(141) THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER Vs. TAGHAR VASUDEVA AMBRISH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Goods and Services Tax (GST) — Exemption Notification — Notification No. 9/2017- Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 — Entry 13 — Exemption on services by way of renting of residential dwelling for use as residence — Renting residential property as hostel to students/working professionals — Conditions for exemption: renting service, residential dwelling, and use as residence — The term "residential dwelling" is not defined under GST laws but refers to any residential India Law Library Docid # 2436279
(142) BHASKAR GOVIND GAVATE (NOW DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LEGAL HEIRS. Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Contempt of Court — Initiating contempt proceedings — Clear and unequivocal terms of the underlying order — A Contempt Petition can be dismissed summarily only if the underlying order, the non-compliance of which is alleged, is genuinely unclear, ambiguous, or susceptible to two equally reasonable interpretations — Where the High Court dismissed a Contempt Petition holding that the underlying order was capable of two interpretations, but the Supreme Court found, upon reading the order India Law Library Docid # 2436280
(143) LAXMIKANT SHARMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Termination of Contractual Service — Qualifications — Interpretation of Educational Qualifications — Advertisement requiring “Postgraduate degree in Statistics” — Appellant holding M.Com. degree with Business Statistics and Indian Economic Statistics as principal subjects — Where no Government university offers a degree exclusively titled "Postgraduate degree in India Law Library Docid # 2436314
(144) ROCKY Vs. STATE OF TELANGANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Sections 420 (Cheating), 344 (Wrongful confinement for ten or more days), and 506 (Criminal intimidation) — Scope of quashing power: Quashing under Section 482 CrPC must be exercised sparingly, with circumspection, and only in exceptional India Law Library Docid # 2436315
(145) PRAKASH SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Essential Qualifications — Draughtsman Examination, 2023 — Challenge to selection result — Urban Development Department — Qualification prescribed: Intermediate (10+2) and Diploma/ITI Certificate in the "concerned Trade" — Interpretation of "concerned Trade" — The term "concerned Trade" in the context of Draughtsman post in the Urban India Law Library Docid # 2436526
(146) MUKUT DAS Vs. THE ASSAM POWER GENERATION CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Superannuation and Pension — Pay Revision — Eligibility — Assam State Electricity Board and its Successor Companies Revised Pay Rules, 2017 — Interpretation of "in service on 31st March 2016" — Employees retiring on 31.03.2016 by virtue of Fundamental Rule 56(a) (FR 56(a)) are entitled to the benefit of pay revision effective from 31.03.2016 as they were 'in service' on that date. (Paras India Law Library Docid # 2436529
(147) M/S.KRK EDUCATION TRUST REP. BY ITS MANAGING TRUSTEE MR.K.R.ILANGHOVAN Vs. MR. D. PREM, PROPRIETOR, M/S.D SQUARE, TIRUCHIRAPALLI[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Setting aside/Modification of Arbitral Award — Scope of judicial intervention — High Court cannot sit in appeal over the arbitral award and interfere with findings that are based on appreciation of evidence, unless there is perversity or patent illegality — Arbitral Tribunal's finding regarding reduction in construction rate for ground and first floors India Law Library Docid # 2436679
(148) PUNJAB STATE CIVIL SUPPLIES CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. MULKH RAJ[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Retrospective Promotion — Entitlement to financial benefits/arrears of pay — Employee granted retrospective promotion but denied monetary benefits by promotion order on the basis of 'no work, no pay' principle — Concurrent findings of fact by Trial Court and Appellate Court that employee's inability to work on the promoted post was due to inaction, delays, and administrative lapses on the part of the employer (PUNSUP), and not due to any fault of the India Law Library Docid # 2436934
(149) CHARAN DASS (DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LRS Vs. PUNJAB STATE AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Temporary Employee — Termination of Service — Justification — Termination of a temporary employee is governed by the terms of the contract of service, which can stipulate termination without assigning any cause at any time — Where the termination order is innocuous, stating only that services are 'no longer India Law Library Docid # 2436935
(150) GURMUKH SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Criminal Revision — Modification of Sentence — Scope — Petitioner convicted under Sections 279, 337, and 304-A of the Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Conviction affirmed, but prayer confined to reduction of sentence to the period already undergone — Incident occurred in 2008, resulting in 17 years of protracted trial and agony — Petitioner had already undergone 9 months of imprisonment against a total sentence of 1 year — Mitigating factors considered: long pendency of the case (17 years), India Law Library Docid # 2436936
(151) BAL KUMAR PATEL @ RAJ KUMAR Vs. STATE OF U.P[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 321 — Withdrawal from prosecution — Requirement of High Court permission for withdrawal of cases against sitting or former MPs/MLAs — Following Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v. Union of India — High Court must exercise judicial mind and give a reasoned order when considering an application for permission to withdraw prosecution against India Law Library Docid # 2436212
(152) MISSION ACCESSIBILITY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 21 — Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPwD Act) — Substantive Equality and Inclusion — Scope and Spirit — The measure of a just society demands the removal of barriers for all citizens to realize their potential, transforming formal equality into substantive inclusion — Constitutional vision requires every person, regardless of physical or India Law Library Docid # 2436213
(153) ARFAZ MEHBOOB TAK Vs. UNION OF INDIA, THROUGH SUB-INSPECTOR NARCOTICS CONTROL BUREAU, JAMMU ZONAL UNIT, JAMMU AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 03-12-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Section 37 — Grant of Bail — Successive Bail Application — Commercial Quantity — Financing Illicit Traffic (Section 27A) — Rigors of Section 37 — The existence of 'reasonable grounds' to believe the accused is guilty, which bars bail under Section 37, must be inferred from facts and circumstances, specifically the nature of evidence, India Law Library Docid # 2436258
(154) DEVENDRA JOSHI UNSOUND MIND THROUGH MOTHER SMT. JAYSHREE Vs. CHOLAMANDALAM M.S. GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 03-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Motor Accident Claim — Proof of involvement of insured vehicle — Standard of Proof — Claims Tribunal dismissed claim petitions, finding the involvement of the insured vehicle (a tractor-tanker) in the accident (which involved a stationary vehicle without signage) was not proved, citing delay in FIR (lodged on 11.08.2010 for accident on 14.05.2010) and unreliability of India Law Library Docid # 2436287
(155) SACHIN SISODIYA Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 03-12-2025 Public Interest Litigation (PIL) — Maintainability and Abuse of Process — A PIL seeking registration of an FIR against a Police Officer (Respondent No. 5) was dismissed as not genuine, constituting an abuse of process — The Court noted that a prior PIL seeking similar relief for the same incident, filed on behalf of the victim (Respondent No. 6), was withdrawn after the victim himself had approached the Court India Law Library Docid # 2436288
(156) NATIONAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY OF INDIA Vs. BALKAR SINGH AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 03-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Challenge to Arbitral Award — Scope of Judicial Review — Patent Illegality — An arbitral award that suffers from patent illegality or perversity, or conflicts with the public policy of India, remains unsustainable and is liable to be set aside under Sections 34 and 37 — Patent illegality arises when the Arbitral Tribunal blatantly disregards the express India Law Library Docid # 2436524
(157) KHUSBOO SINGH Vs. SHRI SANDEEP KUMAR[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 03-12-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i-a) (Cruelty) — Divorce — What constitutes Cruelty — Making unsubstantiated and indecent defamatory allegations against spouse or their relatives, including accusations of extra-marital relations and false allegations of serious criminal offences (such as rape and dowry harassment), constitutes mental cruelty sufficient for dissolution of marriage — Where appellant India Law Library Docid # 2436525
(158) ABHISHEK GUPTA Vs. DINESH KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-12-2025 Allahabad High Court Rules, 1952 — Chapter 8 Rule 5 — Special Appeal — Maintainability — Bar created by Rule 5 against Special Appeals from Single Judge orders in Article 226/227 petitions must yield to foundational principles of natural justice where a non-party to the writ petition is adversely affected — An aggrieved person whose interests are prejudicially affected by an order of a Single Judge in a India Law Library Docid # 2436528
(159) SANJAY GUPTA AND OTHERS Vs. ATTAR CHAND AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 03-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Application for rejection of plaint dismissed by Trial Court — Issues regarding maintainability of suit (under Order II Rule 2 CPC, Order XXIII Rule 1 CPC, limitation, and Section 41(e) and 41(h) of Specific Relief Act) were raised by Petitioners (Defendants) — Consensus reached between parties that Petitioners would India Law Library Docid # 2436929
(160) ATMA SINGH(SINCE DISEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS Vs. JASWANT SINGH(SINCE DISEASED) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 03-12-2025 Registration Act, 1908 (Act of 1908) — Section 17(1) and Section 17(2)(vi) — Compulsory Registration — Consent Decree — A consent decree that creates right, title, and interest in immovable property for the first time (in praesenti) in favour of a party, rather than merely declaring a pre-existing right, requires compulsory registration under Section 17(1) of the Act of 1908 — Exemption under Section India Law Library Docid # 2436930