timing, one showing recording time inconsistent with FIR registered over 15 hours later — Medical evidence indicating credible statement possible only where burns between 80-90%, whereas victim suffered 96% burns — Motive stated differing between the two declarations — Held, dying declarations rendered suspicious and unsafe to found India Law Library Docid # 2448881
(276) SUDHIR AND OTHERS Vs. HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCE, DAINIK BHASKAR GROUP (D.B. CORP. LTD.) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 — Section 17(2) — No power of delegation to refer disputes to Labour Court — Section 17(2) does not empower the State Government to delegate its power to refer a dispute as to the amount due to a newspaper employee to any authority — unlike Section 17(1), which India Law Library Docid # 2448927
(277) LILLY GOYAL Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 195(1)(a) read with Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 182 — Cognizance of offence of giving false information to a public servant — Statutory bar on taking cognizance — Section 195 mandates that no Court shall take cognizance of an offence under Section 182 IPC except on a written complaint of the public servant concerned or a superior public servant — Complaint initiated by India Law Library Docid # 2448951
(278) AMIT KANSOTIA Vs. HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Locus Standi — Challenge to Dealership Allotment — Disqualified Applicant — Third respondent was disqualified from selection process for petroleum dealership upon admitting failure to maintain mandatory bank balance of Rs. 5,00,000/- — Dealership was subsequently allotted to appellant — Third respondent challenged allotment — Held, a disqualified applicant has no locus standi to challenge dealership allotment to another candidate, nor could the issue b India Law Library Docid # 2451742
(279) RAM KISHORE ARORA Vs. BANK OF MAHARSTHRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Criminal Procedure / Investigation — Furnishing of seized records — Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and Serious Fraud Investigation Officer (SFIO) directed to furnish copies of seizure lists, seized records, and documents within fifteen days to the Apex Court Committee of Supertech Limited and the Empowered Committee of Supertech Realtors Private Limited — Investigating agencies further directed to provide updated status reports regarding ongoing proceedin India Law Library Docid # 2451813
(280) KIRLOSKAR BROTHERS LIMITED Vs. ATUL CHANDRAKANT KIRLOSKAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-08-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 8 — Scope of judicial examination — Prima facie standard — Scope of examination at the stage of reference under Section 8 is confined to a prima facie determination of the existence of an arbitration agreement and its coverage of the dispute — Referral court is not required to conduct a mini-trial on contested questions of fact or law at that stage — Reference is to be declined only where the claim is manifestly and ex facie non-arbitrable, or the India Law Library Docid # 2451739