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(41) NAGARAJAN AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Criminal Law — Sentencing — Probation — Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (PoFA Act) — Section 20AA — Exclusion of Probation Act, 1958 and Section 360 Cr. PC — Applicability of Section 20AA to offences committed under the PoFA Act between 1976 (introduction of Section 20AA) and 2006 (repeal by Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006) — Express exclusion by Section 20AA is clear and unambiguous, admitting no absurdity — Courts must be subservient to legislative wisdom — Benefit of probation u
India Law Library Docid # 2425726

(42) MOHIT KUMAR Vs. VERSUS STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Recruitment Process — Terms of Advertisement — Non-compliance — Consequence — Where an advertisement for public employment stipulates specific requirements, such as the format of a caste certificate for claiming reservation benefits, non-compliance with such terms by an aspirant is likely to result in adverse consequences, including the rejection of the claimed status by the selecting body/appointing authority.
India Law Library Docid # 2425727

(43) RAJESH ETC. Vs. UNION OF INDIA ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 — Section 49-B — Prohibition of dealing in trophies, animal articles etc. derived from scheduled animals — Seizure of tiger skin, antler horns, claws, teeth, bones, and skulls from accused in a car in the presence of independent witnesses — Evidence of uninterested neutral witnesses (Petrol Pump Manager and officer requisitioned from Labour Commissioner) corroborating recovery and arrest at the spot — Substratum of witness testimonies not dislodged in cross-exami
India Law Library Docid # 2425728

(44) HANSA DEVI AND OTHER Vs. SBI GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Fatal accident — Deceased, a truck driver, aged 28 years — Income — Tribunal awarded compensation based on monthly salary of Rs. 10,000/- with 40% future prospects — High Court reduced salary to minimum wages of Rs. 4,076/- with 40% future prospects — Supreme Court restored the Tribunal’s assessment of income of Rs. 10,000/-, reasoning that an unskilled labourer in 2004 was held to earn Rs. 4,500/-, hence a driver of a heavy vehicle in 2014 would reasona
India Law Library Docid # 2425729

(45) THE TATA AIG GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. SURAJ KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Role of Insurer — Liability to Indemnify — An insurer’s liability is to indemnify the insured’s estate in monetary terms, based on pecuniary compensation awarded by the Tribunal — Monitoring the victim’s future well-being or ensuring proper functioning of prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs is not the insurer’s duty or an obligation that can be cast upon it — High Court’s direction to provide such services set aside.
India Law Library Docid # 2425730

(46) VIJAYA BANK AND ANOTHER Vs. PRASHANT B NARNAWARE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Interpretation of Judgments — Applicability to factual matrix — Judgments must be read and applied considering the specific factual matrix of each case and not like statutes. (Para 34)
India Law Library Docid # 2425708

(47) NOBLE RESOURCES AND TRADING INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED (EARLIER KNOWN AS ANDAGRO SERVICES PVT. LTD.) Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Export-Import Policy, 2002-2007 – Duty Free Credit Entitlement Scheme – Benefit of Duty Exemption – Crude Degummed Soyabean Oil – Eligibility for Exemption – EXIM policy provided for exemption for import of goods having nexus with exported products under category ‘67/food products’ – Appellant exporting food products including soyabean meal
India Law Library Docid # 2425709

(48) BRIG SANDEEP CHAUDHARY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Indian Military Academy — Commissioned Officers — Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) — Assessment — Numeric gradings (1-9) and pen pictures by Initiating Officer (IO), Reviewing Officer (RO), and Senior Reviewing Officer (SRO) used for evaluation — Qualities to Assess Potential (QsAP) and Box grading are not disclosed to the officer assessed — Disclosure of certain assessment parts to the officer is mandatory — Distinction between
India Law Library Docid # 2425710

(49) TUKESH SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Criminal Law — Murder — Attempted Murder — Evidence — Eyewitness testimony — Identification of accused in court essential, especially when not previously known or roles are specific — Failure of eyewitnesses to identify specific appellants/accused in court as the persons they saw committing the crime is fatal to the prosecution’s case.
India Law Library Docid # 2425711

(50) M/S HARCHARAN DASS GUPTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 — Sections 18(1), 18(3), 18(4), 24 — Overriding effect — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 7(1) — Arbitration agreement — Location of Supplier — Dispute Resolution — The MSMED Act, being a special law enacted subsequently, has an overriding effect over the Arbitration Act, a general law, particularly given the non-obstante clauses in Section 18 and the overriding effect of Sections 15 to 23 provided in Sec
India Law Library Docid # 2425712

(51) THE HP POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LTD. Vs. M/S BRUA HYDROWATT PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-05-2025
Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 86(1)(f), Section 111, Section 158 — Connection Agreement — Liability for Costs and Charges — Contractual Privity — Power Transmission — Generating Companies — Lead Partner concept — Tripartite Agreement (Internal) between generating companies — Head of Agreement between Transmission Licensee (HPPTC Ltd) and Lead Generating Company (BHP Ltd) — Construction costs and Operation & Maintenance (O&M) charges for substation Bay — HPPTC Ltd entered into Connection Agreem
India Law Library Docid # 2425713

(52) 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

(53) 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

(54) 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

(55) 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

(56) 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

(57) 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

(58) 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

(59) 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

(60) 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