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Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : July 14, 2026
Links to the reports of July 14 : Supreme Court Takes Suo Motu Case Over NCLT Appointment Delays & Infrastructure Issues'Mere Telephone Records Can't Prove Illicit Affair' : Supreme Court Upholds Acquittal Of Woman & 2 Men In Husband's Murder CaseSupreme Court Acquits Husband In Dowry Death Case, Criticises Mechanical Trial Of 17 In-LawsSupreme Court Upholds Lalu Prasad Yadav's...
Hindu Succession Act | Class-I Heirs' Preferential Right Under Section 22 Extends To Agricultural Land : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (July 14) ruled that Section 22 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, which grants Class-I heirs a preferential right to purchase property proposed to be transferred by another co-heir, applies equally to agricultural land. Dismissing an appeal challenging the applicability of Section 22 of the Hindu Succession Act to agricultural land, a Bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh upheld the Punjab and Haryana High Court's judgment, which,...
Arms Act | Mere Recovery Of Weapon Without Proof Of Conscious Possession Can't Establish Guilt : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 13) observed that a mere recovery of arms from someone's house is not sufficient to hold a person guilty under the Arms Act, unless the conscious possession as well as dominion was not proved. “The High Court was justified in observing that mere recovery of certain articles including the weapons from the house of the respondent/accused is not sufficient enough to hold the respondent/accused guilty for commission of offence unless the prosecution establishes...
MMDR Act | Govt Can Revise Royalty Rate Though Lease Deed Was Silent About Royalty Revision : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 13) held that a mere silence in the lease deed with regard to the revision of royalty on mining of minerals would not take away the government's power to revise the rate of royalty at a periodic interval under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957. “While a mining lease is a statutory grant, royalty is a statutory levy. Power to revise royalty at periodic intervals flows from section 15 of the MMDR Act and the rules framed thereunder [in...
'Mere Telephone Records Can't Prove Illicit Affair' : Supreme Court Upholds Acquittal Of Woman & 2 Men In Husband's Murder Case
Mere production of telephone records cannot substitute substantive proof of an illicit affair leading to murder, the Supreme Court has held while upholding the acquittal of a woman accused of murdering her husband along with her alleged lover and another co-accused in 2007. The Court ruled that the prosecution failed to establish an unbroken chain of circumstances necessary to sustain a conviction based on circumstantial evidence. The Court observed that the investigation suffered from "fatal...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : July 13, 2026
Links to the reports of July 13.Supreme Court Rejects Regularisation Claims Of 361 West Bengal Madrasah Staff'Citizenship Status Must Be Determined Through Fair Process': Supreme Court Sets Aside 27 Foreigner Declarations By Assam Tribunals'You Can't Insult Students & Get Away' : Supreme Court Denies Pre-Arrest Bail To Professor In Kerala Student Suicide CaseSupreme Court Stays Madras...
S. 19 JJ Act | Children's Court Must Pass Reasoned Order Before Trying Child As Adult: Supreme Court
In an important direction for the Children Courts across the country, the Supreme Court on Monday (July 13) has held that a Children's Court cannot proceed to try a child in conflict with law as an adult without first passing a reasoned order under Section 19(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. Holding that this requirement is mandatory, a bench of...
Pre-2016 DRT Recovery Certificates Cannot Form Basis For Insolvency Notice Under Presidency Towns Insolvency Act: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 13) held that a recovery certificate issued by a Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT) before the 2016 amendment to the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act (RDB Act) could not be treated as a "decree or order" for initiating insolvency proceedings under Section 9(2) of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909. “A claim which was untenable on the date the...
