DEEPAK VERMA

In a suit for permanent injunction, the parties entered into a compromise decree dated 06‑09‑1996 requiring the defendant to pay a sum within six months. The defendant failed to pay, and the decree-holder filed an execution petition on 17‑02‑1997, before the six‑month period had expired. The defendant objected under Se…

The Supreme Court examined the Madhya Pradesh Niji Vyavsayik Shikshan Sansthan (Admission Regulation and Fee Determination) Act, 2007, which appeared to vest the State with complete control over admissions and fee fixation in private unaided medical and dental colleges. Relying on earlier judgments (T.M.A. Pai Foundati…

The petitioner, Dr. Smitha Nath, sought judicial intervention to ensure that vacant All India Quota postgraduate medical seats were filled after several states failed to complete their first round of counseling within the prescribed time. The Supreme Court noted that the first round of All India counseling conducted by…

On 9 October 1991, Jai Kumar and co‑accused robbed money and a tractor and threw the victim, Raghbir Singh, into a canal. The victim, who was intoxicated, tried to climb out, was kicked on the face and thrown back into the water, resulting in his death. All accused were convicted under IPC sections 392, 397 and 302 rea…

Five persons were charged for a violent incident in which Gopal stabbed Mitthulal, causing his death, while the others inflicted injuries with swords and a cycle chain. The trial court convicted Gopal under sections 148, 302, 323, 149 IPC and the others under similar provisions. The High Court altered Gopal's convictio…

Petitioners Sukhwant Singh and others applied for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the CrPC, which the Punjab & Haryana High Court dismissed. They appealed to the Supreme Court, which did not interfere with the High Court's order. However, the Court clarified that a court hearing a regular bail application posses…

The appellants Nanhar and others were convicted for the murder of Vijay under Sections 302 and 149 of the IPC, primarily on the basis of a note recovered from the deceased's pocket that the trial court treated as a dying declaration, and on circumstantial evidence. The Supreme Court held that the prosecution failed to …

The Supreme Court was called upon to resolve a dispute over the right to mine iron ore in six leases in Andhra Pradesh that bordered the state of Karnataka. The State of Andhra Pradesh sought to maintain a status‑quo injunction, arguing that mining could prejudice the demarcation of the inter‑state boundary, while the …

The Improvement Trust, Ludhiana, acquired land and was awarded compensation which it failed to pay, leading to the attachment and auction of the property in 1992. The auction purchaser, Jagan Singh & Co., paid Rs.22.65 lakh, but the Trust later filed objections under Order 21 Rule 90 CPC, which were dismissed in defaul…

The case concerned a dispute over the partition of certain properties originally belonging to G.R. Kuppuswamy Naidu, who had acquired them by a Will executed by his father in 1921. After Kuppuswamy's death, his sons and their descendants claimed the properties, while the plaintiffs argued that the lands formed a Mitaks…

The husband filed a divorce petition under Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 alleging mental cruelty by his wife, who had publicly defamed him, hidden his clothes and keys, and made false criminal allegations. The trial court and appellate courts dismissed the petition, deeming the evidence unreliable a…

The Suraz India Trust, a Rajasthan public trust, filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution seeking review of two Supreme Court judgments that had affirmed the primacy of the collegium in appointing Supreme Court and High Court judges. The trust contended that those judgments effectively amended Article…

The appellant State prosecuted Sanjeev Nanda for a 1999 hit‑and‑run accident in which six persons died and one was injured after he, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, drove a BMW at high speed and fled the scene. The trial court convicted him under Section 304(II) IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder)…

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought transfer of two kidnapping‑murder cases involving an NSCN (IM) activist from the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Ukhrul, Manipur to a CBI‑court in Delhi under Section 406 of the CrPC. The incidents involved the abduction and killing of three government employees, sp…

The petitioners, private unaided medical and dental colleges in Madhya Pradesh, challenged the manner in which unfilled NRI seats were to be allocated. The State argued that such seats should merge into the general pool and be filled through the state‑conducted common entrance test, following the view expressed in R.D.…

The dispute arose when a servant, Shanichar, left Satish Chandra's tea shop over wage issues and joined Rakesh Bahal. This led to a heated altercation during which Rakesh Bahal, armed with a knife, inflicted injuries on Satish Chandra. Rakesh, his mother Raj Bahal and sister Neelam Bahal were convicted by the trial cou…

The appellant, Markio Tado, was elected to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly and the respondent, Takam Sorang, filed an election petition alleging booth capturing. During the trial the respondent sought, via two interlocutory applications, production of voters' counterfoils (Form 17A) from 38 polling stations …