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'Mere Telephone Records Can't Prove Illicit Affair' : Supreme Court Upholds Acquittal Of Woman & 2 Men In Husband's Murder Case
Mere production of telephone records cannot substitute substantive proof of an illicit affair leading to murder, the Supreme Court has held while upholding the acquittal of a woman accused of murdering her husband along with her alleged lover and another co-accused in 2007. The Court ruled that the prosecution failed to establish an unbroken chain of circumstances necessary to sustain...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : July 13, 2026
Links to the reports of July 13.Supreme Court Rejects Regularisation Claims Of 361 West Bengal Madrasah Staff'Citizenship Status Must Be Determined Through Fair Process': Supreme Court Sets Aside 27 Foreigner Declarations By Assam Tribunals'You Can't Insult Students & Get Away' : Supreme Court Denies Pre-Arrest Bail To Professor In Kerala Student Suicide CaseSupreme Court Stays Madras...
S. 19 JJ Act | Children's Court Must Pass Reasoned Order Before Trying Child As Adult: Supreme Court
In an important direction for the Children Courts across the country, the Supreme Court on Monday (July 13) has held that a Children's Court cannot proceed to try a child in conflict with law as an adult without first passing a reasoned order under Section 19(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. Holding that this requirement is mandatory, a bench of...
Pre-2016 DRT Recovery Certificates Cannot Form Basis For Insolvency Notice Under Presidency Towns Insolvency Act: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 13) held that a recovery certificate issued by a Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT) before the 2016 amendment to the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act (RDB Act) could not be treated as a "decree or order" for initiating insolvency proceedings under Section 9(2) of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909. “A claim which was untenable on the date the...
Plaintiff's Reply To Counterclaim In Commercial Suits Subject To Same Time Limit As Written Statement: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday held that plaintiffs in commercial suits are also bound by the mandatory 120-day time limit for filing a written statement in response to a defendant's counterclaim, ruling that the stringent timeline under the Commercial Courts Act applies equally to such pleadings to ensure expeditious disposal of commercial disputes.A Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice...
Suitability For Promotion Must Be Left To Domain Experts, Courts Cannot Introduce New Methodology: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has reiterated that when the Statute provides a specific methodology for determining whether a candidate is suitable for promotion or not, then it is impermissible for the Courts to substitute their views to introduce a different methodology or read words that are not there in the provision. A bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Manmohan set aside the concurrent...
LiveLaw Supreme Court Monthly Digest: June 2026
Administrative Law — Public Trust Doctrine — Prospective Regularisation based on Market Value — Reference date for valuation – Held that accepting the Banthia Committee's methodology, once an allotment is judicially declared illegal, the original concessional price becomes entirely irrelevant - Regularisation is not a continuation of the original transaction but a prospective...
Supreme Court Rejects Regularisation Claims Of 350+ West Bengal Madrasah Staff Appointed When State Law Was Struck Down
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a batch of 49 writ petitions filed by more than 350 teachers and non-teaching staff of aided madrasahs in West Bengal, holding that none of them could establish that their appointments were made in accordance with the applicable recruitment rules.A Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih upheld the findings of a three-member...