(41) 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
(42) MITC ROLLING MILLS PRIVATE LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S. RENUKA REALTORS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13(1A) — Appealability of orders — Order rejecting plaint under Order VII Rule 11 CPC is a decree and is appealable under Section 13(1A) of CCA, 2015 — Proviso to Section 13(1A) restricting appeals to those in Order XLIII CPC applies only to interlocutory orders and not to a decree like rejection of plaint. India Law Library Docid # 2435079
(43) COMMISSIONER OF SERVICE TAX Vs. M/S ELEGANT DEVELOPERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Finance Act, 1994 — Sections 65(88), 65(105)(v) — Real Estate Agent — Definition — Taxability of services — Respondent engaged in purchasing land, identifying, demarcating, and facilitating transfer to a developer for a fixed rate per acre — Profit/loss margin based on difference between acquisition cost and fixed rate India Law Library Docid # 2435080
(44) K.S. MANJUNATH AND OTHERS Vs. MOORASAVIRAPPA@MUTTANNA CHENNAPPA BATIL, SINCE DECEASED BY HIS LRS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 14(c) and Section 16(c) — Agreement to Sell (ATS) — Termination — Determinable Contracts — Bona Fide Purchaser — Readiness and Willingness — Whether a suit for specific performance is maintainable without seeking a declaration that the termination of the ATS was invalid — Principles governing unilateral termination of a non-determinable agreement — The Supreme Court held that unilateral termination of a non-determinable agreement to India Law Library Docid # 2435081
(45) LIPI BOILERS LTD. Vs. THE COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE, AURANGABAD[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 3 and Section 4 — Levy vs. Measurement — Central excise duty is levied on manufacture or production of goods (Section 3), while Section 4 provides the measure for calculating that duty — The measure of tax (Section 4) should not be confused with the nature of the tax itself — Including value of bought out items in assessable value is a measure for computation after excisability India Law Library Docid # 2435082
(46) 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
(47) 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
(48) 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
(49) 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
(50) 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
(51) 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
(52) 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
(53) 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
(54) 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
(55) 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
(56) THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS Vs. MOHAMMAD AFZAL MOHAMMAD SHARIF[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Secularism — Institutional Secularism — Communal Riots — Investigation Team Composition — Direction to form SIT with officers from different religious communities is to ensure transparency and fairness in investigation of communal riots, not to prejudge communal bias. India Law Library Docid # 2434964
(57) RAVI PRAKASH SRIVASTAVA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 136 — Special Leave Petition (Civil) — High Court order disposing of writ petition without substantive relief — Petitioners granted liberty to approach Housing Commissioner for society affairs and file civil suit for loan repayment — Supreme Court reviewing High Court's disposition. India Law Library Docid # 2434969
(58) M/S SHANTI CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Odisha Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2016 — Rule 27(4)(iv) — Interpretation of ‘previous Financial Year’ — Tender for extraction of sand — Bidder required to submit IT return of previous financial year — Company had not filed IT return for 2021-2022 as statutory period had not expired — Court held that ‘previous Financial India Law Library Docid # 2434970
(59) INDIAN RAILWAYS CATERING AND TOURISM CORP. LTD. Vs. M/S. BRANDAVAN FOOD PRODUCTS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Scope of interference with arbitral award — Court should not reappreciate evidence or interfere on grounds of erroneous application of law — Interference is permissible only when award is perverse or manifestly arbitrary, or in conflict with public policy of India, or India Law Library Docid # 2434971
(60) SAMIULLAH Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Registration Act, 1908 — Section 69 — Rule-making power — Bihar Registration Rules, 2008 — Rule 19(xvii) and (xviii) — Power to refuse registration based on proof of mutation (Jamabandi/Holding Allotment) — Held, such rules are ultra vires the rulemaking power under Section 69 and other provisions of the Act. India Law Library Docid # 2434972