(421) KIRLOSKAR FERROUS INDUSTRIES LTD. AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Mines and Minerals — Royalty — Average Sale Price (ASP) — Sale value — Non-deduction of Royalty, DMF and NMET payments from sale value — Explanation to R. 38, Minerals (Other than Atomic and Hydro Carbons Energy Minerals) Concession Rules, 2016 and Explanation to R. 45(8)(a), Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 2017, providing that no deduction shall be made from gross sale amount in respect of Royalty, District Mineral Foundation India Law Library Docid # 2447562
(422) THE STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S FARIDABAD GURGAON MINERALS AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Mines and Minerals — Royalty and Dead Rent — Enhancement during subsistence of lease — Mining lease deed silent on enhancement, though preceding Auction Notice and Letter of Acceptance expressly stipulated applicability of Rules 10 and 21, Punjab Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1964 — Held, requirement to comply with Rules 10 and 21 formed an implied condition of the lease deed — India Law Library Docid # 2447563
(423) NAJMA KHATUN AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Education Law — Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008 (W.B.) — Sections 8, 10 to 12 — Validity — Sections 8, 10 to 12 of the Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008 upheld as intra vires by a coordinate Bench in Sk. Mohd. Rafique v. Managing Committee, Contai Rahamania High Madrasah, (2020) 6 SCC 689 — India Law Library Docid # 2447564
(424) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. MONIKA KIRAN SURYAWANSHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 120-B, 201/34 — Circumstantial evidence — Acquittal by High Court — Interference by Supreme Court — Appeal by State against acquittal, by the High Court, of respondents-accused convicted by the Trial Court for murder of the husband of accused no. 1 and criminal conspiracy — Prosecution case rested wholly on circumstantial evidence, there being no direct India Law Library Docid # 2447565
(425) STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S. JAI DURGAA FINVEST P. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Contract — Interpretation of commercial contracts — Rewriting of terms by courts, impermissibility of — Courts cannot re-write terms of a commercial contract, howsoever reasonable the substituted term may appear, where parties on equal footing have accepted unambiguous terms with free will — Agreed forfeiture/security India Law Library Docid # 2447566
(426) MR. NILESH SHAH AND OTHERS Vs. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Section 15Z — Appeal to Supreme Court — Scope — Appeal under S. 15Z confined to substantial questions of law arising from order of Securities Appellate Tribunal — Supreme Court neither expected nor entitled to pronounce on economics of securities market — Commercial wisdom behind a bona fide risk that fortuitously results in gain, notwithstanding India Law Library Docid # 2447567
(427) BRAJESH KUMAR @ BIRJESH KUMAR SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 156(3), 158, 173(3) and 190 — Split investigation on directions of Superintendent of Police — Charge-sheet against some accused, further investigation against remaining — Validity — First charge-sheet finding offence made out against all seventeen accused but charge-sheeting only two on directions of S.P., with investigation continued against India Law Library Docid # 2447568
(428) STATE OF JHARKHAND Vs. JAGDISH LAKRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Arms Act, 1959 — Sections 25(1-B)(a) and 26 — Recovery of firearm from house — Conscious possession, need to establish — Mere recovery of a country-made stein gun and other incriminating articles from the house of the accused, held, not sufficient to sustain conviction unless prosecution establishes that the articles were in conscious India Law Library Docid # 2447569
(429) DEBOJIT PANKIKA CHARAIDEO SONARI Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-07-2026 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 201 — Murder — Non-recovery of dead body — Doctrine of corpus delicti — Corpus delicti in murder comprises two components: death as result, and criminal agency of another as means — Non-recovery of dead body not fatal to conviction where death and homicidal nature established through direct or circumstantial evidence — Insistence on recovery as absolute necessity would afford immunity to accused who India Law Library Docid # 2447679
(430) M/S. LEVITATE MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD. Vs. M/S. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Orrder 11 Rules 1(4) & 5 (as amended by Commercial Courts Act, 2015, Sch.) — Additional documents, filing of — Standard of "reasonable cause" — Held, plaintiff obliged to file all documents in its possession along with plaint; leave to file additional documents within 30 days of institution of suit permissible only on establishing reasonable cause for non-disclosure and India Law Library Docid # 2447455
(431) BEJLA ORAON Vs. KALI DAS ORAON AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Hindu Law — Customary Law (Tribal) — Oraon Custom — Ghardamad (custom of adopted son-in-law) — Who may effect such adoption — Suit for declaration of title to ancestral land, contested on plea that a collateral (Punai) had been taken as ghardamad by plaintiff's grand-uncle Ledura, who died issueless, and thereby acquired inheritable rights transmissible to his wife Budhain — Concurrent findings India Law Library Docid # 2447456
(432) BRITISH MOTOR CAR COMPANY (1939) LTD. Vs. M/S HINDUSTAN COMMERCIAL BANK LTD. SINCE HAS BEEN MERGED INTO PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 — Section 14(1)(b) — Subletting, assignment or parting with possession — Whether involuntary transfer pursuant to statutory scheme of bank amalgamation attracts the provision — Original tenant-bank (HCB) amalgamated with another bank (PNB) pursuant to a Scheme framed by RBI and notified by the Central Government under S. 45 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 India Law Library Docid # 2447457
(433) AAA Vs. LINDA SEMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 19(1) & 21 — "Knowledge that such an offence has been committed" — Meaning and scope — Held, not confined to direct/personal knowledge of commission of offence based on person's own senses — Includes awareness founded on receipt of credible information regarding commission of offence punishable under the Act — Where such information is received India Law Library Docid # 2447458
(434) BIHAR STATE FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER Vs. BHUSHAN SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-07-2026 State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 — Sections 29 & 30 — Auction sale of mortgaged property by Financial Corporation for recovery of dues — Judicial review of, scope — Borrowers persistently defaulting over eight years despite multiple opportunities, repayment schedules fixed by High Court, and statutory notices — Financial Corporation auctioning mortgaged property after affording repeated chances India Law Library Docid # 2447460
(435) KU. CHETNA SHARMA Vs. PAWAN SHARMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-07-2026 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation — Permanent paralysis of minor child — Five-year-old child suffered severe spinal injuries resulting in permanent paralysis and incontinence — Medical certificate showed 80% physical disability, but court assessed functional disability at 100% due to lifetime incapacitation — Loss of earning capacity computed adopting minimum wages of a skilled labourer with 40% addition for future prospects and multiplier of 18 — Attendant charges also deter India Law Library Docid # 2450996
(436) AJAY VIJH Vs. INDIAN BANKS ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-07-2026 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ jurisdiction — Maintainability — Inclusion of advocate's name in IBA "Caution List" — High Court dismissing writ petition on ground that Indian Banks' Association (IBA) is not "State" under Art. 12 — Held, focus of maintainability has shifted from formal character of respondent body to nature of function performed and effect of impugned action on legally protected rights — Caution List operates as sector-wide adverse accreditation mechanism with p India Law Library Docid # 2447430
(437) SARDARI LAL Vs. BISHAN DASS AND OTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-07-2026 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second appeal — Scope of interference with concurrent findings on genuineness of a Will — Whether suspicious circumstances surrounding execution of a Will exist, and stand explained, is essentially a question of fact; a second appellate court cannot re-appreciate evidence and substitute its own view merely because another view is possible — Interference is permissible only where the finding is perverse, based on circumstances that are mere India Law Library Docid # 2447390
(438) POOJA RAMESH SINGH Vs. JAMMU AND KASHMIR BANK LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-07-2026 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Sections 7 and 14 — Corporate guarantee — Effect of demerger/amalgamation of corporate debtor — NCLT admission order under S. 7 relying on six judicial precedents to reject corporate guarantor's plea that liability stood extinguished on demerger/amalgamation — NCLAT dismissing appeal and reproducing the same precedents — On independent India Law Library Docid # 2447196
(439) 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
(440) 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