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Supreme Court Upholds Board of Liquidators in Co-operative Housing Society Dispute Over Arbitrator Jurisdiction. Executory Contract for Sub-Lease Does Not Create Landlord-Tenant Relationship, So Bombay Rent Act Does Not Bar Arbitration Award Execution....

The dispute arose between a co-operative housing society and one of its members over the possession of a plot and house and the recovery of dues. The Happy Home Cooperative Housing Society Ltd was reg...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal by Witness Against Direction to File Complaint for Forgery and Conspiracy. Section 479A CrPC Limited to Offences Under Section 193 and Cognate Sections of IPC; Section 476 CrPC Remains Available for Other Offences Like Forgery....

The appeal before the Supreme Court arose from a criminal case in which the appellant had appeared as a prosecution witness in a trial under Sections 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code against the r...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appellant in Partition Suit Over Illatom Son-in-Law Claim; Unregistered Contract Cannot Transfer Title Under Section 53A Transfer of Property Act. Court Holds That After Enactment of Section 53A, English Equitable Doctrine of Part Performance Cannot Apply Beyond Its Statutory Requirements....

The case arose from a suit for partition of properties originally belonging to Boppanna Chandrappa. The plaintiffs comprised two persons claiming as reversioners of Chandrappa and a purchaser of the i...

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Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence in Murder Case Based on Voice and Gait Identification by Father-in-Law. Court Deprecated Committal Magistrate's Failure to Examine Witnesses to Actual Commission Under Section 207A of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898....

The case arose from a murder committed on March 26, 1961 in Village Shanti Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. The appellant Kirpal Singh, along with his two brothers, was tried by the Sessions Judge, Pilibhit, for...

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Supreme Court Allows Transfer of Criminal Cases Outside State of Punjab Due to Reasonable Apprehension of Bias. Transfer Petition under Section 527 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 allowed because unrebutted affidavit showed petitioner reasonably apprehended lack of fair trial, applying principle that justice must be seen to be done....

The matter arose from a transfer petition filed by Hazara Singh Gill under Section 527 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, seeking transfer of two criminal cases under Section 52 of the Prisons A...

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Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Accused in Murder Case Under Sections 148 and 302/149 IPC. The Court Held That High Court Properly Reversed Acquittal After Following Sanwat Singh Principles, and Article 136 Appeal Did Not Warrant Reappraisal of Evidence....

The appeal arose from a judgment of the High Court of Punjab at Chandigarh which set aside the acquittal of five appellants by the Second Additional Sessions Judge, Ferozepore, and convicted them unde...

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Supreme Court Upholds Appellant in Foreign Award Suit Due to Non-Final Awards. Foreign Awards Lacking Finality Under New York Law Cannot Furnish Cause of Action in India Under Common Law Principles....

This was an appeal by certificate to the Supreme Court from a judgment of the Bombay High Court in a suit for recovery of money based on a foreign judgment and foreign awards. The respondent, East Ind...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal by Possessor in Intestate Succession Dispute Over Impartible Estate. Bengal Wills and Intestacy Regulation V of 1799 Section 4 Does Not Apply to Single Heir Case, and High Court Erred in Directing District Judge to Take Security....

The dispute concerned succession to the Baikundiapur Raj Estate, an impartible estate in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. Raja Prosanna Deb Raikat died intestate on 4 December 1946, leaving his widow Rani Asr...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal in Railway Supply Contract Dispute; Formal Supply Order Constituted Binding Contract Despite Cancellation Clause. Cancellation Clause in Tender Did Not Apply to Formal Supply Order Once Specific Quantities and Delivery Dates Were Fixed....

The dispute arose from a contract for the supply of jaggery to railway grain shops owned by the Dominion of India, represented by the General Manager of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway. The r...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Shareholder's Appeal Seeking Return of Reissued Forfeited Shares Under Companies Act, 1956. Reissue of Forfeited Shares Does Not Constitute Allotment, Thus No Return Under Section 75(1) Is Required....

The Supreme Court of India considered an appeal by special leave against a judgment of the Calcutta High Court in a matter concerning the obligation to file returns of allotment under Section 75 of th...