(281) JALGAON DISTRICT CENTRAL COOP. BANK LTD. Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Priority of Debts — Section 26E — When two enactments contain non-obstante clauses, the provision incorporated later in time prevails; however, if one enactment creates a statutory 'first charge', that charge prevails over the general 'priority' conferred by the later non-obstante clause — India Law Library Docid # 2435647
(282) IN RE: ASSENT, WITHHOLDING OR RESERVATION OF BILLS BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 143(1) — Presidential Reference — Scope and Maintainability — Reference relating to interpretation of powers of Governor (Article 200) and President (Article 201) regarding assent, withholding, or reservation of Bills — Constitutional functionaries, constitutional mechanics, and federalism — Reference presents questions of law that have arisen or are likely to arise, which are India Law Library Docid # 2435648
(283) BHARAT KANTILAL DALAL (DEAD) THROUGH LR. Vs. CHETAN SURENDRA DALAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Execution of Arbitral Award — Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) — Maintainability — Code of Civil Procedure (CPC), 1908 — Order 21 Rule 22 — Execution proceedings against legal representatives — The Act is a self-contained code restricting judicial interference — An order passed by a Single Judge in the course of executing an arbitral award is traceable to the Act, not the CPC; therefore, a Letters Patent Appeal against such an order is not maintainable India Law Library Docid # 2435649
(284) UTTAR PRADESH STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION THROUGH ITS REGIONAL MANAGER Vs. R.K. SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Service Law — Termination of Conductor — Labour Court’s Award — Reinstatement with Back-wages — Validity of Domestic Inquiry — Where a domestic inquiry is found vitiated due to the employer's failure to provide the workman with a due opportunity of hearing, the employer must be given an India Law Library Docid # 2436123
(285) IN RE : ASSENT, WITHHOLDING OR RESERVATION OF BILLS BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 200 — Governor's Powers regarding Bills — Options available to Governor — The Governor has three constitutional options under Article 200: to assent to the Bill, to reserve the Bill for the President's consideration, or to withhold assent and return the Bill to the Legislature with comments — The first proviso to Article 200 restricts the existing options and does India Law Library Docid # 2436128
(286) BANABIHARI MISHRA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) — Quashing of Proceedings — Principles Governing Quashing — High Court quashed criminal proceedings (FIR and subsequent proceedings including cognizance) solely based on an affidavit by the Opposite Party stating misunderstanding and intent not to proceed further against the petitioner — Supreme Court held that the order did not meet the principles laid down in State of India Law Library Docid # 2436131
(287) MANISH YADAV Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Consideration — Grant of bail when complicity is primarily based on co-accused's confessional statement and lack of recovery of incriminating material from the accused — High Court rejected bail — Supreme Court allowed the appeal, noting that nothing incriminating was recovered from the appellant and complicity was based solely on the India Law Library Docid # 2436133
(288) M/S. DEEP CONSTRUCTION AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Suspension of sentence — Condition of deposit — High Court required petitioner (convicted by two lower courts) to deposit Rs. 35 lakhs (in addition to interim compensation paid under Section 143A) for suspension of sentence during criminal revision — Petitioner argued that the complaint was defective (not lodged by payee but India Law Library Docid # 2436136
(289) FAIZALKHAN @ ZOYEBKHAN BADSHAHKHAN PATHAN Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 8(C), 20(b)(ii)(A), 22(a), 22(b) and 29 — Bail — Grant of bail after previous misuse — Appellant previously granted bail; non-bailable warrants issued due to non-appearance; subsequently arrested — Supreme Court granting appellant "one more opportunity" for India Law Library Docid # 2436139
(290) GULAM FAREED Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Section 132 — Bail application — Tax Evasion — Bail granted despite seriousness of offence and reliance on supporting evidence against systematic network for tax evasion — Consideration of factors like nature of evidence (documentary/electronic, already seized), identity of witnesses (tax department officers, reducing risk of influencing them), maximum sentence (five years, India Law Library Docid # 2436148
(291) MADHYA PRADESH JUDGES ASSOCIATION Vs. HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Service Law — Judicial Officers — Superannuation Age — Enhancement — Challenge to rejection by High Court (administrative side) of representation to enhance superannuation age of Judicial Officers in Madhya Pradesh — State Government increased superannuation age of all its employees to 62 years — Petitioner-Association India Law Library Docid # 2436155
(292) IN RE: ISSUE RELATING TO DEFINITION OF ARAVALLI HILLS AND RANGES[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Environmental Law — Aravalli Hills and Ranges — Definition and Conservation — Supreme Court accepts recommendations of Committee of Experts (CEC) regarding the definition of Aravalli Hills and Ranges as given by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in the context of the region's conservation and protection. India Law Library Docid # 2436165
(293) AKBAR Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Capital Punishment — Appeal against Death Sentence — Review of Sentencing — Supreme Court granted leave to appeal and stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded to the appellant (Akbar) — Directed summoning of original records from Trial Court and High Court, and supply of translated records to the parties. India Law Library Docid # 2436168
(294) DEEPAK KUMAR @ GOLU @ D. KUMAR Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Death Sentence — Stay of Execution — Supreme Court orders stay of execution of the death sentence awarded to the appellant pending appeal. India Law Library Docid # 2436169
(295) VICTIM FATHER Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Stay of Conviction — Distinction between Suspension of Sentence and Stay of Conviction — Parameters for consideration are "totally different" — Stay of conviction should not be granted unless an "exceptional case" is made out, or it amounts to the "rarest of the rare" case — High Court erred in granting stay of conviction solely on the ground that the application for suspension of sentence India Law Library Docid # 2437566
(296) INDIAN SOCIETY OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act, 2011 and Rules, 2014 — Adoption and Implementation — Supreme Court requests Union of India to persuade the State of Andhra Pradesh (through Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary of Health) to adopt the 2011 Amendment Act — Further requests Union of India to persuade States of Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Manipur to adopt the 2014 India Law Library Docid # 2436058
(297) KASINATH MALLICK Vs. THE STATE OF ODISHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 (Murder) — Conviction — Appellate Review — Appreciation of evidence — Suitability of witnesses — Case involving husband (Appellant) convicted for murdering his wife by hitting her with a stone following an oral quarrel — Both Trial Court and High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld conviction based primarily on eye-witness testimony (PW-3 and PW-6) — Supreme Court found serious doubts over the reliability of eyewitnesses PW-3 and India Law Library Docid # 2436061
(298) ANCHOR INVESTMENTS PRIVATE Vs. DEEPAK POLYMERS PRIVATE LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Dispute Resolution — Compromise and Settlement — Terms of Settlement — Settlement in Civil Appeal involving transfer of property and payment obligations — Confirmation by respondent of handing over vacant, peaceful possession of suit property and making all due payments to the appellant in full and final settlement — India Law Library Docid # 2436079
(299) RAMPHOOL MEENA Vs. THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Appeal against rejection of anticipatory bail by High Court — The Supreme Court, after granting interim protection against arrest and noting that the complainant was not opposing the petition and the appellant was cooperating with the investigation, disposed of the appeal by making the interim protection absolute — Conditions India Law Library Docid # 2436084
(300) STATE OF UP THR. SECRETARY AND OTHERS Vs. PRAHLAD KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 4, 6, and 17 — Quashing of Acquisition Proceedings by High Court — Requirement of Detailed Reasoning — Setting aside and Remand — Where the High Court set aside land acquisition notifications issued under Sections 4 and 6, read with Section 17, without elaborately discussing or giving detailed reasons, particularly on the invocation of the urgency clause (Section 17) and India Law Library Docid # 2436088