https://www.legalrepublic.in Supreme Court coverage from LegalRepublic.in en-IN Wed, 20 May 2026 18:57:23 +0000 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/vasantha-v-state-tamil-nadu-anticipatory-bail-set-aside-2026-insc-513/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/vasantha-v-state-tamil-nadu-anticipatory-bail-set-aside-2026-insc-513/ Wed, 20 May 2026 17:52:10 +0530 umang-sultania A Division Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran set aside the Madras High Court's anticipatory bail order, finding the third bail petition in three months an abuse of process. madras-hc maintenance-and-welfare-of-parents-and-senior-citizens-act abuse-of-process anticipatory-bail ipc-s-420 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/dr-manoj-kumar-rawat-v-state-of-up-principal-appointment-waitlist-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/dr-manoj-kumar-rawat-v-state-of-up-principal-appointment-waitlist-2026/ Wed, 20 May 2026 17:51:23 +0530 umang-sultania 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. kamlesh-kumar-sharma-v-yogesh-kumar section-13-4 up-education-service-selection-commission-act-2023 up-higher-education-services-commission-act-1980 ejusdem-generis https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/susanta-kumar-dalai-v-state-of-odisha-vigilance-discharge-corruption-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/susanta-kumar-dalai-v-state-of-odisha-vigilance-discharge-corruption-2026/ Wed, 20 May 2026 17:51:12 +0530 umang-sultania 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. article-14 odisha-forest-act anti-corruption section-227-crpc section-482-crpc https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/medical-negligence-legal-heirs-estate-claims-section-306-succession-act-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/medical-negligence-legal-heirs-estate-claims-section-306-succession-act-2026/ Wed, 20 May 2026 17:41:33 +0530 umang-sultania 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 pecuniary claims against the estate survive and must be adjudicated by NCDRC. consumer-protection-act-1986 ncdrc order-xxii-cpc section-306-indian-succession-act actio-personalis-moritur-cum-persona https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/amit-katyal-haryana-fir-clubbing-brahma-city-krrish-world/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/amit-katyal-haryana-fir-clubbing-brahma-city-krrish-world/ Wed, 20 May 2026 16:05:02 +0530 umang-sultania 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. brahma-city crpc-section-173 economic-offences-wing fir-clubbing krrish-realtech https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/odisha-arto-promotion-raj-kumar-2021-rules-supreme-court/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/odisha-arto-promotion-raj-kumar-2021-rules-supreme-court/ Wed, 20 May 2026 14:05:02 +0530 umang-sultania 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. article-309 dpc odisha-transport-service raj-kumar supreme-court-2026 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-stray-dogs-institutional-areas-abc-rules-article-142-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-stray-dogs-institutional-areas-abc-rules-article-142-2026/ Wed, 20 May 2026 11:04:41 +0530 umang-sultania 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. animal-birth-control-rules-2023 article-142 article-21 high-court-monitoring nhai https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/syed-iftikhar-andrabi-nia-bail-uapa-section-43d5-article-21/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/syed-iftikhar-andrabi-nia-bail-uapa-section-43d5-article-21/ Wed, 20 May 2026 09:24:05 +0530 umang-sultania 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. article-21 jammu-and-kashmir k-a-najeeb ndps-act national-investigation-agency https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/jennifer-messias-v-leonard-g-lobo-partition-decree-execution-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/jennifer-messias-v-leonard-g-lobo-partition-decree-execution-2026/ Tue, 19 May 2026 10:19:22 +0530 umang-sultania 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 after more than a decade of litigation. cpc order-20-rule-18-cpc supreme-court-2026 civil-appeal execution-proceedings https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/alka-agrawal-mpid-act-deposit-loan-supreme-court-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/alka-agrawal-mpid-act-deposit-loan-supreme-court-2026/ Mon, 18 May 2026 18:35:02 +0530 umang-sultania 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. 63-moons-technologies mpid-act maharashtra-protection-of-interest-of-depositors-act section-2-c section-3-mpid-act https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/poorna-chandran-v-government-of-tamil-nadu-personal-cost-set-aside-director-collegiate-education/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/poorna-chandran-v-government-of-tamil-nadu-personal-cost-set-aside-director-collegiate-education/ Mon, 18 May 2026 17:45:50 +0530 umang-sultania A bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R. Mahadevan set aside Rs 25 lakh personal cost on a Tamil Nadu education official who acted on a then-valid government order restricting Group D recruitment. director-of-collegiate-education group-d-recruitment high-court-costs tamil-nadu civil-appeal https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/dharmendra-kalra-kulvinder-singh-bhatia-order-xv-rule-5-cpc-remand/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/dharmendra-kalra-kulvinder-singh-bhatia-order-xv-rule-5-cpc-remand/ Mon, 18 May 2026 16:31:09 +0530 umang-sultania 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. allahabad-hc order-xv-rule-5-cpc provincial-small-causes-court-act transfer-of-property-act civil-appeal https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/vidyawant-v-state-of-maharashtra-preventive-detention-quashed-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/vidyawant-v-state-of-maharashtra-preventive-detention-quashed-2026/ Mon, 18 May 2026 11:52:42 +0530 umang-sultania 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. maharashtra-prevention-of-dangerous-activities-act-1981 maharashtra-prohibition-act bootlegger criminal-appeal non-application-of-mind https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/bs-lalitha-v-bhuvanesh-section-6-5-hsa-not-a-bar-to-partition-suit/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/bs-lalitha-v-bhuvanesh-section-6-5-hsa-not-a-bar-to-partition-suit/ Sun, 17 May 2026 12:57:25 +0530 umang-sultania 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. hindu-succession-act hindu-family-law order-vii-rule-11 section-6-5 section-8-class-i-heirs https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/mediclaim-not-deductible-mact-compensation-new-india-assurance-dolly-gandhi/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/mediclaim-not-deductible-mact-compensation-new-india-assurance-dolly-gandhi/ Sun, 17 May 2026 12:54:50 +0530 umang-sultania 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. motor-vehicles-act-1988 section-168-mva civil-appeal contractual-vs-statutory division-bench https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/panda-v-subhalaxmi-dash-srmch-students-fee-liability-transferee-colleges/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/panda-v-subhalaxmi-dash-srmch-students-fee-liability-transferee-colleges/ Sat, 16 May 2026 22:47:49 +0530 umang-sultania A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta holds that students who completed MBBS at private rates cannot retain a fee windfall from interim court orders. article-142 mbbs-fee-liability nmc odisha srmch https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/marietta-d-silva-v-rudolf-clothan-lacerda-eviction-bona-fide-need-pleadings/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/marietta-d-silva-v-rudolf-clothan-lacerda-eviction-bona-fide-need-pleadings/ Sat, 16 May 2026 22:47:17 +0530 umang-sultania A bench of Justices Manmohan and Manoj Misra reversed the Bombay High Court, holding that a co-landlord's plaint adequately pleaded bona fide need and landlord status under the Bombay Rent Act. bombay-rent-act alternative-accommodation bona-fide-need civil-appeal co-landlord https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/canara-bank-prem-latha-uppal-regulation-10-disciplinary-proceedings-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/canara-bank-prem-latha-uppal-regulation-10-disciplinary-proceedings-2026/ Sat, 16 May 2026 20:46:50 +0530 umang-sultania A bench of Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and Vijay Bishnoi holds that Regulation 10 of Canara Bank’s 1976 Regulations gives management discretion, not an obligation, to hold common disciplinary proceedings against co-accused officers. canara-bank karnataka-hc regulation-10 bank-employees common-proceedings https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/hirani-developers-nehru-nagar-samruddhi-chs-arbitration-clause-incorporation-section-7-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/hirani-developers-nehru-nagar-samruddhi-chs-arbitration-clause-incorporation-section-7-2026/ Fri, 15 May 2026 14:34:46 +0530 umang-sultania A Division Bench of the Supreme Court held that Clause 14 of the Accommodation Agreements bodily imported the Development Agreement, including its arbitration clause, by incorporation under Section 7(5) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. bombay-hc development-agreement m-r-engineers-som-datt nbcc-zillion permanent-alternate-accommodation-agreement https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/nhai-v-alfa-remidis-section-26-2013-la-act-compensation-nh-act/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/nhai-v-alfa-remidis-section-26-2013-la-act-compensation-nh-act/ Thu, 14 May 2026 22:25:11 +0530 sc-desk A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran held that relying on one sale deed for a dissimilar land type violates Section 26(1)(b) of the 2013 LA Act, cutting compensation from ₹3,588 to ₹2,020 per square meter. nhai national-highways-act-1956 section-26-2013-la-act section-34-arbitration-act arbitration https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/shrikant-ojha-v-state-of-up-sit-society-land-chargesheet-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/shrikant-ojha-v-state-of-up-sit-society-land-chargesheet-2026/ Thu, 14 May 2026 21:25:11 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench of Justices Maheshwari and Chandurkar overturns an Allahabad High Court order that had frozen a chargesheet, directing an SIT to probe repeated fraudulent land sales by rival factions of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation of India. article-226 bnss-section-193 high-court-writ-jurisdiction neeharika-infrastructure pradnya-pranjal-kulkarni https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/lokendra-kumar-tiwari-v-union-of-india-iiit-allahabad-regular-appointment/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/lokendra-kumar-tiwari-v-union-of-india-iiit-allahabad-regular-appointment/ Thu, 14 May 2026 20:25:12 +0530 sc-desk A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and S.V.N. Bhatti held that IIIT Allahabad could not impose a contractual appointment on a candidate selected through a regular recruitment process without recording any reason. articles-14-and-16 assistant-professor iiit-allahabad contractual-appointment discrimination-in-appointment https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/fakir-mamad-suleman-sameja-adani-ports-dictation-signed-order-supreme-court-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/fakir-mamad-suleman-sameja-adani-ports-dictation-signed-order-supreme-court-2026/ Thu, 14 May 2026 19:15:55 +0530 sc-desk A bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar dismisses a bid to elevate an in-court dictation over the digitally signed order, imposing costs for abuse of process. adani-ports article-145 order-xii-supreme-court-rules supreme-court abuse-of-process https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/padam-mehta-rajasthan-rajasthani-language-education-supreme-court-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/padam-mehta-rajasthan-rajasthani-language-education-supreme-court-2026/ Thu, 14 May 2026 17:22:22 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta directs Rajasthan to recognise Rajasthani as a regional language for schooling and introduce it as a subject in all schools, setting aside a High Court order that had dismissed a PIL on the issue. article-19-1-a article-350a eighth-schedule nep-2020 reet-2021 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/talari-naresh-v-state-of-telangana-acquittal-hostile-witness-sc-st-act/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/talari-naresh-v-state-of-telangana-acquittal-hostile-witness-sc-st-act/ Thu, 14 May 2026 17:14:08 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench of the Supreme Court set aside concurrent convictions under IPC and the SC/ST Act, holding that hostile witness testimony can ground an acquittal when it credibly destroys the prosecution’s case. sc-st-prevention-of-atrocities-act section-3-2-v-sc-st-act section-302-ipc acquittal concurrent-error https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/mitesh-vag-hela-gujarat-murder-conviction-oral-dying-declaration-pw12-supreme-court-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/mitesh-vag-hela-gujarat-murder-conviction-oral-dying-declaration-pw12-supreme-court-2026/ Wed, 13 May 2026 20:54:28 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B. Varale dismissed a Gujarat murder appeal, holding that quality of evidence, not quantity, sustains conviction even when most witnesses turn hostile. gujarat section-134-evidence-act section-302-ipc criminal-appeal dying-declaration https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/ann-saurabh-dutt-v-lieutenant-colonel-saurabh-dutt-cruelty-desertion-expunged-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/ann-saurabh-dutt-v-lieutenant-colonel-saurabh-dutt-cruelty-desertion-expunged-2026/ Wed, 13 May 2026 19:53:28 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta expunges findings of cruelty and desertion against a dentist wife, holding that professional ambition cannot constitute a matrimonial default. hindu-marriage-act section-340-crpc special-marriage-act supreme-court-2026 cruelty-and-desertion https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/kailash-chandra-kapri-v-state-up-speedy-trial-article-21-quashing/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/kailash-chandra-kapri-v-state-up-speedy-trial-article-21-quashing/ Wed, 13 May 2026 19:21:36 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench of Justices Pardiwala and Bhuyan quashed a 1989 police-mess assault case, then directed Allahabad High Court to furnish comprehensive undertrial pendency data for Uttar Pradesh. allahabad-hc article-21 criminal-procedure pendency quashing-of-proceedings https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/sanand-properties-aop-revenue-share-taxable-reassessment-valid-supreme-court-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/sanand-properties-aop-revenue-share-taxable-reassessment-valid-supreme-court-2026/ Wed, 13 May 2026 19:20:33 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench led by Justice J.B. Pardiwala holds that Sanand Properties' 35% share from Fortaleza Developers was gross revenue, not profit, and that both reassessment notices were validly issued. justice-jb-pardiwala association-of-persons civil-appeal division-bench income-tax-reassessment https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/ariz-hasnain-jharkhand-uapa-default-bail-supreme-court/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/ariz-hasnain-jharkhand-uapa-default-bail-supreme-court/ Tue, 12 May 2026 19:49:23 +0530 umang-sultania A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta held that extending the investigation period under UAPA without producing the accused or recording reasons violates Article 21, and ordered the appellant's release on default bail. article-21 criminal-appeal criminal-procedure crpc-s-167 default-bail https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/dhanlaxmi-bank-mohammed-javed-sultan-section-7-ibc-cirp-contractual-dispute/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/dhanlaxmi-bank-mohammed-javed-sultan-section-7-ibc-cirp-contractual-dispute/ Tue, 12 May 2026 19:47:18 +0530 sc-desk A Division Bench dismisses Dhanlaxmi Bank’s appeal, holding that a tripartite property transaction does not create a straightforward financial debt warranting CIRP under Section 7. cirp debt-recovery-tribunal financial-creditor ibc nclat https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/indian-railways-wbsedcl-deemed-licensee-cross-subsidy-supreme-court/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/indian-railways-wbsedcl-deemed-licensee-cross-subsidy-supreme-court/ Tue, 12 May 2026 19:46:40 +0530 sc-desk A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma upheld APTEL's view that Indian Railways procures electricity for its own use and is therefore a consumer liable to pay cross-subsidy and additional surcharges under the Electricity Act. civil-appeal cross-subsidy-surcharge deemed-licensee dipankar-datta-j electricity-act-2003 https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/manjula-v-da-srinivas-benami-act-plaint-rejection-confiscation-2026/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/manjula-v-da-srinivas-benami-act-plaint-rejection-confiscation-2026/ Sun, 10 May 2026 19:31:05 +0530 sc-desk A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan held that a suit founded on a disputed Will was, in substance, an attempt to enforce a benami transaction barred by statute, and directed the Central Government to take over the suit properties within eight weeks. benami-act civil-appeal confiscation cpc-o-7 hindu-succession-act https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/sc-section-175-bnss-magistrate-direction-fir-merits/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/sc-section-175-bnss-magistrate-direction-fir-merits/ Sun, 10 May 2026 14:35:12 +0530 sc-desk A two-judge bench has held that the power under Section 175(3) of the BNSS to direct police to register an FIR cannot be exercised mechanically — the magistrate must record satisfaction that a cognizable offence is disclosed. bnss-s-175 criminal-procedure fir-procedure judicial-application-of-mind lalita-kumari-doctrine https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-the-supreme-court-s-nine-judge-verdict-in-puttaswamy/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-the-supreme-court-s-nine-judge-verdict-in-puttaswamy/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:58:17 +0530 sc-desk A unanimous nine-judge bench overruled six decades of precedent, holding that the right to privacy inheres in every person as an intrinsic part of Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed by Part III. aadhaar article-21 basic-structure constitution-bench data-protection https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/shreya-singhal-v-union-of-india-supreme-court-strikes-down-section-66a-of-the-it-act/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/shreya-singhal-v-union-of-india-supreme-court-strikes-down-section-66a-of-the-it-act/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:13:24 +0530 sc-desk A bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and R.F. Nariman unanimously held that Section 66A's core terms — "grossly offensive," "annoyance," "inconvenience" — lacked any manageable standard and swept far beyond the permissible restrictions on free speech under Article 19(2). article-19-1-a constitutional-law intermediary-liability it-act j-chelameswar-j https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/scotus-pwbd-act-compliance-nlu-mapping/ https://www.legalrepublic.in/supreme-court/scotus-pwbd-act-compliance-nlu-mapping/ Sat, 09 May 2026 01:19:23 +0530 sc-desk A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta clarified that meritorious PwBD candidates are entitled to unreserved seats and put National Law Universities in charge of auditing how States have implemented the 2016 Act. compliance constitutional-law disability-rights pil pwbd-act