Supreme Court Archives

Heated neighbourhood quarrels cannot constitute abetment to suicide under Section 306 IPC: Supreme Court

“Though ‘love thy neighbour’ is the ideal scenario, neighbourhood quarrels are not unknown to societal living. They are as old as community living itself. The question is whether on facts there has been a case of abetment of suicide?”

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DISCOMS must share coal shortage costs equally, cannot claim priority for power supply based either on prior date of agreement or coal source: Supreme Court

Supreme Court reaffirmed that none of the DISCOMs, including GRIDCO could claim priority for power supply based on the date of their agreements or based on any specific coal allocation reference. The principle to be followed was that coal supply must be proportionately allocated among the DISCOMs based on the quantum of energy supplied to them.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Article 226 cannot be invoked to quash FIR, once cognizance of offence has been taken; remedy under Section 528 BNSS can be availed: Supreme Court

In the present case, the High Court could have examined the petitioner’s grievance, since it is evident from the petition, that the petitioner sought to invoke the twin jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution and Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, to quash the FIR.

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Can NGT outsource investigation to administrative committees via bypassing statutory provisions? Supreme Court answers

The case revolved around 2 orders passed by the National Green Tribunal- one order directed the constitution of a Joint Committee to investigate the appellant’s environmental transgressions and the 2nd order imposed compensation of Rs 18 crores.

4-step process to check veracity of quashment prayer

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Supreme Court lays down 4-step process to determine veracity of quashment prayer raised by an accused under S. 482 CrPC

The Court stated that if the answer to all the steps is in the affirmative, then judicial conscience of the High Court should persuade it to quash such criminal proceedings, in exercise of power vested in it under Section 482 of the CrPC.

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SC restates principles on power, scope & grounds for Review Jurisdiction; Sets aside Madras HC review order on daughter’s status as co-parcener

“To wit through a review application, an apparent error of fact or law is intimated to the court, but no extra reasoning is undertaken to explain the said error”.

In-service Teachers needing to qualify TET exam

Case Briefs Supreme Court

An overview of Supreme Court decision mandating Aspiring and In-service Teachers to qualify the TET

“TET is indeed a qualification, necessary to be held by a person seeking appointment as a teacher in a school. Only upon a person obtaining such qualification can he become eligible for appointment as a teacher”.

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Witness Protection Scheme cannot substitute bail cancellation; rendering provisions of bail cancellation otiose: Supreme Court

Witness Protection Scheme is a remedial and curative measure, designed to neutralise the effects of threats once they have materialised. Bail cancellation, on the other hand, is a preventive and supervisory function of the criminal court, whose duty is to ensure that the trial proceeds unpolluted by intimidation.

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Supreme Court deprecates State Inaction; Orders immediate restoration of suspended Rajasthan Pradhan

“In the normal course, we would not have entertained the petition of this nature, but the petitioner is seeking implementation of a relief that he has already got by invoking a remedy under Article 226”

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Supreme Court issues notice over alleged irregularities and lapses in the conduct of SSC Exams

The petitioner sought multiple reliefs including constitution of a Court appointed Committee to oversee future SSC examinations, including the forthcoming CGL 2025 exam.

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“Procedure is not supposed to control justice”; SC restores conviction & sentence of men who raped a minor girl in 2016

“It is always a matter of utter failure for the system when a culprit, that too of a heinous sexual offence, manages to walk free by entangling the victim in misapplication of procedural rules, without the knowledge of the victim and without any control of the victim”.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Know why Supreme Court directed seizure of the steno book of a High Court Judge’s secretary

The Court was considering a SLP wherein it was indicated that an order for rejection of anticipatory bail, was not uploaded on the website of Punjab & Haryana High Court.

Supreme Court stay on Rajasthan HC adverse remarks

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Supreme Court stays Rajasthan High Court’s directions containing adverse remarks against POCSO Judge

Rajasthan High Court has directed a copy of the judgment passed by the trial judge to be sent to the Rajasthan Judicial Academy for the purpose of giving training on judgment writing.

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Asst. Engineer Mains Paper Leak | SC clears Arunachal Pradesh PSC Member of all 6 charges levelled in Presidential Reference seeking her removal

A Presidential Reference under Article 317 of the Constitution was made before the Supreme Court levelling 6 charges against the accused Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission Member and sought her removal from service.

two including death row convict acquitted

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“Classic example of lackluster and shabby investigation”; Supreme Court acquits two men, including death row convict, in 12-year-old’s rape and murder case

“We feel that the present case is yet another classic example of lackluster and shabby investigation and so also laconic trial procedure which has led to the failure of a case involving brutal rape and murder of an innocent girl child.”

reconsideration of death sentence under Art. 32

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Whether Art. 32 of the Constitution empowers reconsideration of death sentence that has attained finality? Supreme Court answers

In a significant decision, a 3-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court explored the contours of Article 32 of the Constitution to answer whether death sentence which has attained finality, can be revisited at all?

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Supreme Court directs Registrar General of all High Courts to place matters before Chief Justice if judgment not delivered within three months

“This Court is repeatedly confronted with similar matters wherein proceedings are kept pending in the High Court for more than three months, in some cases for more than six months or years wherein judgments are not delivered after hearing the matter.”

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‘Professors are intellectual backbone of any nation’; SC asks Gujarat Govt to rationalize pay structure of contractual Assistant Professors

The Court found it disturbing that Assistant professors appointed on contractual basis during 2011 to 2025 continued to draw monthly salary of Rs. 30,000.

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Simple blow with a school bag without evidence of deliberate maltreatment, doesn’t satisfy ingredients of Child Abuse: SC

“The offence of “child abuse” cannot be attracted to every trivial or isolated incident involving a child, but must necessarily co-relate with acts involving cruelty, exploitation, deliberate ill-treatment, or conduct intended to cause harm”.

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Supreme Court constitutes SIT led by Justice Jasti Chelameswar to probe Reliance Foundation’s ‘Vantara’ Wildlife Centre in Gujarat

“The SIT shall be assisted fully by the Central Zoo Authority, the CITES Management Authority, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the State of Gujarat, including its Forest and Police Departments. All private persons and entities, including Vantara, shall also extend full co-operation.”