(741) SAROJ BALA Vs. SHUBHAM[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-08-2025 Transfer Petition — Order of Supreme Court — Transfer of proceedings — Wife filed transfer petition seeking transfer of matrimonial proceedings from Haryana to Rajasthan — Respondent did not appear despite notice — Supreme Court allowed the India Law Library Docid # 2433598
(742) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. SUNIL KUMAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-08-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 170 — Insurance company contesting claim — Permission to contest is required — However, if the core issue raised does not require permission, or if the permission is not contested or deemed unnecessary due to the nature of the appeal, the appeal may close without definitively deciding the permission issue. India Law Library Docid # 2433599
(743) THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL Vs. DR. SANAT KUMAR GHOSH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-08-2025 University Laws — Appointment of Vice-Chancellors — Supreme Court's earlier order dated 08.07.2024 established a mechanism for appointing 36 Vice-Chancellors, including a High-Powered Selection Committee headed by Justice U.U. Lalit, with specific procedures for recommendations from the Selection Committee, Chief Minister, and Chancellor. India Law Library Docid # 2433600
(744) MADHURI DEVI Vs. ARJUN DAS @ KARIYA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 01-08-2025 Affidavit by Senior Police Officer — Superintendent of Police filed an affidavit supporting accused despite investigation and charge-sheet filed by the same police. — Court expressed surprise and concern at the stand taken by the officer. — Officer was impleaded as a respondent and asked to file a personal affidavit explaining his conduct. India Law Library Docid # 2433601
(745) PADI KAUSHIK REDDY ETC. Vs. STATE OF TELANGANA AND OTHERS ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Tenth Schedule, Para 6(1) — Disqualification of Members — Speaker's authority to decide — Judicial review of Speaker's decision — Scope of — Decision of Speaker is amenable to judicial review on grounds of jurisdictional errors, mala fides, non-compliance with natural justice, and India Law Library Docid # 2428202
(746) S.N. VIJAYALAKSHMI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 420 — Cheating — Ingredients not made out — Agreement to Sell for property was executed, but possession was not handed over as stipulated in the ATS — No fraudulent or dishonest inducement found — Criminal proceedings quashed India Law Library Docid # 2428203
(747) URMILA DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. BALRAM AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 — Cheating, Forgery, Using Forged Document — Abuse of process of law — Civil dispute disguised as criminal offence — Complaint filed after significant delay following dismissal of objections and failure to pursue civil remedies — Allegations of fabrication of will and circumvention of sale deed not prima facie made out — Continuation of proceedings would be an abuse of process and not serve ends India Law Library Docid # 2428204
(748) MANCHU MOHAN BABU Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 290, 341, 171F read with Section 34; Police Act, 1861 — Section 34 — Public nuisance, wrongful restraint, undue influence at election, acts done in furtherance of common intention, punishment for certain offences on roads — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Allegations of rally and dharna causing obstruction to traffic and public inconvenience — Court's duty to quash proceedings if allegations do not constitute an offence India Law Library Docid # 2428205
(749) KHEM SINGH (D) THROUGH LRs Vs. STATE OF UTTARANCHAL (NOW STATE OF UTTARAKHAND) & ANOTHER ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 372 — proviso; Section 2(wa) — Victim's right to appeal — Victim includes legal heir — Legal heir of a victim has the right to prosecute an appeal filed by the victim, even if the original appellant dies during the pendency of the appeal. India Law Library Docid # 2428987
(750) BASHEERA KHANUM Vs. THE CITY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 114 Illustration (g) — Adverse inference — Municipal Council failed to produce original auction records despite court direction — Trial Court rightly drew adverse inference against the Council. India Law Library Docid # 2432116
(751) PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND ANOTHER Vs. KALYANI TRANSCO AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Review Petition — Recalling of judgment — Court found that the common impugned judgment and order dated 02.05.2025 did not correctly consider the legal position laid down by several previous judgments and contained incorrect factual aspects and considered arguments not advanced. Therefore, it was a fit case for India Law Library Docid # 2433730
(752) RAJEEV SURI Vs. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 — Section 4 of Delhi Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 2004 — Protected Monument — Notification — Anomaly in notification declaring Gumti of Shaikh Ali as protected monument — Corrigendum prepared and India Law Library Docid # 2433734
(753) THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH Vs. N. SANJAY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) —Anticipatory Bail — Grant of — Factors to consider — Mere absence of need for custodial interrogation is not a sufficient ground for granting anticipatory bail — Prima facie case, nature of offense, and severity of punishment are primary considerations — Custodial interrogation is one relevant aspect among others. India Law Library Docid # 2434725
(754) KHEM SINGH (D) THROUGH LRs Vs. STATE OF UTTARANCHAL (NOW STATE OF UTTARAKHAND) AND ANOTHER ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 31-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 372 (proviso), 2(wa), 394(2) — Appeal by victim — Right to prefer an appeal includes the right to prosecute an appeal — Legal heir of a deceased victim can continue prosecuting an appeal filed by the victim inspite of the death of the original appellant — Definitions of 'victim' including legal heir and 'near relative' for abating appeals — "Every other appeal" India Law Library Docid # 2434802
(755) SUBHA PRASAD NANDI MAJUMDAR Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL SERVICE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2025 Interpretation of Statute and Notifications — ‘Any’ University does not mean only within the State — The phrase “in any State-aided University or College” in a notification extending retirement age was interpreted to include experience from universities or colleges outside the State of West Bengal. The court found that India Law Library Docid # 2428131
(756) UMRI POOPH PRATAPPUR (UPP) TOLLWAYS PVT. LTD. Vs. M.P. ROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 vs. Madhya Pradesh Madhyastham Adhikaran Adhiniyam, 1983 — Works Contract — Concession Agreement for development of State Highway falls under ‘works contract’ as defined in MP Act, 1983 — MP Act, 1983 has overriding effect on Arbitration and Conciliation Act, India Law Library Docid # 2428132
(757) THE CHANCELLOR, APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Vs. STATE OF KERALA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2025 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University Act, 2015 — Section 13(7) — Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology Act, 2021 — Section 11(10) — Interpretation of — Temporary appointment of Vice-Chancellor — Limited to six months in aggregate — Notification appointing temporarily until further orders held unsustainable in law — Contradicts the statutory time limit. India Law Library Docid # 2428309
(758) SUSHMA AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2025 Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953 — Proceedings for consolidation of land — Validity of adoption and Will — Supreme Court, while remanding the case to High Court, observed that the High Court's reasoning that the validity of a Will cannot be assumed if the adoption of the beneficiary is void is erroneous in law. India Law Library Docid # 2433735
(759) STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Vs. RAMVEER SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 449 — Murder and house-trespass with intent to commit murder — Appeal against acquittal — High Court reversed trial court's conviction — Supreme Court agreed with High Court's findings — Prosecution case full of material contradictions and inherent improbabilities — No substantial reasons to interfere with acquittal. India Law Library Docid # 2434726
(760) MADDURI GANGARAJU @ BABU RAO Vs. MADDURI SUNANDA & OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of proceedings — Abuse of process of law — Matrimonial discord — Settlement between parties — Divorce decree obtained prior to filing of criminal cases — Ongoing disputes settled through Lok Adalat — Continuation of criminal proceedings would be an exercise in futility and harassment — Supreme Court invoked powers India Law Library Docid # 2434727