SHIVA KIRTI SINGH

The respondents, dealers of motor vehicles, paid entry tax under the Orissa Entry Tax Act, 1999 and surcharge under the Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947. A Finance Department circular directed that surcharge under Section SA of the Sales Tax Act be calculated on the gross sales tax payable, not after set‑off of entry tax. Th…

The petitioners sought a writ of mandamus directing the Union and other respondents to conduct the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS courses for the 2016-17 academic year. The respondents submitted that NEET would be held in accordance with the Medical Council of India and Dental Counc…

KAIL Ltd., a dealer of home appliances in Kerala, purchased goods from its holding company Videocon International Ltd. and marketed them under the brand name "Sansui". The company claimed a second‑sale exemption under the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963, arguing that it was not the holder of the Sansui trademark. Th…

Mis. Electro Optics (P) Ltd., a seller of imported electronic survey instruments, challenged assessments levied by the Tamil Nadu tax authorities who classified the goods under Entry 14 Part F of Schedule I of the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959 (16% tax) rather than Entry 50 Part B (3% tax). The Supreme Court e…

The dispute concerned a clause in a railway‑contractor agreement that required the contractor to give a written demand for arbitration, after which the Railways had 60 days to furnish a panel of more than three eligible railway officers. The contractor sent its demand on 12 June 2013 but filed an application under Sect…

The appellant's land was acquired by the State of Uttar Pradesh under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. He entered into a consent agreement under the Uttar Pradesh Land Acquisition (Determination of Compensation and Declaration of Award by Agreement) Rules, 1997 and accepted the full compensation on the same day without …

Consolidation proceedings under the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 were completed in 1976 in Village Karala, Delhi. After a lapse of 23 years, respondents 4‑7 filed an application under Section 43A seeking allotment of land, claiming the appellant's father had been in pos…

The Supreme Court delivered a judgment on 21 May 2014 in MD Jamiluddin Nasir v. State of West Bengal concerning an alleged offence of waging war against the State under IPC 121. Subsequent to that judgment, the parties filed criminal miscellaneous petitions seeking correction of typographical and factual errors in the …

The appellants were convicted under Section 121 of the Indian Penal Code for waging war against the State in a trial court in West Bengal. They appealed the conviction to the Calcutta High Court, which upheld the judgment. Subsequently, the appellants filed Criminal Miscellaneous Petitions before the Supreme Court seek…

The Supreme Court considered two interlocutory applications (IA No.6 and IA No.7) filed in Civil Appeals Nos. 226‑227 of 2015 arising out of Swapna Sukumar & Ors. v. State of Kerala & Ors. The applicant indicated that IA No.6 was not to be pressed, and the Court dismissed it as not pressed. IA No.7 was examined and the…

The case concerned the Tamil Nadu Government's decision to relax the qualifying marks in the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) by 5% for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and other disadvantaged groups. The petitioners challenged the relaxation on grounds of lack of statut…

Private unaided medical and dental colleges, along with some states, sought modification of the Supreme Court's order directing that the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) be conducted for the 2016-17 academic year. The Court examined whether the NEET regulation infringed on the constitutional rights of stat…

The tenant Bhupinder Singh Bawa occupied a two‑room premises in New Delhi under a rent deed dated 20 July 1989. The landlord Asha Devi, who acquired the property in 2002, filed an eviction petition under Section 14(1)(e) of the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958, claiming a bona‑fide requirement for her son to run a sanitary…

The petitioners were temporary employees of PEPSU Roadways who, by a government order dated 16‑10‑1956, were transferred and merged into the PEPSU Road Transport Corporation (PRTC). The corporation then operated under a Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) scheme and did not provide pension. After PRTC introduced a pensio…

The petitioner, Salam Samarjeet Singh, was the sole candidate to clear the written examination for the District Judge (Entry Level) post under the Manipur Judicial Service Rules, 2005, but was declared unsuccessful in the viva‑voce because the High Court, shortly before the interview, resolved that a minimum of 40% mar…

The case concerned Havildar Purushottam, who was tried by a Summary Court Martial (SCM) for extortion and other misconduct, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to reduction in rank. The SCM proceedings were later set aside by a Deputy Judge‑Advocate General acting as a reviewing authority under Section 162 of the Army Ac…