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Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
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Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: August 30 to September 5, 2026
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Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: September 13 to 19, 2026
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A High Court appellate award cannot restart the Section 28-A clock, rules Supreme Court
A Division Bench rejects a re-determination claim filed 45 years after the award, holding that Section 28-A runs from a reference court decision and not from an appeal decided decades later.
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Supreme Court orders a fresh SIT investigation 14 years on, after an acquittal built on a broken inquiry
A Division Bench sets aside the dismissal of a father's writ petition and directs Karnataka to constitute a Special Investigation Team, barring every officer from the earlier teams.
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Once a trial has begun, a court cannot pull out limitation and decide it first, holds Supreme Court
A Division Bench restores a 2013 Kerala suit, setting aside three tiers of orders and holding that Order XIV Rule 2(2) cannot be used to carve a preliminary issue out of a trial already underway.
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A witness who never mentioned it that night: Supreme Court upholds acquittal in Himachal double murder
A Division Bench dismisses the State's appeal, finding the chain of circumstances broken by an interested witness's silence and a sighting that may have been impossible in the dark.
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A claim that fell from Rs 15 crore to Rs 7.31 crore sinks a fire insurance award in the Supreme Court
A Division Bench sets aside an NCDRC order against New India Assurance, holding the repudiation sustainable and faulting the commission for brushing aside two surveyors' reports.
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Highest bidder loses a Rs 16 crore mandi contract for proving its experience on assertion alone
The Supreme Court upholds the disqualification of an H1 bidder that borrowed the credentials of other firms without producing a partnership deed or any record of the claimed association.
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Small trade mark suits to a District Judge, big ones to a Civil Judge: Supreme Court flags the inversion
A Division Bench holds Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act is not displaced by Commercial Courts notifications, identifies an anomaly in Jharkhand, and places the matter before the Chief Justice.
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Police cannot clear their own re-arrest after breaching Article 22, holds Supreme Court
A Division Bench rules that once an arrest is voided for want of written grounds, only a magistrate can permit re-arrest, on an application endorsed by a superior officer.
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Courts cannot declare a police investigation complete, holds Supreme Court, undoing default bail
A Division Bench restores a fifteen-day extension for the ATS to file its chargesheet, finds the High Court's detour into sanction irrelevant, and orders the accused to surrender within 30 days.
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Depositing an award amount under a conditional stay does not stop interest, holds Supreme Court
A Division Bench affirms that National Seeds Corporation stays liable for 12% interest because its deposit did not comply with Order XXI Rule 1, and asks the Law Commission to fix the gap.
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No protective interim orders before leave is granted in a Section 92 trust suit, rules Supreme Court
A Division Bench holds that a civil court cannot pass preservatory interim orders while a Section 92 CPC leave application is pending, but may grant leave without prior notice in genuinely urgent cases.
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Export quota premium is not export-derived income for Section 80HHC, Supreme Court tells Orient Crafts
Dismissing the assessee's appeals, a Division Bench upholds the CIT's Section 263 revision and holds that premium on the sale of export quota is not income derived from exports.
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Supreme Court strikes down Maharashtra rule forcing bitterant and colourant into industrial methanol
A Division Bench holds the 2011 Maharashtra Poisons Rules amendment violates Articles 14 and 19(1)(g), finding it a disproportionate restriction on manufacturers who use methanol as raw material.
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Supreme Court acquits RPF officer as CBI trap ends at intermediary, not accused
A division bench acquitted a former Divisional Security Commissioner, holding recovery of bribe money from an approver intermediary, without proof of demand attributable to him, cannot sustain conviction.
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Supreme Court holds AO cannot reassess income settled by Income Tax Settlement Commission
A Bhatti-Anjaria bench dismissed the Revenue's appeal, holding that once an ITSC order under Section 245D(4) attains finality, an Assessing Officer cannot reopen it under Section 148.
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Supreme Court Replaces Oxo-Biodegradable Napkin Standard with Compostable Standard for School Girls
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan modified its January 2026 direction on sanitary napkins in schools, citing microplastic pollution risks from oxo-biodegradable materials.
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Supreme Court declines seat-belt enforcement PIL, sends suggestions to road transport ministry
A bench led by the Chief Justice held that reiterating existing seat-belt laws would not aid enforcement, disposing of the PIL with liberty to approach the ministry.
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Insurer's Office Location Cannot Confer Tribunal Jurisdiction Under Section 166, Supreme Court Holds
A Supreme Court division bench upholds Madras High Court's transfer of a motor accident claim to Chittoor, ruling that an insurer's branch office location cannot ground territorial jurisdiction.
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Midnight Vehicle Seizure Without Notice Violates Articles 14 and 21, Supreme Court Holds
A Division Bench condemns a finance company's pre-dawn, forcible repossession of a truck, awards Rs 14.5 lakh in refund and compensation, and orders the RBI to enforce its own guidelines.
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Supreme Court restores appeal delayed a day by NCLAT e-filing glitch
A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held that a litigant cannot suffer where the NCLAT’s own e-filing system caused the one-day delay.
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Appointment Against Advertisement Terms Is a Fraud on Public, Supreme Court Holds in Anganwadi Supervisor Case
A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu dismisses an Anganwadi Supervisor's appeal, holding her appointment void for violating the express district-experience requirement.