(561) MOHAMMAD JAFAR Vs. STATE OF UP[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Suspension of Sentence — Life Imprisonment — Appeal Pending — Supreme Court earlier declined to suspend a murder convict's life sentence despite 11 years served due to the gravity of the double murder, but expedited the appeal before the High Court — High Court subsequently India Law Library Docid # 2436159
(562) HEMANT S. HATHI Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Criminal Law — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Settlement — Loan Default/Financial Fraud — Writ petitions sought quashing of multiple FIRs, charge sheets, ECIRs/PMLA proceedings, Fugitive Economic Offenders Act proceedings, Companies Act/SFIO proceedings, and Black Money Act proceedings concerning alleged financial irregularities and loan default — Court observed that if petitioners are willing to return public money to lender banks, continuation of criminal India Law Library Docid # 2437434
(563) SNIDHA MEHRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 15(1)(b) — Constitutional Validity — Challenge under Article 32 (Public Interest Litigation) against Section 15(1)(b) of the Act (which stipulates that if a female Hindu dies intestate without a son, daughter, or husband, her property devolves upon the heirs of the husband, before her parents) was not entertained on merits by the Supreme Court at the instance of a practicing India Law Library Docid # 2437441
(564) RAJNEESH KUMAR PANDEY AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Education — Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) — Special Educators for Children with Special Needs (CwSN) — Requirement of TET qualification for appointment of Special Educators — Supreme Court directing Union of India to obtain instructions on whether TET is a mandatory qualification nationally for Special Educators, especially since one State (Uttar Pradesh) prescribed it — Court also seeking clarity India Law Library Docid # 2436067
(565) RANIMOL AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 200 — Private Complaint after Police Closure Report — Abuse of Process of Law — Filing a private complaint under Section 200 Cr.P.C. by the same informant, relating to the same occurrence and against the same accused (who were dropped from the initial investigation after a detailed investigation and negative report), amounts to a gross abuse and misuse of India Law Library Docid # 2436068
(566) SHAHID ALAM Vs. ARUN KUMAR YADAV @ BALMIKI YADAV AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Res Judicata — Consideration of Plea — The plea of res judicata is a valuable right inherent in a person who raises it and must be considered on its own merits, preferably at the very first instance, to prevent misuse and abuse of the process of the Court by re-agitating matters already decided — Failure of the High Court to apply judicial mind to the plea and instead holding India Law Library Docid # 2436070
(567) LAL CHANDRA RAM Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Setting Criminal Law in Motion — Locus Standi — General Principle — Anyone can set or put the criminal law into motion, including by filing a complaint, unless the statue creating the offense explicitly indicates a contrary restriction on the eligibility of the complainant — The power to file an FIR or a complaint is not restricted to specific authorities, even if India Law Library Docid # 2436075
(568) SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA Vs. D. SUNDARARAJAN ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) — Appeal to Supreme Court — Dismissal — The Supreme Court found no error, specifically no error of law, committed by the Securities Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai in passing the impugned order dated May 18, 2023, and accordingly dismissed the Civil Appeals filed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India. India Law Library Docid # 2436093
(569) CONFEDERATION OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS OF INDIA (CREDAI) Vs. VANASHAKTI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Review Petition — Grounds for Judicial Review — Recall of Judgment (JUR) dated 16th May 2025 (Vanashakti v. Union of India) — Judgment based on precedents (Common Cause, Alembic, Electrosteel) not considered in entirety — Failure of JUR to notice crucial paragraphs in preceding judgments which India Law Library Docid # 2435408
(570) SHRI DIGANT Vs. M/S. P.D.T. TRADING CO. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Scope of Supervisory Jurisdiction — High Court's jurisdiction under Article 227 is to be used sparingly, primarily for keeping subordinate courts within jurisdictional bounds, and not for correcting mere errors — Interference is warranted only in cases of grave injustice, failure of justice, assumption of jurisdiction not possessed, failure to exercise jurisdiction resulting in India Law Library Docid # 2435871
(571) ASHOK S/O VITTHALRAO JAGTAP Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Compensation — Enhancement — Principle of Parity — Where lands are acquired for setting up an Industrial Area under the Maharashtra Industrial Development Act, 1961, and claimants' appeals challenging the compensation quantum were dismissed by the High Court — If other similarly situated landowners' appeals against the same common judgment were allowed by the India Law Library Docid # 2435872
(572) SRI LAKSHMI HOTEL PVT. LIMITED AND ANOTHER Vs. SRIRAM CITY UNION FINANCE LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 37 read with Section 34 — Scope of Interference — Concurrent Findings — Statutory prohibition against re-appreciation of evidence — Challenges to arbitral award upholding 24% interest rate based on loan agreement terms dismissed by Single Judge and Division Bench; India Law Library Docid # 2435409
(573) ISMAIL KHAN @ PATHAN Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 8 and 20 — Regular Bail — Factors considered for enlargement on bail — Recovery of 49.8 kgs. of ganja — Appellant in custody for more than 2 years and 8 months — Trial commenced — Co-accused already released on bail — Considering the period of incarceration already undergone and the time likely to be taken for conclusion of the trial, India Law Library Docid # 2436137
(574) VIRENDER SINGH DONGWAL Vs. MANJU AGGARWAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of cheque) — Offence under Section 138 is quasi-criminal and compoundable under Section 147 — Legislative intent is to ensure payment and promote cheque credibility. India Law Library Docid # 2436162
(575) DILIP MEHTA Vs. RAKESH GUPTA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (LSA Act) — Sections 21 and 22E — Award of Lok Adalat — Finality and Challenge — A Lok Adalat award is deemed to be a decree of a Civil Court, final and binding on the parties, and not appealable — The statutory intent restricts challenges to a Lok Adalat award, even when founded on grounds of fraud or collusion, to the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution — A plenary civil remedy or a civil suit to set India Law Library Docid # 2437405
(576) POPULAR CATERERS Vs. AMEET MEHTA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 36(3) — Enforcement of Arbitral Award pending application to set aside (Section 34) — Stay of operation of money award — Requirement for grant of unconditional stay — The filing of a Section 34 application does not automatically render the award unenforceable; a separate application for stay under Section 36(3) is required — Courts have discretion to impose conditions for stay ("subject to such conditions as it may deem fit") — India Law Library Docid # 2437432
(577) MOHAMMADHANIF MOHAMMADIBRAHIM PATEL AND OTHERS Vs. PALLAVIBEN RAJENDRA KUMAR PATEL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Appeals — Interim Relief Pending Appeal — Powers of Appellate Court — Suit Dismissed — The proposition that no interim relief (like status quo) can be granted in an appeal merely because the original suit was dismissed is incorrect in law — An appeal is a continuation of the original suit, and the appellate court possesses co-extensive power with the original court to grant India Law Library Docid # 2437435
(578) ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Judicial Services — e-Court Technical Staff — Absorption/Regularization — Review of Status — Supreme Court directed all States/Union Territories and High Courts that have not yet responded regarding the absorption/regularization of e-Court Technical Staff to file affidavits within six weeks to enable the issuance of appropriate directions. India Law Library Docid # 2437438
(579) UNION OF INDIA Vs. CHIDIEBERE KINGSLEY NAWCHARA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Bail Bonds and Sureties — Verification of Sureties — Concerns regarding fake sureties — Accused granted bail in a serious NDPS case involving 4.9 Kg heroin based on "long incarceration" — Accused absconded after bail, not traceable — Surety found to be fake (non-existent address, false employment claim, fake bank account details) — Serious issue highlighted regarding acceptance of sureties India Law Library Docid # 2437442
(580) FOOD COURT THE COMPANY GARDEN SOCIETY Vs. UNIVERSAL SOMPO GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Consumer Protection — Insurance Claim Repudiation — Business Shield Policy ('Fire and Allied Perils-Buildings & Contents') — Repudiation based on "snowfall" not being a named peril and failure to take "reasonable care" — Damage to building caused by continuous and heavy snowfall leading to accumulated snow exceeding load-bearing capacity of the tin roof and collapse — SCDRC allowed claim, NCDRC India Law Library Docid # 2437494