(161) GOVINDAPPA GOUNDER @ GOVINDASAMY (DEAD) Vs. K.VIJAYAKUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 115 — Revision — High Court’s revisional jurisdiction over Revenue Court orders under Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1955 — High Court affirmed Revenue Court’s eviction order in a slipshod manner, interfering with findings of fact. India Law Library Docid # 2433442
(162) MOHAMMAD ZUBAIR AHMAD Vs. PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2025 SARFAESI Act, 2002 — High Courts’ Writ Jurisdiction — Financial institutions and banks should be hesitant to approach High Courts invoking writ jurisdiction in matters arising from SARFAESI proceedings, especially when alternative remedies like DRT exist. India Law Library Docid # 2433473
(163) M/S. L.G. ELECTRONICS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2025 Customs Act, 1962 — Section 130E (Appeal to Supreme Court) — Classification of Goods — Smart Watch vs. Wrist Watch — Imported goods classified by importer as wrist watch under CTH 91021900, but by customs as smart watch under CTH 85176290 — Tribunal affirmed customs' classification — Supreme Court held that specific features of the imported product indicated its primary function was as a portable/wearable India Law Library Docid # 2433474
(164) AMAR PRATAP Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND THROUGH SECRETARY, HOME DEPARTMENT AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2025 Criminal Appeal Jurisdiction — Dismissal of Appeal — Supreme Court can dismiss an appeal if no reason to interfere, especially when the High Court has confirmed the acquittal by the Sessions Court and the State has not challenged the High Court's judgment. India Law Library Docid # 2433475
(165) MAHA MINERAL MINING & BENEFICATION PVT. LTD. Vs. MADHYA PRADESH POWER GENERATING CO. LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Tender — Clause 5(D) — Past Experience Criteria — Bidder allowed to use past experience of previous Consortium or JV proportionate to its share — Not submitted JV agreement itself — Submission of work execution certificate stating proportionate share sufficient — NIT did not expressly mandate submission of JV agreement to prove proportionate share — Clarification could have been sought by tendering authority if doubt — Disqualification for non-submission of JV agreement not India Law Library Docid # 2432514
(166) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. SAJIB ROY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 335 — Public service recruitment — Reserved candidates availing age relaxation — Migration to unreserved category — Office Memorandum dated 01.07.1998 bars migration of SC/ST/OBC candidates who availed age relaxation from consideration against unreserved vacancies — High Court erred in applying Jitendra Kumar Singh v. State of U.P. (2010) 3 SCC 119, India Law Library Docid # 2432515
(167) RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE AND OTHERS Vs. PREM CHAND KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Recruitment — Reserved Categories — Migration to Unreserved Category — Age and Physical Measurement Relaxation — Standing Order No. 85 dictates no migration if relaxation availed — Standing Order No. 78 permitted migration — Revised Directive No. 29 modified Standing Order No. 78 by applying Standing Order No. 85 — Where Standing Order No. 85 conflicts, it prevails — Those who India Law Library Docid # 2432516
(168) SAHLAT FAHAD @ SOHLAT FAHAD Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 498A — Cruelty by husband or relatives of husband — Matrimonial Dispute — Settlement — Conviction and sentence for Section 498A IPC offence — Read with Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Section 320 — Offence not compoundable — However, Supreme Court has power under Article 142 of Constitution to quash proceedings in matrimonial disputes upon India Law Library Docid # 2432769
(169) RASHMI INDOULIYA @ CHAUDHARY Vs. VED PRAKASH INDOULIYA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Exercise of power — Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent — Supreme Court can pass such orders as are necessary for doing complete justice in any cause or matter pending before it — Parties present and resolved disputes by mutual consent, seeking dissolution of marriage under Article 142 India Law Library Docid # 2432773
(170) MOHAN AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 107 — Criminal proceedings under — Prior enmity — Complaint filed as a counter blast to prior criminal proceedings initiated under Section 107 CrPC between parties — Factual position vitiated by prior enmity and alleged retaliatory complaint.— Allegations in the complaint proved to be based on self-serving testimony and interested witnesses, with no independent corroboration.— Evidence admitted by the complainant indicating prior animosity India Law Library Docid # 2432774
(171) RAM SAGAR Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 197 — Prosecution required to obtain sanction from department to prosecute public servant for offences under the Indian Penal Code — Petitioner argued that trial cannot proceed for IPC offences without such sanction, though not challenging charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act India Law Library Docid # 2433443
(172) H. S. OBEROI BUILDTECH PVT. LTD AND OTHERS Vs. M/S MSN WOODTECH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 and 142 — Complaint filed beyond statutory period — Condonation of delay not automatic — Trial Court erred by assuming complaint was within limitation, neglecting to acknowledge delay and consider reasons for condonation — High Court's view that application for condonation is not mandatory was also erroneous — Statutory time limit requires India Law Library Docid # 2433444
(173) SIDDHARTH Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Advocates Act, 1961 — Section 35 — Professional misconduct — Expunction of remarks — High Court made adverse remarks against an Advocate for allegedly failing to disclose a relevant prior decision of a coordinate bench and implying that an Apex Court decision had overturned it — Advocate claimed omission was bona fide as he was not involved in the connected case where the prior decision was upheld, and India Law Library Docid # 2432505
(174) DEEP NURSING HOME AND ANOTHER Vs. MANMEET SINGH MATTEWAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 2(1)(d) — Allegations of Medical Negligence and Deficiency in Service against Nursing Home and Doctor — State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC) finds negligence — National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) reverses part of SCDRC's findings and places liability on Doctor for antenatal care, exonerating the Nursing Home. Supreme Court allowed appeal. India Law Library Docid # 2432506
(175) SMT. MANJULA AND OTHERS Vs. THE BRANCH MANAGER ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. BIJAPUR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation claims — Quantum of compensation — Determination of income — High Court reduced income without reasoning — Court found established income of Rs. 6,000/- by Tribunal, but High Court reduced it to Rs. 5,500/- without justification — Deceased had diploma in Pharmacy, partnership in pharmaceutical distributorship, and association with cooperative bank — Although medical shop licence was cancelled, deceased's multifaceted business activities warra India Law Library Docid # 2432507
(176) KISAN VITHOBA AAKHADE (D) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. SURESH TUKARAM NERKAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — High Court can interfere in second appeal if findings of lower courts are perverse — Reversal of concurrent findings of fact by the High Court was justified on grounds of perversity in appreciation of evidence. India Law Library Docid # 2432508
(177) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. ALOK KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Master Circular No. 29 dated 28.06.1991 — Railway Recruitment for Group 'C' posts — Initial training period is a prerequisite for absorption — Successful completion of training and passing of requisite tests are mandatory for retention in service — Candidates are to be warned at the time of recruitment about this condition. India Law Library Docid # 2432509
(178) GEETA Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 306 — Abetment of Suicide — Ingredients — To convict under Section 306 IPC, there must be a clear intention (mens rea) to commit the offence and an active or direct act that pushed the deceased to commit suicide seeing no option, with the intention being to push the deceased into such a position. Simple quarrels or heated exchanges in neighbourhood disputes do not India Law Library Docid # 2432510
(179) THE GENERAL MANAGER (P) CANARA BANK Vs. GANGANARASIMHAIAH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Section 11A — Tribunal's power to reappreciate evidence — Tribunal cannot act as a court of appeal and substitute its own findings for those of the disciplinary authority; standard of proof in departmental proceedings is preponderance of probabilities, not beyond reasonable doubt. India Law Library Docid # 2432511
(180) H.S. PUTTASHANKARA Vs. YASHODAMMA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Karnataka Rent Act, 1999 — Section s. 43(1) & s. 3(e) — Landlord-tenant relationship — Proof — Prima facie evidence — Rent receipts signed by landlord are prima facie evidence of relationship — Court can proceed to hear the case based on such receipts — If genuineness of documents is doubted or lease is oral with denial, parties to be referred to civil court for declaration of rights. India Law Library Docid # 2432512