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Supreme Court quashed criminal proceedings against an anaesthetist in a post-surgery death case, reiterating that criminal medical negligence under Section 304-A IPC requires gross negligence and proximate causation.
The P&H High Court had refused to become a party to the blame game between Punjab Election Commission and Election Commission of India (ECI) over EVM model compatibility. The Supreme Court declined to interfere, leaving open the remedy of an election petition.
With the incumbent DGP’s tenure due to end on 31 May 2026, the State of Manipur sought the Supreme Court’s permission to appoint a replacement from outside the Manipur cadre, citing the unprecedented ethnic and civil unrest continuing in the State.
“It is trite to state that when the validity of a Will is to be determined, the overall terms of a Will, the intention of the testator and the surrounding circumstances have also to be seen.”
The Court did not grant any relief to the third consortium member, Abir Infrastructure Private Limited, as it had not filed an appeal challenging the High Court judgment.
Supreme Court upheld the conviction of the husband under Sections 302 and 498-A IPC in a dowry death case, rejecting the claim of suicide. The Court held that medical evidence showed a case of homicidal hanging, supported by ante-mortem injuries and absence of typical ligature marks not suicide.
A petition was filed against NTA, the body conducting various exams in India, in the aftermath of the NEET-UG paper leak controversy.
The Supreme Court has notified partial court working days from 1 June to 12 July 2026 and constituted vacation benches under the Supreme Court Rules, 2013. Regular court functioning will resume from 13 July 2026.
The Supreme Court regularised MBBS admissions and directed authorities to issue degrees to students affected by the NMC CBME Corrigendum dispute while keeping the larger legal issue open.
Progress in 3-Year Legal Practice Rule: Supreme Court of India has now extended the last date to apply for all the active Judicial Officers Recruitment Exams across the country.
“The statutory right of the landowner under Section 126(1)(b) being twofold as discussed above, the corporation could not have conjured a precondition for the landowner to abjure part of the compensation in order to receive the other part.”
Noting that hospitals allotted government land in Delhi were not diligently complying with directions to provide free treatment to economically weaker sections, the Supreme Court directed a joint meeting of government departments, land agencies, hospitals, and the Amici Curiae to prepare an effective SOP for enforcement.
The Supreme Court held that a transaction involving receipt of money with an obligation to return it with promised interest constitutes a ‘deposit’ under the MPID Act regardless of nomenclature.
The Supreme Court held that a wife pursuing her professional career and living separately for her child’s welfare cannot amount to cruelty or desertion.
The Supreme Court held that a partition decree determining shares, possession, mesne profits and mode of sale can be executable without a separate final decree, setting aside M.P. High Court orders that stalled execution proceedings.
The Court took note of the hallucination of facts in the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s order while setting it aside.
The Supreme Court held that remission cannot be denied solely on the heinousness of the offence and quashed the Ministry of Home Affairs’ non-speaking order rejecting a life convict’s premature release after 22 years of incarceration.
This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on power of Supreme Court to transfer cases dating back to the year 1955.
The Court directed the confiscation of the property where a claim, which was presented to be based on a will, but was in substance an attempt to obtain judicial recognition of a benami transaction.
Supreme Court dismissed SLP filed by BMRCL challenging Karnataka High Court judgment restoring arbitral award in favour of Navayuga Engineering Company, reiterating limited scope of interference under Sections 34 and 37, Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and upholding award including finance charges as compensatory claim.