(121) 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
(122) 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
(123) 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
(124) 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
(125) 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
(126) 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
(127) 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
(128) 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
(129) 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
(130) 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
(131) 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
(132) 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
(133) 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
(134) 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
(135) 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
(136) COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA Vs. SCHOTT GLASS INDIA PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025 Competition Act, 2002 — Section 4 — Abuse of dominant position — Essential elements are dominance and abuse resulting in appreciable adverse effect on competition (AAEC) — Act prohibits abuse of dominance, not dominance itself — AAEC is integral to Section 4 inquiry, as indicated by Preamble, Section 4 Explanation, Section 19(4)(l) and legislative India Law Library Docid # 2425646
(137) OFFICE FOR ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE Vs. IRCON INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES LTD. .RESPONDENT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11 — Appointment of arbitrators — Scope of judicial scrutiny — Whether court, while appointing arbitrator under Section 11, can determine arbitrability of specific claims beyond existence of arbitration agreement — Examination confined to existence of arbitration agreement by virtue of un-notified sub-section (6A) of Section 11 (inserted India Law Library Docid # 2425647
(138) JITENDER @ KALLA Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI) AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025 Advocates Act, 1961 — Section 16 — Designation of Senior Advocates — Validity of — Challenge to process laid down in Indira Jaising-1 and Indira Jaising-2 — Advocates can be designated as Senior Advocates by the Supreme Court and High Courts with consent based on ability, standing at the Bar, or special knowledge or experience in law — Section 16 creates two classes of advocates India Law Library Docid # 2425648
(139) AASHISH YADAV Vs. YASHPAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302 — Murder — Criminal Conspiracy — Section 120B — Common Intention — Section 147, 148, 149 — Unlawful Assembly — Arms Act, 1959 — Section 3, 25, 5, 27 — Use of firearms — Bail — Parity — Grant of bail based solely on parity with co-accused, especially when those granted bail were not the main accused or had distinguishing factors (like old age), is erroneous — Allegations of hatching conspiracy and engaging contract killer constitute sufficient material at the initia India Law Library Docid # 2425649
(140) PARSHOTTAM SHANTILAL CHADDARWALAA Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-05-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 195 and 340 — Bar on cognizance of certain offences relatable to contempt of lawful authority of public servants and offences against public justice — Purpose is to prevent frivolous litigation and preserve dignity of courts while maintaining justice administration standards — Offence alleged must have direct bearing on discharge of public servant’s lawful duties or direct correlation with court proceedings impacting justice administration — Bar applies w India Law Library Docid # 2425650