(61) DHARMENDRA PRASAD JAISWAL Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Consideration for Grant — Petitioner apprehending arrest for offenses under Sections 272/273 IPC and Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act — Interim protection against coercive steps previously granted subject to cooperation in India Law Library Docid # 2436130
(62) HARISH Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 — Sections 3 and 4 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 409 and 420 read with Section 34 — Bail — Consideration for grant of bail — Where the main accused in the case has already been granted bail, the co-accused (appellant) is generally entitled to parity in bail consideration — Supreme Court granted bail to the appellant, setting aside India Law Library Docid # 2436134
(63) RAHUL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Special Leave Petition (Crl.) — Suspension of Sentence — Challenge against High Court’s rejection of application for suspension of sentence — Factors warranting consideration: petitioner married the victim while she was a minor; parties’ dispute arose during a family function leading to FIR; petitioner claims false implication asserting no subsequent marriage and victim was pursuing education — India Law Library Docid # 2436144
(64) AMEEN AHMAD Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Service Law — Regularization — Retiral Benefits — Reckoning of Service — Appellant sought reckoning of his service for retiral benefits from the date he started working (02.11.1994) instead of the date of formal regularization (19.09.2008), despite admitted undisputed service starting from 02.11.1994 — Supreme Court directed that the period from 02.11.1994 to 19.09.2008 shall be reckoned for the purpose of determining India Law Library Docid # 2436152
(65) DEVANAND SRIVASTAV Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(c) — Bail application — Rejection by High Court set aside — Supreme Court granted bail considering the totality of circumstances, nature of the crime, and the fact that the appellant was in custody since 10.09.2023. (Paras 3, 4, 6, 9) India Law Library Docid # 2436153
(66) SHUBHAM Vs. STATE OF UP[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Suspension of Sentence during Pendency of Appeal — Convict sentenced to 5 years rigorous imprisonment appeals to High Court — Application for suspension of sentence rejected by High Court — Supreme Court grants leave and allows appeal for suspension of sentence — Factors considered include appellant's period of incarceration (nearly three years) and unlikelihood of the High Court appeal being heard India Law Library Docid # 2436154
(67) SHANKARLAL PALIWAL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Bail — Pre-arrest interim protection — Confirmation of — Where Supreme Court previously granted interim anticipatory bail to the appellant subject to conditions, and subsequently, during the appeal hearing, it was undisputed that the appellant fully complied with all conditions (cooperated with investigation, did not threaten witnesses, and did not try to influence the investigation), the interim order was India Law Library Docid # 2436156
(68) ARVIND KUMAR Vs. BAR COUNCIL OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Writ Jurisdiction — Alternative Remedy — Challenge to disciplinary action (suspension from legal practice) and bar association election invalidity — High Court declining to interfere with matter of suspension when statutory appeal is pending and interim protection granted by Appellate Authority — High Court declining to adjudicate election dispute when regulations provide for remedy through election petition before a India Law Library Docid # 2436161
(69) ROBERT LALCHUNGNUNGA CHONGTHU @ R L CHONGTHU Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF NDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Arms Act, 1959 — Section 13(2A) — Prosecution of public servant (IAS officer/District Magistrate) for alleged irregularities in issuing arms licenses and criminal conspiracy (Sections 109, 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B IPC and Section 30 Arms Act) — Delay in investigation India Law Library Docid # 2435645
(70) IN RE : ISSUE RELATING TO DEFINITION OF ARAVALI HILLS AND RANGES[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Environmental Law — Conservation of Aravali Hills and Ranges — Definition of Aravali Hills and Ranges for mining purposes — Supreme Court accepts the definition recommended by the Committee constituted under the direction of the Court, thereby providing a uniform definition across Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, and India Law Library Docid # 2435646
(71) JALGAON DISTRICT CENTRAL COOP. BANK LTD. Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Priority of Debts — Section 26E — When two enactments contain non-obstante clauses, the provision incorporated later in time prevails; however, if one enactment creates a statutory 'first charge', that charge prevails over the general 'priority' conferred by the later non-obstante clause — India Law Library Docid # 2435647
(72) IN RE: ASSENT, WITHHOLDING OR RESERVATION OF BILLS BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 143(1) — Presidential Reference — Scope and Maintainability — Reference relating to interpretation of powers of Governor (Article 200) and President (Article 201) regarding assent, withholding, or reservation of Bills — Constitutional functionaries, constitutional mechanics, and federalism — Reference presents questions of law that have arisen or are likely to arise, which are India Law Library Docid # 2435648
(73) BHARAT KANTILAL DALAL (DEAD) THROUGH LR. Vs. CHETAN SURENDRA DALAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Execution of Arbitral Award — Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) — Maintainability — Code of Civil Procedure (CPC), 1908 — Order 21 Rule 22 — Execution proceedings against legal representatives — The Act is a self-contained code restricting judicial interference — An order passed by a Single Judge in the course of executing an arbitral award is traceable to the Act, not the CPC; therefore, a Letters Patent Appeal against such an order is not maintainable India Law Library Docid # 2435649
(74) SRC COMPANY INFRA PVT. LTD. Vs. GULBARGA ELECTRICITY SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 86(1)(f) — Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) — Tariff Dispute — Appellant's petition before Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) seeking higher tariff (Rs. 9.56 per unit) under PPA dismissed; KERC set tariff at Rs. 5.67 per unit — Appeal against KERC order rejected by India Law Library Docid # 2436069
(75) MADRAS BAR ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Constitutional Law — Validity of Statutory Provisions — Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Appointment — Chartered Accountants — Eligibility for Appointment as Accountant/Technical Member (ITAT) — Requirement of 25 years experience/practice declared invalid and unconstitutional — Analogy applied from previous judgment (MBA (IV)) regarding advocates — Such rigid experience India Law Library Docid # 2436083
(76) PAWAN KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Contributory Negligence — Standard of Proof — High Court reducing motor accident compensation by 40% based on alleged contributory negligence of deceased — Supreme Court holds that benefit of doubt regarding contributory negligence must be given to the deceased when no deliberate or willful conduct constituting negligence is established — Finding of contributory India Law Library Docid # 2436099
(77) SHUKLA PRASAD Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 147, 302 read with Section 149 — Murder — Appreciation of evidence — Reliability of prosecution witnesses (PWs 1, 2, and 3) — Multiple material contradictions between witnesses' trial testimonies and First Information Report (FIR) and Merg Intimation (Exhibit P/1) — PW-1's significant improvement in testimony (claiming to be eyewitness in chief-examination vs. stating in India Law Library Docid # 2436101
(78) C.M. MEENAKSHI Vs. ARCHBISHOP OF BANGALORE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(a) and (d) — Rejection of Plaint — Grounds for rejection — Application for rejection of plaint on grounds of no cause of action, bar by limitation, res judicata (due to earlier dismissed/withdrawn suits), and bar under Order II Rule 2 (non-inclusion of reliefs in earlier suits) — Trial Court allowed the application rejecting the plaint — High Court set aside the India Law Library Docid # 2436113
(79) UTTAR PRADESH STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION THROUGH ITS REGIONAL MANAGER Vs. R.K. SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Service Law — Termination of Conductor — Labour Court’s Award — Reinstatement with Back-wages — Validity of Domestic Inquiry — Where a domestic inquiry is found vitiated due to the employer's failure to provide the workman with a due opportunity of hearing, the employer must be given an India Law Library Docid # 2436123
(80) IN RE : ASSENT, WITHHOLDING OR RESERVATION OF BILLS BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 200 — Governor's Powers regarding Bills — Options available to Governor — The Governor has three constitutional options under Article 200: to assent to the Bill, to reserve the Bill for the President's consideration, or to withhold assent and return the Bill to the Legislature with comments — The first proviso to Article 200 restricts the existing options and does India Law Library Docid # 2436128