(1) ANNA WAMAN BHALERAO Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 463, 465, 467, 468, 471, 474 read with Section 34 — Offences relating to cheating and forgery — Anticipatory bail — Rejection challenged — Appellants, public servants at the time, accused of certifying mutation entries based on forged documents — High Court rejected anticipatory bail — Supreme Court affirmed the High Court's decision. India Law Library Docid # 2432639
(2) MAMMAN KHAN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 218, 219, 220, 223 — Joinder of charges and trials — Joint trial is the norm when offences arise from the same transaction — Segregation of trial solely on the ground of an accused being a sitting MLA is legally unsustainable — Such segregation, when ordered suo motu without notice or application and without assessing prejudice or delay, violates principles of India Law Library Docid # 2432640
(3) CONFEDERATION OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA (CREDAI) Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 — Section 3(1) and 3(2)(v) — EIA Notification, 2006, Schedule, Items 8(a) and 8(b) — General Conditions (GC) — Applicability — Column 5 of Schedule — Literal interpretation — Scheme of Notification — Omissions in Column 5 for Items 8(a) and 8(b) indicated deliberate legislative intent for exclusion of GC — NGT misconstrued EIA Notification and India Law Library Docid # 2432641
(4) ITC LIMITED Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Legal Metrology Act, 2009 — Section 15 — Power of inspection, seizure, etc. — Mandatory compliance with Cr.P.C. provisions for search and seizure — Section 15(4) requires searches and seizures to be carried out in accordance with Cr.P.C. provisions — Sections 93 and 100 Cr.P.C. mandate need for search warrant and presence of independent witnesses, respectively — Failure to comply renders search India Law Library Docid # 2432642
(5) MANSI BRAR FERNANDES Vs. SHUBHA SHARMA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 7 — Initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) — Homebuyers as Financial Creditors — Distinction between genuine homebuyers and speculative investors — Key factors for identification include nature of contract, buyback clauses, assured returns, stage of project, and intention to possess or profit — Assured returns and buyback options in India Law Library Docid # 2432643
(6) RAJUL MANOJ SHAH ALIAS RAJESHWARI RASIKLAL SHETH Vs. KIRANBHAI SHAKRABHAI PATEL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rule 6A — Counter-claim — A counter-claim must be directed against the plaintiff and cannot be exclusively against a co-defendant. The purpose of a counter-claim is to avoid multiplicity of proceedings by having the main suit and the counter-claim adjudicated together. India Law Library Docid # 2432644
(7) PRAKASH ASPHALTINGS AND TOLL HIGHWAYS (INDIA) LIMITED Vs. MANDEEPA ENTERPRISES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Tender Process — Rectification of Financial Bid — A bidder's request to rectify their financial bid by treating a per-day rate as a total contract period rate is not permissible after the financial bids have been opened, as it violates the sanctity of the tender process and specific clauses prohibiting changes to the Bill of Quantities (BOQ) template. India Law Library Docid # 2432645
(8) MANIKLAL SAHU Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 300, 302, 307 — Murder and Attempt to Murder — Causation of Death — Delay in Death — High Court altering conviction from Sec 302 to Sec 307 on the grounds that the victim died after 9 months due to complications arising from treatment, specifically pneumonia and septicemia, and not directly from the injuries sustained during the assault — Supreme Court held that India Law Library Docid # 2432646
(9) SHANTI DEVI (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS. GORAN Vs. JAGAN DEVI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Limitation Act, 1963 — Articles 59 & 65 — Applicability to void transactions — Suit for possession based on title — Sale deed alleged to be fraudulent and void ab initio — Article 65 (12 years from adverse possession) applies to void documents, not Article 59 (3 years for cancellation of instrument) — Plaintiff not party to sale deed not obligated to seek cancellation, can treat as non-existent or seek declaration of India Law Library Docid # 2432647
(10) SHIVAMMA (DEAD) BY LRS Vs. KARNATAKA HOUSING BOARD AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Interpretation of “within such period” — Sufficient cause must be shown for the entire period from accrual of cause of action till filing of appeal/application, not just the period of delay or from the last day of limitation India Law Library Docid # 2432648
(11) COAL INDIA LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. M/S RAHUL INDUSTRIES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Acts, 1972 & 1973 — Welfare State — Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) — Duty to subserve common good — PSUs are not profit-making concerns but an extended arm of a welfare State. India Law Library Docid # 2432649
(12) VANEETA PATNAIK Vs. NIRMAL KANTI CHAKRABARTI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 — Section 9 — Limitation for filing complaint — Complaint must be filed within three months of the last incident, extendable by three months — Subsequent administrative or collective decisions do not constitute sexual harassment unless directly linked to a prior overt act of sexual harassment India Law Library Docid # 2432650
(13) GEETA @ REETA MISHRA Vs. AJAY KUMAR MISHRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-09-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Cruelty — Divorce — High Court affirmed divorce decree granted by Family Court — Parties in constant acrimony since marriage — Wife made repeated police complaints — High Court found lodging false complaints amounted to cruelty — Parties separated for a long period with no reconciliation — Divorce decree upheld. India Law Library Docid # 2432651
(14) BALKAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 11-09-2025 Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 15/61/85 — Possession of poppy husk — Appeal against conviction — Appellant not challenging conviction on merits — Prayer for modification of sentence on quantum — Appellant had undergone 04 months and 02 days of imprisonment — FIR pertains to 2011 — Case involves protracted trial of over 14 years — Appellant living peacefully since then — India Law Library Docid # 2432560
(15) SARDAR (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LR SURESH AND OTHERS Vs. PIARE LAL (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LR JAL SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 11-09-2025 Civil Procedure — Second Appeal — Scope — In Punjab and Haryana, second appeals are treated under Section 41 of the Punjab Courts Act, 1918, not Section 100 CPC. No question of law needs to be framed in such appeals. India Law Library Docid # 2432558
(16) SHYAM SUNDER YADAV Vs. RIMPLE AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 11-09-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Conviction and sentence upheld by Appellate Court found to be appealable by way of revision. Offence under Section 138 of NI Act is compoundable despite consequences and provisions of CrPC, 1973, as per Section 147 of the NI Act. Parties arrived at a voluntary compromise. India Law Library Docid # 2432559
(17) JYOTI SHARMA Vs. VISHNU GOYAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-09-2025 Civil Procedure, 1908 — Order 41 Rule 27 — Production of additional evidence in appeal — Rejection of application to produce probate order obtained after trial court and first appellate court decisions was upheld, as it was not obtained during pendency of earlier proceedings. India Law Library Docid # 2432636
(18) VANDANA Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-09-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420, 468, 471 — Cheating, Forgery for purpose of cheating, Using as genuine a forged document — Standard of proof — Prosecution must prove mens rea (dishonest intention to make a false document or knowledge of its falsity) beyond reasonable doubt — Overwriting visible to the naked eye without expert corroboration is an unsafe basis for conviction — Document India Law Library Docid # 2432637
(19) MOHAMMAD AFZAL MOHAMMAD SHARIF Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-09-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 154 — Registration of FIR — Duty of Police — Information relating to commission of a cognizable offence to be recorded — Mandatory registration of FIR if information discloses commission of a cognizable offence — Preliminary inquiry only to ascertain if cognizable offence is disclosed, not to verify veracity — Police cannot avoid duty of registering offence if India Law Library Docid # 2432638
(20) MOHD JAFFER SHEIKH Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 10-09-2025 Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 — Section 8 — Preventive Detention — Grounds for detention — Detaining authority must inform the detenu of the time limit within which they can make a representation against the detention order, as this is a constitutional right guaranteed under Article 22(5) of the Constitution of India. Failure to do so vitiates the detention order India Law Library Docid # 2432536