Category - Latest Judgments

Latest Judgments of Supreme Court

Abdul Razak & Ors. v. The State of Karnataka Rep. By SHO, Hutti PS

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Conduct of accused, complainant, witnesses, etc. — Conviction under S. 304 Pt. II r/w S. 34 IPC — Prosecution witnesses, brother and mother of the deceased who claim to be eye witnesses to the...

M/s. Pearl Drinks Ltd. v. Commissioner of Central Excise, New Delhi

Sales Tax and VAT — Assessment — Provisional assessment when actual expenditure could not be ascertained at the time of assessment — Permissibility — Assessee could not produce the evidence to prove the expenditure incurred under...

Common Cause & Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.

A. Public Accountability, Vigilance and Prevention of Corruption — CBI and CBI investigation — Coal Block Allocations case — CBI Director meeting some accused person where investigation is underway — Observed is itself a cause of...

Bharti Airtel Ltd. v. Union of India

  These five civil appeals under Section 18 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (hereinafter referred to as the “TRAI Act”) and three writ petitions raise common questions. Each of the appellants or the...

Devidas Ramachandra Tuljapurkar v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

The seminal issue that spiralled in the course of hearing of this appeal centres around the question framed vide order dated 18.2.2015, for this Court thought it apposite to answer, whether the poem titled “Gandhi Mala Bhetala”...

Mahila Ramkali Devi and others v. Nandram (D) Thr. LRs. and others

Practice and Procedure — Pleadings/New Plea/Additional Plea/Alternative Plea — amendment of plaint — Court hearing Second Appeal rejecting application for amendment without noticing the necessity thereof — Held, improper —...

State of Uttar Pradesh and others v. Anil Kumar Sharma and another

Criminal Trial — Powers of High Court — Ambit and scope — Powers to issue directions on judicial side, relating to the procedure to be adopted in criminal trials — Exercise of — Extent of — Sweeping directions, not in conformity...