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Supreme Court Allows Government Appeal in Land Acquisition Case Due to Overruled Precedent and Lack of Title. High Court's Declaration of Lapse Under Section 24(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 Quashed as Possession Was Taken and Pune Municipal Corporation Precedent Overruled....

The appeal arose from a judgment of the High Court of Delhi, which had allowed a writ petition and declared that land acquisition was deemed to have lapsed under Section 24(2) of the Right to Fair Com...

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Supreme Court Partially Upholds Section 10(26AAA) of Income Tax Act, 1961 in Sikkim Tax Exemption Challenge. Gender-Based Proviso Denying Exemption to Sikkimese Women Marrying Non-Sikkimese Struck Down as Unconstitutional....

The judgment concerns a writ petition under Article 32 challenging the constitutional validity of Section 10(26AAA) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, which grants income tax exemption to 'Sikkimese' indivi...

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Supreme Court Allows Transfer Petition Regarding Uniform Minimum Age of Marriage. Court Transferred Writ Petition from Delhi High Court After Learning Rajasthan Case Had Been Dismissed for Want of Prosecution....

The Supreme Court of India heard transfer petitions filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay and others seeking to transfer two writ petitions pending before different High Courts to the Supreme Court. The pet...

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Supreme Court Acquits Accused in Murder Case Due to Unreliable Evidence and Contradictions in Prosecution Version. Conviction Under Sections 148, 302/149 and 324/149 Indian Penal Code, 1860 Set Aside as Dying Declaration Was Unreliable and Witness Testimony Contradictory....

The Supreme Court considered an appeal challenging the conviction and life imprisonment sentence imposed on the appellants for murder under Sections 148, 302/149 and 324/149 of the Indian Penal Code, ...

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Supreme Court Clarifies Legal Insanity Defence Under Section 84 IPC and Burden of Proof Under Section 105 Evidence Act. The court held that insanity must be legal, not medical, to exempt from criminal liability, with the accused bearing the burden of proof on a preponderance of probabilities standard....

The judgment involved an appeal where the appellant raised the plea of insanity under Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, seeking reversal of a conviction order confirmed by the High Court. The...

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Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Accused in Murder Case Based on Dying Declaration and Corroborative Evidence. The court affirmed the life imprisonment under sections 302, 148, and 149 of the Jammu and Kashmir State Ranbir Penal Code, 1932, finding the dying declaration reliable and the right of private defence not applicable due to the nature of injuries....

The appeal challenged the judgment and order dated 5th June 2009 by the Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir at Jammu, which dismissed the appeal filed by the appellants-accused and c...

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Supreme Court Acquits Accused in Murder Case Due to Insufficient Circumstantial Evidence and Procedural Lapses. Conviction Overturned as Prosecution Failed to Establish Complete Chain of Circumstances and Comply with Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 in Recovery of Deceased's Body....

The appeal arose from a murder case where the appellant, Boby (accused No. 3), was convicted by the trial court and High Court for offences including murder, kidnapping, robbery, and destruction of ev...

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Supreme Court Acquits Accused in Murder Case Due to Unreliable Sole Witness Testimony and Benefit of Doubt. Conviction under Sections 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 was set aside as the sole eye-witness's testimony had material contradictions and was not wholly trustworthy, with previous enmity raising doubts about false implication....

The Supreme Court heard appeals challenging the judgment and order of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, which had dismissed the criminal appeal and upheld the conviction and sentence of the appellants...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeals Against Delhi High Court Order Setting Aside Central Government's Allocation of Raw Pet-Coke. Court Restores Allocation Based on EPCA Recommendations and Production Capacity, Holding That High Court Erred in Interfering with Policy Decisions on Environmental Grounds....

The Supreme Court considered appeals against a Delhi High Court judgment that set aside the Central Government's allocation of imported raw pet-coke (RPC). The background involved environmental concer...

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Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Apartmentalisation in Chandigarh Residential Plots to Preserve City's Original Character. Fragmentation of single dwelling units into multiple apartments violates Rule 16 of Chandigarh Estate Rules, 2007 and the Chandigarh Master Plan 2031....

The case involves a Public Interest Litigation filed by the Chandigarh Citizens Forum (appellants) against the Chandigarh Administration and others, seeking to restrain the conversion of single dwelli...