Indian Court Judgments — 2023

Constitutional SC Reportable ✓ HN

Case Details Kishan Chand Jain vs Union of India & Ors.

Direction sought by Writ Petitioner to implement the mandate of s.4 of the Right to Information Act, 2005. Right to Information Act, 2005 –…

17 August 2023 · D.Y. Chandrachud, Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, J.B. Pardiwal

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Case Details Konkan Railway Corporation Limited vs Chenab Bridge Project Undertaking

In the instant appeal, the legality of the order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court in an appeal u/s. 37 of the Arbitration and…

17 August 2023 · Allowed · D.Y. Chandrachud, Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, J.B. Pardiwal

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Ramathal and Ors. vs K. Rajamani (Dead) through Lrs. and Anr.

The view of the High Court that before the Trial Court, there was neither any pleading nor any issue was framed with regard to the plea of n…

17 August 2023 · Allowed · Vikram Nath, Ahsanuddin Amanullah

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Secundrabad Club etc. vs C.I.T.-V etc.

Whether the deposit of surplus funds by the assessee Clubs by way of bank deposits in various banks is liable to be taxed in the hands of th…

17 August 2023 · Dismissed · B.V. Nagarathna, Prashant Kumar Mishra

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Case Details Hind Filters Ltd. & Anr. vs Hind Filter Employees’ Union & Anr.

The stand taken by the appellantsManagement was that in its establishment, there were more than 100 workmen, hence, reference of a dispute t…

17 August 2023 · Allowed · Hima Kohli, Rajesh Bindal

Civil SC Reportable ✓ HN

Y. P. Lele vs Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. & Ors.

Whether the High Court committed an error in applying the explanation to Or. XVII, r.2 CPC and based upon it held that an application u/Or.…

16 August 2023 · Allowed · Vikram Nath, Ahsanuddin Amanullah

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Case Details Dharmin Bai Kashyap vs Babli Sahu & Others

Whether the election petition filed by the petitioner before the Sub Divisional Officer seeking relief of recounting of votes alone, without…

16 August 2023 · Dismissed · Bela M. Trivedi, Sarasa Venkatanarayana Bhatti

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Pesala Nookaraju vs The Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.

Whether the Division Bench of the High Court rightly declined to interfere with the order of preventive detention passed against the appella…

16 August 2023 · Dismissed · D.Y. Chandrachud, J.B. Pardiwala, Manoj Misra

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Case Details Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences & Anr. vs Bikartan Das & Ors.

High Court, if erred in setting aside the order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal and holding that respondent No.1 was entitled…

16 August 2023 · Allowed · D.Y. Chandrachud, J.B. Pardiwala

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Case Details M/s Larsen Air Conditioning and Refrigration Company vs Union of India and Ors.

Whether the High Court erred in modifying the arbitral award to the extent of reducing the interest, from compound interest of 18% to 9% sim…

11 August 2023 · Disposed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Dipankar Datta

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Sathyan vs State of Kerala

Issues for consideration : (i) Whether the conviction, solely on the basis of official witnesses is sustainable in the instant facts? (ii) W…

11 August 2023 · Partly allowed · Abhay S. Oka, Sanjay Karol

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Devesh Sharma vs Union of India and Ors.

Whether National Council for Teacher Education-NCTE vide notification dated 28.06.2018, was right in including B.Ed. qualification as an equ…

11 August 2023 · Dismissed · Aniruddha Bose, Sudhanshu Dhulia

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Case Details Manoj Kumar Soni vs The State of Madhya Pradesh

Conviction of both the appellants-accused respectively u/s.411 and s.120-B, IPC was based largely upon disclosure statements made by them an…

11 August 2023 · Allowed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Dipankar Datta

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Dev Gupta vs Pec University of Technology and Ors.

Order of the High Court rejecting the appellant’s Writ Petition which had questioned the imposition of a minimum 75% aggregate marks as an e…

9 August 2023 · Allowed · S. Ravindra Bhat, Aravind Kumar

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Government of Kerala & Anr. vs Joseph and Others

Whether the impugned judgment, arising out of Second Appeal meets the established criteria for Second Appeal; and whether the respondents ar…

9 August 2023 · Allowed · Abhay S. Oka, Sanjay Karol

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Case Details Hind Offshore Pvt. Ltd. vs Iffco – Tokio General Insurance Co. Ltd.

NCDRC whether justified in passing the impugned order holding that the respondent-insurance company was under no contractual or legal obliga…

9 August 2023 · Dismissed · A.S. Bopanna, M.M. Sundresh

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Case Details Salib @ Shalu @ Salim vs State of U.P. and Ors.

In a case where in the further statement of the first informant’s name of the appellant surfaced for the first time, the appellant not named…

8 August 2023 · Allowed · Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, J.B. Pardiwala

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Case Details M/s. Isnar Aqua Farms vs United India Insurance Co. Ltd.

S.C.R.REPORTS 76 : 2023 INSC 680 [2023] 11 S.C.R. SUPREME COURT M/S. ISNAR AQUA FARMS v. UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Civil Appeal No. 1…

8 August 2023 · Disposed · A.S. Bopanna, Sanjay Kumar