Indian Court Judgments — 2025

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Visa Coke Limited vs M/s Mesco Kalinga Steel Limited

Issue arose whether the notice served by the appellant-Operational Creditor upon the Key Managerial Personnel-KMP of the respondent-Corporat…

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Application to… Companies Act, 2013

29 April 2025 · Allowed · J.B. Pardiwala, R Mahadevan

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

S.D. Jayaprakash and Ors. Etc. vs The Union of India & Ors.

Whether the contractual service rendered prior to the appellants’ regularisation in 2015 ought to be counted towards the payment of their pe…

Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972

29 April 2025 · Partly allowed · Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, Joymalya Bagchi

Constitutional SC Reportable ✓ HN

Rutu Mihir Panchal & Ors. vs Union of India & Ors.

Constitutionality of ss.34(1), 47(1)(a)(i) and 58(1)(a)(i) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 prescribing pecuniary jurisdictions of the d…

Contract Act

29 April 2025 · Disposed · Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, Manoj Misra

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

P. Kumarakurubaran vs P. Narayanan & Ors.

Whether the High Court was justified in rejecting the plaint filed by the appellant under Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure,…

CPC Limitation Act, 1963

29 April 2025 · Allowed · J.B. Pardiwala, R Mahadevan

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited and Ors. vs Rajasthan Textile Mills Association & Anr. Etc.

Issue relates to the determination of the Cross-Subsidy Surcharges by the Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (State Commission).

Electricity Act, 2003 Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission… National Tariff Policy, 2016

29 April 2025 · Allowed · Abhay S. Oka, Augustine George Masih

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Shardhamma & Anr. vs The Dy. Commissioner & Ors.

The present appellants being aggrieved by the order passed by the Assistant Commissioner as well as Deputy Commissioner preferred a writ pet…

Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled… Mysore Land Revenue Rules

29 April 2025 · Allowed · B.V. Nagarathna, Satish Chandra Sharma

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Kamal Dev Prasad vs Mahesh Forge

Whether the High Court erred in reducing the percentage of disability as per the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 while determining the com…

Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

29 April 2025 · Allowed · Sudhanshu Dhulia, K. Vinod Chandran

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Sri Malakappa & Ors. vs The IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance Company Limited & Anr.

Issue arose as regards the correctness of the order passed by the High Court relating to compensation awarded for the death of wife-pillion…

29 April 2025 · Disposed · Sudhanshu Dhulia, K. Vinod Chandran

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Arathy Ramachandran vs Bijay Raj Menon

Issue arose as regards sustainability of the order passed by the High Court granting 15 days interim custody of the minor children to the fa…

Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 Constitution

29 April 2025 · Allowed · Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol, Sandeep Mehta

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Shyam Nandan Mehta vs Santosh Kumar & Ors.

Matter pertains to correctness of the order passed by the High Courts declaring the appointment of appellant to be illegal making him liable…

29 April 2025 · Allowed · Dipankar Datta, Prashant Kumar Mishra

Criminal SC Reportable ✓ HN

Punit Beriwala vs The State of NCT of Delhi and Ors.

Whether the High Court was justified in quashing the subject FIR against Respondent Nos.2 and 3 and whether a cognizable offence against the…

IPC CrPC

29 April 2025 · Disposed · Dipankar Datta, Manmohan

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

K. Valarmathi & Ors. vs Kumaresan

Can the High Court in exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 reject a plaint.

Constitution CPC Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions…

29 April 2025 · Allowed · Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, Joymalya Bagchi

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

State of U.P. & Another vs Miss Bhavna Tiwari & Ors.

Streamlining of the counselling process in NEET-PG; curbing the malpractice of seat blocking to ensure transparency and fairness in the admi…

Medical Council Act, 1956 National Medical Commission Act, 2019 MCI Postgraduate Medical Education…

29 April 2025 · Disposed · J.B. Pardiwala, R Mahadevan

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

M/s Oswal Petrochemicals Ltd. vs Commissioner of Central Excise, Mumbai - II

(i) Whether a duty demand based on reclassification of the products Benzene and Toluene from chapter 29 to chapter 27 is sustainable when su…

Central Excise Act, 1944 Central Excise Rules, 1944 Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985

28 April 2025 · Allowed · Abhay S. Oka, Ujjal Bhuyan

Criminal SC Reportable ✓ HN

Chunni Bai vs State of Chhattisgarh

Whether the accused at the time of commission of crime was incapable of making conscious and informed decision or was suffering from certain…

CrPC IPC Evidence Act

28 April 2025 · Partly allowed · B.V. Nagarathna, N Kotiswar Singh

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Consolidated Construction Consortium Limited vs Software Technology Parks of India

Issue arose as regards the correctness of the order passed by the Division Bench of High Court upholding the arbitral award.

Contract Act

28 April 2025 · Dismissed · Abhay S. Oka, Ujjal Bhuyan

Criminal SC Reportable ✓ HN

K.P. Tamilmaran vs The State by Deputy Superintendent of Police

Whether the High Court was justified in upholding the conviction and sentence of A-15 under Sections 217, 218, Penal Code, 1860 and ss.3(2)(…

IPC Evidence Act Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes… CrPC

28 April 2025 · Dismissed · Sudhanshu Dhulia, Prashant Kumar Mishra

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GBJ Hotels Private Limited vs Sriharan Sripathmanathan & Ors.

During the proceedings before the High Court, the Court accepted a better price for the creditor. The offer of the GRT Hotels was accepted b…

Securitisation and Reconstruction of…

28 April 2025 · Disposed · Dipankar Datta, Manmohan