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Decided on : Mar-06-2020
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION S.L.P. (C) NOS.9036-9038 OF2016 INDORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY VERSUS .PETITIONER MANOHARLAL & ORS. ETC. .RESPONDENT(S) WITH S.L.P.(C) NOS. 9798-9799 OF2016 S.L.P.(C) NOS. 17088-17089 OF2016 S.L.P.(C) No.37375 OF2016 S.L.P.(C) No.37372 OF2016 S.L.P.(C) NOS. 16573-16605 OF2016 S.L.P. (C) CC No.15967 OF2016CIVIL APPEAL No.19356 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19362 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19361 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19358 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19357 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19360 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19359 OF2017S.L.P.(C) NOS. 34752-34753 OF2016 S.L.P.(C) No.15890 OF2017 2 CIVIL APPEAL No.19363 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19364 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL No.19412 OF2017MA1423OF2017IN CIVIL APPEAL No.12247 OF2016S.L.P.(C) No.33022 OF2017S.L.P.(C) No.33127 OF2017S.L.P.(C) No.33114 OF2017MA1787OF2017IN CIVIL APPEAL No.10210 OF2016MA1786OF2017IN CIVIL APPEAL No.10207 OF2016MA45OF2018IN CIVIL APPEAL No.6239 OF2017S.L.P.(C) No.16051 OF2019DIARY No.2384...
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Decided on : Jun-19-2020
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.452 OF2020(ARISING OUT OF SLP (CRL.) NO.2433/2020) S.KASI ...APPELLANT(S) VERSUS STATE THROUGH THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE SAMAYNALLUR POLICE STATION MADURAI DISTRICT ...RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT BHUSHAN,J.ASHOK This appeal has been filed questioning the judgment of Madurai Bench of Madras High Court dated 11.05.2020 in Crl.OP(MD) No.5296 of 2020 by which judgment the bail application of the appellant has been dismissed.2. Brief facts giving rise to this appeal are: - 2.1. The appellant is an accused in Crime No.495 of 2015 under Sections 457, 380, 457(2), 380(2), 411(2) and 414(2) of Indian Penal Code. The appellant was arrested on 21.02.2020 in the above case 2 and lodged in Central Prison, Trichy. The bail application of the appellant under Section 439 was rejected by the trial court on 30.04.2020. After being in judicial custody for more than 73 days, the appellant filed an application Crl.OP(MD)...
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Decided on : Oct-07-2020
Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.3334 of 2020 (Arising out of Special Leave Petition (C) No.3335 of 2019) Commissioner of Police and Anr Appellants Vs. Umesh Kumar Respondent And With Civil Appeal No.3335 of 2020 (Arising out of Special Leave Petition (C) No.5545 of 2019) 1 JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J1On 27 January 2013, a notice was published in the newspapers for filling up 523 vacancies for the post of Constable (Executive) Male in the Delhi Police. The break-up of vacancies indicated 262 to be unreserved, 142 for OBC candidates, 79 for Scheduled Caste candidates and 40 for those belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. The candidates appeared for a physical endurance and measurement test on 4 October 2013. Upon qualifying at the test, the candidates were allotted roll numbers for appearing in the written examination. Of a total of 50,422 candidates, 39,597 appeared in the written examination which was held on 8 March 2014....
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Decided on : Oct-16-2020
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.3498 OF2020(ARISING OUT OF SLP (C) No.5136 OF2020 STATE OF U.P. APPELLANT VERSUS SUDHIR KUMAR SINGH AND ORS. RESPONDENTS WITH CIVIL APPEAL No.3499 OF2020(ARISING OUT OF SLP (C) No.7351 OF2020 AND CIVIL APPEAL No.3500 OF2020(ARISING OUT OF SLP (C) No.7364 OF2020 JUDGMENT R.F. Nariman, J.1. Leave granted.2. An e-tender notice was issued on 06.01.2018 by the U.P. State Warehousing Corporation (Corporation) for unloading/loading of foodgrains/fertilizer bags from/into railway wagons, trucks etc., stacking the foodgrains/fertilizers in bags, bagging, weighment, standardisation, cleaning of foodgrains/fertilizers etc. and transporting of 1 foodgrains/fertilizers etc. from Railway Station to Corporation godowns or vice versa or transporting them from any place to any other place for the Vindhyachal (Mirzapur) Region. Ten days later i.e. on 16.01.2018, the said tender was cancelled by the Corporation due to a...
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Decided on : Nov-03-2020
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.1648 of 2019 Rajesh @ Sarkari & Anr. ...Appellants Versus State of Haryana ...Respondent JUDGMENT Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, J1The appellants Rajesh alias Sarkari and Ajay Hooda have been convicted, 1 together with a co-accused for an offence under Section 302 read with Section 2 34 of the India Penal Code and have been sentenced to imprisonment for life. 3 2 On 26 December 2006, a ruqqa was received at the Police Post, PGIMS from PGIMS, Rohtak about Sandeep Hooda, son of Azad Singh Hooda, having 1 Pehlad Singh alias Harpal 2 IPC1been brought dead there. ASI, Meha Singh met Azad Singh, the complainant, at the emergency ward in PGIMS, Rohtak. Azad Singh made a statement which 4 was reduced into writing upon which a First Information Report being FIR No.5 781 was registered under Section 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code at Police Station Sadar, Rohtak. The complainant stated that his elder s...
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Decided on : Oct-01-2020
Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition (Civil) No.708 of 2020 Gujarat Mazdoor Sabha & Anr. The State of Gujarat ...Petitioners Versus ...Respondent JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J Index A B C D E F G H I The Notifications Grounds of challenge The power under Section 5 of the Factories Act, 1962 Precedent on public emergency and security of the state Interpreting public emergency in Section 5 Scheme and objects of the Factories Act, 1962 Social and economic value of overtime Constitutional vision of social and economic democracy Summation 1 PART A1Invoking its powers under Section 5 of the Factories Act, 19481, the State of Gujarat has exempted factories from observing some of the obligations which employers have to fulfil towards the workmen employed by them. The government justifies the action on the ground that industrial employers are faced with financial stringency in the economic downturn resulting from the outbreak of COVID -19....
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Decided on : Dec-07-2020
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No.160 OF2020AMISH DEVGAN ..... PETITIONER(S) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS ..... RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT SANJIV KHANNA, J.Applications for intervention are allowed.2. The writ petitioner, Amish Devgan, is a journalist who, it is stated, is presently the managing director of several news channels owned and operated by TV18 Broadcast Limited, including News18 Uttar Pradesh/Uttarakhand, News18 Madhya Pradesh/ Chhattisgarh and News18 Rajasthan.3. The petitioner hosts and anchors debate shows Aar Paar on News18 India and Takkar on CNBC Awaaz. On 15th June, 2020, at around 7:30 p.m., the petitioner had hosted and anchored a Writ Petition (Criminal) No.160 of 2020 Page 1 of 128 debate on the enactment1 which, while excluding Ayodhya, prohibits conversion and provides for maintenance of the religious character of places of worship as it existed on 15th August, 1947. Some Hindu priest organisatio...
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Decided on : Dec-14-2020
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.2402 OF2019VIDYA DROLIA AND OTHERS ..... APPELLANT(S) VERSUS DURGA TRADING CORPORATION ..... RESPONDENT(S) W I T H SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS. 5605-5606 OF2019AND SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION No.11877 OF2020JUDGMENT SANJIV KHANNA, J.This judgment decides the reference to three Judges made vide order dated 28th February, 2019 in Civil Appeal No.2402 of 2019 titled Vidya Drolia and Others v. Durga Trading Corporation,1 as it doubts the legal ratio expressed in Himangni Enterprises v. Kamaljeet Singh Ahluwalia2 that landlord-tenant disputes governed by the provisions of the Transfer of Property 1 2019 SCC OnLine SC3582 (2017) 10 SCC7061 Act, 1882, are not arbitrable as this would be contrary to public policy.2. A deeper consideration of the order of reference reveals that the issues required to be answered relate to two aspects that are distinct and yet interconnected, namely: (i) meaning of non-arbitr...
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Decided on : Sep-28-2020
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.635 OF2020(Arising out of SLP (Crl.) No.393 of 2020) MAHESHWAR TIGGA ...APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE STATE OF JHARKHAND ...RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT NAVIN SINHA, J.Leave granted.2. The appellant assails his conviction under sections 376, 323 and 341 of the Indian Penal Code (in short, IPC) sentencing him to seven years, one year and one month respectively with fine and a default stipulation.3. The prosecutrix, PW9 lodged FIR No.25 of 1999 on 13.04.1999 alleging that four years ago the appellant had 1 outraged her modesty at the point of a knife. He had since been promising to marry her and on that pretext continued to establish physical relations with her as husband and wife. She had also stayed at his house for fifteen days during which also he established physical relations with her. Five days prior to the lodging of the F.I.R, the appellant had established physical relations with her on 09.04.1999. T...
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Decided on : Sep-22-2020
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA REPORTABLE1CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL) NO.4116 OF2020National Alliance for Peoples Movements & Ors. . Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors. . Respondent(s) JUDGMENT1 The petitioners herein were before the High Court of Judicature at Bombay claiming to be in Public Interest (PIL CJLDVC No.44/2020) seeking that the decision of the High Powered Committee (HPC for short) dated 25.03.2020 to the extent of Clauses (iii), (iv) and (vii) of paragraph 8, decisions/minutes of HPC meeting dated 11.05.2020 excluding certain categories of offences provided in 2 paragraph 5(i) and 5(ii) for the purpose of grant of interim bail and corrigendum dated 18.05.2020 of the Minutes of the Meeting of HPC dated 11.05.2020 to the extent of clarification that the class and/or category of offences determined by the HPC for temporary release be not read as a direction made by it for mandatory release of prisoners falling in that categor...
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