Land Reservation MRTP Act
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It does not make any good sense to keep a plot reserved in a development plan for the past 33 years. The Authority did not allow the original owners to use the land and are now not permitting even the purchasers to utilize the land.”

Dry cleaning manufacturing process
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It is very clear that Section 2(g) of the Factories Act, 1934 did not have the words ‘washing, cleaning’ and they have been specifically brought in the Factories Act, 1948 with a clear object of bringing into the fold of the Act undertakings excluded from the scope of the 1934 Act.”

Section 100 Transfer of Property Act
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on Section 100 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, dating back to the year 1954.

Visually impaired eligibility for judiciary
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The Constitution of India is blind to the differences between able-bodied and differently abled citizens in matters of providing equal opportunity to all citizens in all spheres of life, including employment, and envisages equality and non-discrimination.”

YouTuber Ranveer Allahabadia
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Allahabadia and his associates were barred from airing any show on YouTube or any other audio/video visual mode of communication over India’s Got Latent Row.

Acquittal due to insufficient evidence
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court said that according to the prosecution, the convicts had committed the murder of the deceased. Therefore, it is for the prosecution to connect the convicts to the murder by producing credible and legally admissible evidence.

Justice N. Kotiswar Singh
Know thy Judge

Justice N. Kotiswar Singh was serving as the Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, prior to being elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 18-7-2024.

Acquittal in girlfriend’s murder
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“When one of the three circumstances was disbelieved and discarded by the High Court, then the chain of circumstantial evidence could not have been held to be complete and proved and on that basis to hold the accused guilty of the offence.”

Justice CK Thakker
New releasesNews

Justice Thakker served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2004 till his retirement in 2008.

consideration
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on consideration, dating back to the year 1954.

Partha Chatterjee Bail
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Recruitments to various posts of Primary School Teachers; Assistant School Teachers; Group C staff; and Group D staff, was questioned before the Calcutta High Court challenging the legitimacy of the procedures followed in the recruitments.

Senior designation process
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The Bench was dealing with the issue of whether the law and the procedure laid down by the Court regarding the designation of Advocates as Senior Advocates under Section 16 of the Advocates Act, 1961 required reconsideration.

Decentralising Mineral Rights
Op EdsOP. ED.

by Atish Chakraborty* and Shaurya Kapoor**

Christian Michel
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It was alleged that Michel being a consultant of AgustaWestland, he was roped in for liaison work, in furtherance of which he and another person combined received more than Euro 70 million in the companies beneficially owned and controlled by them.

Humiliating questions in court
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It is the duty of the Court to reach the truth of the matter and such exercise may demand putting forward certain questions and suggestions which may be uncomfortable to some.”

Bail in UAPA
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Delays are bad for the accused and extremely bad for the victims, for Indian society, and for the credibility of our justice system, which is valued. Judges are the masters of their Courtrooms and the Criminal Procedure Code provides many tools for the Judges to use in order to ensure that cases proceed efficiently.”

ownership
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on ownership, dating back to the year 1954.

SIT reinvestigation in suicide
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Was there anything more sinister? Even if it was suicide what was the real cause? Was the deceased girl distraught with what happened to her friend? Considering the under-currents and the disapproval of the relationship, was there any instigation for the suicide from any other quarter?”

Acquittal in murder case
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“If the recovery memos had been prepared in the police station itself or signed by the panch witnesses in the police station, the same would lose their sanctity and cannot be relied upon by the Court to support the conviction.”

Offence under S. 276-CC Compoundable
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The assessee’s case was that whether he had filed a belated return of income, after the expiry of the due date or not, was immaterial and the point in time when the offence under Section 276CC is committed is the date immediately following the due date for furnishing the return of income as prescribed under Section 139(1) of the Act.