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‘Not common for rustic persons to be aware of mental illness’; SC converts mother’s conviction from under S. 302 to S. 304 Part II IPC for killing two minor daughters

“It was inexplicable and incomprehensible how a mother who loved her children and who had a cordial relation with her husband could resort to such a violent act and be attributed with the “intention to cause death” of her beloved children, except for coming under some influence or forces beyond her control as claimed by her.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court stays Bombay HC’s decision sentencing woman to one week imprisonment for ‘dog mafia’ remark against Judges

The contemnor circulated a circular in the residential colony making serious insinuations against the High Court and the Supreme Court Judges.

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Supreme Court Roundup April 2025 | Stories on Manual Scavenging; Modification of Arbitral Award; Child Trafficking; and Appointment of Justice B.R. Gavai as 52nd CJI

This comprehensive roundup brings together the Court’s most impactful rulings and judicial developments from the month.

Case Briefs High Courts

Meghalaya HC closes suo motu PIL to protect wetlands, considering none of the sites qualified as Ramsar site

The Supreme Court had directed the High Court to pass suitable orders for the State for the identification, preservation, and maintenance of these waterbodies in accordance with the resolution taken in the Ramsar Convention.

Case Briefs High Courts

Services provided to individual by advocate or firm are exempted from levy of service tax; Orissa HC quashes Rs. 2 Lakhs service tax notice

Services provided by an advocate or a Partnership firm of advocates providing legal services to any person other than a business entity and a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten lakhs in the preceding financial year are exempted from the levy of service tax.

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Supreme Court stays Delhi HC’s direction to Consortium of NLUs to revise CLAT 2025 result

The High Court had directed that all the candidates who participated in CLAT UG 2025 with respect to the Sets ‘B’, ‘C’ & ‘D’ of question papers shall, as a consequence, be granted the marks indicated against the said question.

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SC refuses to entertain fresh pleas challenging Waqf (Amendment) Act

The Court granted liberty to the petitioners to withdraw the pleas and raise additional grounds as impleaders/intervenors in the ongoing hearing of the main case listed next week.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can promotion be denied based on adverse confidential reports which were never conveyed to the employee, depriving of opportunity to representation? SC answers

The Commandant with Border Security Force (BSF) was denied promotion to the post of Deputy Inspector General from the date his juniors were promoted.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Section 197(1) CrPC available only to public servants whose appointing authority is Central or State Government; Deputation does not dissolve public servant status: SC reiterates

In the matter at hand, the accused was an Executive Engineer, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, and caused wrongful loss in excess of Rs. 13.66 crore to the Government exchequer by changing the terms and conditions of the Detailed Notice Inviting Tender.

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SC directs release of YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia’s passport, considering the completion of investigation in India’s Got Latent controversy

Earlier, the Court stayed his arrest in two FIRs registered in Maharashtra and Assam, subject to his cooperation in the investigation, while barring him from doing any further shows.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Power to enact and to repeal is sole prerogative of legislature’; Meghalaya HC dismisses plea challenging vires of Rajitlal University (Repealing) Act 2023

RITHS Trust, described as the sponsor in the Rajitlal University Act, 2011, filed the present plea. However, even after three years of the Act, the sponsors of the University had not shown any interest in approaching the State Government with an application to establish the University.

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2025 Admissions Open at Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science, Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science (UPSIFS), Lucknow

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Unnecessarily created controversy & demeaned the prestige of award’; Orissa HC imposes 10k cost on doctor and Odia litterateur, claiming his entitlement to Padma Shri

The Doctor alleged that the respondent and he have the same name- Antaryami Mishra, and following the same, the respondent impersonated him and fraudulently secured the Padma Shri Award in 2023.

Case Briefs High Courts

Nepal Student’s Death at KIIT | Orissa HC grants interim relief, stays NHRC proceedings

On 16-02-2025, the deceased victim was found dead in her room on the premises of KIIT.

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

‘Necessary permissions were taken’; NGT dismisses plea against illegal tree cutting in Adani’s Chhattisgarh Coal mining project

National Green Tribunal directed for necessary plantation to maintain the ecology in the area.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘Allegations are not against IPS officer but against person impersonating as IPS officer’; SC sets aside HC’s order transferring investigation to CBI

The High Courts should direct for CBI investigation only in cases where material prima facie discloses something calling for an investigation by CBI and it should not be done in a routine manner or on the basis of some vague allegations. The “ifs” and “buts” without any definite conclusion are not sufficient to put an agency like CBI into motion.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Read why Supreme Court upheld DHFL’s resolution plan by Piramal Capital and set aside NCLAT’s order

“There is a clear distinction between the Avoidance Applications that may be filed by the Resolution Professional in view of Section 25(2)(j), for avoidance of transactions in accordance with Chapter III of the IBC, and the applications that may be filed in respect of the fraudulent trading or wrongful trading under Section 66, which falls under Chapter VI of the IBC.”

Case Briefs High Courts

S. 14(1) HMA | Court’s discretion to allow divorce plea in 1 year of marriage, only if substantiated with separate application seeking permission to file for divorce

The statutory mandate under Section 14 of the HMA serves a crucial purpose in discouraging hasty dissolution of marriages and ensuring due deliberation before seeking divorce.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘Not enough material to upset Trial Court’s acquittal order, especially when there was no evidence regarding death being result of homicide’; SC sets aside husband’s conviction under S. 302 IPC

The High Court unfortunately reversed the acquittal without anything other than a finding on alibi having not been proved and the accused not having offered any explanation regarding the death of the deceased, which occurred while they were living together.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Failed to seek report of Prison Superintendent; District Judge’s opinion reflected Trial Court’s order’; Meghalaya HC allows remission of murder convict’s life sentence

While passing the impugned remission decision, the Presiding Officer could not have relied on the opinion of the District Judge, and such impugned order was passed on a wrong premise.