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All India Institute of Medical Sciences v. Shailendra Bhatnagar - Writ Jurisdiction - Administrative Bodies

SC sets aside Delhi HC’s sewer-line directions, says courts can’t step into admin’s shoes

Mohammed Hanish v. Kadakampally Manoj - Kerala HC Act- Contempt - Appeal Before Division Bench

Kerala High Court Act, 1958 - Section 5 ; Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 - Section 19 - Appeal against an interlocutory order of a Single Judge of the Kerala High Court in contempt proceedings, where the High Court had only found a prima facie case of civil contempt and summoned

Matrimonial

Hemanand v. Gausalya - Divorce -Matrimonial Appeal - Non Payment Of Maintenance Arrears

Matrimonial Appeal - Divorce Suit - The husband’s suit for divorce was decreed by the Family Court on 01.03.2017, but the High Court, in appeal (C.M.A. No. 3566 of 2019), dismissed it solely because arrears of maintenance had not been cleared. SC held: Even if

Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023

Madan Gopal v. State of U.P. 2026 INSC 501 - False Caste Claim- Criminal Proceedings Quashed

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482 - The appellant, originally appointed to State service in 1984 as a ‘Mallah’ (backward class), later produced a 1993 caste certificate (Annexure P4) claiming to belong to the Scheduled Tribe ‘Majhwar’, which was found to be invalid on enquiry by the Tehsildar-

Motor Accident Compensation

Santhosh v. United India Insurance Company Ltd 2026 INSC 500 - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation - No legal aspects discussed in this judgment- The Supreme Court restored the MACT calculation for loss of earning capacity, upheld the High Court’s amounts under other conventional heads but deleted the Rs. 50,000 for amenities on the reasoning that the loss of earning capacity

Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023

Sunny Chauhan v. State of Haryana - Bail - Inordinate Delay In Listing & Deciding

Supreme Court flags serious delays in High Courts’ bail hearings affecting undertrial liberty.

Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023

Sunisha Anand v. State of Haryana 2026 INSC 494 - FIR Quashing - Civil Dispute

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482- Criminal law cannot be used to further the cause in a purely civil dispute. [Context: The Supreme Court quashed an FIR in a land dispute] Case Info Extracted Case Information Case name: Sunisha Anand v. State of Haryana & Anr.Neutral citation:

Taxation

State of Uttar Pradesh v. Reliance Industries Limited & 2026 INSC 491 - Taxation - Central Sales Tax

Constitution of India - (i.) As per Article 269(1) of the Constitution of India, the Union Government has the competence to levy and collect tax on sale and purchase of goods in the course of inter-State trade or commerce. (ii.) Article 286(1) of the Constitution of India further

Constitutional Law

B. Yerraji v. State of Andhra Pradesh 2026 INSC 495 - Compliance Of Orders - State Authorities

Constitution of India- Article 226 - Practice and Procedure -Litigants and lawyers to place on record all facts germane to or connected with the litigation before the Court. It is for the Court concerned to decide and rule as to what, in a given set of facts, constitutes a ‘material

Dharmendra Kalra v. Kulvinder Singh Bhatia 2026 INSC 492 - CPC - Striking Off Defence

Order XV Rule 5 CPC: Courts Must Avoid Mechanical Striking Off of Defence; "First Date Of Hearing" Clarified

Code Of Civil Procedure

B.S. Lalitha v. Bhuvanesh 2026 INSC 499 - S.6(5) Hindu Succession Act - Partition Suit - CPC- Res Judicata - Rejection Of Plaint

Section 6(5) Hindu Succession Act Does Not Create A Jurisdictional Bar On A Partition Suit

Motor Accident Compensation

New India Assurance Company Limited v. Dolly Satish Gandhi 2026 INSC 498 Motor Accident Compensation - Deduction Of Mediclaim - Medical Insurance

Mediclaim/ Medical Insurance Payouts Cannot Be Deducted From Motor Accident Compensation

Tenancy Laws

Marietta D’Silva v. Rudolf Clothan Lacerda 2026 INSC 496 - Bombay Rent Act - Pleadings & Proof

Pleadings, Bona Fide Need and Alternative Accommodation Under Bombay Rent Act

Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023

Rohit Chaturvedi v. State of Uttarakhand 2026 INSC 490 - Remission Denial - Heinousness Of Crime

Heinousness of the crime cannot be the sole ground for denying remission.

MPID Act

Alka Agrawal v. State of Maharashtra 2026 INSC 489 - MPID Act - Loan Transaction - Deposit

Loan Label Irrelevant: Supreme Court Says Substance, Not Nomenclature, Determines a “Deposit” Under MPID Act

Preventive Detention

Vidyawant v. State of Maharashtra - Preventive Detention

Preventive Detention Unwarranted When Ordinary Law Suffices and No Cogent Public-Order Breach Is Shown

S. Rajaseekaran v. Union of India - Central Motor Vehicles Rules - Vehicle Location Tracking Device

Legal Doctrines & Maxims

Soumya Ranjan Panda vs. Subhalaxmi Dash 2026 INSC 488- Medical College Admissions

Legal Maxim -Commodum ex injuria sua nemo habere debet - No one should derive a benefit from their own wrong. [Context: The case concerns MBBS students originally admitted to Sardar Rajas Medical College (SRMCH), Odisha, whose academic future was jeopardized when MCI/NMC found serious deficiencies and the college’s

Miscellaneous

Harish Rana v. Union of India - Passive Euthanasia- Death

Passive Euthanasia - Medicine has its limits, and that prolonging life in ways a person would not choose for themselves is not always true care. Allowing someone to pass on their own terms and alleviating their suffering affirms their dignity in its truest sense [Context: This order records that, pursuant

Judiciary

Bar Council of India v. High Court of Andhra Pradesh -Judiciary - Bar and Bench

Judiciary - Bar and Bench - The members of the Judiciary at all levels ought to exhibit patience, compassion and a spirit of encouragement, particularly towards young entrants to the legal profession. The present juncture necessitates that young law graduates emerging from a wide variety of institutions are encouraged to

public employment

Lokendra Kumar Tiwari v. Union of India 2026 INSC 487 - Public Employment

Public Employment - An advertisement was issued by IIIT‑Allahabad in 2013 for regular posts of Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, under which the appellant was fully qualified, shortlisted, interviewed, and then appointed only on a one‑year contractual basis, while others selected through the same process were given regular

Criminal Trial

Talari Naresh v. State of Telangana 2026 INSC 486 - Postmortem Report -Hostile Witness Evidence

Criminal Trial - Hostile Witness Evidence -The evidence of a hostile witness can be used for convicting the accused, such evidence could indeed be applied and utilised also for the purpose of acquitting the accused, when what is testified by the hostile witness inspires credibility, when read with the other

Election

Dinesh Kumar v. Surta Nath @ Surat Nath 2026 INSC 485- UP Panchayat Raj - Election Disputes - Right To Cross Examination

U.P. Panchayat Raj (Settlement of Election Disputes) Rules, 1994 – Rule 4 - A party seeking cross-examination of a witness is entitled to make such a claim by giving sufficient and justifiable reasons for the same. Under Rule 4, the Sub-Divisional Officer, acting as Election Tribunal, is empowered to consider

Motor Accident Compensation

Mohinder Kaur (D) v. Brij Lal Arora 2026 INSC 477- Motor Accident Compensation - Death Of Engineering Student

Motor Accident Compensation - The objective of awarding compensation in motor accident claims is to ensure “just and reasonable compensation” to the victim or the aggrieved dependents of the deceased, not merely with a view to restoring the Claimant, So far as practicable, to the position existing prior to the

Interpretation Of Statutes

Canara Bank v. Prem Latha Uppal (D) 2026 INSC 478 -Statutory Interpretation - May

Interpretation of Statutes - The interpretation, particularly before a court of law, is not a conundrum, inasmuch as it is based on the interpretative cannons. A word or a section is interpreted not as what one thinks but what it means. Further, in the process of interpretation, there must be