Category - Latest Judgments

Latest Judgments of Supreme Court

Assistant General Manager, State Bank of India & Others

A. Service Law — Pension — Qualifying period/service — Retirement/ Superannuation — Voluntary retirement — Effect of on pension/related benefits — SBI Voluntary Retirement Scheme (for short ‘the Scheme’) was adopted by the State...

Nagaraj v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police, Salem Town, Tamil Nadu

Penal Code, 1860 — S. 302 — Murder — Conviction confirmed — Appreciation of evidence — Appellant allegedly committed murder of deceased — Number of inconsistencies in the case of the prosecution — Neither the Register nor the...

Union of India & Anr. v. Rajbir Singh

These appeals arise out of separate but similar orders passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal holding the respondents entitled to claim disability pension under the relevant Pension Regulations of the Army. The Tribunal has taken...

Yallawa & Ors. v. State of Karnataka

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Defence — Alibi — Eyewitness vis-à-vis defence evidence regarding alibi — Occurrence of about 8.00 a.m. at a distance of 8 km from police station — Plea that A-11 was present at the Police...

All Kerala Online Lottery Dealers Association v. State of Kerala & Ors.

A. Constitution of India — Sch. VII List I Entry 40 — State lotteries — Legislative competence — Delegation to states — If permissible — Parliament, by virtue of Entry 40 under List I, has got exclusive power to legislate on...

State of Madhya Pradesh v. Nomi Singh and another

Property Law — Dispute as to property — Adverse possession — Plea as to — Plaintiffs were declared encroachers of suit land — Plaintiffs had taken plea of adverse possession in the amended plaint and said to have acquired the...

Commissioner of Central Excise, Mumbai v. M/s. Parle Bisleri Pvt. Ltd.

Excise — Excise duty — Exemption from — Respondent-assessee manufactures sugar syrup as an intermediate product which is used in the manufacture of aerated water — Revenue wanted to impose excise duty thereon on the ground that...