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(181) SARASWATI DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. SANTOSH SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 — Section 47 — Execution — Objections to execution — Rejection of Execution Petition on ground of satisfaction recorded in earlier EP — Successive objections by judgment debtor — Maintainability — Principle of res judicata — Earlier EP closed without presence of decree-holder and judgment-debtor, with judgment-debtor undertaking not to cause obstruction — Court assumed full satisfaction due to decree-holder”s absence — Such recorded satisfaction does not bar filing
India Law Library Docid # 2425761

(182) THE STATE OF KERALA AND OTHERS Vs. THE PRINCIPAL, KMCT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee — Corpus Fund — Power to create — Subsidizing medical education for BPL students from NRI student fees — Committee”s decision to create a corpus fund by remitting part of NRI fees to State Government quashed — Rationale: Authority to levy fee must stem from law, not executive order or transitional directions from judicial pronouncements
India Law Library Docid # 2425762

(183) VANASHAKTI Vs. UNION OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Constitution of India — Article 51A(g) and Article 21 — Environmental Protection — Fundamental Duty and Right — Duty to protect and improve environment (Article 51A(g)) and right to live in pollution free atmosphere (Article 21) recognised as fundamental rights
India Law Library Docid # 2425764

(184) PRASANNATMA DAS Vs. K.N. HARIDASAN NAMBIAR (DEAD) AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 — Registration and functioning — ISKCON Bangalore — Registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960.
India Law Library Docid # 2425763

(185) RAGHUNATH SHARMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Inherent Powers of High Court — Scope and Ambit — Exercise of Section 482 power is exceptional — It saves inherent power for effectuating Code orders, preventing abuse of process, or securing ends of justice — Not for acting as appeal/revision court — To be exercised sparingly, cautiously, and only when justified by the tests laid down — Quashing proceedings justified if amounting
India Law Library Docid # 2425831

(186) P KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Grant and refusal — Public servants — Allegations of criminal conspiracy, misappropriation, and corruption — Considerations include severity of allegations, stage of investigation, possibility of influencing witnesses, and need for custodial interrogation — Prima facie case against the petitioners found by High Court — Allegations of political vendetta not sufficient for grant of anticipatory bail if prima facie materials establis
India Law Library Docid # 2425842

(187) MS MAJA DARUWALA . AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Illegal Immigrants — Detention — After completion of sentence under Foreigners Act, 1946 — Continued detention in prison pending deportation — Legality of — Absence of dedicated correctional home/detention center — Challenge to administrative procedures prescribing continued detention as unconstitutional — Interplay with pending larger bench matters — Necessity of correctional homes/detention centers
India Law Library Docid # 2425931

(188) BALJINDER SINGH ALIAS AMAN Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Grant by High Court — Setting aside — FIR under Sections 302, 323, 148, 149 (later deleted and Sections 34, 427, 120B added) of Penal Code, 1860 — Allegations of murder, assault, criminal trespass, and conspiracy — Trial court denied bail considering gravity of offence, heinous nature of crime, and criminal antecedents of one accused — High Court granted bail with "very cryptic reasoning" — Supreme Court finding High Court's reasoning
India Law Library Docid # 2426255

(189) V.S.R. MOHAN RAO Vs. K.S.R. MURTHY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 — Section 2(d), 2(e), 2(cc), Section 10 — “Land Grabber” and “Land Grabbing” — Meaning and Scope — Act’s purpose to curb land grabbing by unscrupulous persons — Defines “land belonging to a private person” inclusively — Defines “land grabber” and “land grabbing” broadly to include various unauthorized activities for illegal possession — Ingredients of “land grabbing” include factum of taking possession unlawfully and mens rea/intention to ille
India Law Library Docid # 2425731

(190) EBY CHERIAN Vs. JEREMA JOHN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Child Custody — Interim Arrangements — Overseas Parent — Rotating Employment — Family Court requiring fresh application for overnight custody each time appellant visited India — High Court upholding this arrangement — Held, unduly burdensome and impractical — Child Welfare paramount consideration — Meaningful contact with both parents essential — Where non-custodial parent demonstrates consistency, pays maintenance, and arranges professional life around child’s calendar, procedure should not imp
India Law Library Docid # 2425732

(191) HANSURA BAI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Criminal Procedure — Investigation — Transfer of investigation — Credibility of investigating agency — Impeachable conduct — Power to transfer sparingly used for justice and public trust — Allegation of investigating agency being privy to dispute raises doubts on credibility, justifying transfer — Local police accused of custodial death of victim; investigating the act themselves — This situation invokes the maxim ‘nemo judex in causa sua’ (no one should be a judge in his own cause) — Investigat
India Law Library Docid # 2425733

(192) VIRENDER PAL @ VIPIN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Section 304-B — Dowry Death — Proof — Essential ingredients are unnatural death of a woman within seven years of marriage, subjected to cruelty or harassment for dowry, and such cruelty or harassment was soon before death — Evidence of dowry demands, ill-treatment, and circumstantial evidence from parental relatives supporting conviction — Demand for money to secure employment, even if not traditional dowry, considered related to marriage terms and within the ambit of Section
India Law Library Docid # 2425734

(193) IN RE: CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI STOREYED BUILDINGS IN FOREST LAND MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Forest Act, 1878 — Section 34 — Reserved Forest — Notification dated 1st March 1879 declared land in Survey No. 20, Village Kondhwa Budruk, Pune District as Reserved Forest — Subsequent de-reservation of portion in 1934 left 29 Acres 15 Gunthas (11.89 ha), renumbered as Survey No. 21, as Reserved Forest — Forest Department records consistently show this status, despite Revenue Department recording it as “Government Grazing Ground” — Numerous letters by Forest Department
India Law Library Docid # 2425717

(194) ISHWAR CHANDA SHARMA Vs. DEVENDRA KUMAR SHARMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Societies Registration Act — Constitution of society — Dispute regarding validity of elections — Referral to Prescribed Authority under Section 25 — Prescribed Authority’s decision on validity of election.
India Law Library Docid # 2425718

(195) M/S. INTERSTATE CONSTRUCTION Vs. NATIONAL PROJECTS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 37 — Appeal against Section 34 order — Setting aside of Arbitral Award concerning interest calculation — Scope of challenge — Division Bench of High Court restricted challenge to interest issue, specifically method of calculating interest including interest on interest rather than rate or entitlement to pre-reference interest — Held, challenge appropriately limited to the interest aspects of the
India Law Library Docid # 2425719

(196) M/S GAYATRI PROJECT LIMITED Vs. MADHYA PRADESH ROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Setting aside of arbitral award — Madhya Pradesh Madhyastham Adhikaran Adhiniyam, 1983 — Applicability to works contracts involving State Government or public undertaking — Relationship between Central Act and State Act — MP Act, 1983 is a special Act providing for compulsory arbitration in specific works contracts, operating irrespective of an arbitration clause — Features of MP Act, 1983 Tribunal distinct from Arbitration Act, 1996 Tribunal
India Law Library Docid # 2425720

(197) POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED Vs. MADHYA PRADESH POWER TRANSMISSION COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 79 — Functions of Central Commission — Regulatory and adjudicatory powers — Central Commission (CERC) is vested with both decision-making and regulation-making authority under Sections 79 and 178 respectively, distinct functions; former administrative/adjudicatory, latter legislative; but relationship needs harmonious reading; CERC’s regulatory powers under Section 79(1) are of ad hoc nature for specific parties and situations to fill regulatory gaps, not solely a
India Law Library Docid # 2425721

(198) M/S DHANBAD FUELS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 12A — Pre-institution mediation and settlement — Mandatory nature — Suit not contemplating urgent interim relief shall not be instituted without exhausting pre-institution mediation — Legislative intent to promote alternative dispute resolution and decongest courts — Mandatory nature of Section 12A established.
India Law Library Docid # 2425722

(199) IN RE : ALARMING RISE IN THE NUMBER OF REPORTED CHILD RAPE INCIDENTS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Suo Moto Proceeding — Child Rape Incidents — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Alarming rise in child rape incidents prompting suo moto cognizance by Supreme Court — Directions issued regarding timely completion of investigations and trials under POCSO Act — Emphasis on setting up exclusive/designated special Courts for POCSO cases in districts with high pendency, funded by Central Government, including support staff and infrastructure
India Law Library Docid # 2425723

(200) NATIONAL SPOT EXCHANGE LIMITED Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-05-2025
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Powers of Supreme Court — Scope and ambit — Plenary and curative nature — Not limited by statutes but exists to do complete justice — Wide amplitude but tempered by restraint — Cannot ignore substantive statutory rights or supplant substantive law — Should not be exercised when it directly conflicts with express statutory provisions dealing with the subject, unless balancing equities or ironing out creases in a cause or matter arising out of such statu
India Law Library Docid # 2425724