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The original plaintiff filed a suit for declaration of title and permanent injunction, claiming ownership of a property based on a registered sale deed. The defendants contended that the property had become part of a joint family and that the sale deed was merely a security instrument, not an …
The case concerned an amendment to the recruitment rules of the Labour Department of Pondicherry that equated the post of Principal, Grade ‘A’ (Senior Scale) with the post of Joint Chief Inspector of Factories (JCIF). The Central Administrative Tribunal and the Madras High Court had set aside the …
The case concerned two suits filed by S. Ramasamy for injunction and partition of certain immovable properties, which the trial court dismissed on the ground that the properties were self‑acquired by the father and not part of a joint Hindu family. The first appellate court affirmed this view. The …
The Supreme Court examined a long‑running dispute concerning the award of domicile‑based bonus marks in appointments of primary school teachers in Rajasthan. Earlier judgments (Kailash Chand Sharma and Manmohan Sharma) had declared such bonus marks unconstitutional and applied the doctrine of …
The State of Haryana issued notifications under Section 5(2) of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 fixing and revising minimum rates of wages, including provisions that classified unskilled workers as semi‑skilled after a certain period of experience, prohibited segregation of wages into allowances, …
The appeal concerned an application for letters of administration under Section 228 of the Indian Succession Act filed by the respondent after a probate was granted in England. The appellants argued that the application was barred by the three‑year limitation period under Article 137 of the …
P. Soupramian, a messenger employed by State Bank of India, stabbed two individuals with a broken soda bottle and was convicted under Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code, receiving a three‑month imprisonment. The bank discharged him under Section 10(1)(b)(i) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, …
The appellant was charged under Sections 420, 468 and 471 IPC based on an FIR lodged in 2007. After the police filed a charge‑sheet, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate discharged the accused on 5 February 2013 but, in the same order, suo moto directed the police to conduct further …
The victim Raju was attacked on the head with an axe by the accused Kanhaiya Lal and died from the injuries. The trial court convicted the accused under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. On appeal, the High Court reduced the conviction to …
The appellant, Vijay Mohan Singh, was accused of pouring kerosene on his wife, causing fatal burns, and was charged under Sections 302 r/w 34, 498A, 304B r/w 34 of the IPC and Sections 3, 4, 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The trial court acquitted him, discarding the victim's dying declaration and …
The case concerned promotion of officers from Scale I to Junior Management Scale II in a Regional Rural Bank. The bank’s selection committee fixed a benchmark of at least 12 marks out of 20 in both the interview and performance‑appraisal reports, in addition to the statutory 40 % minimum in the …
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) advertised for the post of Assistant Grade‑II (Hindi) requiring one year of translation experience. Respondent Rimjhim applied, was shortlisted and ranked sixth, but was not issued a final appointment letter. She filed a writ petition alleging that the FCI …
Smt. P. Leelavathi filed a partition suit claiming a one‑fourth share in the properties of her late father, alleging that the properties were purchased by her father but held in the names of her brothers, making them benami transactions. The trial court dismissed the suit, holding the properties …
The appellant, Anurag Soni, had a romantic relationship with the prosecutrix and promised to marry her, while already being engaged to another woman. He lured the prosecutrix to his residence, engaged in sexual intercourse after she initially resisted, and later reneged on the marriage promise, …
Bajaj Auto Ltd., a manufacturing unit in Uttarakhand, was granted a ten‑year exemption from central excise duty under Notification No. 50/2003‑C. The company, however, did not pay National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD), Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess, which were demanded …
The plaintiff and his brother executed a registered gift deed in 1981 transferring land to the appellant, the appellant's son. Neither the plaintiff nor his brother contested the deed for about 22 years; the appellant filed a partition suit in 2001, in which the plaintiff was a defendant. In 2003 …
The plaintiff filed a suit for perpetual injunction alleging ownership of land and challenged a will executed by the deceased brother. The trial court upheld the plaintiff's claim, but the first appellate court reversed that decision after re‑appraising the evidence and deeming the will genuine. The …
After the deaths of Late Sadanand V. Marathe and his wife, their son filed inventory proceedings for their estate, which included a lease premises held by a partnership firm. The appellants, the deceased's daughters, objected to the exclusion of the lease premises from the inventory, arguing that as …
The appellant's wife, suffering from multiple serious illnesses, was admitted to a hospital where a doctor treated her with intravenous antibiotics but later switched to oral administration after a cannula failure. She was discharged in stable condition, but subsequently deteriorated, was admitted …
The State of Madhya Pradesh appealed against two orders of the Madhya Pradesh High Court that quashed FIRs relating to serious offences including IPC sections 307, 294, 34, 394 and Arms Act sections 25 and 27 on the ground that the complainant had reached a compromise with the accused. The Supreme …
The State of Madhya Pradesh prosecuted Harjeet Singh (Accused No.1) and Ramji Lal (Accused No.2) for stabbing the complainant Sukhdev with a knife, causing four injuries to the chest, scapula, back and buttocks. The trial court convicted both under Section 307 IPC, but the High Court reduced Harjeet …
The appellant, Ritu Bhatia, was appointed as Company Secretary of Central Railside Warehouse Company Ltd. but was later terminated for allegedly lacking the required five years of post‑qualification experience "as" a Company Secretary, as stipulated in the recruitment advertisement. The appellant …
The appeal concerned whether sales tax is payable on the free replacement of defective motor‑vehicle parts supplied by a dealer under a warranty, when the dealer receives a credit note from the manufacturer for the returned defective part. The dealer pays sales tax on the purchase of spare parts and …
The appellant, Yogendra Singh, was convicted under IPC sections 302, 326A and 460 for throwing acid on his former lover, Smt. Ruby, resulting in her death and injuring her relatives. The trial court and High Court affirmed the conviction and imposed the death penalty, relying heavily on the victim's …
Vivek Mudgil was appointed Principal of a college after being selected in a 2002 panel, but he had only 9 years 3 months of teaching experience, short of the 10‑year requirement stipulated in the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board Rules, 1998. His foreign study leave (1992‑1996) could …
The Medical Council of India (MCI) inspected Vedantaa Institute of Academic Excellence for its first renewal of permission to admit a second batch of MBBS students and found extensive deficiencies in faculty, resident strength, bed occupancy and infrastructure. The Bombay High Court directed MCI to …
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 and nine individuals were tried, resulting in convictions of seven and acquittals of two; the High Court later upheld five convictions. In 2016, Dr. Pankaj Kumudchandra Phadnis filed a writ petition seeking to reopen the case, questioning the existence of a …
On 2 June 2014, Shaikh Mohsin was attacked and killed by a group of accused who allegedly targeted him because he belonged to a Muslim community. The Sessions Court rejected the accused's bail applications, finding that the assault was motivated by communal hatred and that the victims had no …
The landlord, a retired armed forces officer, held land under the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Act, 1948, which was occupied by the tenant. Under Section 32F the tenant could purchase the land by giving notice within one year of the landlord's retirement, provided the landlord did not terminate …
The appellants were first engaged on a daily‑wage basis in August 1993, later on a contractual basis in 1996, and were given the minimum pay‑scale in 2000. In 2006 they were conferred temporary status with retrospective effect from 2 October 2002. The Allahabad High Court directed that they be …
The plaintiff executed a deed in 1953 that was styled as a sale of land for a nominal sum of Rs.700, but included a clause that the land would be returned if the amount was repaid within ten years. The parties were long‑time acquaintances, with the plaintiff having repeatedly borrowed money from the …
The appellant, NARESH KUMAR alias NITU, was alleged to have been apprehended at Majhotli with two kilograms of charas, based on police testimony. An independent witness, PW‑2, testified that he was stopped by police later in the day and did not see any seizure of the appellant. The bus ticket showed …
The State of Haryana issued a notification on 5 May 2017 identifying "remote/difficult" areas for granting weightage in NEET PG admissions under Regulation 9(IV) of the Post‑Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000. The High Court set aside the notification, holding it was based on an arbitrary …
The appellant, V. Shanth, was the owner of a seed distribution company accused of selling spurious chilli seeds that caused loss to farmers, leading to three FIRs under the IPC and the Seeds Act, 1966. The State invoked preventive detention under the Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities of …
The appellants, Anjan Kumar Sarma and others, were convicted by the High Court for murder (Sec. 302) and related offences on the basis that they were last seen with the victim, Rekha Dutta, and offered no explanation. The Supreme Court examined whether the "last seen together" circumstance, without …
The appellants Chandrasekar and another were convicted of murder under Section 302 IPC and of voluntarily causing hurt under Section 324 IPC for repeatedly assaulting the deceased on the head with a hammer, sickle and iron rod, resulting in his death. The prosecution relied heavily on the testimony …
During a hearing of Criminal Appeal No.400/2006, Senior Counsel Mr. R. Basant highlighted several common inadequacies in criminal trial procedures, such as lack of standardized witness and exhibit lists, poor recording of depositions, and inconsistent referencing of parties and evidence. He urged …
Petitioner Sheetal Shankar Salvi, at 27 weeks of pregnancy, sought a direction from the Supreme Court under Article 32 to allow medical termination of her pregnancy because the fetus was diagnosed with Arnold‑Chiari malformation type II with severe anomalies. A seven‑member Medical Board examined …
Mrs. X, a 22‑year‑old woman, was about 24 weeks pregnant when a medical board diagnosed her fetus with bilateral renal agenesis and anhydramnios, conditions that rendered the fetus non‑viable and posed a risk to the mother's physical and mental health. She filed a writ petition under Article 32 of …
The landlord, Munshi Lal, sought eviction of his tenant, Hakim Rai (deceased) and his successors, alleging that the tenant had sub-let a Kiraria shop to his son‑in‑law Raj Kumar under a partnership deed without the landlord's written consent. The Rent Controller held the partnership to be a ruse and …
Meera Santosh Pal, a 22‑year‑old woman, petitioned the Supreme Court under Article 32 seeking permission to terminate her 24‑week pregnancy after the fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a lethal condition that also endangered her life. A seven‑member Medical Board examined her and concluded that …
The Supreme Court heard extensive arguments in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Jai Bir Singh (Civil Appeal No. 897 of 2002). The Court examined the correctness of the view expressed in Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa (1978) 2 SCC 213, which had been questioned in a prior reference …
Mukul Bhasin and Harshita Bhasin, married in 2007, separated in 2013 and have two minor children aged eight and five. The husband filed a petition under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 for dissolution of marriage and custody, while the wife filed a habeas corpus petition. The Calcutta High Court …
