(361) PARTHA CHATTERJEE Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Long incarceration — Appellants under incarceration for almost three years — Continuing incarceration would amount to a travesty of justice — Investigation complete and charge sheet filed — Bail granted subject to conditions. India Law Library Docid # 2433588
(362) CMJ FOUNDATION AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MEGHALAYA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2025 Review Petition — Oral Hearing — Application for oral hearing of the Review Petition was allowed by the Court. India Law Library Docid # 2433589
(363) DEEPAK @ CHOWDA Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389(1) — Suspension of sentence pending appeal — Appellant convicted and sentenced, having served over 12 years of sentence — Co-convicts with similar roles admitted to bail by Supreme Court — Appellant contending parity — State opposing bail due to previous bail jumping and pendency of other cases where he is on trial bail, citing threat to witnesses — India Law Library Docid # 2433590
(364) JEEVITHA D AND ANOTHER Vs. MINTIFI FINSERVE PRIVATE LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-08-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 407 — Transfer of criminal cases from one High Court to another — Grounds for transfer — Convenience of parties and justice — Petitioners sought transfer of cases from Calcutta to Chennai — Respondent did not object to the transfer. India Law Library Docid # 2433591
(365) SANJIT SINGH SALWAN AND OTHERS Vs. SARDAR INDERJIT SINGH SALWAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 92 — Trust matters — Arbitration — Consent Decree — Estoppel by conduct — Parties agreed to resolve disputes through arbitration and obtain a consent decree based on the award. The respondents initially supported this process but later challenged the award's validity due to Section 92 CPC. The court held that the respondents, by their conduct, were estopped from challenging the award and the consent decree. The principle of approbate and India Law Library Docid # 2428710
(366) A. RANJITHKUMAR Vs. E. KAVITHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Power to do complete justice — Irretrievable breakdown of marriage — Supreme Court can grant divorce invoking Article 142 powers when reconciliation is impossible, parties have lived separately for a long period, no matrimonial relationship subsists, and one party has remarried. India Law Library Docid # 2428711
(367) M/s. SETHIA INFRASTRUCTURE PVT. LTD. Vs. MAFATLAL MANGILAL KOTHARI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) – Order for dismissal for non-prosecution — Restoration of appeal — High Court condoned huge delay of 5,250 days without hearing the respondents — High Court ought to consider rights of third parties that may have been created during the period of delay — Impugned order unsustainable in law. India Law Library Docid # 2428712
(368) M/S ARMOUR SECURITY (INDIA) LTD. Vs. COMMISSIONER, CGST, DELHI EAST COMMISSIONERATE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Section 6(2)(b) — Bar on initiation of parallel proceedings — Issuance of summons or search/seizure does not amount to "initiation of proceedings" under Section 6(2)(b) — These are preliminary steps for gathering information and do not conclude any adjudicatory process. India Law Library Docid # 2428713
(369) PERNOD RICARD INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. KARANVEER SINGH CHHABRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Trade Marks Act, 1999 — Section 2(1)(h) — Definition of "deceptively similar” — A mark is deceptively similar if it nearly resembles another mark as to be likely to deceive or cause confusion India Law Library Docid # 2428714
(370) STATE OF KARNATAKA Vs. SRI DARSHAN ETC[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439(2) — Cancellation of Bail — Abuse of discretion by High Court — Grave offences — Prima facie case — Misrepresentation of medical grounds — Violation of principles of natural justice — Celebrity status detrimental to fair trial India Law Library Docid # 2428715
(371) AJMERA SHYAM Vs. SMT. KOVA LAXMI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Representation of the People Act, 1951 — Section 100(1)(d)(i) and Section 100(1)(b) — Election law — Non-disclosure of income in affidavit — Improper acceptance of nomination — Corrupt practice — Voiding of election — Held that non-disclosure of income tax returns for certain financial years, when other assets and sources of income are disclosed, is not a defect of a substantial character — Such non India Law Library Docid # 2428902
(372) KESARI NANDAN MOBILE Vs. OFFICE OF ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF STATE TAX (2), ENFORCEMENT DIVISION - 5[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Section 83(1) & (2) — Provisional attachment of property — Validity of second attachment order — A provisional attachment order under Section 83(1) ceases to have effect after one year from its date as per Section 83(2) — There is no provision in the CGST Act for renewal or re-issuance of a lapsed provisional attachment order — Issuance of a second provisional India Law Library Docid # 2432117
(373) ASHUTOSH ABASAHEB DESHMUKH Vs. MARUTI N. NAVALE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Contempt of Court — Non-compliance with order to pay regular salary — Allegations of non-compliance with a previous Supreme Court order to pay regular salary within a specified time. India Law Library Docid # 2433652
(374) PRANJALIKA BISWAS Vs. NIRMAL DAS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 25 — Transfer of cases — Wife seeking transfer of divorce case from Tripura to West Bengal — Respondent failed to appear despite service of notice — Court allowed transfer petition based on petitioner's grounds and directed transfer of divorce case from Family Court, Agartala to Additional India Law Library Docid # 2433653
(375) G. RAMESH Vs. ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Property Law — Sale of Property — Judicial Supervision — Court directs a Committee headed by a former Judge to supervise the sale of properties to ensure transparency and fair price. India Law Library Docid # 2433654
(376) STUTI JOHRI @ CHARU AND OTHERS Vs. MANORMA SRIVASTAVA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12 — Transfer of cases — Prayer for transfer of a complaint from one court to another — Similar previous attempt by the other party to transfer the same complaint failed on grounds of distance — Court declined to entertain the current transfer petition, applying the same analogy and India Law Library Docid # 2433655
(377) KOMMINENI SRINIVASA RAO Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of proceedings — Interim order — Journalist hosting a TV show — Defamatory statement by a panelist — Petitioner not making the statement — Petitioner's journalistic participation in a live TV show protected — Right to freedom of speech — Bail granted on interim order made India Law Library Docid # 2433656
(378) ALL INDIA OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Rules, 2012 — Notification — No Stay Order — Rules have the character of applicable law unless stayed by the Court. India Law Library Docid # 2433657
(379) KOMAL KAUR Vs. SUKHDEEP SINGH GAMBHIR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 25 — Transfer of proceedings — Wife seeking transfer of matrimonial case from Rajasthan to Uttar Pradesh — Respondent refusing to accept notice, service deemed complete — Court considered grounds in transfer petition and allowed the transfer — Records to be transferred to transferee court India Law Library Docid # 2433658
(380) SUMAN KATHAYAT Vs. MAHENDRA SINGH AITHANI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-08-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 25 — Power of transfer — Petition filed by wife seeking transfer of matrimonial case from Bageshwar, Uttarakhand to Saket, Delhi — Respondent served but no representation — Court heard petitioner’s counsel and perused material — Found a case made out for transfer — Petition allowed, India Law Library Docid # 2433659