(21) JUPALLY LAKSHMIKANTHA REDDY Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 420 — Cheating — Ingredients of cheating require deception to dishonestly or fraudulently induce a person to deliver property or do/omit to do something causing harm. Mere deception without dishonest inducement is insufficient. India Law Library Docid # 2432554
(22) VINOD KUMAR PANDEY AND ANOTHER Vs. SEESH RAM SAINI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-09-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 154 — Registration of FIR — Mandatory if information discloses cognizable offence — High Court can direct registration of FIR even if preliminary inquiry report suggests otherwise — Genuineness or credibility of information not a condition precedent for registration. India Law Library Docid # 2432555
(23) MAHA MINERAL MINING & BENEFICATION PVT. LTD. Vs. MADHYA PRADESH POWER GENERATING CO. LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Tender — Clause 5(D) — Past Experience Criteria — Bidder allowed to use past experience of previous Consortium or JV proportionate to its share — Not submitted JV agreement itself — Submission of work execution certificate stating proportionate share sufficient — NIT did not expressly mandate submission of JV agreement to prove proportionate share — Clarification could have been sought by tendering authority if doubt — Disqualification for non-submission of JV agreement not India Law Library Docid # 2432514
(24) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. SAJIB ROY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14 and 335 — Public service recruitment — Reserved candidates availing age relaxation — Migration to unreserved category — Office Memorandum dated 01.07.1998 bars migration of SC/ST/OBC candidates who availed age relaxation from consideration against unreserved vacancies — High Court erred in applying Jitendra Kumar Singh v. State of U.P. (2010) 3 SCC 119, India Law Library Docid # 2432515
(25) RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE AND OTHERS Vs. PREM CHAND KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Recruitment — Reserved Categories — Migration to Unreserved Category — Age and Physical Measurement Relaxation — Standing Order No. 85 dictates no migration if relaxation availed — Standing Order No. 78 permitted migration — Revised Directive No. 29 modified Standing Order No. 78 by applying Standing Order No. 85 — Where Standing Order No. 85 conflicts, it prevails — Those who India Law Library Docid # 2432516
(26) SIDDHARTH Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Advocates Act, 1961 — Section 35 — Professional misconduct — Expunction of remarks — High Court made adverse remarks against an Advocate for allegedly failing to disclose a relevant prior decision of a coordinate bench and implying that an Apex Court decision had overturned it — Advocate claimed omission was bona fide as he was not involved in the connected case where the prior decision was upheld, and India Law Library Docid # 2432505
(27) DEEP NURSING HOME AND ANOTHER Vs. MANMEET SINGH MATTEWAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 2(1)(d) — Allegations of Medical Negligence and Deficiency in Service against Nursing Home and Doctor — State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC) finds negligence — National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) reverses part of SCDRC's findings and places liability on Doctor for antenatal care, exonerating the Nursing Home. Supreme Court allowed appeal. India Law Library Docid # 2432506
(28) SMT. MANJULA AND OTHERS Vs. THE BRANCH MANAGER ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. BIJAPUR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation claims — Quantum of compensation — Determination of income — High Court reduced income without reasoning — Court found established income of Rs. 6,000/- by Tribunal, but High Court reduced it to Rs. 5,500/- without justification — Deceased had diploma in Pharmacy, partnership in pharmaceutical distributorship, and association with cooperative bank — Although medical shop licence was cancelled, deceased's multifaceted business activities warra India Law Library Docid # 2432507
(29) KISAN VITHOBA AAKHADE (D) THROUGH LRS. AND OTHERS Vs. SURESH TUKARAM NERKAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — High Court can interfere in second appeal if findings of lower courts are perverse — Reversal of concurrent findings of fact by the High Court was justified on grounds of perversity in appreciation of evidence. India Law Library Docid # 2432508
(30) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. ALOK KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Master Circular No. 29 dated 28.06.1991 — Railway Recruitment for Group 'C' posts — Initial training period is a prerequisite for absorption — Successful completion of training and passing of requisite tests are mandatory for retention in service — Candidates are to be warned at the time of recruitment about this condition. India Law Library Docid # 2432509
(31) GEETA Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 306 — Abetment of Suicide — Ingredients — To convict under Section 306 IPC, there must be a clear intention (mens rea) to commit the offence and an active or direct act that pushed the deceased to commit suicide seeing no option, with the intention being to push the deceased into such a position. Simple quarrels or heated exchanges in neighbourhood disputes do not India Law Library Docid # 2432510
(32) THE GENERAL MANAGER (P) CANARA BANK Vs. GANGANARASIMHAIAH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Section 11A — Tribunal's power to reappreciate evidence — Tribunal cannot act as a court of appeal and substitute its own findings for those of the disciplinary authority; standard of proof in departmental proceedings is preponderance of probabilities, not beyond reasonable doubt. India Law Library Docid # 2432511
(33) H.S. PUTTASHANKARA Vs. YASHODAMMA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Karnataka Rent Act, 1999 — Section s. 43(1) & s. 3(e) — Landlord-tenant relationship — Proof — Prima facie evidence — Rent receipts signed by landlord are prima facie evidence of relationship — Court can proceed to hear the case based on such receipts — If genuineness of documents is doubted or lease is oral with denial, parties to be referred to civil court for declaration of rights. India Law Library Docid # 2432512
(34) AMIT NEHRA AND ANOTHER Vs. PAWAN KUMAR GARG AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-09-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 62 — Appeal against NCLAT judgment — Rejection of homebuyer's claim for possession of apartment in real estate project under CIRP — NCLAT affirmed NCLT's rejection — Supreme Court to decide whether homebuyer is belated claimant entitled to 50% refund or entitled to possession based on verified and admitted claim. India Law Library Docid # 2432513
(35) 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
(36) 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
(37) 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
(38) 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. India Law Library Docid # 2432312
(39) 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
(40) 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