(881) RIYAS Vs. P. N. SHINOSH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Claims Tribunal — Enhancement of compensation — High Court enhanced compensation awarded by Claims Tribunal for a 14-year-old minor student who suffered 77.1% permanent disability due to a motor accident. Supreme Court reviewed the calculation of compensation. India Law Library Docid # 2435075
(882) NANDKUMAR @ NANDU MANILAL MUDALIAR Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 504, 324 — Conviction for murder and causing insult with intent to provoke breach of peace — Appeal against High Court judgment confirming conviction — Appellant convicted for murder and causing insult, acquitted of voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means — Case India Law Library Docid # 2435076
(883) AKULA NARAYANA Vs. THE ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 147 — Insurance policy — Statutory policy — Coverage of gratuitous passengers — A gratuitous passenger, other than the driver, cleaner, or conductor, is not considered a third party under a statutory policy, meaning the insurer is not liable for their injuries. India Law Library Docid # 2435077
(884) R. RAJENDRAN Vs. KAMAR NISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 112 — Presumption of legitimacy — Conclusive proof of legitimacy of a child born during a valid marriage — Can only be rebutted by proving non-access between spouses at the time the child could have been conceived — Presumption favours legitimacy and law frowns upon illegitimacy — Burden to India Law Library Docid # 2435078
(885) MADRAS BAR ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 National Green Tribunal (NGT) — Appointment of Members — Interim arrangement for functioning of Principal Bench — Applications seeking direction for appointment of NGT Members — Grievance that retirement of two Members might render Principal Bench non-functional — Attorney General's statement that current incumbents will continue to discharge duties until new Members are appointed and take charge — India Law Library Docid # 2435434
(886) SRI RAGHAVENDRA EDUCATIONAL TRUST AND OTHERS Vs. AUTHUM INVESTMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 406 — Transfer Petition — Suit under Negotiable Instruments Act — Application for transfer of criminal complaint (C.S. No. 279389/2024) from Kolkata to Erode (Tamil Nadu) — Petitioner alleging malicious filing in Kolkata despite loan transaction and cheque issuance occurring in Tamil Nadu, India Law Library Docid # 2435436
(887) TARUN Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of First Information Report (FIR) and Stay of Arrest/Coercive Action — Serious Allegations — Where allegations against the accused (mother-in-law) in an FIR for unnatural death of the deceased (daughter-in-law) and injury/strangulation are serious in nature, an order by the High Court granting protection from coercive action/arrest to the India Law Library Docid # 2435453
(888) ELECTROSTEEL CASTING LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CGST AND CX, KOLKATA SOUTH COMMISSIONERATE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 35G — Appeal to High Court — Requirement of formulating substantial question of law — High Court's jurisdiction to entertain appeal is contingent upon formulation and satisfaction regarding a substantial question of law — High Court erred in staying the CESTAT's order concerning India Law Library Docid # 2435454
(889) GUDLA JAYANCHANDRA REDDY AND ANOTHER Vs. THE CHILD WELFARE PROJECT DIRECTOR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Powers under Article 142 — Welfare of Child — Best Interest of the Child — Appeals concerning custody of infants who have been with "adoptive parents" for a considerable period (nearly twenty months, up to three years in similar cases) — Finding of significant bonding between the children and the "adoptive parents" — Similar relief granted as in prior batch of appeals (Dasari Anil Kumar and Anr. vs. India Law Library Docid # 2435456
(890) BARUN KUMAR CHOUDHARY AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Special Leave Petition — Stay of Proceedings — Supreme Court issued notice, tagged the matter with another connected SLP (Crl.) No. 14932/2025 (“Sunil Kumar Kedia & Anr. vs. The State of Bihar & Ors.”), and stayed the proceedings arising from FIR No. 74/2025 dated 02.04.2025 (registered under India Law Library Docid # 2435457
(891) DAMAYANTI PATRA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Delay in Filing Appeal — Condonation of Delay — High Court dismissed Writ Appeal solely on basis of 421 days delay without hearing on merits — Appellant submitted that denial of an Appellate Forum for a matter with grave and serious penal consequences was unjust and that the delay was not so substantial as to deny the right to present the case on merits — Supreme Court held India Law Library Docid # 2435458
(892) PRADEEP KUMAR RAJARATHINAM Vs. NEIL PATEL DIGITAL LLC AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 9 — Interim Measures by Court — Appeal under Section 37 — Where a petition for interim measures under Section 9 is partly allowed by the High Court, the aggrieved party challenging the order must prefer an appeal under Section 37 of the Act rather than filing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) against the interim order — The proper remedy for challenging an India Law Library Docid # 2435464
(893) AMIT KUMAR HARI @ AMIT KUMAR ABHIMANYU Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Special Leave Petition (Crl.) — Directions of High Court — Mediation proceedings — Petitioner aggrieved by High Court direction making participation in mediation proceedings a pre-condition for interim protection — Petitioner's conduct before Mediator: Refusing telephonically to join mediation or India Law Library Docid # 2435467
(894) IN RE: PHALODI ACCIDENT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Constitutional Law — Article 21 — Right to Life — Scope and State Obligation — Article 21 encompasses not merely animal existence but includes the right of every citizen to essential and adequate public infrastructure — This imposes a positive obligation on the State to ensure the provision of such infrastructure and upkeep of the India Law Library Docid # 2435469
(895) IN RE: N. PEDDI RAJU AND OTHERS - ALLEGED CONTEMNORS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Contempt of Court — Scandalous and Scurrilous Allegations against Judge — Duty of Lawyers — The Supreme Court strongly deprecated the growing trend of lawyers making scurrilous and scandalous allegations against Judges in pleadings when they do not receive favorable orders — Lawyers, as officers of the Court, have a duty to the Court that requires them to advise clients against making such allegations India Law Library Docid # 2435536
(896) MAHESH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Bail — Grant of regular bail by Supreme Court — Factors considered — Petitioner seeking bail against rejection of regular bail by High Court — Alleged offences under Sections 120B, 302, 323, 506, 34 of Indian Penal Code, 1860, and Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 — Consideration of the role assigned to the petitioner (accused), period of incarceration (about four years), and likelihood of delayed trial conclusion due to India Law Library Docid # 2435543
(897) AJEET SINGH Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Bail — Grant of Bail by Supreme Court — Factors considered — Accused arrested for offenses under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC — High Court refused bail — Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, specifically the slow progress of the trial (ten witnesses examined, over forty remaining), and the lack of prospect for an early conclusion, the Supreme Court deemed that continued detention pending trial was India Law Library Docid # 2435547
(898) KISHAN SINGH CHULI Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Bail — Grant of Bail by Supreme Court — Factors considered — Appellant charged under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B, 34, 406, 409 IPC) and Section 6(1) of the Madhya Pradesh Nikshepakon Ke Hiton Ka Sanrakshan Adhiniyam, 2000 — Appellant underwent incarceration for more than four and a half years — 18 witnesses already examined — Trial stayed at the instance of the India Law Library Docid # 2435550
(899) JADHAV MAMATHA Vs. SINDE NAGO RAO AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Special Leave Petition (Crl.) — Dowry Death (Section 304-B IPC) — Appeal against reversal of acquittal by High Court — 65-year old mother-in-law convicted under Section 304-B IPC (Dowry Death) after being acquitted by Trial Court — Accused initially charged under Sections 302 and 304-B IPC — High Court convicted only for Section 304-B (Dowry Death), implying death was suicide/non-homicidal in relation to murder charge — Disturbing manner in which trial proceeded — Post Morte India Law Library Docid # 2435562
(900) VISHWAJEET KUMAR SINGH @ VISHWAJIT KUMAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Anticipatory Bail — Private Complaint Case — Setting Aside High Court Order — The Supreme Court set aside the High Court's dismissal of a second anticipatory bail application in a case concerning Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC, specifically noting that the complaint was a private complaint, India Law Library Docid # 2435566