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The petition sought revocation of special leave that had been granted by the Supreme Court in the presence of the respondents' counsel after hearing. The Court examined whether it could set aside its own order of special leave, considering the procedural propriety of the original grant and the constitutional implicatio…

Dr. V.K. Saxena and a nurse, Bhagwati Singh, were convicted for the murder of Sudha, Saxena's wife. The Sessions Judge sentenced Saxena to death and the nurse to life imprisonment. The Allahabad High Court reduced Saxena's death sentence to life imprisonment and acquitted the nurse, citing a split opinion among its jud…

The original lease of a 99‑year term on a plot in Mumbai, used for a cotton mill, later vested in a charitable trust. After the lease expired, Podar Mills occupied the premises as a protected tenant under the Bombay Rents Act. The Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Act, 1995 vested the statutory tenancy rights in t…

The State of Andhra Pradesh filed a suit under Article 131 of the Constitution seeking to restrain Maharashtra from constructing the Babhali barrage within the water spread area of Andhra's Pochampad dam and from drawing water from it. The dispute centered on the interpretation of the 6 October 1975 water‑sharing agree…

The Supreme Court dealt with a long‑running dispute concerning the absorption of about 5,000 stipendiary graduates employed under Karnataka's 1977 unemployment relief scheme into Group ‘C’ civil service posts. The Court had earlier ordered the State to fill 3,691 vacancies with these graduates and to create super‑numer…

The appellant, a government servant, was convicted by the Sessions Court of rape, outraging modesty and wrongful confinement of two minor girls aged about 10‑12, and the High Court affirmed the convictions for confinement and outraging modesty while reducing the rape conviction to an attempt. He appealed to the Supreme…

The Supreme Court had earlier disposed of an appeal and dismissed review petitions filed against its order. Subsequently, the parties filed applications seeking clarification and modification of that order, claiming the Court's inherent power. The Court examined whether such applications could be entertained when a rev…

Shivaji Narayan Bachhav was convicted of murder under Section 302 IPC and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Sessions Judge. He appealed to the Bombay High Court, which dismissed the appeal in limine with a one‑word order, "dismissed." The appellant filed a Special Leave Petition under Article 136 of the Constitution.…

The husband filed a divorce petition in the Family Court at Mangaluru, Karnataka. The wife, a permanent resident of Canada now residing in Mumbai, filed a transfer petition seeking to move the proceedings to the Family Court at Bandra, Mumbai. She argued that traveling to Mangaluru would be difficult, costly, and would…

The President referred a question under Article 317(1) of the Constitution concerning whether a member of the Punjab Public Service Commission, Gopal Krishan Saini, should be removed for alleged gross misbehaviour after allegedly slapping the Chairperson, Santosh Chowdhary. The Court held that the President is not requ…

The petitioner N. Eswaranathan, convicted of several offences, filed a first Special Leave Petition (SLP) which was dismissed by the Supreme Court with an order to surrender. He subsequently filed a second SLP on the same grounds, with the same Advocate-on-Record (AOR) P. Soma Sundaram and counsel S. Muthukrishnan fili…

The employer, M/s. Creative Garments Ltd., appealed against a Labour Court award that reinstated employee Kashiram Verma with back wages. The employee never reported for duty despite multiple communications, and his permanent address was never furnished; only a "care of Union" address was provided. The Supreme Court fo…

The Special Land Acquisition Officer (U.K. Project) appealed against a reference court award that increased compensation for 1 acre 13 guntas of land from Rs.4,000 to Rs.30,420 per acre. Both the first and second appeals were dismissed by the High Court, after which a Special Leave Petition (SLP) was filed alleging pro…

Karamjeet Singh filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution claiming to be the next friend of two convicts sentenced to death for desecrating a religious shrine, alleging that the convicts were under a legal disability due to an intense religious obsession. The convicts had expressly instructed that no r…

The Supreme Court had decreed specific performance, directing the defendants to execute a sale deed for the suit property at its market price as on the date of the judgment. Several interim applications (I.A.s) were filed thereafter seeking modification, clarification, correction of typographical errors, impleadment of…

The President of India referred a complaint under Article 317(1) to the Supreme Court alleging that a member of the Punjab Public Service Commission, G.K. Saini, slapped the Chairman, Santosh Chowdhary, without provocation. After extensive evidence, including affidavits of the Chairman, three other members, and the res…

Babasaheb Maruti Kamble was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping, receiving a death sentence for murder, life imprisonment for rape and two months' simple imprisonment for kidnapping. The Sessions Court referred the death sentence to the High Court, which affirmed both conviction and death penalty. Kamble filed a S…

The Assistant Collector of Central Excise and others filed review petitions against the Supreme Court's judgment and order dated 20 December 1986 in the Madras Rubber Factory Ltd. case. The respondents argued that the judgment should remain final, while the petitioners contended that the earlier decision conflicted wit…