(21) SAKHAWAT AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302 — Murder — Section 307 — Attempt to murder — Section 34 — Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention — Conviction upheld by High Court — Challenged — Prosecution case rests on eyewitness testimony — Material witnesses admittedly filed affidavits during bail proceedings denying appellants’ involvement and implicating others — Investigating Officer admits knowledge of affidavits but fails to conduct further investigation or record supplementary India Law Library Docid # 2426017
(22) K. UMADEVI Vs. GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Constitution of India — Articles 21, 42 & 51(c) — Fundamental Rights — Life and Personal Liberty — Reproductive Choices — Right to Health — Directive Principles of State Policy — Just and Humane Conditions of Work — Maternity Relief — International Law and Treaty Obligations — Right to life under Article 21 includes life in its fullest sense, all that makes life meaningful, worth living like a human being, embracing right to health and reproductive choices; motherhood and childhood entitled to s India Law Library Docid # 2426018
(23) AGNIRAJ AND OTHERS ETC. Vs. STATE THROUGH DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE CB-CID[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Criminal Procedure — Evidence — Material Witness — Eye-witness testimony — Contradictions and embellishments — Delay in recording statement of alleged eye-witness without plausible explanation renders testimony unreliable — Possibility of tutoring when minor witness gives contradictory statements and identifies accused for first time in court without Test Identification Parade — Evidence India Law Library Docid # 2426019
(24) SANJAY PRAKASH AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) — Organized Group-A Service (OGAS) Status — Cadre Review — Service/Recruitment Rules — Stagnation — Discrimination — Central Armed Police Forces (CRPF, BSF, SSB, ITBP, CISF) officers sought declaration as OGAS, grant of Non-Functional Financial Upgradation (NFFU), cadre review, and amendment of recruitment rules to eliminate deputation at higher levels and ensure promotion — High Court initially granted NFFU based on CAPFs being treated as OGAS, but declined f India Law Library Docid # 2426020
(25) BANK OF INDIA Vs. M/S SRI NANGLI RICE MILLS PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Legislative history and scheme — Genesis — Aimed at faster recovery of non-performing assets (NPAs) of banks and financial institutions (FIs) and facilitation of securitisation and reconstruction of financial assets — Background includes difficulties in recovery through civil suits, recommendations of Tiwari Committee leading to RDBFI Act, India Law Library Docid # 2426005
(26) SULTHAN SAID IBRAHIM Vs. PRAKASAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 1 Rule 10(2) — Striking out or adding parties — Power of Court — Scope — Court vested with broad power to delete or add parties at any stage, suo motu or on application, for effective and complete adjudication — Power exercisable by court on application or suo motu — Not an unfettered right for a party to seek deletion after due process. (Paras 43, 44, 45, 54) India Law Library Docid # 2426006
(27) CHANDRA BHAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 — Sections 9B, 14, 15 & 15A — Applicability to minor minerals — DMF contribution — Scope of State Government’s power — Section 14 clearly states that Sections 5 to 13 do not apply to minor minerals — Therefore, Section 9B in its entirety, including the percentage limitation based on royalty, does not apply for determining the amount payable to DMF for minor minerals — Section 15(4)(c) and 15A specifically empower the State Government to p India Law Library Docid # 2426007
(28) THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA Vs. M.T. MANI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Service Law — Pension Scheme — Option to Switch — Reserve Bank of India — Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) to Pension Scheme — Several options provided over time (1990, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2020) — Each circular/scheme distinct with varying eligibility, interest rates for refund, and benefit commencement dates — Later schemes incorporating financial considerations and government approvals — Respondent failed to opt on earlier occasions but availed 2020 India Law Library Docid # 2426008
(29) IN RE: RIGHT TO PRIVACY OF ADOLESCENTS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Section 6 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 363, 366, and 376(2)(n), 376(3) — Conviction and Sentencing — Review of High Court judgment setting aside conviction through extraordinary jurisdiction — Supreme Court sets aside High Court’s acquittal and restores Special Court’s conviction under POCSO Act and Section 376 IPC, while confirming acquittal under Sections 363 and India Law Library Docid # 2426021
(30) MAYA P.C. AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958 — Rule 9(a)(i) — Temporary appointments in public interest — Persons with benchmark disabilities exceeding 40% engaged under this rule subsequently regularised against supernumerary posts by Government Order (G.O.) dated 18th May 2013 — G.O. contemplated “regular appointment” and appointment orders in one case specified probation — Subsequent G.O. dated 3rd February 2016 declared those reappointed ineligible for probation declaration, inclusion in India Law Library Docid # 2426022
(31) RAJNI Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 23-05-2025 Practice and Procedure — Supreme Court — Clerical Errors in Judgment — Correction of — Typographical error in paragraph numbers and crime case details — Instead of ‘Miscellaneous Case No.9/2020 in respect of Crime Case No.11/2020’, judgment erroneously typed India Law Library Docid # 2426023
(32) UNIVERSAL SOMPO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. HAIDAR ALI AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 23-05-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Appeal against MACT Award — Assessment of Income — Claim by skilled worker (mason) for Rs. 12,000/- per month — Absence of documentary evidence — Effect of uncontroverted oral evidence and claim petition statements on monthly income — Rebuttal of income claim in cross-examination only by suggestion — Minimum wage notifications as yardstick but not absolute in absence of documentary evidence — Permissibility India Law Library Docid # 2426132
(33) CHADURANGA KANTHARAJ URS Vs. S.V. RANGANATH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-05-2025 Contempt of Court — Civil Contempt — Wilful disobedience of court orders — Implementation of land acquisition compensation through DRCs/TDRs — Order explicitly directing issuance of DRCs/TDRs based on specific valuation — Contemnors initially proposed issuance based on different valuation, rejected by court — Undeterred and despite being held guilty of wilful non-compliance and penalized with costs, contemnors further delay implementation through maneuvers including filing applications raising f India Law Library Docid # 2425951
(34) HDFC BANK LIMITED Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-05-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Offence by company. India Law Library Docid # 2425952
(35) PINKY MEENA Vs. THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-05-2025 Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 2010 — Rules 44, 45, 46 & 14 — Appointment — Probation — Discharge from service — Grounds for discharge — Appellant selected as Civil Judge, serving as probationer — Show cause notice issued regarding simultaneous pursuit of degrees while teaching, pursuing LL.M. while teaching, non-disclosure of teacher employment in RJS application, and joining RJS after resignation on medical grounds — Inquiry held — Discharge order issued based on inquiry report — High Court India Law Library Docid # 2425953
(36) M/S SURAJ IMPEX (INDIA) PVT. LTD Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-05-2025 Customs Duty Drawbacks — All Industry Rate (AIR) — Export of Soyabean Meal — Entitlement of merchant exporters to customs component of AIR duty drawback — Customs Circular No. 35/2010-Cus. dated 17.09.2010 — Applicability and scope — Effect of simultaneous availing of Central Excise duty rebate under Rules 18 or 19(2) of Central Excise Rules, 2002 — Previous Notifications (81/2006, 68/2007, 103/2008, 84/2010) — Interpretation of provisions regarding drawback eligibility when CENVAT facility or e India Law Library Docid # 2425954
(37) STATE REPRESENTED BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE, CBI, ACB, VISAKHAPATNAM Vs. ELURI SRINIVASA CHAKRAVARTHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-05-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 239 — Discharge of accused in warrant cases triable by Magistrate — Scope of examination by Magistrate — Consideration of material — Magistrate to consider only police report and documents sent with it under Section 173 — Accused has no right to file material or documents at the stage of framing of charge — Roving and fishing inquiry impermissible — Mini-trial at the stage of framing of charge defeats the object of the Code — Defence of accused India Law Library Docid # 2425955
(38) IN RE: ZUDPI JUNGLE LANDS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-05-2025 Zudpi Jungle Lands — Status and Character – Peculiar issue in six districts of Eastern Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra – Lands recorded as Zudpi Forest lands – Historically used for non-forestry purposes (residential, agricultural, government offices, public schools, primary health centres etc.) – Issue concerning the status of such lands under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and Supreme Court orders. India Law Library Docid # 2425956
(39) STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER Vs. ASIANET SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 22-05-2025 Constitutional Law — Distribution of legislative powers — Seventh Schedule — Interpretation of entries — Taxing entries vs. regulatory entries — Distinction between power to legislate on subject and power to tax on subject — Power to tax not incidental or ancillary power implied within regulatory entry — Taxation entries (List I Entries 82-97, List II Entries 45-63) are exclusive; no India Law Library Docid # 2426045
(40) KUTU TELIPATHAR Vs. STATE OF ASSAM[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 22-05-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 383 — Criminal appeal from jail — Appeal against conviction and sentence under Section 302 IPC for uxoricide — Conviction based on finding of guilt — Sentence of rigorous imprisonment for life and fine imposed. India Law Library Docid # 2426131