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(241) MALLEESWARI Vs. K. SUGUNA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 114 and Order 47 Rule 1 — Review Jurisdiction — Scope of review is limited to correction of apparent errors, not for rehearing or substituting a view — High Court exceeded its review jurisdiction by reappreciating evidence and reversing findings as if it were an appellate court.
India Law Library Docid # 2432452

(242) HARYANA POWER PURCHASE CENTRE (HPPC) AND OTHERS Vs. GMR KAMALANGA ENERGY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2025
Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 125 — Appeal to Supreme Court — Maintainability — Appeal under Section 125 is tenable only on grounds available under Section 100 of CPC, i.e., substantial question of law.
India Law Library Docid # 2432453

(243) PARSHAVANATH CHARITABLE TRUST Vs. ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2025
Education — Approval Process for Pharmacy Institutions — Modification of Timelines — The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) sought modification of court-mandated timelines for the approval of pharmacy institutions, citing technical issues and the need for flexibility. The Court accepted the request for a revised schedule, effective from the Academic Session 2026-2027, to streamline the process and
India Law Library Docid # 2433445

(244) MOHAMMED RASAL.C AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2025
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 482 — Pre-arrest bail — Hierarchy of Courts — High Courts should not entertain pre-arrest bail applications directly by bypassing the Sessions Court.
India Law Library Docid # 2433417

(245) UNION OF INDIA Vs. HEAD DIGITAL WORKS PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2025
Transfer of Cases — Power of Supreme Court — Supreme Court has the power to transfer writ petitions pending in various High Courts to itself for hearing and disposal.
India Law Library Docid # 2433476

(246) BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY (TELANGANA) Vs. A. REVANTH REDDY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-09-2025
General Practice — Dismissal of SLP and disposal of pending applications — When the Supreme Court dismisses a Special Leave Petition, all pending applications related to that petition are also disposed of.
India Law Library Docid # 2433477

(247) ANOOP MAHESHWARI Vs. ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Employees' Compensation Act, 1923 — Schedule — Disability assessment — Court should consider functional disability reducing earning capacity, not just medical disability, especially when claimant can continue business with prosthetic limb.

B. Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation quantum — Income assessment — Income tax returns produced should generally be accepted unless demonstrably false or based on conjecture; rejecting returns without proper reasoning is improper
India Law Library Docid # 2432312

(248) HASEENA AND OTHERS Vs. THE UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation for Motor Accident — Causation of Death — Claimants sought compensation for death of deceased allegedly due to motor accident. Accident occurred on 29.04.2006, death occurred on 18.09.2006. Deceased suffered foot fracture and non-healing ulcer, underwent surgery, and died due to pulmonary embolism/acute myocardial infarction. Tribunal held accident was direct cause of death. High Court overturned finding, concluding
India Law Library Docid # 2432313

(249) SREEJA D G AND OTHERS Vs. ANITHA R. NAIR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Court Jurisdiction — Stay of Proceedings — High Court passing orders modifying bail conditions when such order is under challenge before the Supreme Court is contrary to judicial propriety and discipline
India Law Library Docid # 2432451

(250) SREEJA D G AND OTHERS Vs. ANITHA R. NAIR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Modification of conditions — Court Jurisdiction — High Court orders modifying anticipatory bail conditions granted by it, while the Supreme Court is seized of a Special Leave Petition challenging those very orders, violate judicial propriety and comity — Such actions undermine the hierarchical judicial system and the authority
India Law Library Docid # 2432766

(251) SHYAM LAL Vs. SHRIRAM GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 2(7), 2(14) — Contract Carriage, Goods Carriage — Definition of contract carriage as a vehicle carrying passengers for hire or reward under contract, distinguished from goods carriage used solely for goods — Utility vehicle registered as "Utility Van" with seating capacity for 5 (including driver) and permitted
India Law Library Docid # 2433031

(252) AMANJOT SINGH CHADHA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Anand Marriage Act, 1909 — Section 6 — Mandatory duty to frame rules for registration of Anand Karaj marriages — Parliament has imposed obligation on State Governments to create a registration system for Sikh marriages (Anand Karaj) by inserting Section 6 through the 2012 amendment — This duty is not optional and does not depend on the size of the community — Failure to frame rules prevents citizens from obtaining the intended evidentiary and administrative benefits conferred by
India Law Library Docid # 2433447

(253) SHREYA KUMARI TIRKEY Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Interpretation of Instructions — "Next Day" ambiguity — Absence of specific consequences for non-compliance — Procedural rules are aids to justice, not tools for injustice — Application to administrative instructions of recruiting bodies.
India Law Library Docid # 2433448

(254) IN RE: CADETS DISABLED IN MILITARY TRAINING STRUGGLE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Military Training Cadets — Medical Facilities — Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) extended to Invalidated Out-boarded Cadets without subscription fee, even if disabled due to military training.
India Law Library Docid # 2433449

(255) AMNINDER KAUR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 — Applicability — Court noted that issues regarding applicability of the Act and the validity of a marriage became insignificant as the petitioner in the case had remarried and was living with her new husband, indicating no present threat.
India Law Library Docid # 2433532

(256) VANITA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S. SHRIRAM INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 — Motor Accident Claims — Burden of Proof — In a motor accident claim petition, the initial burden to prove the factum of the accident and the involvement of the offending vehicle lies on the claimants. They must establish the occurrence of the accident, and the involvement and identity of the vehicle, at least on a prima facie basis. Only then does the onus shift to the other side to disprove.
India Law Library Docid # 2433478

(257) ASHIS NANDY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-09-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Remarkable intellectual and psychologist, now 90 years old, petitioned to quash FIRs filed based on objectionable comments made at a literary conference — Court acknowledges comments were objectionable, especially coming from a person of petitioner's stature — However, considering petitioner's age (nonagenarian) and an unconditional apology presented to the
India Law Library Docid # 2433479

(258) URMILA CHAND Vs. SONU CHAND AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Disbursement — Review Petition — Delay — Rejection of review petition not condoned for want of substantiated delay — Grounds for review were that disbursement was unfair and contrary to succession law — Appellant accepted cheque for Rs. 1,00,000/- and signed order sheet without demur — Review application filed after almost 7 months of receiving payment —
India Law Library Docid # 2432309

(259) C.P. FRANCIS Vs. C.P. JOSEPH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Framing of Additional Substantial Question of Law — High Court's power to frame new question of law under Proviso to Section 100(5) is discretionary and exceptional, requiring strong and convincing reasons to be recorded — Such question must be grounded in pleadings and findings of lower courts and not be a mere legal plea formulated without notice or opportunity to the opposite party to argue — Introducing a new case
India Law Library Docid # 2432310

(260) PRADNYA PRANJAL KULKARNI Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-09-2025
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 and Article 227 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr. PC) — Section 482 — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 528 — Quashing of FIR and Charge-sheet — Jurisdiction of High Court — A writ petition invoking Article 226 of the Constitution and Section 528 of BNSS for quashing an FIR and charge-sheet, even after the filing of a charge-sheet but before cognizance is taken by the Magistrate, is not rendered infructuous.
India Law Library Docid # 2432775