(401) SANJAY SHARMA @ SANJAY BHARDWAJ Vs. KRISHNADHAN KHAWARE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-07-2026 Succession Act, 1925 — Sections 222 and 276 — Probate of Will — Limitation for application — Limitation Act, 1963 — Article 137 — Executor's application for probate of Will filed on 31-8-2005, testator having died about a decade before 7-6-1995 — Courts below rejected it under Or. 7 R. 11 CPC as barred by limitation, treating India Law Library Docid # 2447641
(402) LAKSHMI Vs. GOPI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96, Order 41 Rule 31 — First Appeal — Duty of Appellate Court — First appeal entitles re-hearing of whole case on facts and law; First Appellate Court is final court of fact — Judgment must show application of mind, with reasons, especially when reversing trial court findings; mere general agreement insufficient in case of reversal — High Court, in a two-paragraph order, set aside a reasoned decree merely by extracting trial court's reasoning and observ India Law Library Docid # 2447642
(403) DEO PRASAD AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-07-2026 Criminal Trial — Delay in forwarding FIR to Magistrate — Effect — Mere delay in transmission of FIR to jurisdictional Magistrate is not, by itself, fatal to prosecution case, but where allegations of ante-timing/fabrication are supported by attendant circumstances generating genuine suspicion, such delay assumes substantive significance and must be assessed cumulatively India Law Library Docid # 2447643
(404) MANASH KAMAL BEZBORUAH Vs. M/S BOKAHOLA TEA COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 16, 5, 34 & 37 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Supervisory jurisdiction over orders of Arbitral Tribunal — Rejection by Tribunal of application under S. 16 (raised as Order 7 R. 11 r/w O. I R. 10(2) and S. 151 CPC application) seeking deletion of non-signatories from array of parties — Maintainability of revision petition under Art. 227 against such order — Held, remedy against rejection India Law Library Docid # 2447582
(405) VENKATESHA AND ANOTHER Vs. K.M. VENKATAMUNIYAPPA (D) THR. LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second appeal — Scope — First appellate court reversed reasoned findings of trial court based on conjectural comparison of boundaries and inference not founded on pleadings or evidence — High Court, instead of testing legality of reversal, independently re-appraised facts and introduced Section 43 India Law Library Docid # 2447583
(406) JASPAL SINGH Vs. ASHWANI KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 23 — Earnest money/refund clause — Effect on availability of specific performance — Agreement to Sell providing that if Sale Deed could not be executed "due to certain reason", vendor would refund earnest money — High Court construed this as an option to walk away from the bargain, barring specific performance — Held, erroneous; clause records bare consequence of non-execution India Law Library Docid # 2447584
(407) AMIT KATYAL Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 — Sections 44(1), 43 & 46 — Territorial jurisdiction of Special Court — Transfer of PMLA prosecution — Prosecution complaint filed at Gurugram where 'proceeds of crime' were acquired/attached, though part of proceeds (cash, jewellery, vehicles, FDs) also seized/attached at Delhi and connected scheduled India Law Library Docid # 2447585
(408) R. VERONICA AND ANOTHER Vs. RUDRAYANI DEVAKI(D) THROUGH LRS. S. SATHA KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second appeal — Formulation of substantial question of law — Mandatory requirement — High Court allowing second appeal without formulating any substantial question of law as required by S. 100 read with Or. 42 R. 2 CPC — Held, formulation of substantial question of law is a condition precedent to admission and hearing of second appeal; judgment rendered without India Law Library Docid # 2447586
(409) MAHINDER AND OTHERS Vs. PURAN SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-07-2026 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 22 — Applicability to agricultural land — Held, applicable — Preferential right of Class I heirs to acquire a co-heir's share on proposed transfer applies equally to agricultural land; S. 22 is a succession-based, not a transfer-based, provision India Law Library Docid # 2447587
(410) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. BALI RAM NO. 850808321[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 — Section 47 — Non-discrimination in government employment — Employee acquiring disability during service — Mandatory obligation on employer to shift employee to alternate post with same pay and service benefits, or, failing that, to accommodate on supernumerary post till superannuation — Respondent, a India Law Library Docid # 2447570
(411) H.D.F.C. BANK LIMITED Vs. KISHORE K. MEHTA (DEAD) THR. LRS.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 — Section 9(2) — "Decree or order" — Whether includes a recovery certificate issued by a Debts Recovery Tribunal under the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (pre-2016 amendment) — Held, no — Insolvency Act, being weighed with grave civil consequence of "civil death", must be strictly construed — Expression "decree or order" must bear the India Law Library Docid # 2447571
(412) PRASAD PANDURANG TAPKIR AND ANOTHER Vs. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF TOWN PLANNING, PUNE DISTRICT, PUNE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 — Sections 37, 154 — Premium paid for additional Floor Space Index (FSI) — Refund of unutilized premium — Appellants paid premium for additional FSI to undertake group housing construction but subsequently abandoned the project in favour of plotting, without utilising the additional FSI — Refund claim rejected by authorities on ground that Development Control India Law Library Docid # 2447572
(413) MANJU SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. AVINASH SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor accident claims — Standard of proof — Preponderance of probabilities, and not proof beyond reasonable doubt as in criminal trials, is the applicable standard before a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Tribunal not a criminal court and must evaluate evidence pragmatically, keeping in view the beneficial object of the Act — Concurrent findings of Tribunal and High Court, India Law Library Docid # 2447573
(414) SABITRI DEY @ SWASTHI DEY AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 21 — Foreigners Act, 1946 — Section 9 — Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 — Para 3 — Declaration of foreigner status in ex parte or effectively ex parte proceedings — Held, statutory burden under S. 9 of 1946 Act to prove non-foreigner status lies on proceedee, notwithstanding Evidence Act, 1872 — However, such burden does not relieve Tribunal of its own obligation to conduct India Law Library Docid # 2447574
(415) ALOK KOTAHWALA AND OTHERS Vs. JAIPUR METRO RAIL CORPORATION LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 5-A — Right to hearing — Nature of — Held, S. 5-A engrafts a mandatory safeguard being the only opportunity available to a landowner to object to necessity and suitability of acquisition — Right to hearing under S. 5-A(2) need not be separately demanded by objector; it is the duty of the Collector to fix a date and give notice of hearing — However, on facts, appellants having appeared India Law Library Docid # 2447575
(416) ASIA SUGAR & CHEMICAL CO., DEVANGERE Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957 — Exemption entries — Construction — Fifth Schedule Entry exempting "sugar" (subsequently described by reference to Column 3 of First Schedule to Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957) — Held, reference to the Excise Act was only to identify the commodity and did not import any origin-based restriction — Entry, prior to Karnataka Act 5 of 2001, contained India Law Library Docid # 2447576
(417) M. SABITHA AND OTHERS Vs. BRAHMA SWAMULU AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Apportionment amongst claimants — Rectification of omission — Appellate judgment enhancing compensation having omitted to apportion the amount amongst the claimants (wife, two children and mother of the deceased) — Death of the mother-claimant during pendency of appeal, and her heirs' impleadment — Held, enhanced award of Rs India Law Library Docid # 2447588
(418) MANOJ GOYAL Vs. RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Withdrawal of writ petition with liberty — Effect on prior order dismissing specific prayer — Coordinate Bench's order declining to interfere with finalised appointments held a substantive judicial determination, not an interim direction — Subsequent order permitting withdrawal "with all contentions open" pertained only to the surviving challenge to vires of Rule 41, not to the already-dismissed prayer for India Law Library Docid # 2447589
(419) A.K. GHOSH & COMPANY AND OTHERS Vs. BIMAN BOSE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rules 1, 6A(3), 6G and 9 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Written statement to counter-claim by plaintiff — Time-limit — Held, by virtue of Order 7 Rule 6G CPC, the amended proviso to Or. VIII R. 1 CPC (as applicable to commercial suits) governs filing of a plaintiff's India Law Library Docid # 2447560
(420) SAGAR Vs. THE STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Sections 19(1), 15 and 18(3) — Child in conflict with law aged 16-18 alleged to have committed heinous offence — Order under Section 19(1) by Children's Court — Mandatory nature — Held, upon receipt of the Board's preliminary assessment report under S. 15 transferred by virtue of S. 18(3), the Children's Court must, immediately on taking India Law Library Docid # 2447561