(21) GOVIND MANDAVI Vs. STATE OF CHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Penal Code, 18602 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 460 — Appreciation of Evidence — Prior Enmity and Delayed Disclosure of Accused’s Name — Where the star eyewitness (PW-2), the wife of the deceased, provided a detailed account of the assault to the informant (PW-1) immediately after the incident, but failed to name the accused in the First Information Report (FIR), this omission is fatal to the prosecution India Law Library Docid # 2436489
(22) SALIL MAHAJAN Vs. V. AVINASH KUMAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 316(4), 344, 61 (2) — Bail — Appeal against grant of bail — Distinguished from cancellation of bail — An appeal against the grant of bail is not on the same footing as an application for cancellation of bail — Superior Court interference in bail grant requires grounds such as perversity, illegality, inconsistency with law, or non-consideration of relevant factors including India Law Library Docid # 2436490
(23) DADU @ ANKUSH AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 3(1)(xi) — Conviction and Requirement of Caste-Based Intention — High Court's finding that the offence was committed "simply for reason that the complainant was belonging to scheduled caste" held perverse — No statement in court by the victim or PW-2 suggesting that the accused were motivated by the India Law Library Docid # 2436491
(24) THE TAMIL NADU HOUSING BOARD, TNHB, ANNA NAGAR CIRCLE, REP.BY ITS SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER, CHENNAI Vs. M/S. N.C.C.LTD, FORMERLY M/S. NAGARJUNA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 08-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34(2)(b)(ii) and Section 34(2A) — Setting aside of Arbitral Award — Grounds — Undue and unexplained delay in passing award — An arbitral award passed with an unexplained delay of more than seven years after conclusion of arguments (arguments concluded on 24.11.2013, award passed on 30.07.2020) is in conflict with the Public Policy of India and is India Law Library Docid # 2436675
(25) PANEERSELVAM @ NELLAPPAN (DIED) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. AMSAVALLI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 08-12-2025 Indian Succession Act, 1925 — Section 63(c) — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 68 — Proof of Will — Requirements for valid proof include compliance with Section 63 of the Indian Succession Act — At least one attesting witness, who is alive and capable, must be examined to prove the testator's signature and the signing of the Will by the witnesses in the testator's presence — Even if one attesting witness India Law Library Docid # 2436676
(26) VIMALA DAMAYANTHI Vs. J. R. SYMON MORRIS AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 08-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Scope — While considering an application for rejection of plaint, the court must only look at the averments in the plaint and the documents annexed therewith; the written statement or documents filed by the defendants should not be considered. India Law Library Docid # 2436677
(27) G. GANESAN Vs. THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 08-12-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 — Section 528, Section 223(1), Section 531(2)(a) — BNSS vs. Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973 (erstwhile Code) — Applicability of BNSS Section 223(1) (mandating hearing before taking cognizance) — BNSS came into force on 01.07.2024 — If criminal proceedings India Law Library Docid # 2436678
(28) SONIA VIRK Vs. ROHIT VATS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Divorce — Cruelty — Irretrievable breakdown of marriage — Parties living separately for more than thirteen years (since 2012) without any meaningful effort at reconciliation — Relationship deeply embittered and acrimonious — High Court confirmed dissolution of marriage considering the welfare of the parties and their child — Supreme Court India Law Library Docid # 2436310
(29) SMT. BOLLA MALATHI Vs. B. SUGUNA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 General Provident Fund (Central Service) Rules, 1960 — Rules 5(5), 5(6), 33 and Note 2 to Rule 476(V) of Official Manual (Part V) — Interpretation — While Rules 5(5) and 5(6) read together do not automatically cancel a nomination where the subscriber fails to send a notice of cancellation and a fresh nomination — The express condition in the original nomination form stating it invalidates upon the subscriber India Law Library Docid # 2436311
(30) ADARSH SAHKARI GRIH NIRMAN SWAWLAMBI SOCIETY LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Administrative Law — Judicial Review of Executive Action — Good Governance — Simplicity in Public Transactions — Principles of illegality and irrelevant considerations — An executive action or memorandum that mandates unnecessary, excessive, or superfluous requirements, even if aimed at preventing misuse (e.g., by fake societies), is illegal and must be set aside if the requirement lacks value addition India Law Library Docid # 2436312
(31) THE STATE OF JHARKHAND Vs. THE INDIAN BUILDERS JAMSHEDPUR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Arbitral Award — Excepted or Prohibited Claims — Contractual clauses barring certain claims (e.g., for idle labour, idle machinery, business loss) — Judicial review of awards involving prohibited claims — Applicability of such clauses primarily depends on the agreement between the parties, guided by the principle of party autonomy — Arbitral India Law Library Docid # 2436313
(32) SMT. MAMTA GURJAR Vs. POOJA KUSHWAH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 05-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C.) — Section 197 (Protection to Public Servants) — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 — Section 218 (equivalent to Section 197 Cr.P.C.) — Complaint against Police Officials — Custodial Violence and Assault — Maintainability without Sanction — Petitioners (Police Officials) sought quashing of India Law Library Docid # 2436289
(33) SMT. MAYA DHAKAD Vs. SHRI BHARAT DHAKAD[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 05-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Supervisory Jurisdiction — Challenging Appellate Order on Temporary Injunction — Power under Article 227 is exercised to correct manifest injustice, jurisdictional error, or perversity, not merely because a different view is possible — High Court affirmed the Appellate Court's decision granting temporary injunction as it found the order legal, proper, and India Law Library Docid # 2436290
(34) RANI @ RAJ KUMARI AND OTHERS Vs. KAMLAKAT GUPTA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Fatal accident claim — Deceased aged 33 years, survived by seven dependents (wife, four minor children, and parents) — Calculation of income — Consideration of income from both documented employment (stone crusher unit) and agricultural activity — Although documentary evidence for income beyond salary was lacking, it is reasonable to presume some income from agricultural activity given the farming background — Claimants' assertion of Rs. 6,000/- monthly s India Law Library Docid # 2436484
(35) R. LOGESHKUMAR Vs. P. BALASUBRAMANIAM AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Enhancement — Principles — Supreme Court’s power to award 'just compensation' exceeding the amount claimed — While enhancing compensation for a 21-year-old Appellant suffering 100% functional disability (due to hemiparesis, disfigurement, and brain injuries) — Supreme Court relied on 'Nagappa v. Gurudayal Singh' to award compensation in excess of the amount claimed by using evidence on record to arrive at just and fair India Law Library Docid # 2436485
(36) MANOJ Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Criminal Law — Appeal against Conviction — Sexual Offences — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376(2) — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 — Section 6 — Appreciation of Evidence — Requirement of proof beyond reasonable doubt — Reappraisal of evidence necessary when key prosecution witnesses (victim and mother) turn hostile, retracting earlier allegations India Law Library Docid # 2436527
(37) NEERAJ KUMAR @ NEERAJ YADAV Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Summoning of Additional Accused — Nature and Scope of Power — The power under Section 319 CrPC is extraordinary and discretionary, intended to be exercised sparingly, but it is an enabling provision aimed at ensuring that no guilty person escapes the process of law — The prerequisite for its exercise is that it must appear from the evidence India Law Library Docid # 2436277
(38) BPL LIMITED Vs. MORGAN SECURITIES AND CREDITS PRIVATE LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 31(7)(a) and (b) — Power of Arbitral Tribunal to grant interest — Party Autonomy — Pre-award (pendente lite) interest — Section 31(7)(a) mandates that the Arbitral Tribunal’s discretion to award interest on the sum awarded (from date cause of action arose till date of award) is subject to the agreement between the parties ("unless otherwise agreed by the India Law Library Docid # 2436278
(39) 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
(40) 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