This weekly round-up collects Supreme Court decisions covered by Legal Republic in the selected week. Each entry gives the court, case name or citation, a short holding, and a link to the full article.
Decisions Covered
New India Assurance Company Limited v. Dolly Satish Gandhi & Anr., 2026 INSC 498 (Civil Appeal @ SLP(C) No. 18267 of 2025)
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Vipul M. Pancholi holds that Mediclaim proceeds are contractual, not a double benefit against statutory MACT compensation.
Read full articleB.S. Lalitha and Others v. Bhuvanesh and Others, 2026 INSC 499
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih restores a daughters' partition suit, holding Section 6(5) cannot foreclose trial on contested questions of fact and law.
Read full articleVidyawant v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors., Criminal Appeal No. of 2026 (@ SLP(Crl.) No. 5410/2026)
A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan quashed a bootlegger's preventive detention, holding that stereotypical grounds without arrest attempts or public order breach cannot sustain detention.
Read full articleDharmendra Kalra & Ors. v. Kulvinder Singh Bhatia, 2026 INSC 492
A Supreme Court bench of Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and Prasanna B. Varale remands a Kanpur eviction suit, holding that striking off a tenant's defence demands proper determination of the first date of hearing.
Read full articleC. Poorna Chandran v. The Government of Tamil Nadu & Ors., Civil Appeal No. 6826 of 2026 (@ SLP (Civil) No. 21019 of 2025)
A bench of Justices Amanullah and Mahadevan set aside Rs 25 lakh personal cost on a Tamil Nadu education official who acted on a then-valid government order.
Read full articleAlka Agrawal and Others v. State of Maharashtra and Others, 2026 INSC 489
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court holds that the nomenclature "loan" cannot exclude a transaction from the wide definition of "deposit" under the MPID Act, restoring the appellants' right to proceed under the statute.
Read full articleJennifer Messias v Leonard G Lobo, 2026 INSC 502
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court held that a partition decree incorporating auction directions is executable without a separate final decree, restoring stalled execution proceedings.
Read full articleSyed Iftikhar Andrabi v. National Investigation Agency, Jammu, 2026 INSC 503
A Division Bench led by Justice Ujjal Bhuyan holds that K.A. Najeeb remains binding law and that prolonged pre-trial detention under the UAP Act cannot be sustained by invoking Section 43-D(5) alone.
Read full articleIn Re: "City Hounded by Strays, Kids Pay Price", 2026 INSC 506
A three-judge bench upholds pan-India directions barring re-release of stray dogs into institutional premises, reading ABC Rules 2023 harmoniously with the parent statute and Article 21.
Read full articleState of Odisha & Ors. v. Sreepati Ranjan Dash, 2026 INSC 505
A Division Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih sets aside High Court directions to convene a DPC under executive instructions displaced by the 2021 Rules.
Read full articleAmit Katyal & Anr. v. State of Haryana & Anr., 2026 INSC 509
A Division Bench transfers FIR No. 439/2024 from Gurugram to join Delhi's EOW investigation, holding parallel FIRs on identical facts impermissible under the CrPC scheme.
Read full articleKumud Lall v. Suresh Chandra Roy (Dead) Through LRs and Others, 2026 INSC 443
A Supreme Court bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar holds that personal injury claims abate on a doctor's death, but estate claims survive.
Read full articleSusanta Kumar Dalai v. State of Odisha (Vigilance), 2026 INSC 510
A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale held that general accusations against a group, absent specific individual acts, cannot compel an accused to face trial.
Read full articleDr. Manoj Kumar Rawat v. State of UP & Ors., 2026 INSC 508
A Supreme Court bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar dismisses a waitlisted candidate's claim to a fresh posting after he refused to join his originally recommended college.
Read full articleVasantha v State of Tamil Nadu and others, 2026 INSC 513
A Division Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran set aside Madras High Court's anticipatory bail order, finding the third bail petition in three months an abuse of process.
Read full articleParvinder Singh v. Directorate of Enforcement, 2026 INSC 519
A Division Bench sets aside a Special Court's cognizance order under PMLA, holding the first proviso to BNSS Section 223(1) is mandatory and its breach renders proceedings void.
Read full articleBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Ors. v. Vijay Nagar Apartments and Ors., 2026 INSC 517
A Supreme Court bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar rules that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation cannot use a private agreement to extinguish a landowner's statutory right to amenity TDR under the MRTP Act.
Read full articlePunjab State Power Corporation Limited v. Talwandi Sabo Power Limited & Ors., 2026 INSC 515
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran holds that penalty for failing to demonstrate declared generation capacity is a civil strict-liability obligation, distinct from gaming.
Read full articleThe State of Tamil Nadu v. Ponnusamy & Ors., 2026 INSC 507
A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma reversed a Madras High Court acquittal, restoring nine convictions for the 2013 contract killing of Dr. Subbiah.
Read full articleChetan Dashrath Gade v. State of Maharashtra, 2026 INSC 522
A Division Bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale dismissed the appeal, holding that a complete chain of circumstantial evidence pointed unerringly to the husband's guilt.
Read full articleSri v. State Rep. by the Inspector of Police, Q Branch, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, 2026 INSC 516
A three-judge bench set aside conviction under the UAPA and IPC, holding that the prosecution had falsely assigned the identity of an absconding accused to an innocent refugee.
Read full articleParvathi Nairthi (Dead) and Ors. v. Laxmi Nairthy (Dead) Through LRs. and Ors., 2026 INSC 521
A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vijay Bishnoi upholds a 1983 Will bequeathing Karnataka properties to a sister, rejecting the wife and children's forgery plea.
Read full articleRambalak v. State of U.P., 2026 INSC 511
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prasanna B. Varale holds that statutory bail powers cannot be stretched to mandate administrative reforms in criminal process service.
Read full articleRR Constructions and Infrastructure India Pvt. Ltd. v. Gayatri Ventures and Ors., 2026 INSC 514
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran reverses a High Court ruling that mandated demand drafts for out-of-state bidders, restoring the appellant's tender qualification.
Read full articleSukhendu Bhattacharjee and Others v. The State of Assam and Others, 2026 INSC 523
A Division Bench reverses the Gauhati High Court, holding that Assam cannot deny regularisation to workers left out of its own 2005 Cabinet decision through clerical lapses.
Read full articleVijayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu, Represented by the Inspector of Police, 2026 INSC 525
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N. Kotiswar Singh upholds criminal intimidation conviction, redefining unchastity through dignity and privacy, while reducing sentence to time served.
Read full articleBhagat Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh and Anr., 2026 INSC 527
A Division Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N. Kotiswar Singh set aside bail in a murder case, finding the High Court ignored material evidence and misread the scope of inquest proceedings.
Read full articleMallika v. R. Nallathambi & Ors., 2026 INSC 529
A Division Bench dismisses a decade-old land dispute, holding that a party alleging GPA misuse must first establish foundational facts before the burden shifts to the other side.
Read full articlePapan Sarkar @ Pranab v. State of West Bengal, 2026 INSC 528
A Division Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran dismantled each link in the prosecution's circumstantial chain and ordered immediate release.
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