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Supreme Court Upholds State Legislation Regulating Religious Public Trusts, Reversing High Court's Striking Down of Key Provisions. Registration Fee Under Section 17(3) Rajasthan Public Trusts Act 1959 Held to Be Fee, Not Tax; Composition of Management Committee Under Section 53(5) Held Constitutionally Valid....

The Supreme Court adjudicated appeals arising from writ petitions filed before the High Court of Rajasthan challenging the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Rajasthan Public Trusts ...

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Supreme Court Upholds Conviction for Murder Based on Circumstantial Evidence. Chain of Circumstances Including Last Seen Together, Locked Hotel Room, and Blood-Stained Connecting Rod Established Guilt Under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code, 1860....

The appeal arose from a conviction for murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code based on circumstantial evidence. The appellant and the deceased, Ram Kumar, were friends who travelled from Ka...

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Supreme Court Upholds Importer in Central Sales Tax Dispute Concerning Sales in Course of Import. State Tax Exigible Because Purchase from Foreign Sellers, Not Subsequent Sale to Government Buyer, Occasioned Movement of Goods Under Section 5(2) of Central Sales Tax Act, 1956....

The dispute concerned the exigibility of sales tax on sales of non-ferrous metals by an importer to the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D). The petitioner, a company incorporated un...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal Against Calcutta High Court Contempt Finding in Employment Termination Case. Bona Fide Exercise of Contractual Termination Right During Pendency of Employee's Suit Is Not Obstruction of Justice Under Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, Even if Some Plaint Reliefs Become Infructuous....

The Supreme Court considered whether termination of an employee's service by an employer during pendency of the employee's suit, in exercise of a contractual right and absent any interim injunction or...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal in Madras Estates Abolition Act Jurisdiction Dispute. Civil Court Competent to Question Settlement Officer's Erroneous Jurisdictional Finding; Amending Act 20 of 1960 Did Not Affect Decrees That Had Rendered Settlement Officer's Decision Non-Est....

The case involved a dispute over the jurisdiction of the Settlement Officer and the Civil Court under the Madras Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948, concerning village Kadakall...

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Supreme Court Dismisses State Appeal in Public Trust Cy Pres Dispute Over Failed Hospital Charity. Claim for Return of Donated Sum Succeeds as Conditions Failing Result in Resulting Trust in Favor of Donor's Legal Heirs Under Principles Embodied in Section 83 of Indian Trusts Act, 1882....

This civil appeal by special leave arose from a suit filed by the sons of a deceased donor seeking return of Rs. 30,000 donated in 1945 for construction of a six-bed women's hospital in Kannauj. The d...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal in Religious Endowment Case Holding No Absolute Endowment; Alienation Held Valid with Charge Continuing. Property Mentioned in Ninth Schedule of Partition Deed Was Impressed with Obligation to Perform Charities, Not Dedicated Absolutely, Under Principles of Hindu Law and Document Construction....

In 1882, five brothers of a Hindu joint family executed a registered partition deed dated 13 May 1882, dividing ancestral properties. Certain properties were reserved for common enjoyment and certain ...

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Supreme Court Partly Allows Accused in Murder and Rioting Case Due to Benefit of Doubt on Fatal Injury. Conviction under Section 302 IPC Set Aside as Prosecution Omitted Material Injuries and Investigating Officer Failed to Elicit Unvarnished Truth, but Convictions under Sections 147/149 IPC Based on Specific Overt Acts Upheld....

The case arose from a violent clash on 15 July 1965 in village Rani Sariswam, District Saran, Bihar. The prosecution alleged that Dukhharan Koeri, his brother Sitaram Bhagat, and other family members ...

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Supreme Court Dismisses State Appeal in Murder Case Due to Doubtful Lantern Identification and Absence of Motive. Acquittal Upheld as Prosecution Failed to Prove Identity of Accused Under Indian Penal Code Murder Charges Amid Facts of Mistaken Identity and Unreliable Light Source....

This criminal appeal arose from a double murder that occurred on the night of August 27, 1968, in village Kunwarpur, district Lucknow. Ten accused were tried for the murders of Vishwanath Panda, a tra...

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Supreme Court Upholds State Government in Motor Vehicles Act Inter-State Route Nationalisation Approval. State Government's approval of inter-State route scheme under Section 68D(3) with prior Central Government approval is valid and does not amount to legislation or violate territorial limits of State executive power under Article 298....

These appeals arose from a challenge by private bus operators, primarily from Rajasthan, to the nationalisation of certain inter-State bus routes between Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan under Chapter IVA ...