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(141) BRIG SANDEEP CHAUDHARY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Indian Military Academy — Commissioned Officers — Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) — Assessment — Numeric gradings (1-9) and pen pictures by Initiating Officer (IO), Reviewing Officer (RO), and Senior Reviewing Officer (SRO) used for evaluation — Qualities to Assess Potential (QsAP) and Box grading are not disclosed to the officer assessed — Disclosure of certain assessment parts to the officer is mandatory — Distinction between
India Law Library Docid # 2425710

(142) TUKESH SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Criminal Law — Murder — Attempted Murder — Evidence — Eyewitness testimony — Identification of accused in court essential, especially when not previously known or roles are specific — Failure of eyewitnesses to identify specific appellants/accused in court as the persons they saw committing the crime is fatal to the prosecution’s case.
India Law Library Docid # 2425711

(143) M/S HARCHARAN DASS GUPTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 — Sections 18(1), 18(3), 18(4), 24 — Overriding effect — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 7(1) — Arbitration agreement — Location of Supplier — Dispute Resolution — The MSMED Act, being a special law enacted subsequently, has an overriding effect over the Arbitration Act, a general law, particularly given the non-obstante clauses in Section 18 and the overriding effect of Sections 15 to 23 provided in Sec
India Law Library Docid # 2425712

(144) THE HP POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LTD. Vs. M/S BRUA HYDROWATT PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 86(1)(f), Section 111, Section 158 — Connection Agreement — Liability for Costs and Charges — Contractual Privity — Power Transmission — Generating Companies — Lead Partner concept — Tripartite Agreement (Internal) between generating companies — Head of Agreement between Transmission Licensee (HPPTC Ltd) and Lead Generating Company (BHP Ltd) — Construction costs and Operation & Maintenance (O&M) charges for substation Bay — HPPTC Ltd entered into Connection Agreem
India Law Library Docid # 2425713

(145) THE STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS Vs. DR. PASUPULETI NIRMALA HANUMANTHA RAO CHARITABLE TRUST[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Telangana Land Revenue Act — Sections 25, 172 — Telangana Alienation of State Lands and Land Revenue Rules 1975 — Rules 5, 6 — G.O.Ms. No. 635 Dated 02nd July, 1990 — Board Standing Order 24 — Conditional Allotment of Government Land — Not a Sale — Application of Statutory Scheme — Allotment of government land to a charitable trust, even upon payment of market value, is an allotment under a statutory scheme, not a sale, particularly when made subject to conditions regarding usage and resumption
India Law Library Docid # 2425714

(146) UT OF J&K AND OTHERS Vs. ROBIN KOUL[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 14-05-2025
Service Law — Regularization — Casual/Seasonal/Need Based Workers — Engagement of a worker as ‘Training Substitute Fisheries Guard’ continuously for over two decades — Distinction between illegal and irregular appointments — Long and uninterrupted service indicates work of perennial nature, not temporary — Stoppage of salary and retrospective dispensing of services based on a Government circular dated 17
India Law Library Docid # 2425863

(147) NEENA SINGH THAKUR Vs. PR. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-05-2025
Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 148A(b) — Notice under — Proposing issuance of notice under Section 148 — Income escaping assessment — Requirement to show cause — Information suggesting income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment — Details of information and supporting documents to be enclosed — Assessee required to submit reply with supporting documents.
India Law Library Docid # 2425870

(148) SAURABH BHATNAGAR Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-05-2025
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Section 21 & 29 — Conviction and sentence — Appeal against — Independent witnesses not supporting prosecution case — Effect of hostile witnesses — While evidence of hostile witnesses may lose credibility, it can be relied upon if corroborated by other reliable evidence; conviction not solely discarded due to hostile witnesses.
India Law Library Docid # 2425872

(149) SRI. S.V RAJASHEKARAPPA Vs. THE SPECIAL LAND ACQUISITION OFFICER AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 4 — Notification — Subsequent Notification — Acquisition of different parcels of land from same survey number for same public purpose under separate notifications issued at different dates — First notification in 1997, second in 2001 — Principle of parity in compensation applicable for similarly situated land.
India Law Library Docid # 2425959

(150) CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER GTL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. MD. SAMIQUL HUSSAIN[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 14-05-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 8 and 37 — Application for reference to arbitration — Requirements — Lease agreement containing arbitration clause — Unstamped or insufficiently stamped agreement — Admissibility and enforceability — Constitution Bench judgment in N.N. Global Mercantile Private Limited on unstamped agreements applied — An unstamped or inadequately stamped instrument with an arbitration clause is not a contract enforceable in law and cannot be acted upon for Secti
India Law Library Docid # 2426135

(151) THE COMMISSIONER, BENGALURU DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Vs. T. SEETHARAMAPPA (DEAD) THR. LRs[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Karnataka High Court Rules — Intra-court appeal — Power to interfere with Single Judge's order directing BDA to decide representations — Upholding Single Judge's direction to decide representations, allowing belated payments with interest; Reversed by Supreme Court.
India Law Library Docid # 2426260

(152) HARPREET SINGH TALWAR @ KABIR TALWAR Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT TH. NATIONAL INVESTIGATING AGENCY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967 — Section 43D(5) — Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8(c), 21(c), 23(c), 29 — Penal Code, 1860 — Section 120B — Offences involving cross-border narcotics smuggling and criminal conspiracy under NDPS Act and UAPA — Appellant allegedly played a coordinating and enabling role in facilitating import of narcotics concealed as talc through a proxy-controlled firm
India Law Library Docid # 2425652

(153) NDA SECURITIES LTD Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI) AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Special powers of High Court — Quashing of proceedings — Release of seized property/funds — Scope of jurisdiction — Power under Section 482 CrPC is not for conducting a mini trial or embarking upon an enquiry whether the allegations are true or false — High Court while exercising inherent jurisdiction under Section 482 CrPC should not make observations regarding absence of a party’s role when investigation is ongoing and their role is yet to be ascer
India Law Library Docid # 2425638

(154) DEEP SHIKHA Vs. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166 and 168 — Claim for compensation — Dependency — Admissibility of claim by married daughter (Appellant No. 1) — Presumption that married daughter’s dependence on natal family ceases — Financial dependence must be proven by the claimant daughter — Failure to prove financial support from deceased mother post-marriage — Married daughter, though a legal representative, not a dependent for loss of dependency compensation.
India Law Library Docid # 2425639

(155) P. SHANTHI PUGAZHENTHI Vs. STATE REPRESENTED BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE SPE/CBI/ACB/ CHENNAI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(e) — Criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct — Abetment under Section 109 IPC — Accused Public Servant disproportionately wealthy during check period and holding assets in spouse’s name — Whether non-public servant spouse abetting offence under Section 13(1)(e) — Non-public servant can abet offence under Section 13(1)(e) by instigation, conspiracy, or aiding — Where non-public servant allows public servant spouse to a
India Law Library Docid # 2425640

(156) SHAIKH SADIK SHAIKH RAFIQUE Vs. RELIANCE GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Injury — Permanent Disability — Young man (25) rendered completely bedridden after road accident as passenger in employer’s goods vehicle — Tribunal awards Rs.16,00,000/- based on assumed income of Rs.4,500/- and functional disability at 100% — Tribunal finds claimant is employee of owner of vehicle and policy covers passengers — High Court increases income to Rs.6,000/-, accepts 100% functional disability (assessed by doctor at 90%), grants 40% future p
India Law Library Docid # 2425641

(157) THIRUNAGALINGAM Vs. LINGESWARAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 96(2) — Order 9 Rule 13 — Ex-parte decree — Setting aside — Appeal — Applications for condonation of delay — Repeated applications under different provisions based on same grounds — Maintainability — Abuse of process — Earlier applications under Order 9 Rule 13 for setting aside ex-parte decree and condonation of delay dismissed by Supreme Court after finding reasons insufficient to constitute ‘sufficient cause’ — Subsequent appeal under Section 96(2) against
India Law Library Docid # 2425642

(158) RAJESH CHADDHA Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Criminal Law — Conviction — Challenge to conviction under Section 498A IPC and Section 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 — High Court upheld conviction in revision — Lack of specific allegations of cruelty or dowry demand, vague and omnibus nature of complaint, and lack of corroborating evidence forming basis of challenge.
India Law Library Docid # 2425643

(159) VIJAY KUMAR JOSHI Vs. AKASH TRIPATHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Service Law — Absorption — Pension — Employees of Co-operative Societies absorbed into State Electricity Board (MPSEB) — Admissibility of pension and calculation of qualifying service — Policy decision taken in 1995 to merge financially distressed Societies with MPSEB, formalized in 2002 and 2004 with specific absorption terms — Terms stipulated pension/gratuity as per Society rules — Litigation ensued regarding pension eligibility and service period calculation after absorption — Single Judge a
India Law Library Docid # 2425644

(160) JAWALA REAL ESTATE PVT LTD AND ANOTHER Vs. HARESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025
Consumer Protection — Allotment of Apartment — Developer-Purchaser Dispute — Cancellation of Allotment — Ad interim Order Restraining Third-Party Rights — Violation of Stay by Developer — Subsequent Alienation of Allotted Apartment — Effect of Violation on Further Proceedings and Equitable Relief. Developer cancelled apartment allotment; NCDRC passed ad interim order restraining third-party rights; Developer alienated the apartment in violation of the stay, complicating the proceedings and causi
India Law Library Docid # 2425645