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Supreme Court Dismisses Review Petition in Criminal Case — No Error Apparent on Record Found. The Court upheld its earlier conviction of Sandeep and Pradeep under the relevant penal provisions....

The Supreme Court dismissed a review petition filed by Sandeep against the judgment in Criminal Appeal No. 1613 of 2018. The original judgment had convicted Sandeep and Pradeep while acquitting Krishn...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Review Petition in Criminal Case — No Error Found in Reduction of Sentence with Compensation. The Court upheld the reduction of substantive sentence to six months and the direction to pay Rs.2,50,000/- as compensation to the complainant....

The case pertains to a review petition filed by the complainant, Pottayil Radha, against an order of the Supreme Court in Criminal Appeal No.853 of 2020. The High Court had earlier reduced the substan...

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Supreme Court Upholds Disqualification of MLA for Voluntarily Giving Up Party Membership Based on Newspaper Reports and Lack of Specific Denial. Speaker's reliance on newspaper reports and photographs held sufficient to infer voluntary abandonment of party membership under Tenth Schedule....

The appellant, Shri Kshetrimayum Biren Singh, was elected as a Member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly in March 2017 as a candidate of the Indian National Congress (INC). Disqualification petitions...

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Supreme Court Upholds Reinstatement of Conductor in UPSRTC Case — Domestic Inquiry Defect Cured by Employer Evidence, But Tribunal's Appreciation of Evidence Not Perverse. The Court held that the Tribunal's finding that the inspector was not proved to have inspected the bus was a plausible appreciation of evidence and not perverse....

The appeal arose from an order of the Allahabad High Court which upheld the Industrial Tribunal's decision reinstating a conductor of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation with 50% back w...

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Supreme Court Upholds Husband's Conviction but Acquits Mother-in-Law in Dowry Death Case. Generalized Evidence of Demand by 'Husband and In-laws' Insufficient to Convict Mother-in-Law Under Section 304B IPC....

The Supreme Court partially allowed an appeal against the conviction of Kuljit Singh and Raj Rani under Section 304B IPC for dowry death. The deceased, Manju, married Kuljit Singh in 1997 and died unn...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Review Petitions in Land Acquisition Compensation Case - No Error Apparent on Record Found. Review jurisdiction limited to error apparent on record; compensation at Rs.120 per square yard upheld....

The Supreme Court of India, exercising its inherent jurisdiction, considered multiple review petitions filed against its earlier judgment in Civil Appeal Nos.337, 340, 353, 360, 384, 386, 387 of 2021....

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal Against Karnataka High Court Order Setting Aside Rejection of Plaint in Res Judicata Case. The Court held that the subsequent suit for declaration of title was barred by res judicata and Order II Rule 2 CPC as the issue of title had been finally decided in earlier litigation....

The dispute pertains to 11 acres 16 guntas of agricultural land in Talaghattapura Village, Bangalore. The appellants (Lankappa and others) claimed title based on a 1929 grant to their grandfather. KIC...

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Supreme Court Sets Aside High Court Judgment Granting Seniority to Ad Hoc Employees Over Regular Appointees in Subordinate Judiciary. Seniority of substantively appointed Lower Division Clerks from 1987 prevails as interim court order protecting ad hoc employees was limited to different panel of candidates and not applicable to regular appointees....

The appeal arose from a dispute over seniority between two groups of Lower Division Clerks (LDCs) in the ministerial cadre of Delhi's subordinate judiciary. The appellants were substantively appointed...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeals in Seniority Dispute, Quashing High Court Division Bench Judgment. Seniority lists prepared based on date of dispatch of select lists were held arbitrary and contrary to Rule 5 of Uttar Pradesh Government Servants Seniority Rules, 1991, requiring fresh merit-based list....

The dispute arose from seniority lists dated 05.09.2006 and 05.03.2010 for Junior Engineers in the Department of Minor Irrigation, Uttar Pradesh, involving appellants from Mechanical and Civil streams...