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Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest 2025: Motor Accident Claims
Assessment of contributory negligence in a motor accident claim - Contributory negligence cannot be presumed on mere allegations of high-speed driving without direct or corroborative evidence. Contributory negligence must be established through direct or corroborative evidence. Tribunal's assessment of negligence, based on evidence and spot inspection, should be upheld unless...
S. 37 Provincial Insolvency Act | Only Valid Sales Made During Insolvency Stand Protected After Insolvency Annulment: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court clarified the effect of annulment of insolvency proceedings on transactions carried out during the insolvency period. The case arose from a long-standing dispute over the shareholding in a partnership firm, M/s Gavisiddheshwara & Co., originally formed in 1963. After the death of one of the partners in 1975, his son (the appellant) and widow were declared insolvent due...
Clubbing Of FIRs Arising Out Of Different Transactions In Multiple States Impossible : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday (Sep.26) observed that nationwide consolidation of FIRs involving different witnesses, laws, and evidences is impermissible. It added that clubbing of FIRs is only permissible when multiple FIRs arise from the same incident/transactions. A bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran refused to club multiple FIRs registered against...
Supreme Court Sends Tenant To Tihar Jail For Not Vacating Premises, Imposes Rs 5 Lakh Fine On Aged Co-Tenant
The Supreme Court on Friday (September 26) held two tenants guilty of contempt for willfully disobeying its order to vacate rented premises in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and imposed civil imprisonment on one of them along with monetary penalties.A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi sentenced one contemnor to three months' civil imprisonment and directed that he be taken...
Supreme Court Dismisses Telangana Govt's Plea Against Quashing Of 2015 Cash-for-Vote Scam Case Against One Accused
The Supreme Court on Friday (September 26) upheld the quashing of charges against Jerusalem Mathai, one of the accused in the 2015 Telangana cash-for-votes scam.The bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran dismissed the Special Leave Petition filed by the State of Telangana in 2016 against the High Court's judgment, which quashed the case under the Prevention...
Committee Of Creditors Continues To Exist Till Resolution Plan Is Implemented Or Liquidation Order Is Passed : Supreme Court
In the JSW Steel matter, the Supreme Court held that the Committee of Creditors (CoC) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) does not become functus officio merely upon the approval of a resolution plan by the Adjudicating Authority. The Court held that the CoC continues to have a role until the resolution plan is fully implemented or an order of liquidation is passed.A...
Supreme Court Restores CCI's 2015 Penalty Order Against Kerala Film Exhibitors Federation For Anti-Competitive Practices
The Supreme Court today(September 26) restored the September 8, 2015 order of the Competition Commission of India ("CCI"), which imposed penalties on the Kerala Film Exhibitors Federation (KFEF) and two of its office bearers (P.V. Basheer Ahmed and M.C. Bobby) for indulging in anti-competitive practices by denying the screening of Tamil and Malayalam films in the theatres of the informant...
S.138 NI Act | Accused In Cheque Dishonour Cases Entitled To Benefit Of Probation Of Offenders Act : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday (Sep.25) held that accused persons convicted under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (cheque dishonour cases) are entitled to the benefit of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958.“Consequently, this Court is of the view that not only a voluntary compromise can bring the proceedings under Section 138 NI Act to an end, but the accused under the...
Supreme Court Modifies Guidelines On Compounding Of Cheque Dishonour Cases
The Supreme Court has recently modified the guidelines on compounding dishonour of cheque Cases issued in Damodar S.Prabhu vs Sayed Babalal H.The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Manmohan and Justice NV Anjaria in Sanjabij Tari Vs Kishore S Borkar and another 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 952, observed that since a very large number of cheque bouncing cases are still pending and interest rates...
Supreme Court Upholds JSW Steel's Resolution Plan For Bhushan Power & Steel, Says JSW Can't Be Penalised For Reviving Loss-Making Entity
The Supreme Court today upheld the resolution plan of JSW Steel Ltd for Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd (BPSL) and rejected the objections raised by the ex-promoters and certain creditors of BPSL.Allowing the appeals after JSW has revived the loss-making entity by infusing huge amounts of funds will lead to "diastrous results", the Court said.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR...