General Provident Fund Nomination Made By Employee In Favour Of Parent Becomes Invalid After Marriage : Supreme Court

The Court ordered equal distribution of the PF amount between the mother and the wife of the deceased employee.

Supreme Court Weekly Digest: November 11 - 20, 2025

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996; Section 31(7)(b) - Post-Award Interest is Mandatory – Held, the grant of post-award interest under Section 31(7)(b) (pre-amended) is mandatory, and the only discretion vested in the Arbitral Tribunal is to decide the rate of interest to be awarded - Where the arbitrator does not fix any rate of interest, the statutory rate of 18% per annum...

Supreme Court Seeks AICTE Clarification On Whether Regulations On Superannuation Age Will Apply To Private Unaided Institutions

The Supreme Court has recently asked the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to clarify whether the age of retirement for teachers and faculty, including principals, set by the AICTE Regulations 2010 and 2019, mandatorily extends to private non-aided institutions.It has specifically asked whether the age of retirement for teachers, which was increased to 65 years in...

Supreme Court Issues Pan-India Directions To Protect Rights Of Disabled Prisoners; Seeks Reports From States/UTs On Assistive Aids

In a significant step toward strengthening the rights and dignity of prisoners with disabilities, the Supreme Court has directed all States and Union Territories to implement a comprehensive, disability-inclusive framework across their prison systems. A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta issued the directions while hearing a PIL filed by Sathyan Naravoor seeking...

Complete Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest 2025 [Part-3]

JudiciaryConstitution of India, Article 142 - Writ petition seeking guidelines for judicial recusal - Held, recusal is a matter of judicial discretion and Article 142 cannot be invoked to frame such guidelines. Chandraprabha v. Union of India, 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 648Constitution of India - Referring to any court as a "Lower Court" or its records as "Lower Court Record" (LCR) is contrary to...

Stamp Duty Relief For Co-operative Societies Cannot Be Conditioned On Extra Verification Not Mandated By Law : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Friday (December 5) struck down a Jharkhand Government Memo that required cooperative societies to obtain an Assistant Registrar's recommendation before claiming stamp duty exemption under Section 9A of the Indian Stamp (Bihar Amendment) Act for registering property transfers to their members. “The requirement of recommendation by the Assistant Registrar,...

Candidate Can't Be Disqualified Merely For Not Having Degree Title If Core Subject Was Studied : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court held that when a candidate has studied the requisite principal subject as part of their curriculum, their candidature cannot be rejected solely on the ground that their degree is in a different specialisation. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Vipul M. Pancholi reinstated the appointment of an M. Com (Commerce) graduate as a Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant, a...

Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : December 5, 2025

Supreme Court news reports of today.

Supreme Court Refers 'Bharat Drilling' Judgment' To Larger Bench For Clarity Whether Prohibited Claims Bind Arbitral Tribunals

The Supreme Court on Friday referred its 2009 judgment in Bharat Drilling and Foundation Treatment Private Limited versus State of Jharkhand (2009) 16 SCC 705. to a larger bench, observing that the ruling has been repeatedly and incorrectly relied upon to dilute prohibitory clauses in government contracts. A bench of Justice P S Narasimha and Justice A S Chandurkar said the earlier decision...

Supreme Court Doubts Verdict Which Held Mere Inconvenience Of Parties As No Ground To Transfer Criminal Case

The Supreme Court has cast doubt on its recent judgment in Shri Sendhur Agro & Oil Industries vs. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd which held that "mere convenience or inconvenience of the parties may not by itself be sufficient enough to pray for transfer" of a criminal case from one state to another as per Section 406 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant(as he...

NEET-UG : Supreme Court Grants Relief To TN Students Who Lost MBBS Seats After Missing Fee Payment Deadline

The Supreme Court today (December 5) granted relief to three NEET-UG candidates from Tamil Nadu who had lost their MBBS seats after failing to complete the fee payment within the stipulated time owing to technical glitches.A bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice AS Chandurkar permitted the students to make the payment by Wednesday (December 10), thereby restoring their chance to...

S. 32(1) Evidence Act | Imminent Death Not A Precondition For Treating Statement As Dying Declaration : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 4), while restoring the summons to the deceased's in-laws in the shooting case, held that the mere fact that death was not imminent at the time of recording the statement does not render a dying declaration irrelevant. The bench comprising Justices Sanjay Karol and N Kotiswar Singh heard the case where the appellant lodged an FIR after his deceased...