Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : December 15, 2025

Links to today's reports :Delhi Air Pollution : CJI Advises Lawyers To Avail Hybrid Hearings Due To Adverse Weather Conditions'This Trend Not Correct' : Kerala Governor Questions Supreme Court's Move To Select University VCsDelhi Schools Holding Sports Activities Amid Air Pollution Bypassing Court Order : Amicus Curiae Tells Supreme CourtSupreme Court Refuses To Entertain PIL On Indigo...

'Sensitise Future Generation About Equality In Marriage' : Supreme Court Issues Directions To Tackle Dowry Evil & Enforce Prohibition

Youngsters should be made aware that parties to marriage are not subservient to each other.

Supreme Court Issues Directions To Trial Courts On Cataloguing Witnesses & Evidence In Criminal Case Judgments

The Court issued the directions to have a standard and uniform tabular chart in judgments.

Supreme Court Directs Seller Who Concealed Bank Encumbrance In Agreement To Sell To Refund; Says Buyer Not At Fault For Not Seeking Original Deed

"It is a common practice for landowners to keep original title deeds in the bank lockers for security purposes," the Court observed.

Income Tax | Foreign Companies' Head Office Expenses For Indian Business Subject To Deduction Limit Under S. 44C : Supreme Court

In a set-back to foreign companies doing business operations in India, the Supreme Court on Monday (December 15) held that all head office expenditure incurred by them outside India, whether common or exclusively for their Indian business operations, must be subjected to the statutory ceiling prescribed under Section 44C of the Income Tax Act, 1961, thereby ruling out any claim for...

Art. 136 | Second SLP Barred After Dismissal Of Earlier SLP & Failed High Court Review, Unless Liberty Was Reserved: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court held that a second Special Leave Petition (SLP) is not maintainable once an earlier SLP has been dismissed and a subsequent review before the High Court has also failed, unless the Court has expressly granted liberty to approach it again. “there is no doubt that a party does not require any liberty to move in review before the High Court after dismissal simpliciter of an SLP by a non-speaking Order of this Court. However, if the High Court refuses to exercise review...

Supreme Court Weekly Digest: November 21 - 30, 2025

Supreme Court Weekly Digest November 21 - 30, 2025 Acquisition of Land for Industrial Purposes Act, 1997 (Tamil Nadu) - Sections 7(2), 7(4) and 12 - Land Acquisition - Concluded Contract - Payment of Interest – Held, a concluded contract voluntarily entered into between the Government and the landowner/person interested for the determination of compensation under Section 7(2)...

Important MCQs Based On Latest Supreme Court Judgments For Law Examinations

Q 1. A's suit for specific performance of an agreement to sell land is dismissed by the Trial Court. A files a first appeal and simultaneously applies before the Appellate Court seeking an interim order of status quo to prevent B from creating third-party rights over the property during the pendency of the appeal. The Appellate Court refuses, holding that no interim relief can be granted once...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: December 01, 2025 To December 07, 2025

JudgmentsProperty Transferred Prior To Filing Of Suit Cannot Be Attached Under Order 38 Rule 5 CPC: Supreme CourtCase Details: L.K. Prabhu @ L. Krishna Prabhu (Died) Through Lrs v. K.T. Mathew @ Thampan Thomas & Ors.Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1154The Supreme Court held that a property transferred through a registered sale deed prior to the filing of a suit cannot be subjected to...

Supreme Court Directs Assam Govt To Pay ₹5 Lakh Each To 40 Terror Victims Whose Appointments Were Terminated

The State offered to pay monetary compensation in lieue of reinstating the persons who were appointed under a welfare scheme.

Exception 4 To S. 300 IPC Won't Apply When Murder Happened In One-Sided Attack With No Mutual Exchange Of Blows : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that when an accused resorts to physical violence without any quarrel or reciprocal aggression from the deceased, the exception of culpable homicide not amounting to murder cannot be invoked to seek a reduced sentence. In the present case, the appellant had delivered a knife blow to an unarmed victim and sought the benefit of lesser punishment under Exceptions 2 and...

Supreme Court Monthly Round-Up: November 2025

Reports/JudgmentsArbitration | Objections To Arbitral Award Execution Maintainable Only If Decree Is Void Or Without Jurisdiction: Supreme CourtCause Title: MMTC Limited v. Anglo American Metallurgical Coal Pvt. LimitedCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1060The Supreme Court (November 3) ruled against the stalling of the enforcement of an arbitral award at the execution stage, reiterating that...