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(81) MOHAMED SAMEER KHAN Vs. STATE REPRESENTED BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 449, 376, 394 — Appeal against High Court's upholding of conviction and sentence — Case based on circumstantial evidence — Absence of direct evidence connecting appellant to offense — Falsely implicated — Prosecution failed to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt — No scientific evidence linking appellant — Important witnesses not associated in
India Law Library Docid # 2434637

(82) JEMABEN Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Appeal against High Court conviction — Trial Court acquitted, High Court convicted appellant for murder — Prosecution case rested mainly on dying declarations — Defence argued discrepancies in dying declarations and other evidence — Trial Court acquitted giving benefit of doubt due to discrepancies in three dying declarations — High Court relied
India Law Library Docid # 2434638

(83) ANNAMALAI Vs. VASANTHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 10 and Section 14 — Specific Performance — Discretionary Relief — Time Essence of Contract — Agreement for Sale — Plaintiff paid over 90% of consideration and additional amount, demonstrating readiness and willingness; defendants accepting additional payment waived right to forfeit earnest money for non-payment within six months — Non-issuance of notice
India Law Library Docid # 2434639

(84) HARIBHAU @ BHAUSAHEB DINKAR KHARUSE AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 149, 302, 307 — Unlawful Assembly and Vicarious Liability — High Court correctly reversed acquittal based on misappreciation of evidence by Trial Court, specifically overlooking credibility of injured eyewitnesses and legal effect of active participation in unlawful assembly
India Law Library Docid # 2434640

(85) REKHA MINOCHA Vs. AMIT SHAH MINOCHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance — Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12, 21, 22 — Matrimonial dispute — Wife filed for maintenance — Trial court awarded maintenance and compensation — Appellate court upheld — High Court partly set aside compensation and dismissed Section 125 CrPC application — Supreme Court
India Law Library Docid # 2434699

(86) K. NAGENDRA Vs. THE NEW INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Motor Vehicles Act — Section 149 — Liability of insurer — Deviation from route — Accident occurred while offending vehicle was outside permitted route — High Court applied 'pay and recover' principle — Insurance company directed to pay award and recover from owner — Held, High Court's order justified — Purpose of insurance is to shield owner from liability, denying compensation is unjust to victim — However, insurer acts within contract bounds and should not pay for claims outside agreement
India Law Library Docid # 2434636

(87) THE COMMISSIONER, NAGPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND OTHERS Vs. LALITA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Civil Death — Presumption of Death — General Rule — A person is presumed dead only after seven years from the date they went missing, unless there is specific evidence to the contrary. The decree of civil death declares a person presumed dead after seven years of disappearance but does not fix a precise date of death.
India Law Library Docid # 2434882

(88) COMMON CAUSE Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Mines and Minerals — Recovery of dues — The court expressed serious displeasure with the State of Odisha's recovery process of dues from defaulting lessees, noting a lack of essential data in their status report and granting them time to file a better report with concrete steps.
India Law Library Docid # 2434885

(89) AMAN KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Offences under Sections 309(5), 109(1), 103 and 3(5) — Charge framing delays — Petition for regular bail — Petitioner accused of several offences and in custody since August 10, 2024 — Chargesheet filed September 30, 2024 — Charge not yet framed — Petitioner claims innocence and false implication — Delay in charge framing hindering progress of trial.
India Law Library Docid # 2434902

(90) RAJ KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 376, 384, 506 — Rape, Extortion, Criminal Intimidation — FIR registered based on prosecutrix's complaint alleging acquaintance through Facebook, false representation, intoxication, rape, recording of obscene photos/videos, and subsequent demands for money under threat — Prosecution case gist.
India Law Library Docid # 2434903

(91) VIRENDRA Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 147, 148, 504, 302/149, 307/149, 323/149 — Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1932 — Section 7 — Conviction for offences — Appeal to High Court — Application for suspension of sentence rejected — Supreme Court granted leave to appeal and suspended sentence of appellant — Reasons for suspension include parity with co-accused enlarged on bail, appellant’s custody period exceeding 11 years, and the appeal likely to take considerable
India Law Library Docid # 2434907

(92) RAMNATH KORI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302/149, 148, 147 — Conviction and sentence to life imprisonment — Appeal pending before High Court — Application for suspension of sentence rejected — Present appeal filed challenging rejection — Supreme Court grants leave to appeal.
India Law Library Docid # 2434909

(93) STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS Vs. KANTA SHARMA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Service Law — Recruitment — Special Educators — State informed that 245 posts of Special Educators have been created and will be filled — Proposal for service conditions and status of School under consideration by Cabinet for decision. (Para 2)
India Law Library Docid # 2434911

(94) RAVINDRA BHASKAR JAYWANT Vs. SANDEEP ASHOK BANSUDE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Interference by High Court — High Court should not interfere with a bail order granted by a Magistrate merely because the order lacked detailed reasoning, especially when the alleged offences are triable by the Magistrate.
India Law Library Docid # 2434912

(95) SOHANSINH JANAKSINGH @ MOHABBATSINGH YADAV Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Grant of Bail — appellant is father-in-law of deceased, alleged to have conspired to kill deceased for insurance policy benefit — Deceased died in road accident allegations of strangulation and pushing under vehicle did not find support from post-mortem report, injuries ante-mortem relatable to accident — Appellant's son, not
India Law Library Docid # 2434914

(96) JYOTIKA BHALLA Vs. AMAN MISHRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Civil Procedure — Transfer Petition — Settlement Agreement — Parties resolved disputes through mediation, leading to a Settlement Agreement signed by them, their counsel, and the mediator — Supreme Court upheld the agreement and dissolved the marriage in exercise of jurisdiction under Article 142 of the Constitution.
India Law Library Docid # 2434917

(97) MD. MOFIZUDDIN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Suspension of Sentence — Appeal against High Court order rejecting suspension of sentence — Co-accused with similar case granted suspension of sentence — Appellant has undergone significant incarceration and has a weak prosecution case with no likelihood of early hearing of appeal — Supreme Court grants suspension of sentence pending appeal.
India Law Library Docid # 2434922

(98) APRAJITA SINGH Vs. PRASHANT SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 33 — Settlement Agreement — Parties reaching amicable settlement before mediation centre — Settlement agreement recorded and signed by parties, lawyers, and mediator — Terms of settlement include dissolution of marriage, quashing of FIR, withdrawal of pending matters, payment of alimony and maintenance, return of specific articles, deletion of photos/videos, and mutual non-interference in future lives — Court takes notice of initial payment and outlines s
India Law Library Docid # 2434931

(99) RITU GARG AND OTHERS Vs. BOARD OF GOVERNORS BOG AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025
National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007 — First Statutes of the National Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Statutes, 2023 — Statute 9 — Interpretation — Legislative intent — Amendments to statutes are to be read holistically and in context to advance their purpose. Statute 9 was introduced to clarify and validate a one-time relaxation for Assistant Professors, similar to other NITs, effectively curing the procedural defect identified by the High Court in previous litigation. This
India Law Library Docid # 2435038

(100) EPC CONSTRUCTIONS INDIA LIMITED THROUGH ITS LIQUIDATOR - ABHIJIT GUHATHAKURTA Vs. M/S MATIX FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 7 — Initiate Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process — Financial Creditor — Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (CRPS) — Held to be investment, not debt — CRPS holders are not creditors — Cannot initiate CIRP under Section 7 of IBC.
India Law Library Docid # 2434580