Indian Court Judgments — 2023

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Indrakunwar vs The State of Chhattisgarh

Whether, in explaining the purported incriminating circumstance against her, the convict-appellant ought to have disclosed, over and above d…

19 October 2023 · Allowed · Abhay S. Oka, Sanjay Karol

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Naveen @ Ajay vs The State of Madhya Pradesh

Whether appellant was afforded a fair trial; whether he was deprived of his valuable legal rights. Penal Code, 1860 – s. 302 – Appellant was…

19 October 2023 · Disposed · Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, Prash

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Case Details Chennai Metro Rail Limited Administrative Building vs M/s Transtonnelstroy Afcons (Jv) & Anr.

Whether revision of fee by an arbitral tribunal would terminate the mandate of the tribunal on the ground of ineligibility as per s. 12 of t…

19 October 2023 · Disposed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Aravind Kumar

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Dasanglu Pul vs Lupalum Kri

Whether the indication made by the appellant-returned candidate in Form-26, as ‘not applicable’ in the column relating to ‘spouse’, in the f…

19 October 2023 · Allowed · A.S. Bopanna, Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha

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Case Details Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd vs Hdfc Bank Ltd. & Anr.

Whether the documents executed by the borrower-appellant by which rents were made over to the lender-respondent constituted an assignment an…

19 October 2023 · Dismissed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Dipankar Datta

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M.A Biviji vs Sunita & Ors.

The complainant alleged negligence on the part of a Hospital – The main claim of negligence that the complainant attributed was that the for…

19 October 2023 · Disposed · Hrishikesh Roy, Manoj Misra

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Paranagouda and Another vs The State of Karnataka and Another

Whether the courts below were justified in convicting and sentencing the accused for the offences punishable u/ss. 498A, 304B read with s. 3…

19 October 2023 · Allowed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Aravind Kumar

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Case Details Assessing Officer Circle (International Taxation) 2(2)(2) New Delhi vs M/s Nestle Sa

Whether there is any right to invoke the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) clause when the third country with which India has entered into a Double…

19 October 2023 · Allowed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Dipankar Datta

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Tottempudi Salalith vs State Bank of India & Ors.

Issues arose as to whether the debts in connection with the recovery certificate issued in the year 2015, could form subject matter of an ap…

18 October 2023 · Dismissed · Aniruddha Bose, Vikram Nath

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Debasish Paul & Anr. vs Amal Boral

Whether the High Court was justified in directing the trial court to dispose of the application filed by the tenant u/s.

18 October 2023 · Allowed · Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sudhanshu Dhulia

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Abhishek Sharma vs State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi)

The victim-deceased gave four dying declarations. High Court confirmed the appellant’s conviction and sentence of life imprisonment u/s. 302…

18 October 2023 · Allowed · Abhay S. Oka, Sanjay Karol

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Case Details Mrs. Kalyani Rajan vs Indraprastha Apollo Hospital & Ors.

Whether the respondents have committed negligence in not providing proper post-operative medical care to the patient and, accordingly, wheth…

17 October 2023 · Dismissed · A.S. Bopanna, Prashant Kumar Mishra

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Case Details Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr. vs Union of India

The issues were primarily two-fold: (a) the status of the right to marry for LGBTQ+ couples and (b) depending upon the answer to the first,…

17 October 2023 · Disposed · D.Y. Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S. Ravindra Bhat, Hima

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C.I.T., Delhi vs Bharti Hexacom Ltd.

Issues for consideration: Whether the variable annual licence fee paid by the respondentsassessees to the Department of Telecommunications (…

16 October 2023 · Allowed · B.V. Nagarathna, Ujjal Bhuyan

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Mohamed Ibrahim vs The Chairman & Managing Director & Ors.

The appellant is aggrieved by a judgment of the High Court, which dismissed his petition, claiming arbitrariness in the declining of his can…

16 October 2023 · Allowed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Aravind Kumar

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Mathews J. Nedumpara & Ors. vs Union of India & Ors.

Designation of Advocates as Senior Advocates u/ss.16 and 23(5), Advocates Act, 1961 as well as u/Or. IV, r.2, Supreme Court Rules, 2013, if…

16 October 2023 · Dismissed · Sanjay Kishan Kaul, C.T. Ravikumar, Sudhanshu Dhulia

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Ambalal Parihar vs State of Rajasthan & Ors.

Impugned order passed in Civil Writ Petition, filed by the second to fourth respondents for clubbing of eight FIRs filed against them, direc…

16 October 2023 · Allowed · Abhay S. Oka, Pankaj Mithal

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X vs M/s Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Pvt. Ltd. & Ors.

Petition under Article 32 filed for directions to the respondents to permit a medical termination of the Petitioner’s ongoing pregnancy. Rel…

16 October 2023 · Disposed · D.Y. Chandrachud, J.B. Pardiwala, Manoj Misra