(61) STATE OF LOKAYUKTHA POLICE, DAVANAGERE (STATE BY LOKAYUKTHA POLICE) Vs. C.B NAGARAJ[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) and 20 — Demand, Acceptance and Recovery — Essential ingredients for conviction — Entire chain beginning from demand, acceptance, and recovery must be completed — Money changing hands not ipso facto presumed to be pursuant to a demand — Where initial demand is suspicious, conviction cannot be sustained even if payment India Law Library Docid # 2425916
(62) RAJO DEVI AND ANOTHER Vs. MANJEET KAUR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — General — Claims for compensation — Nature of proceedings — Beneficial legislation aimed at enhancing social justice — Rigours of procedure should not defeat its purpose — Summary nature of trial. India Law Library Docid # 2425918
(63) IN RE PAY AND ALLOWANCE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE U.P. STATE CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-05-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 102 — Power of State Government to make rules — Model Rules framed by Central Government — Variances in State Rules regarding pay and allowances of members of State and District Commissions — Necessity for uniform service conditions — Consumer Protection Act, 2019 aimed at better consumer interest protection through established authorities for dispute redressal — Proper remuneration and allowances essential for effective duty discharge by India Law Library Docid # 2426042
(64) ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-05-2025 Thirteenth Finance Commission (2010-2015) — Recommendations on Judiciary — Court Managers — Concept of Court Managers introduced to enhance efficiency of court management and improve case disposal by providing administrative support to judges — Recommended creation of post in each judicial district and two per High Court, with estimated annual expenditure of Rs. 60 crore and total for the period of Rs. 300 crore, allocated to states based on number of judicial districts. India Law Library Docid # 2425760
(65) 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
(66) 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
(67) 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
(68) 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
(69) 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
(70) 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
(71) 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
(72) 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
(73) 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
(74) 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
(75) 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
(76) 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
(77) 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
(78) 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
(79) 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
(80) 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