(181) SOHANVIR @ SOHANVIR DHAMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (SC/ST Act) — Section 3(1)(s) — Essential ingredient — Requirement of caste-based abuse occurring "in any place within public view" — Interpretation — For an offence under Section 3(1)(s) to be made out, the place where the utterance is made must be open, enabling the public to witness or hear the abuse — Abuse uttered within the India Law Library Docid # 2436488
(182) GOVIND MANDAVI Vs. STATE OF CHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Penal Code, 18602 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 460 — Appreciation of Evidence — Prior Enmity and Delayed Disclosure of Accused’s Name — Where the star eyewitness (PW-2), the wife of the deceased, provided a detailed account of the assault to the informant (PW-1) immediately after the incident, but failed to name the accused in the First Information Report (FIR), this omission is fatal to the prosecution India Law Library Docid # 2436489
(183) SALIL MAHAJAN Vs. V. AVINASH KUMAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 316(4), 344, 61 (2) — Bail — Appeal against grant of bail — Distinguished from cancellation of bail — An appeal against the grant of bail is not on the same footing as an application for cancellation of bail — Superior Court interference in bail grant requires grounds such as perversity, illegality, inconsistency with law, or non-consideration of relevant factors including India Law Library Docid # 2436490
(184) DADU @ ANKUSH AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 3(1)(xi) — Conviction and Requirement of Caste-Based Intention — High Court's finding that the offence was committed "simply for reason that the complainant was belonging to scheduled caste" held perverse — No statement in court by the victim or PW-2 suggesting that the accused were motivated by the India Law Library Docid # 2436491
(185) RADHA THEVANNOOR Vs. M/S. NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Motor Accident Claims — Negligence and Contributory Negligence — Accident involving a car and a truck on a four-lane National Highway — High Court finding 50% contributory negligence on the part of the deceased car driver, reversing the Tribunal's finding of sole negligence on the truck driver — Challenge restricted to the finding of contributory negligence — India Law Library Docid # 2437512
(186) SONIA VIRK Vs. ROHIT VATS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Divorce — Cruelty — Irretrievable breakdown of marriage — Parties living separately for more than thirteen years (since 2012) without any meaningful effort at reconciliation — Relationship deeply embittered and acrimonious — High Court confirmed dissolution of marriage considering the welfare of the parties and their child — Supreme Court India Law Library Docid # 2436310
(187) SMT. BOLLA MALATHI Vs. B. SUGUNA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 General Provident Fund (Central Service) Rules, 1960 — Rules 5(5), 5(6), 33 and Note 2 to Rule 476(V) of Official Manual (Part V) — Interpretation — While Rules 5(5) and 5(6) read together do not automatically cancel a nomination where the subscriber fails to send a notice of cancellation and a fresh nomination — The express condition in the original nomination form stating it invalidates upon the subscriber India Law Library Docid # 2436311
(188) ADARSH SAHKARI GRIH NIRMAN SWAWLAMBI SOCIETY LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Administrative Law — Judicial Review of Executive Action — Good Governance — Simplicity in Public Transactions — Principles of illegality and irrelevant considerations — An executive action or memorandum that mandates unnecessary, excessive, or superfluous requirements, even if aimed at preventing misuse (e.g., by fake societies), is illegal and must be set aside if the requirement lacks value addition India Law Library Docid # 2436312
(189) THE STATE OF JHARKHAND Vs. THE INDIAN BUILDERS JAMSHEDPUR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Arbitral Award — Excepted or Prohibited Claims — Contractual clauses barring certain claims (e.g., for idle labour, idle machinery, business loss) — Judicial review of awards involving prohibited claims — Applicability of such clauses primarily depends on the agreement between the parties, guided by the principle of party autonomy — Arbitral India Law Library Docid # 2436313
(190) RANI @ RAJ KUMARI AND OTHERS Vs. KAMLAKAT GUPTA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Fatal accident claim — Deceased aged 33 years, survived by seven dependents (wife, four minor children, and parents) — Calculation of income — Consideration of income from both documented employment (stone crusher unit) and agricultural activity — Although documentary evidence for income beyond salary was lacking, it is reasonable to presume some income from agricultural activity given the farming background — Claimants' assertion of Rs. 6,000/- monthly s India Law Library Docid # 2436484
(191) R. LOGESHKUMAR Vs. P. BALASUBRAMANIAM AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Enhancement — Principles — Supreme Court’s power to award 'just compensation' exceeding the amount claimed — While enhancing compensation for a 21-year-old Appellant suffering 100% functional disability (due to hemiparesis, disfigurement, and brain injuries) — Supreme Court relied on 'Nagappa v. Gurudayal Singh' to award compensation in excess of the amount claimed by using evidence on record to arrive at just and fair India Law Library Docid # 2436485
(192) SANDEEP SINGH THAKUR Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Power of Supreme Court to do complete justice — Invocation of extraordinary powers — Case involving conviction for sexual offense (Sections 376(2)(n) and 417 IPC) based on 'false promise of marriage' — Parties (appellant and prosecutrix) subsequently agreed to marry and got married during the pendency of appeal against rejection of suspension of sentence — Supreme Court, upon noting the marriage and cohabitation, invoked Article 142 to India Law Library Docid # 2437397
(193) SHEIKH IRSHAD @MONU Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 20 and 29 — Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) — Sections 3(1)(i)(ii), 3(2), 3(4) — Bail Cancellation — Interference — Bail cancellation merely due to non-compliance with a condition requiring appearance at the police station (twice a month) is not justified, especially when the seized quantity is intermediate (non-commercial - 2 kgs 728 grams Ganja), the accused has completed India Law Library Docid # 2437406
(194) T. DHANYA Vs. THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Education/Admission — Payment of Fees — Time extension for deposit — In the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, petitioner(s)/appellant(s) granted entitlement to complete deposit of requisite fees by a specific extended date (10.12.2025) — Upon deposit, seats allocated in appropriate college(s). India Law Library Docid # 2437423
(195) TONLONG KONYAK Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) — Section 43D(2)(a) — Default Bail — Right to Statutory Bail — Extension of time for investigation — Investigation period can be extended to 180 days only by an express order of the Court recording specific reasons — Where the Special Judge rejected the application for extension of time to complete investigation, and the chargesheet was filed almost two years after the petitioner’s arrest, the prolonged custody without chargesheet India Law Library Docid # 2437424
(196) LAXMIKANT SHARMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Termination of Contractual Service — Qualifications — Interpretation of Educational Qualifications — Advertisement requiring “Postgraduate degree in Statistics” — Appellant holding M.Com. degree with Business Statistics and Indian Economic Statistics as principal subjects — Where no Government university offers a degree exclusively titled "Postgraduate degree in India Law Library Docid # 2436314
(197) ROCKY Vs. STATE OF TELANGANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Sections 420 (Cheating), 344 (Wrongful confinement for ten or more days), and 506 (Criminal intimidation) — Scope of quashing power: Quashing under Section 482 CrPC must be exercised sparingly, with circumspection, and only in exceptional India Law Library Docid # 2436315
(198) MUKUT DAS Vs. THE ASSAM POWER GENERATION CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Superannuation and Pension — Pay Revision — Eligibility — Assam State Electricity Board and its Successor Companies Revised Pay Rules, 2017 — Interpretation of "in service on 31st March 2016" — Employees retiring on 31.03.2016 by virtue of Fundamental Rule 56(a) (FR 56(a)) are entitled to the benefit of pay revision effective from 31.03.2016 as they were 'in service' on that date. (Paras India Law Library Docid # 2436529
(199) NEERAJ KUMAR @ NEERAJ YADAV Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Summoning of Additional Accused — Nature and Scope of Power — The power under Section 319 CrPC is extraordinary and discretionary, intended to be exercised sparingly, but it is an enabling provision aimed at ensuring that no guilty person escapes the process of law — The prerequisite for its exercise is that it must appear from the evidence India Law Library Docid # 2436277
(200) BPL LIMITED Vs. MORGAN SECURITIES AND CREDITS PRIVATE LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 31(7)(a) and (b) — Power of Arbitral Tribunal to grant interest — Party Autonomy — Pre-award (pendente lite) interest — Section 31(7)(a) mandates that the Arbitral Tribunal’s discretion to award interest on the sum awarded (from date cause of action arose till date of award) is subject to the agreement between the parties ("unless otherwise agreed by the India Law Library Docid # 2436278