Indian Penal Code Ayyub Malik and Another vs State of Uttarakhand 2026 INSC 331 - IPC - POCSO Aim of all legal proceedings is to arrive at justice, a meaningful and substantive.
Service Law Bikram Chand Rana v. Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation, 2026 INSC 326 - Service Law - Interim Release Of Gratuity Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965
Criminal Trial Gautam Satnami @ Gautam Deshlahre v. State of Chhattisgarh 2026 INSC 325- Related and Interested Witness A ‘related’ witness is not necessarily an ‘interested’ witness, and an ‘interested’ witness need not be a ‘related’ one.
reservation West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Co. Ltd. v. Dipendu Biswas 2026 INSC 330 - Reservation - Open Category - Horizontal Reservation PwD A post earmarked for special (horizontal) reservation under the Unreserved category will be open to every candidate possessing the attribute or character of the special (horizontal) reservation.
Negotiable Instruments Act Renuka v. State of Maharashtra 2026 INSC 327 - S.138 NI Act - Issuance Of Process Once the basic ingredients of Section 138 N.I. Act are duly satisfied by the complainant, the rebuttal of statutory presumption by the drawer can only be made during the course of trial
Banking State Bank of India v. Amit Iron Private Limited 2026 INSC 323 - RBI Directions - Fraud Accounts Declaration - Personal Hearing Right Borrowers do not have a right to a personal/oral hearing before banks classify their loan accounts as “fraud” under RBI’s fraud Master Directions.
Negotiable Instruments Act Saroj Pandey v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi 2026 INSC 324 - S.141 NI Act - Board Resolution A Board Resolution is a document that is signed by the members of the Board of Directors for decisions taken or conclusions arrived at for matters placed before the Board for consideration and decision.
Disciplinary Proceedings Punjab & Sind Bank v. Sh. Raj Kumar 2026 INSC 313 - Disciplinary Proceedings - Parity - Punishment The greater the trust reposed, the stricter the scrutiny imposed.
religion Syed Mohammed Ghouse Pasha Khadri v. Syed Mohammed Adil Pasha Khadri 2026 INSC 314 - Sajjadanashin - Mutawalli - Power Of Attorney " A document which merely authorises another person to act on behalf of the executant cannot be construed as conferring succession to a spiritual office such as that of a Sajjadanashin. "
Constitutional Law In Re: 2 Million Lives at Risk, Contamination in Jojari River, Rajasthan 2026 INSC 316 -Fundamental Right To Access Clean Drinking Water The right to access clean drinking water is an integral facet of the right to life under Article 21 and cannot be compromised on account of administrative inaction or environmental neglect.
Criminal Trial Jay Prakash Yadav v. State of Jharkhand 2026 INSC 317 - Criminal Trial - Circumstantial Evidence - Murder Case - Acquittal Every link in the chain of circumstantial evidence must be conclusively established. Even a single missing or weak link may prove fatal to the prosecution’s case.
Miscellaneous Piaggio Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. v. State of U.P. 2026 INSC 321 - Land Allotment The Supreme Court upheld the cancellation of Piaggio’s 33‑acre industrial lease in Surajpur by UPSIDA, finding that the company had failed, over many years, to raise construction or commence industrial production as required under the lease conditions.
CBI Investigation Save Mon Region Federation v State of Arunachal Pradesh 2026 INSC 320 - Public Resources - CBI Investigation While considering a request for CBI investigation or constitution of an SIT, the Court does not undertake an adjudication on culpability.
Indian Contract Act A.K.G. Construction and Developers Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Jharkhand 2026 INSC 312 -Blacklisting Blacklisting, being stigmatic and exclusionary in nature, cannot be imposed mechanistically but must comport with principles of natural justice and reasonableness
Indian Penal Code Sivakumar v. State 2026 INSC 318 - S.294 IPC - Obscene Word - Bastard "Mere use of the word ‘bastard’, by itself, is not sufficient to arouse prurient interest of a person. More so, when such words are commonly used in modern era during heated conversations."
Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Sajal Bose v. State of West Bengal 2026 INSC 322 - S 482 CrPC Where reliable and unimpeachable material demonstrably displaces the factual basis of the accusations and the prosecution is unable to effectively counter the same, the Court would be justified in invoking its inherent jurisdiction to prevent injustice.
Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Dr. S. Balagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr., 2026 INSC 319 - S.482 CrPC - Questions of Fact Read Judgment In LawLens Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482 - Ordinarily, an issue of tampering/ interpolation in a document being a question of fact is to be determined in a trial based on evidence led therein and, therefore, courts must be loath to examine such issues in
Indian Penal Code Sitaram Kuchhbedia v. Vimal Rana 2026 INSC 178 - Unlawful Assembly - Murder Even though the weapons of offence were lathis, which in the abstract may not always be characterised as a deadly weapon, their lethality depends upon the manner of use, the part of the body targeted, and the force employed
PCPNDT Act Dr. Naresh Kumar Garg v. State of Haryana 2026 INSC 176 - PCPNDT Rules - Female Foeticide - Sex Determination "Discrimination against the girl child and by extension women is still prevalent in several parts of the country. "
Indian Evidence Act 1872 : Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 Shankar v. State of Rajasthan 2026 INSC 315 - Gender Justice - Dying Declaration - Medical Evidence One cannot assume that all house-hold related work falls to the woman, whereas it is only the male who is tasked with bread winning.
Companies Act 2013 Satinder Singh Bhasin v. Government of NCT of Delhi 2026 INSC 310 - Companies Act - IBC A company cannot directly or indirectly give a loan to its director without passing a special resolution in a general meeting or unless the funds correlate to the principal business activities of the company.
National Highways Act National Highways Authority of India v. Tarsem Singh 2026 INSC 291 - National Highways Act - Solatium & Interest - Land Acquisition Compensation "overturning of the principle of law cannot sustain even a formal review of the original decision once the same has attained finality."
Code Of Civil Procedure Sharada Sanghi v. Asha Agarwal 2026 INSC 292 - Dismissal For Default - Res Judicata Read Judgment In LawLens Code of Civil Procedure 1908 - Section 11 - Res Judicata - Dismissal of a suit for default, not being a decision on merits, cannot ordinarily be regarded as a final adjudication so as to attract the strict application of the principle of Res Judicata under
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Central Transmission Utility of India Limited v. Sumit Binani 2026 INSC 284 - IBC - Set Off - "Set-off would mitigate against the pari passu principle which is apparent from IBC scheme.."
SC-ST (Prevention Of Atrocities) Act Chinthada Anand vs State of Andhra Pradesh 2026 INSC 283 - SC- ST Act - Caste Status - Conversion to Christianity "When a person ceases to be a member of the Scheduled Caste on his conversion to Christianity, he cannot be a person aggrieved under the SC/ST Act."