(1) LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER Vs. VITA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-12-2025 Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 — Scope and Applicability — Overriding Effect over State Rent Control Legislations — Whether PP Act 1971 prevails over State Rent Control Acts (such as Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 or Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958) regarding eviction from 'Public Premises' defined under Section 2(e) — Both PP Act 1971 and State Rent Control Acts are India Law Library Docid # 2436681
(2) PRADEEP ARORA AND OTHERS Vs. DIRECTOR, HEALTH DEPARTMENT, GOVT. OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-12-2025 Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 — Prevention and Containment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Regulations, 2020 (Maharashtra) — Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) Package: Insurance Scheme for Health Workers Fighting COVID-19 — Insurance Claim — Eligibility — Requisition of Services — Private medical practitioners — Interpretation of "requisition" in the context of pandemic India Law Library Docid # 2436682
(3) JOTHI @ NAGAJOTHI Vs. THE STATE, REP. BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-12-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 8(c) read with 20(b)(ii)(C) and 29(1) — Conviction for possession of commercial quantity of ganja (23.500 kg) and conspiracy — Appeal against concurrent findings of lower courts — Absence of independent witnesses — Failure to secure independent witnesses is not fatal to the prosecution case, especially under the NDPS Act, if the India Law Library Docid # 2436683
(4) CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Vs. DAYAMOY MAHATO ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDA] 11-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 — Section 436-A — Applicability — Undertrial detention exceeding half of maximum sentence — Section 436-A mandates release of undertrial prisoners who have undergone detention extending up to one-half of maximum period of imprisonment specified for the offence, unless further detention is ordered with reasons — Exception: This provision is explicitly India Law Library Docid # 2436684
(5) DR. SOHAIL MALIK Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act) — Section 11 — Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) — Jurisdiction against employee of different department — The ICC constituted at the workplace/department of the "aggrieved woman" has jurisdiction to entertain and inquire into a complaint of sexual harassment against a "respondent" India Law Library Docid # 2436626
(6) NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 36(1)(viii) — Deduction for profits derived from the business of providing long-term finance — Scope and Interpretation of "derived from" — The amendment by Finance Act, 1995, intentionally narrowed the scope of deduction from "total income" to "profits derived from such business of providing long-term finance" to prevent corporations from claiming benefits on diversified income, thereby "ring-fencing" the fiscal benefit India Law Library Docid # 2436627
(7) THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL Vs. ANIL KUMAR DEY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (PC Act) — Section 18A — PC Act read with Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 1944 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 102 — Seizure vs. Attachment/Confiscation of Property — Whether power of police officer to freeze accounts under Section 102 CrPC is co-existent or mutually exclusive with the machinery for attachment under Section 18A India Law Library Docid # 2436628
(8) MOHAN LAL FATEHPURIA Vs. M/S BHARAT TEXTILES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 29A(1), 29A(4), 29A(6), 23(4) — Time limit for arbitral award — Termination of mandate — Substitution of Arbitrator — Section 29A aims for time-bound disposal of arbitration proceedings — An award in non-international commercial arbitration must be made within twelve months from completion of pleadings (Section 23(4)) — If the award is not made India Law Library Docid # 2436629
(9) M/S. SHRI KARSHNI ALLOYS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. RAMAKRISHNAN SADASIVAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Section 62 — Liquidation Process — Sale of Assets — Appeals against NCLAT majority decision confirming forfeiture of amount paid by bidder — Private sale requiring Adjudicating Authority's prior approval — Regulation 33(2)(d) of IBBI (Liquidation Process) Regulations, 2016 — Where liquidator seeks NCLT approval for private sale after failed auctions India Law Library Docid # 2436630
(10) M/S. SARASWATI WIRE AND CABLE INDUSTRIES Vs. MOHAMMAD MOINUDDIN KHAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 9 — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) — Application by Operational Creditor — Pre-existing Dispute — Adjudicating authority must determine if operational debt exists, if non-payment has occurred, and if a dispute existed prior to the demand notice (Section 8) — Dispute must be genuine, substantial, and not spurious, hypothetical, or illusory India Law Library Docid # 2436631
(11) VINEETA SRINANDAN Vs. HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ON ITS OWN MOTION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Sections 2(c), 12, 19 — Criminal Contempt — Power to Punish and Forgive — The power to punish for contempt carries the concomitant power to forgive when the contemnor demonstrates genuine remorse and repentance, making the extension of mercy an integral part of judicial conscience — Contempt jurisdiction is neither a personal armour for Judges nor a sword to silence India Law Library Docid # 2436632
(12) SUVEJ SINGH Vs. RAM NARESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006 — Section 30 — Maintenance of Map and Field Book — Correction of Revenue Map — Scope of Section 30 — Section 30 allows the Collector to record annual changes in boundaries or correct errors or omissions detected in the map or field book (khasra) — It does not permit reopening an issue settled previously between parties regarding the location or extent of plots, India Law Library Docid # 2436530
(13) ASHOK KUMAR DABAS (DEAD THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS) Vs. DELHI TRANSPORT CORPORATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Service Law — Resignation — Forfeiture of past service — Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1972 — Rule 26(1) — Distinction between Resignation and Voluntary Retirement — An employee who resigns from service forfeits past service as per Rule 26(1) of the 1972 Rules, regardless of the length of service completed (20 years or more) — The act of resignation cannot be re-classified as voluntary India Law Library Docid # 2436531
(14) AMAL KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of First Information Report (FIR) — Abuse of process of law — When civil dispute is masked as criminal complaint — Allegations in FIR (claiming criminal conspiracy, forcible occupation, and caste abuse) found inconsistent with contemporaneous civil suit filed by the informant regarding the same property and on the same day — Suit's India Law Library Docid # 2436532
(15) HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD. Vs. BCL SECURE PREMISES PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(4) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Existence of Arbitration Agreement — Non-Signatory/Third Party — The Referral Court (Appointing Authority) is required to inspect and scrutinize the dealings between the parties to prima facie examine the existence of an arbitration agreement, including whether a non-signatory is a "veritable party" to the agreement. India Law Library Docid # 2436533
(16) SURENDER KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Conviction — Appellate Review — Scope of inquiry limited to considering if conviction should be altered to a lesser offense — Deceased sustaining four knife blows on vital body parts (common carotid and subclavian arteries cut), injuries which, in ordinary course, would cause death — Absence of defense evidence and appellant's Section 313 CrPC statement India Law Library Docid # 2436633
(17) HARSHBIR SINGH PANNU AND ANOTHER Vs. JASWINDER SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 32 and 38 — Interplay and Source of Power — Termination of Arbitral Proceedings (General) vs. Termination for Non-Payment of Fees — Section 32(1) stipulates termination of arbitral proceedings either by final award or by order under Section 32(2). Section 32(2) lists three specific scenarios: claimant withdrawal (unless legitimate respondent objection), India Law Library Docid # 2436486
(18) AKOLA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER Vs. ZISHAN HUSSAIN AZHAR HUSSAIN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Public Interest Litigation (PIL) — Property Tax Revision — Akola Municipal Corporation — Challenge to legality of property tax revision (2017-18 to 2021-22) via Public Interest Litigation (PIL) — Financial Autonomy of Municipal Bodies — Property tax is main source of income for Municipal Corporations to perform vital statutory obligations (urban planning, public health, infrastructure upkeep) — India Law Library Docid # 2436487
(19) SOHANVIR @ SOHANVIR DHAMA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (SC/ST Act) — Section 3(1)(s) — Essential ingredient — Requirement of caste-based abuse occurring "in any place within public view" — Interpretation — For an offence under Section 3(1)(s) to be made out, the place where the utterance is made must be open, enabling the public to witness or hear the abuse — Abuse uttered within the India Law Library Docid # 2436488
(20) GOVIND MANDAVI Vs. STATE OF CHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 08-12-2025 Penal Code, 18602 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 460 — Appreciation of Evidence — Prior Enmity and Delayed Disclosure of Accused’s Name — Where the star eyewitness (PW-2), the wife of the deceased, provided a detailed account of the assault to the informant (PW-1) immediately after the incident, but failed to name the accused in the First Information Report (FIR), this omission is fatal to the prosecution India Law Library Docid # 2436489