Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Negotiable Instruments Act

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026Section 138 and 142(1)(b) - The Supreme Court set aside an order of the Karnataka High Court that had treated the sequence of condoning delay and taking cognizance as interchangeable or a "curable irregularity" – Noted that under the proviso to Section 142(1)(b) of the NI Act, the power to take cognizance of...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - NDPS Act

Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 – Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026Bail – Foreign Nationals – Article 21 of the Constitution of India – Financial Constraints in furnishing Surety –The Respondent, a 32-year-old Ugandan national, was granted bail by the High Court on 15.09.2025 in a case involving the NDPS Act - Despite the Trial Court reducing the...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Property Law

Property Law - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026Confiscation of Property — Death of Public Servant during pendency of Appeal — Effect on Confiscation Proceedings against spouse/relative - The Supreme Court held that confiscation proceedings initiated under the Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009 (BSCA) do not automatically abate or get set aside upon the death of the public servant...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Tax Law

Tax Law - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026Central Excise Act, 1944 – Section 11A(1) Proviso – Extended Period of Limitation – Suppression of Facts – Revenue Neutrality – The Revenue invoked the extended period of five years alleging suppression of actual use of Naphtha - held that "suppression" requires a deliberate act to escape payment of duty - Where the assessee is...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Environmental Law

Environmental Law - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026 CPCB Methodology for Environmental Compensation – Scope and Applicability – The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is a facilitative and indicative tool, not a rigid or exhaustive code - While primarily designed for industrial sectors, its adoption by the NGT for residential projects is not...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Labour Law

Labour Law - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026 Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 (BOCW Act) and The Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Cess Act, 1996 (Cess Act) — Implementation and Levy: Held, that although the BOCW Act and Cess Act were enacted in 1996, they remained "dormant" in...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Contract Law

Contract Law - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026Construction of Documents — Literal Rule vs. Purposive Construction — Supreme Court emphasized that a contract must first be constructed in its plain, ordinary, and literal meaning - If the words are clear, the intention of the parties must be derived directly from the text. Reliance on the ex-post facto conduct of parties (such...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Motor Vehicles Act

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026 Assessment of Disability and Loss of Earning Capacity – Functional Disability vs. Physical Disability – The Supreme Court set aside the High Court's decision to reduce the functional disability of the appellant-claimant from 63% to 30% - held that the High Court failed to provide cogent reasons...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Service Law

Service Law - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026 Accelerated Promotion – Counter-Extremism/Naxal Activities – Parity in Treatment – Judicial Review of Committee Decisions – The Supreme Court upheld the High Court's direction to grant accelerated promotion to a police constable (Respondent) who resisted a Naxalite attack on a police station - The State had denied...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code (IBC)

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026 Debenture Trust Deed (DTD) — Modification of Terms — Procedure for Restructuring — Supreme Court observed that the Corporate Debtor's claim of an existing moratorium was based on unilateral e-mail exchanges with only one debenture holder (ECLF) – Held that such negotiations could...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2026 - Code of Civil Procedure (CPC)

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Supreme Court Quarterly Digest Jan - Mar, 2026 Concurrent Findings — Scope of Interference by Supreme Court — While the Supreme Court ordinarily does not reappreciate facts where the NCLT and NCLAT have recorded concurrent findings, an exception exists when the perversity of such findings is clearly established – Noted that the NCLT...

Rajasthan High Court Monthly Digest: April 2026 [Citations 119-160]

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 119 To 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 160NOMINAL INDEXDr. Parnika Sharma v State of Rajasthan & Ors.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 119Ranveer Singh & Ors. v State of Rajasthan & Ors.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 120Supriya v State of Rajasthan; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 121Navin Temani v State of Rajasthan; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 122Pradeep Gupta v Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation...