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Supreme Court rejects Navi General Insurance apology over ignored notice
This matter concerns the enforcement of the Supreme Court's previous orders regarding the integration of digital portals for road accident claims…
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Supreme Court: victims have right to seek speedy trial like accused
The case concerns whether a victim (complainant) in a criminal trial has the legal standing (locus standi) to petition the High Court for a speedy…
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Supreme Court rebukes Centre for ignoring disabled cadet welfare orders
This is a suo moto writ petition concerning the welfare and service benefits of military cadets who were outboarded due to disabilities.
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Supreme Court asks Union to form committee on pharma marketing rules
This case concerns a writ petition seeking the enforcement of the right to health by regulating unethical marketing practices in the pharmaceutical…
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Supreme Court: breakup ending in suicide cannot always be termed abetment
The case concerns six appellants accused of abetment to suicide under Section 306 IPC after a woman in a consensual relationship with the first…
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Supreme Court alters robbery conviction to grievous hurt over missing evidence
The case concerns an appeal by a man convicted of robbery under Section 394 IPC for an incident in 1993, where the Supreme Court examined whether the…
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Supreme Court bars High Court from suggesting custodial interrogation of accused
The case concerns a criminal appeal by a husband and wife, accused of tampering with service records to alter a retirement date, challenging the High…
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Supreme Court 'aghast' at 11-year delay in paying pension dues
The case concerns a retired government employee who was denied his pension and retirement benefits for over a decade despite 32 years of service.
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Patna High Court: Bihar cannot reject ex-gratia claims over unauthorised lab tests
This case concerns eight petitioners whose family members died during the second wave of the pandemic, seeking compensation under the Bihar Covid…
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Supreme Court: Election petitions must be filed by petitioner, not counsel
The case concerns whether an election petition must be presented by the petitioner in person under Section 81 of the Representation of the People…
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Supreme Court: purpose test decides if subsidy is taxable revenue
The case concerns whether an electricity subsidy of Rs. 16,20,745/- received by M/s.
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Supreme Court orders AP High Court to monitor probe into girl's death
The Supreme Court took suo motu notice of a letter regarding the death of a 7-year-old girl and the illness of residents in Andhra Pradesh following…
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Supreme Court quashes steel-dues cheating case, calls it abuse of process
The case concerns a dispute over unpaid steel dues where the appellants, directors of a steel company, challenged criminal charges of cheating and…
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Supreme Court reserves judgment on Delhi HC law attendance ruling
The case involves Writ Petitions and Special Leave Petitions challenging a Delhi High Court verdict that allegedly diluted the mandatory attendance…
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Supreme Court: exam marks cannot cure lack of essential qualification
The case concerns a dispute over the recruitment of a Vocational Instructor (Practical) in the trade of Plumber, specifically whether a candidate who…
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Supreme Court adjourns West Bengal plea against Milan Pradhan's interim bail
The case involves the State of West Bengal seeking special leave to appeal against a High Court order that granted interim bail to Milan Pradhan, a…
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Supreme Court gives Rajpal Yadav last chance to pay Rs. 2 crores
This matter concerns a petition for special leave to appeal in cheque dishonour cases where the Court addressed the petitioner's failure to comply…
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Supreme Court: Courts must compare signatures themselves, not rely on experts
The case concerns a dispute over the genuineness of a 'Will' in an eviction matter, specifically whether a court is legally required to send the…
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Supreme Court dismisses teachers' plea, allows recovery of excess salary
The case concerns whether financial benefits (Academic Grade Pay) extended to teachers by the National Institute of Technology can be withdrawn and…
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Supreme Court orders Gujarat to pay arrears to regularised daily-wage workers
The case concerns retired daily-wage skilled workers in the Gujarat Irrigation Department who were denied annual increments and arrears after…
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Supreme Court quashes FIR, finds no cheating in land sale dispute
The case concerns a dispute over the sale of land where the petitioner, a General Power of Attorney holder, was accused of cheating and criminal…
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Supreme Court acquits clerk in 16-year-old bribery case after sentence served
This case involves a criminal appeal by Ajit Kumar, a government clerk, against his conviction and sentence for demanding a bribe under the…
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Supreme Court upholds murder acquittal, finds witnesses were set up
This case involves a criminal appeal by the State of Himachal Pradesh against the High Court's acquittal of Anchla (alias Chanchla), who was…
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Supreme Court quashes rape case, bars using prosecution to force marriage
This case concerns a criminal appeal where the Supreme Court quashed a rape case filed against the appellant, Martanda Singh, alleging that he…
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Supreme Court restores NDPS prosecution against Ganja transporter
This case concerns an appeal by the State of Karnataka against a High Court order that quashed criminal proceedings against Sadiq Pasha for…
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Supreme Court: Tax goods by form at sale, not end use
The case concerns a dispute over the tax classification of 'GRD Powder' and 'GRD Mix' under the M.P.
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Supreme Court disapproves trial judge advising on bail, orders explanation
The Supreme Court addressed a letter sent by a trial judge to the Court requesting more time to complete a trial and advising on when bail should be…
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Supreme Court upholds railway compassionate appointment for grandson
The case concerns the Union of India's challenge to a High Court judgment that allowed the compassionate appointment of the respondent, JITENDRA…
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Supreme Court quashes cattle transport conviction, rejects slaughter presumption
The case concerns an appeal by Saurabh Bajaj against his conviction for transporting cattle in violation of the Chhattisgarh Agricultural Cattle…
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Supreme Court grants leave to challenge bail for hospital assault accused
The case concerns an appeal by the State of Maharashtra against a High Court order that granted bail to four respondents accused of assaulting…