Supreme Court Senior Counsel Not Fully Aware of IBC Framework; SC Adjourns Unnati Fortune’s Appeal
Compassionate Appointment is a Concession, Not a Right; SC Rejects Claim for Higher Post After Acceptance
Sub-Vendor Not A ‘Veritable Party’ To Arbitration Agreement; Supreme Court Quashes Appointment of Arbitrator
SC Restores Decree Ordering Refund of Advance to Buyer; Sets Aside Kerala HC Remand in Land Sale Dispute
SC: Sec 44C Income Tax Act Does Not Distinguish Common & Exclusive Head Office Expenses Incurred By Non-Resident Indian Counterpart
SC Sets Aside Allahabad HC’s Acquittal of Husband and Mother-in-Law Who Killed Woman for Dowry; Issues Directions for Effective Implementation of DPA, 1961
Sec 479 BNSS Is Introduced To De-Clog Prisons In India; SC Allows Bail To MD Of DHFL In Bank Fraud Case & Siphoning Off Funds To Shell Entities
Supreme Court Dissolves Marriage on Ground of Irretrievable Breakdown After 24 Years of Separation
Supreme Court Questions Bombay HC’s Blanket Stay on Investigation; Grants Liberty to Seek Reconsideration
SC Grants Bail to Accused in Mahadev Betting App Case Involving Alleged Cash Delivery to Former CM Bhupesh Baghel
Exclusion Under RSMD Clause Will Not Oust Insurer’s Liability If Loss Is Attributable To Peril Of Fire; SC Directs NCDRC To Assess ICICI Lombard’s Liability
Pay Parity Claims Are a Continuing Cause; Supreme Court Restores Higher Pay Scale to Jharkhand Employee
SC Refers Section 148 NI Act Deposit Applicability to Convicted Directors to Larger Bench
Trials Becoming Mechanical Exercise, Divorced from the Quest for Truth, Lead to Miscarriage of Justice; SC Set Aside POSCO Conviction
Waitlist Is Not Source Of Recruitment & Candidate Has No Vested Right To Appointment; SC Upholds Communal Rotation By Cochin University For Filling Vacancy
SC Issues Notice in Alleged Sexual Assault on Woman Lawyer Inside Police Station; Orders Sealed Cover Preservation of CCTV Footage
Cornerstone For Invoking SARFAESI Is Creation Of ‘Security Interest’ In Favour Of ‘Secured Creditor’; SC Disproves Recovery Process Before DRT
Entertaining Objections On Consortium Member’s Capacity At Section 11 Stage Would Amount To Mini Trial; SC Upholds Reference to Arbitration
Cross FIRs From Same Incident Must Be Tried Together: Supreme Court
FIR Alone Cannot Sustain Conviction; Supreme Court Acquits Doctor Convicted of Rape
Leading Questions in Cross-Examination Can’t be Said to Have Less Probative Value; Supreme Court Upholds Will Excluding One Child
Cheque Bounce Cases Cannot Be Quashed at Pre-Trial Stage on Disputed Facts: Supreme Court Restores Section 138 NI Act Complaint
Supreme Court: Minor Trafficking Victims’ Testimony Needs Sensitive & Realistic Judicial Appreciation
Victim Can Assist Court In Criminal Revision Even After Informant’s Death: SC Restores Criminal Revision Dismissed as Abated
Financial Dominance Shall Not Qualify As Instance Of Cruelty, Absent Tangible Mental Or Physical Harm; SC Quashes FIR Lodged Under Sec 498A IPC
Denial of Mutation based on Will Defeats the Interest of Revenue; SC Restores Mutation Granted on the Basis of Registered Will
Supreme Court Extends Deadline for Counselling in Pharmacy Courses in MP Till December 31 To Fill Vacant Seats
Allahabad High Court
Allahabad High Court Rejects Bail in Acid Attack Case Involving 20-Year-Old Woman
Allahabad High Court Stays Trial in Attempt to Murder & SC/ST Act Case Over Investigation by Officer Below Prescribed Rank
Allahabad High Court Declines to Quash ED Proceedings in Grand Venice Project Case; Flags Jurisdictional Limits Under PMLA
Allahabad HC Sets Aside Review Order Enhancing Land Acquisition Compensation; Remands Matter for Fresh Decision
Bank Cannot Retrospectively Deny Promised Rate Of Interest On FDRs To Investor Upon Maturity; Allahabad HC Cites Principle Of Promissory Estoppel
Employee Promoted To Higher Post As Stop-Gap Arrangement Deserves Salary Payable To Such Post; Allahabad HC Grants Differential Pay With Interest
Andhra Pradesh High Court
Andhra Pradesh HC: Punishment Of Compulsory Retirement To Police Constable For Opting Conscious Bigamous Marriage Is Not Disproportionate
Non-Compete Fee Paid To L&T Neither Created Monopoly Nor Eliminated Competition; SC Allows Revenue Expenses Under Sec 37 Income Tax Act
Bombay High Court
Bombay High Court Backs Institutional ODR; Declines Plea to Replace Arbitrator
Claim Not Pleaded Before Arbitrator Cannot Be Raised Under Section 34; Bombay HC Upholds Arbitral Award in NHAI Land Acquisition Case
GST Did Not Bar Municipal Corporation’s Power To Levy License Fees For Sky-Signs & Hoardings; Bombay HC Clarifies Contrast Between ‘Tax’ & ‘Fee’
AO Wrongly Took Gross Receipts To Tax Without Considering Income & Expenditure Statement Filed By Trust; Bombay HC Stays Entire Demand
EPF Act Excludes Genuine Allowances & Incentives, Not Artificial Splitting Of Regular Wages; Bombay HC Confirms Arrears Of PF Dues
Non-Supply of Written Grounds of Arrest Alone Not Enough for Bail in Pre-Mihir Shah Cases: Bombay High Court
Bombay HC: Membership proceeding under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, doesn’t deal with the declaration of title
Pune Porsche Crash Case: Bombay High Court Rejects Bail to Accused Persons, Citing Attempt to Thwart Course of Justice
Bombay HC: Insistence On Demanding US Customs Declarations For Invoking Coercive LOC Trammels Fundamental Right To Travel Under Art. 21
Bombay High Court Cancels “Vistarraah” Registration, Holding It a Bad-Faith Copy of Well-Known Airline Mark “VISTARA®”
Bombay High Court Directs State to Pay Full Maternity Benefits to Contract Assistant Professor, Calls “Technical Breaks” Arbitrary and Unjust
Pay Disparity Was Based On Classification Criterion; Bombay HC Holds Distinct Pay Structure By Manganese Ore (India) Ltd Does Not Discriminate Art. 14
Bombay HC Grants Perpetual Injunction Against Lotus Refinery for Copying “LOTUS” Edible Oil Trademarks
Rigid Cut-Off Date For Covid Insurance Scheme Eclipses Self-Sacrifice; Bombay HC Grants Monetary Benefit To Legal Heirs Of Deceased Frontline Worker
Bombay High Court Rejects Bail to Daman Crime Branch Constables in Alleged Abduction–Extortion Case; Questions Police Investigation
Calcutta High Court
‘Heirs Cannot Be Deprived of Compensation if Deceased was Driving in Drunken State’; Calcutta HC Dismisses Appeal by NIACL
CBIC Circulars Can’t Be Used As Shield To Ward Off Legal Scrutiny In Dubious Invoices; Calcutta HC Orders Conditional Release Of Areca Nuts
Delhi High Court
Delhi HC Dismisses Petition by DTC Employee Against CAT Order Allowing Retirement from Service at 55 Years Upon Being Medically Unfit
No Right Accrues Without Concluded Contract; Delhi HC Refuses To Direct Doordarshan To Release Funds To Empanelled Producers
BATA Is Registered Proprietor Of ‘POWER’ Mark Since 1975; Delhi HC Upholds Interim Injunction In Trademark Suit Against LEAYAN
Pilots Are ‘Workmen’ Under Industrial Disputes Act; Delhi High Court Upholds Awards Directing King Airways To Pay Dues
Delhi High Court Issues Notice on CG Power’s Plea Challenging ED Prosecution Post-RBI Resolution; Stays Trial Proceedings
Delhi High Court Reinstates BSF Constable Dismissed for Overstaying Leave, Flags Violation of Natural Justice
Delhi HC Slaps Rs 20 Lakh Costs on ‘Instant Bollywood’ for Suppression of Material Facts
Advocate Misused Social Media Platforms Causing Grave Infraction Towards Court’s Dignity; Delhi HC Warns Of Serious Consequences
Delhi High Court Reaffirms Landlord’s Right to Decide Suitability of Premises; Clears way for Eviction
Delhi High Court Set Aside Pre-Resolution GST Demands Against Patanjali Foods
‘Stridhan Not a Source of Income’; Delhi HC Affirms Order for Interim Maintenance to Wife of Man Downplaying His Financial Capacity
Delhi HC: Incentives Given By Media Houses To Advertising Agencies Do Not Constitute ‘Business Auxiliary Service’, No Liable To Service Tax
Delhi HC Suspends Sentencing Orders of Convict u/S. 138 of NI Act After Parties Settled Dispute Through Payment of Rs. 1.20 Cr
‘Courts Must Not Thrust Unwilling Parties Into a Matrimonial Abyss’; Delhi HC Allows Waiver of One-Year Separation Requirement in Mutual Consent Divorce
Executing Court Cannot Compel Non-Signatory While Enforcing Section 17 Order: Delhi HC Curbs Overreach in Section 17 Enforcement
Delhi HC: Retrospective GST Registration Cancellation Unsustainable If Not Proposed in SCN
Situs Of Bank Does Not Confer Exclusive Jurisdiction Absent Cause Of Action; Delhi HC Refuses To Interfere In Licensing Of Duty-Free Outlets At Noida International Airport
Delhi High Court Upholds Interim “Right to be Forgotten” Relief, Prioritising An Exonerated Person’s Dignity Over Archived Crime Reports
Hiding iPhones & Half Kg Gold In Infant’s Stroller Is Gross Concealment; Delhi HC Imposes 10K Cost For Portraying Contrary Impression Of Illegal Detention
Delhi HC: Section 24 CPC Empowers Transfer of IPR Suit Regardless of Commercial/Non-Commercial Status
Delhi High Court Dismisses Writ Challenging AFT CAT List as Withdrawn; Notes Personal Grievance, Grants Liberty to File PIL
Delhi HC Reinstates HIV Positive Constable in BSF; Finds Him to be a ‘Person with Disability’ as per RPWD Act
‘It is Neither Advisable Nor Prudent to Non-Suit a Party at Preliminary Stage by Rejecting Plaint u/O. VII R.11 in Complex Matters’: Delhi HC
Non-Bailable Warrants Can Be Issued Against Accused Evading Arrest, Not ‘Witness’ or ‘Suspect’;Delhi HC Quashes NBW Issued During PMLA Investigation
‘Exercise of Power by Public Authority Must be Rational, Supported by Cogent Reasons, and Not Guided by Caprice or Individual Predilections’: Delhi HC
District Court
Kerala Court Sentences Six Convicts To 20 Years Imprisonment, For Wrongful Confinement, Abduction & Gang Rape Of Cine Actress
Gauhati High Court
Restriction Under Sec 16(2)(Aa) CGST Act Is Not Unconstitutional But Onerously Burdens Purchasing Dealer; Gauhati HC Calls CBIC To Find Practical Solution
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
J&K&L HC Refuses Medical Bail to Ex-Bar Leader Accused in Advocate Babar Qadri Terror Killing, Citing Adequate Jail Treatment and Trial Fairness
Karnataka High Court
Remand Without Production of Accused Unsustainable; Karnataka High Court Grants Bail After Illegal Extension of Judicial Custody
IGST Arises On Movement Of Goods Terminating For Delivery To Recipient Outside State; Karnataka HC Grants Part Relief To Toyota Kirloskar
Kerala High Court
Substantive Review of Orders Issued u/s 11 of A&C Act is not Maintainable in Absence of Statutory Provision: Kerala High Court
Sec 197A(1C) Exempts Senior Citizens Upon Furnishing Form 15H Declaration; Kerala HC Undo Default Tag Over South Indian Bank For Not Deducting TDS
Legislation Updates
Rajya Sabha Passes SHANTI Bill 2025; Govt Assures Nuclear Safety, Sovereignty and Public Accountability Remain Intact
Madras High Court
Madras HC Mandates MEA to Secure Compensation for Widow of Deceased Migrant Worker, Invoking Welfare State & Ancient Rajadharma
Tribunals
UP RERA Appellate Tribunal Directs Builder to Pay Delay Interest Till Valid Possession; Sets Aside Authority Order
Abandonment Of Shipment Can’t Be Claimed As Of Right Unless Import Is Lawful; Chennai CESTAT Reduces Penalty, Finding No Mala Fide Intent
WhatsApp Cannot Display Advertisements Without Specific User Consent: NCLAT
Findings in Benami Adjudication Cannot Solely Ground Criminal Prosecution: SAFEMA Appellate Tribunal
Promoting Commerce On Trade Policy Is ‘General Public Utility’ Under Sec 2(15); Delhi ITAT Allows Sec 12A Registration To Federation Of European Business
CAAR: Third-party invoicing not recognized under APTA; Preferential Duty Depends on Strict Origin and Direct Consignment Compliance
News
Delhi Air Pollution: Supreme Court to Pass Only Enforceable Orders, Says CJI Surya Kant
Supreme Court Issues Notice on Plea Challenging Changes to Banke Bihari Temple Darshan Timings, Ritual Practices
Supreme Court Declines to Entertain PIL against Government and Indigo, Directs Petitioner to Pursue Remedies Before Delhi High Court
Courtroom Sparks Fly as Mr. Sibal and SG Tushar Mehta Lock Horns Over Mahesh Langa’s Bail; SC Grants Interim Bail
Supreme Court Grants Interim Protection to Kerala Private Hospitals Against HC Directions on Display of Services and Rates
SC Issues Notice to Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha Secretariats on Plea Challenging Impeachment of Justice Yashwant Verma
SC Weighs Continuation of Interim Protection in Bank ‘Fraud’ Cases Post Rajesh Agarwal; Seeks Procedural Clarity
National Herald Case: Delhi Court Dismisses ED’s PMLA Complaint Against Sonia, Rahul Gandhi
SC Examines Special Courts for Gangster Trials; Notes 16 Dedicated Courts Coming Up in Delhi
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas advises Tata Steel Limited on its Acquisition of Stake in Thriveni Pellets Private Limited
CLAT 2026 Results Declared
Goa Nightclub Fire Case: Delhi Court Grants Goa Police Two-Day Transit Remand of Luthra Brothers
Supreme Court Collegium Approves Appointment of Two Judicial Officers as Judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court
Supreme Court Transfers Suo Motu Case on RG Kar Hospital Doctor’s Rape and Murder to Calcutta High Court
Delhi HC Treats Petition on Lawyer Empanelment as Representation, Grants 3 Months for Action
Delhi High Court Declines to Entertain Fresh PIL on IndiGo Crisis; Directs Petitioner to Intervene in Pending Matter
Delhi Air Pollution: SC Asks MCD to Consider Temporary Suspension of Toll Collection at 9 Entry Points
Supreme Court Restores Enforcement Against Old, High-Polluting Vehicles in NCR; Relief Limited to BS-IV and Above
Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Bombay High Court’s Kolhapur Circuit Bench
Supreme Court Grants Interim Protection to TADA Convict Pending Fresh Decision on Remission
Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Transfer of Justice Soumen Sen as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court
Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Appointment of Chief Justices in Five High Courts
Elephant Corridor Case: Petitioners Challenge Madras HC Ban on Commercial Activity, Seek Tagging of Connected Matters
Delhi HC Seeks Customs Reply on IndiGo’s ₹900 Crore Refund Plea Over Re-Import Duties
Supreme Court to Hold Special Vacation Sitting on December 22 for Urgent Matters: CJI
SC Stays Bombay HC Order on Shani Shingnapur Trust; Appoints Aurangabad Commissioner as Administrator
Ink & Insight
[Ink & Insight] Liquidated Damages Across Jurisdictions: Evolving Standards Of Proof And Proportionality
By Gunjan Chhabra and Bharat Sharma
Roundup
Weekly Bulletin [8th – 14th December, 2025]