(61) GOPAL DIKSHIT Vs. UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 23 — Appeal against NCDRC order dismissing complaint — House Holder Insurance Policy — Claim for damage due to basement flooding — Repudiation based on “seepage” not being a covered peril — Appellant contends damage due to heavy rain and flooding, a covered peril — Distinction between “seepage” and “flooding” due to heavy rain is crucial — First survey report and expert certificates attribute damage to heavy rainfall and flooding — Second, belated survey r India Law Library Docid # 2425838
(62) SHIVAPPA REDDY Vs. S. SRINIVASAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Partnership Firm — Liability of Ex-Partner — Retirement — For a registered firm, public notice of retirement under Section 72 of Partnership Act must be given to the Registrar of Firms and by publication in the Official Gazette and a vernacular newspaper — Mere agreement or resignation deed insufficient for discharging ex-partner’s liability unless registered and published — Cheques issued after claimed retirement but before India Law Library Docid # 2425839
(63) HAKIM Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 326A and Section 34 — Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid, etc. with common intention — Conviction and Sentence — Concurrent findings by Trial Court and High Court — Scope of interference by Supreme Court in criminal appeal arising from special leave — Principles laid down: interference only in exceptional and special circumstances resulting in substantial and grave injustice; avoids reappraisal unless legal/procedural error, misreading/inconsistency in ev India Law Library Docid # 2425840
(64) RAVINDER SINGH SIDHU Vs. THE STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 161 — First Information Report (FIR) — Clubbing/Consolidation — Multiple FIRs in different States concerning similar offences by managing director of a financial company — Petitioner seeking clubbing of FIRs within each State — Prayer for inter-state transfer previously rejected — Court entertained the intra-state clubbing prayer as States did not object — Multiplicity of proceedings against the same accused and involving similar allegations is not in the India Law Library Docid # 2425841
(65) SHAURABH KUMAR TRIPATHI Vs. VIDHI RAWAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12(1) — Application seeking reliefs — Quashing of proceedings — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Whether inherent jurisdiction under Section 482 CrPC can be invoked to quash proceedings initiated under Section 12(1) of the DV Act, 2005 — Proceedings before the Magistrate under the DV Act, 2005, predominantly of a civil nature notwithstanding penal provisions — Application under Section 12( India Law Library Docid # 2425835
(66) IN RE: REFIXATION OF PENSION CONSIDERINGSERVICE PERIOD IN DISTRICT JUDICIARY AND HIGH COURTS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Constitution of India — Article 221 — Salaries etc., of Additional Judges of High Court — Pension — Entitlement — Discrimination — Definition of “Judge” includes Additional Judge — No artificial discrimination in pension entitlement between Permanent Judge and Additional Judge — Both entitled to same basic pension — Status determined by fortuitous circumstances of vacancy availability — Denial of family pension or gratuity to widow/family of Additional Judge is arbitrary — Family pension and gra India Law Library Docid # 2425843
(67) STATE OF LOKAYUKTHA POLICE, DAVANAGERE (STATE BY LOKAYUKTHA POLICE) Vs. C.B NAGARAJ[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) and 20 — Demand, Acceptance and Recovery — Essential ingredients for conviction — Entire chain beginning from demand, acceptance, and recovery must be completed — Money changing hands not ipso facto presumed to be pursuant to a demand — Where initial demand is suspicious, conviction cannot be sustained even if payment India Law Library Docid # 2425916
(68) RAJO DEVI AND ANOTHER Vs. MANJEET KAUR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — General — Claims for compensation — Nature of proceedings — Beneficial legislation aimed at enhancing social justice — Rigours of procedure should not defeat its purpose — Summary nature of trial. India Law Library Docid # 2425918
(69) IN RE PAY AND ALLOWANCE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE U.P. STATE CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 102 — Power of State Government to make rules — Model Rules framed by Central Government — Variances in State Rules regarding pay and allowances of members of State and District Commissions — Necessity for uniform service conditions — Consumer Protection Act, 2019 aimed at better consumer interest protection through established authorities for dispute redressal — Proper remuneration and allowances essential for effective duty discharge by India Law Library Docid # 2426042
(70) M/S UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. SRI THANERWAR BARUAH AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 19-05-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Appeal against judgment and award of Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Quantum of compensation — Just and fair compensation — Principles — Appeal raising grounds of objection as to reasonableness and fairness of quantum awarded by Tribunal — Court’s role is to assess whether award has a reasonable basis and is not excessive — Interference warranted if compensation is not fair or reasonable India Law Library Docid # 2426127
(71) RADHA RANI DAS AND OTHERS Vs. ASHISH MAZUMDAR AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 19-05-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 21 Rules 97, 101 & 103 — Resistance or obstruction to possession of immovable property — Adjudication of claims — Third party claims — Scope of inquiry — Requirements — Court receiving application under Rule 97 must adjudicate claims in accordance with Rule 101, conducting a full inquiry into right, title, or interest — Applicant must be in possession to invoke Rule 97 — Appellants, claiming India Law Library Docid # 2426128
(72) ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Thirteenth Finance Commission (2010-2015) — Recommendations on Judiciary — Court Managers — Concept of Court Managers introduced to enhance efficiency of court management and improve case disposal by providing administrative support to judges — Recommended creation of post in each judicial district and two per High Court, with estimated annual expenditure of Rs. 60 crore and total for the period of Rs. 300 crore, allocated to states based on number of judicial districts. India Law Library Docid # 2425760
(73) SARASWATI DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. SANTOSH SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 — Section 47 — Execution — Objections to execution — Rejection of Execution Petition on ground of satisfaction recorded in earlier EP — Successive objections by judgment debtor — Maintainability — Principle of res judicata — Earlier EP closed without presence of decree-holder and judgment-debtor, with judgment-debtor undertaking not to cause obstruction — Court assumed full satisfaction due to decree-holder”s absence — Such recorded satisfaction does not bar filing India Law Library Docid # 2425761
(74) THE STATE OF KERALA AND OTHERS Vs. THE PRINCIPAL, KMCT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee — Corpus Fund — Power to create — Subsidizing medical education for BPL students from NRI student fees — Committee”s decision to create a corpus fund by remitting part of NRI fees to State Government quashed — Rationale: Authority to levy fee must stem from law, not executive order or transitional directions from judicial pronouncements India Law Library Docid # 2425762
(75) VANASHAKTI Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Constitution of India — Article 51A(g) and Article 21 — Environmental Protection — Fundamental Duty and Right — Duty to protect and improve environment (Article 51A(g)) and right to live in pollution free atmosphere (Article 21) recognised as fundamental rights India Law Library Docid # 2425764
(76) PRASANNATMA DAS Vs. K.N. HARIDASAN NAMBIAR (DEAD) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 — Registration and functioning — ISKCON Bangalore — Registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960. India Law Library Docid # 2425763
(77) RAGHUNATH SHARMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Inherent Powers of High Court — Scope and Ambit — Exercise of Section 482 power is exceptional — It saves inherent power for effectuating Code orders, preventing abuse of process, or securing ends of justice — Not for acting as appeal/revision court — To be exercised sparingly, cautiously, and only when justified by the tests laid down — Quashing proceedings justified if amounting India Law Library Docid # 2425831
(78) P KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Grant and refusal — Public servants — Allegations of criminal conspiracy, misappropriation, and corruption — Considerations include severity of allegations, stage of investigation, possibility of influencing witnesses, and need for custodial interrogation — Prima facie case against the petitioners found by High Court — Allegations of political vendetta not sufficient for grant of anticipatory bail if prima facie materials establis India Law Library Docid # 2425842
(79) DINESH NEGI Vs. SAHIL SOOD[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 16-05-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Conviction and sentence — Revision against concurrent findings — Evidence and appreciation by trial and appellate courts — Admissibility of documents not mentioned in notice/complaint — Presumption under Section 139 — Rebuttal of presumption — Scope of revisional jurisdiction — Re-appreciation of evidence in revision is ordinarily impermissible unless findings are perverse — Deposit of entire compen India Law Library Docid # 2425869
(80) MS MAJA DARUWALA . AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Illegal Immigrants — Detention — After completion of sentence under Foreigners Act, 1946 — Continued detention in prison pending deportation — Legality of — Absence of dedicated correctional home/detention center — Challenge to administrative procedures prescribing continued detention as unconstitutional — Interplay with pending larger bench matters — Necessity of correctional homes/detention centers India Law Library Docid # 2425931