Supreme Court Roundup January 2025
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Key rulings and landmark decisions from January 2025 shaping the legal landscape, including the spotlight on Supreme Court Judges from our ‘Know Thy Judges’ Feature.

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Meghalaya High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Perplexed and shocked at the most daring act committed by the management of the St. Anthony’s Lower Primary School.”

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Union Budget 2025-2026
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Industry experts seem cautiously optimistic, acknowledging the budget’s potential to foster long-term economic resilience while urging attention to execution.

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Ad-hoc Judges in HC
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Earlier in 2021, the Court issued guidelines and “trigger points” for the activation of dormant Article 224-A of the Constitution of India.

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Laws for domestic workers' rights
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“No effective legislative or executive action in furtherance of enacting a statute, which could prove to be a boon to millions of vulnerable domestic workers across the country, has been undertaken as of now. Over and above the absence of any legislation protecting their interests, domestic labourers also find themselves excluded from existing labour laws.”

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Acquittal of Constable in murder
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It must be established that all the accused had preplanned and shared a common intention to commit the crime with the accused who has actually committed the crime.”

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Conviction under S. 498A IPC
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Court considered that the complainant-wife had re-married and settled abroad. However, directed for compensation of Rs. 3,00,000/- to the former wife in view of the harassment which she was subjected to.

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Section 37 of Arbitration Act
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Section 37 of the 1996 Act grants narrower scope to the appellate court to review the findings in an arbitral award if it has been upheld or substantially upheld under Section 34.”

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Private complaint before Tribunal
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court set aside the High Court’s decision quashing the private complaint and concluding that the alleged offences under Sections 193, 199 and 200 of the IPC were such, on which the complaint could have only been filed by the Court following the route under Section 195 read with Section 340 of the CrPC.

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Royalty on brick earth
Case BriefsSupreme Court

On 01-06-1958, the Government of India published a notification in the exercise of powers conferred under Section 3(e) of the Mines and Mineral (Regulations and Development) Act, 1957 by which brick earth was declared a minor mineral within the meaning of the 1957 Act.

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S. 306 IPC against mother
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“A remark such as asking the deceased to not be alive if she cannot live without marrying her lover will also not gain the status of abetment. There needs to be a positive act that creates an environment where the deceased is pushed to an edge in order to sustain the charge of Section 306 IPC.”

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Union-Budget 2025-26 expectations
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India approaches the Financial Bill 2025

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Promotion to Tracer post
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The appellant’s case was that the similarly placed employees were promoted as Tracer from the post of Peon. Hence, looking at the discrimination, her case deserved to be considered.

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Disciplinary action against doctor
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“While it is true that principles of natural justice supplement, and not supplant, the law, such principles have been declared by the Court to be a constituent feature of Article 14. Validity of any disciplinary action, whenever questioned, has to be tested on the touchstone of Articles 14, 16 and 21 as well as Article 311(2), wherever applicable.”

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Convert conviction from S. 302 to S. 304
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The requirement of law in criminal trials is not to prove the case beyond all doubt but beyond reasonable doubt and such doubt cannot be imaginary, fanciful, trivial or merely a possible doubt but a fair doubt based on reason and common sense.”

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Orissa High Court
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The question of the technical glitch was a disputed question of fact, hence, the Court refused to enter into such a disputed question of fact in a proceeding under Article 226.

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Deoghar airport case
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They were accused of entering Air Traffic Control and forcing the personnel to give clearance for an unscheduled night flight.

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Order II Rule 2 CPC
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The stage at which the first suit is, would not be a material consideration in deciding the applicability of the bar under Order II Rule 2. What needs to be looked into is whether the cause of action in both suits is one and the same in substance, and whether the plaintiff is agitating the second suit for claiming a relief that was very well available to him at the time of filing the first suit.”

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Orissa High Court
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In the matter at hand, the Family Court ordered for payment of Rs. 3,000/- maintenance. The High Court noted that without producing any proof of the infidelity of his wife, the husband simply character assassinated his wife.

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Anticipatory bail to wife for abetting suicide
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The husband and wife were married for about one and a half year, and due to continuous quarrels, the wife started living in her parental home along with their 6-month-old daughter at the time of the incident. During this period, the husband committed suicide.

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