Indian Court Judgments — 2023

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State of U.P. & Anr. vs Ehsan & Anr.

Whether in exercise of writ jurisdiction the High Court should have refrained from adjudicating the contentious issue with regard to taking…

13 October 2023 · Allowed · Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, Manoj Misra

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Case Details Harvinder Singh @ Bachhu vs The State of Himachal Pradesh

Whether the High Court was justified in setting aside the order of acquittal and convicting the appellant for murder and attempt to rape rel…

13 October 2023 · Allowed · M.M. Sundresh, J.B. Pardiwala

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Case Details Commissioner, Customs Central Excise and Service Tax, Patna vs M/s Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Pvt. Ltd. & Ors.

Whether the educational institutions-Indian Institute of Technology, Patna and the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela are covered by…

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

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Nutan Kumari vs B.R.A. Bihar University and Others

Whether the Division Bench of the High Court was justified in allowing the appeals filed by the Physical Training Instructors-PTIs in four d…

12 October 2023 · Disposed · Hima Kohli, Ahsanuddin Amanullah

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Kamalakar vs State of Karnataka

Whether the prosecution has proved the charges against the appellant-accused u/ss. 498A and 306 IPC beyond reasonable doubt.

12 October 2023 · Allowed · Vikram Nath, Rajesh Bindal

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Case Details Uco Bank and Others vs M.B. Motwani (Dead) Thr. Lrs. & Others

Whether the High Court was justified in setting aside the order passed by the appellant-Bank imposing punishment of dismissal upon the respo…

12 October 2023 · Dismissed · Hima Kohli, Rajesh Bindal

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Case Details M/s Mathosri Manikbai Kothari College of Visual Arts vs The Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner

Clubbing of two Institutions run by the same Society for the purpose of coverage under the EPF Act. The Employees’ Provident Funds and Misce…

12 October 2023 · Dismissed · Hima Kohli, Rajesh Bindal

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Union of India vs Uzair Imran & Ors.

Whether the concurrent findings returned by the tribunal and the High Court that denial of appointment to the third respondent was unwarrant…

11 October 2023 · Disposed · Bela M. Trivedi, Dipankar Datta

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Case Details Astha Gopal Khakra vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.

High Court if erred in rejecting the appellant’s claim as belonging to the Nomadic Tribe-Lohar.

11 October 2023 · Allowed · Hrishikesh Roy, Sanjay Karol

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Bichitrananda Behera vs State of Orissa and Others

High Court if justified in dismissing the appeal filed by the appellant against the judgment of State Education Tribunal whereby the State w…

11 October 2023 · Allowed · Vikram Nath, Ahsanuddin Amanullah

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Kamal Prasad & Ors. vs The State of Madhya Pradesh (Now State of Chhattisgarh)

Case of the prosecution rested primarily on the testimonies of three witnesses, conviction of the appellants for offence punishable u/ss.148…

10 October 2023 · Dismissed · Abhay S. Oka, Sanjay Karol

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Siby Thomas vs M/s. Somany Ceramics Ltd

In the impugned order, the High Court declined to quash the complaint u/s.138 r/w. s.141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 qua the app…

10 October 2023 · Allowed · C.T. Ravikumar, Sanjay Kumar

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Case Details Dr. Nirmal Singh Panesar vs Mrs. Paramjit Kaur Panesar @ Ajinder Kaur Panesar

Should the irretrievable breakdown of marriage necessarily result in the dissolution of marriage in exercise of powers under Article 142 of…

10 October 2023 · Dismissed · Aniruddha Bose, Bela M. Trivedi

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Case Details National Projects Construction Corporation Limited vs Royal Construction Company Private Ltd.

Whether the arbitration agreement, arbitral award or the judgment of Supreme Court dated 24.02.2015 passed in earlier round of litigation be…

10 October 2023 · Disposed · Aniruddha Bose, Vikram Nath

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Case Details Solaris Chem Tech Industries Ltd vs Assistant Executive Engineer Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board & Anr.

Whether the High Court was justified in dismissing the Writ Petition and the Writ Appeal on the strength of Clause

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

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Syndicate Bank vs N. R. Bhat

Matter was settled between the parties (respondent-employee and petitioner-bank) by virtue of the Joint Compromise Memo dated 17.06.2019, ho…

10 October 2023 · Disposed · Hima Kohli, Ahsanuddin Amanullah

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Case Details Nabha Power Limited vs Punjab State Power Corporation Limited

The dispute, pertaining to recovery of deductions of monthly tariff by the respondent was dealt by the Supreme Court in Nabha Power Limited…

9 October 2023 · Allowed · Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sudhanshu Dhulia, Aravind Kumar

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Case Details M/s. Kewal Court Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. vs The State of West Bengal and Ors.

The issue pertains to the true construction, meaning and import of the expression ‘vacant land’ contained in Section 2(q) of the Urban Land…

9 October 2023 · Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta