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(101) VANASHAKTI Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Constitution of India — Article 51A(g) and Article 21 — Environmental Protection — Fundamental Duty and Right — Duty to protect and improve environment (Article 51A(g)) and right to live in pollution free atmosphere (Article 21) recognised as fundamental rights
India Law Library Docid # 2425764

(102) PRASANNATMA DAS Vs. K.N. HARIDASAN NAMBIAR (DEAD) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 — Registration and functioning — ISKCON Bangalore — Registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960.
India Law Library Docid # 2425763

(103) RAGHUNATH SHARMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Inherent Powers of High Court — Scope and Ambit — Exercise of Section 482 power is exceptional — It saves inherent power for effectuating Code orders, preventing abuse of process, or securing ends of justice — Not for acting as appeal/revision court — To be exercised sparingly, cautiously, and only when justified by the tests laid down — Quashing proceedings justified if amounting
India Law Library Docid # 2425831

(104) P KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Grant and refusal — Public servants — Allegations of criminal conspiracy, misappropriation, and corruption — Considerations include severity of allegations, stage of investigation, possibility of influencing witnesses, and need for custodial interrogation — Prima facie case against the petitioners found by High Court — Allegations of political vendetta not sufficient for grant of anticipatory bail if prima facie materials establis
India Law Library Docid # 2425842

(105) DINESH NEGI Vs. SAHIL SOOD[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 16-05-2025
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Conviction and sentence — Revision against concurrent findings — Evidence and appreciation by trial and appellate courts — Admissibility of documents not mentioned in notice/complaint — Presumption under Section 139 — Rebuttal of presumption — Scope of revisional jurisdiction — Re-appreciation of evidence in revision is ordinarily impermissible unless findings are perverse — Deposit of entire compen
India Law Library Docid # 2425869

(106) MS MAJA DARUWALA . AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Illegal Immigrants — Detention — After completion of sentence under Foreigners Act, 1946 — Continued detention in prison pending deportation — Legality of — Absence of dedicated correctional home/detention center — Challenge to administrative procedures prescribing continued detention as unconstitutional — Interplay with pending larger bench matters — Necessity of correctional homes/detention centers
India Law Library Docid # 2425931

(107) RIDMAL AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 16-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 313 — Examination of accused — Purpose — To give the accused an opportunity to explain incriminating circumstances appearing against them in the evidence.
India Law Library Docid # 2425958

(108) PAKU KARMAKAR Vs. STATE OF ASSAM[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 16-05-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Section 307 — Attempt to murder — Proof — Essential ingredients are act with intention or knowledge, under circumstances where if death is caused, it amounts to murder — Assault by husband on wife with a ‘dao’ (machete) — Injuries inflicted on vital parts including head and neck, resulting in grievous injuries and severed thumb — Victim’s testimony implicating husband, corroborated by medical evidence — Abscondance of accused and lack of plausible explanation
India Law Library Docid # 2426140

(109) RUPCHAN BHUYAN Vs. HAMIDA KHATUN AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 16-05-2025
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — Section 125 — Order for maintenance of wife, children or parents — Petitioner (husband) earning salary from CRPF — Respondent (wife) and minor daughters unable to maintain themselves — Husband contesting claim but failing to adduce evidence to support claims of expenses or lack of income — Wife proving cruelty, inability to maintain herself and daughters, and husband’s income through uncontroverted testimony — Trial Court’s order directing maintenance of Rs
India Law Library Docid # 2426141

(110) UNION OF INDIA Vs. M/S G.P. SALES CORPORATION[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 16-05-2025
Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 — Section 23(2) — Appeal — Consent Decree — Tribunal’s finding indicating agreement on price per bag of damaged cement, not complete settlement of dispute — Not construed as a consent decree barring appeal under Section 23(2)
India Law Library Docid # 2426142

(111) NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. SUBODH KANTI MAJUMDAR AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 16-05-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Assessment — Deceased bachelor — Deduction for personal expenses — Appeal against Tribunal’s award deducting one-third from deceased’s income — Deceased was bachelor (30 years 11 months) — Apex Court judgments mandates 50% deduction for personal expenses in case of bachelor where parents are claimants — Multiplier 17 appropriate for deceased aged 30 years 11 months — Recalculation of compensation by applying 50% deduction results in reduced awarded amoun
India Law Library Docid # 2426143

(112) BALJINDER SINGH ALIAS AMAN Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Grant by High Court — Setting aside — FIR under Sections 302, 323, 148, 149 (later deleted and Sections 34, 427, 120B added) of Penal Code, 1860 — Allegations of murder, assault, criminal trespass, and conspiracy — Trial court denied bail considering gravity of offence, heinous nature of crime, and criminal antecedents of one accused — High Court granted bail with "very cryptic reasoning" — Supreme Court finding High Court's reasoning
India Law Library Docid # 2426255

(113) V.S.R. MOHAN RAO Vs. K.S.R. MURTHY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 — Section 2(d), 2(e), 2(cc), Section 10 — “Land Grabber” and “Land Grabbing” — Meaning and Scope — Act’s purpose to curb land grabbing by unscrupulous persons — Defines “land belonging to a private person” inclusively — Defines “land grabber” and “land grabbing” broadly to include various unauthorized activities for illegal possession — Ingredients of “land grabbing” include factum of taking possession unlawfully and mens rea/intention to ille
India Law Library Docid # 2425731

(114) EBY CHERIAN Vs. JEREMA JOHN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Child Custody — Interim Arrangements — Overseas Parent — Rotating Employment — Family Court requiring fresh application for overnight custody each time appellant visited India — High Court upholding this arrangement — Held, unduly burdensome and impractical — Child Welfare paramount consideration — Meaningful contact with both parents essential — Where non-custodial parent demonstrates consistency, pays maintenance, and arranges professional life around child’s calendar, procedure should not imp
India Law Library Docid # 2425732

(115) HANSURA BAI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Criminal Procedure — Investigation — Transfer of investigation — Credibility of investigating agency — Impeachable conduct — Power to transfer sparingly used for justice and public trust — Allegation of investigating agency being privy to dispute raises doubts on credibility, justifying transfer — Local police accused of custodial death of victim; investigating the act themselves — This situation invokes the maxim ‘nemo judex in causa sua’ (no one should be a judge in his own cause) — Investigat
India Law Library Docid # 2425733

(116) VIRENDER PAL @ VIPIN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Section 304-B — Dowry Death — Proof — Essential ingredients are unnatural death of a woman within seven years of marriage, subjected to cruelty or harassment for dowry, and such cruelty or harassment was soon before death — Evidence of dowry demands, ill-treatment, and circumstantial evidence from parental relatives supporting conviction — Demand for money to secure employment, even if not traditional dowry, considered related to marriage terms and within the ambit of Section
India Law Library Docid # 2425734

(117) ISHWAR CHANDA SHARMA Vs. DEVENDRA KUMAR SHARMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Societies Registration Act — Constitution of society — Dispute regarding validity of elections — Referral to Prescribed Authority under Section 25 — Prescribed Authority’s decision on validity of election.
India Law Library Docid # 2425718

(118) M/S. INTERSTATE CONSTRUCTION Vs. NATIONAL PROJECTS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 37 — Appeal against Section 34 order — Setting aside of Arbitral Award concerning interest calculation — Scope of challenge — Division Bench of High Court restricted challenge to interest issue, specifically method of calculating interest including interest on interest rather than rate or entitlement to pre-reference interest — Held, challenge appropriately limited to the interest aspects of the
India Law Library Docid # 2425719

(119) M/S GAYATRI PROJECT LIMITED Vs. MADHYA PRADESH ROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Setting aside of arbitral award — Madhya Pradesh Madhyastham Adhikaran Adhiniyam, 1983 — Applicability to works contracts involving State Government or public undertaking — Relationship between Central Act and State Act — MP Act, 1983 is a special Act providing for compulsory arbitration in specific works contracts, operating irrespective of an arbitration clause — Features of MP Act, 1983 Tribunal distinct from Arbitration Act, 1996 Tribunal
India Law Library Docid # 2425720

(120) POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED Vs. MADHYA PRADESH POWER TRANSMISSION COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 79 — Functions of Central Commission — Regulatory and adjudicatory powers — Central Commission (CERC) is vested with both decision-making and regulation-making authority under Sections 79 and 178 respectively, distinct functions; former administrative/adjudicatory, latter legislative; but relationship needs harmonious reading; CERC’s regulatory powers under Section 79(1) are of ad hoc nature for specific parties and situations to fill regulatory gaps, not solely a
India Law Library Docid # 2425721