2025 SCC Vol. 5 Part 2
2025 SCC Vol. 5 Part 2: Explore the latest Supreme Court Cases on the Employees’ Compensation Act, IBC and the Transfer of Property Act.
Transfer of Property Act
Gift conditioned on perpetual rendering of services without remuneration amounts to begar or forced labour, hence unconstitutional: SC
“Although Section 127 of TPA permits an onerous gift but a gift which is conditioned upon perpetual rendering of services without any remuneration would amount to a “begar” or forced labour, even slavery and therefore it is not just wrong or illegal but even unconstitutional, being violative of fundamental rights of the donees.”
2024 SCC Vol. 6 Part 2
Arbitration — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Ss. 34 and 37 — Arbitral award — Validity of: Law explained on validity
Mesne Profits on continuation of possession payable only after ‘expiry of lease’ or even after ‘determination, forfeiture or termination’? SC answers
In the matter at hand, the Court directed the tenant to deposit Rs.5,15,05,512/-, considering the location of the demised premises in the heart of Kolkata, the rent, the alleged non-payment of rent, the default in payment of interest, as alleged.
2024 SCC Vol. 1 Part 5
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Ss. 7 and 238-A — Limitation period for initiating CIRP: Documents reflecting acknowledgments of debts i.e.
Sale of Immovable Property and Deeming Fiction under the Registration Act — A Comparative Analysis
by Ajit Warrier*
Cite as: 2024 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 18
Decoding Mortgage Redemption in Banking
by Abhishek Saini†
Can rents receivable by debtors be assigned to the lender as an actionable claim? Supreme Court answers
After applying the rule that all the contemporaneous documents are to be read together, to discern the true purport of the contract, Supreme Court said that the parties intended assignment of the debt, i.e., the rents payable.
Whom to Pay First: A Critical Analysis of the Position of Secured Creditors in the Current Regime
by Govinda Asawa† and Pranay Agarwal††
Prof. (Dr.) Harpreet Kaur appointed as the Vice Chancellor of NLUJ
Reported by Hemang Mankar
2023 SCC Vol. 7 Part 3
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — S. 31(7)(a) — Award of interest: Principles clarified relating to validity of award of interest, when
No eviction under Section 108 of Transfer of Property Act on unauthorized construction outside tenanted portion: Calcutta High Court
Calcutta High Court remanded the eviction case to First Appellate Court on finding that the alleged construction was outside the tenancy property.
2023 SCC Vol. 6 Part 5
Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Circumstantial Evidence — Generally: Principles reiterated relating to essential conditions that must be fulfilled before conviction
Whether power of attorney, will, agreement to sell can be recognised as title documents conferring rights in any immovable property? Supreme Court answers
Supreme Court said that the entry of the appellant over part of the suit property is simply as a licencee of the respondent. He does not continue to occupy it in the capacity of the owner. Thus, the licence having been terminated, he has no right to remain in possession but to restore possession to the person having rightful possessory title over it.
Can arrears of maintenance, being property of the wife, devolve on the husband after wife’s death? Madras High Court answers
Madras High Court said that after divorce when the spouses have ceased to be husband and wife, proprietary right of both the spouses also get affected.