100 Important Supreme Court Judgments Of 2025 - Part 1 [1-25]

As part of its annual tradition, LiveLaw presents its curated list of the 100 most significant Supreme Court judgments of the year, a feature keenly awaited by our readers each year.The judgments have been selected on the basis of the following broad criteria:(i) their importance to the general public;(ii) their role in settling or clarifying contested questions of law; and(iii) their...

Can't Protect Unauthorised Construction Saying It's Compoundable Violation : Supreme Court Rejects Plea Against Demolition

"People are crazy. They can tomorrow encroach upon roads and say it's compoundable", remarked CJI Surya Kant.

The Collegium Must Grow Up: Why Judicial Appointments Cannot Depend On Chance

India's judicial appointments system rests on an irony it has never fully confronted. It is a structure devised to insulate the judiciary from executive whim, yet it remains acutely vulnerable to internal accident. Who sits in the collegium on a given day, who has retired a week earlier, and who is technically present but practically excluded can make the difference between elevation and eclipse. That is not constitutional design. It is institutional improvisation.The collegium system was...

Supreme Court Direct & Indirect Tax: Annual Digest 2025

Judgments With CitationsDirect TaxMotor Accident Claims - Tax Returns Can Be Accepted To Determine Income Only If They Are Appropriately Produced : Supreme CourtCase name: New India Assurance Co. Ltd. V. Sonigra Juhi Uttamchand.Case no.: SLP (C) No. 30491 of 2018Citation : 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 18The Supreme Court, recently (on January 02), while deciding a motor accident compensation claim...

Delhi High Court Suspends Life Sentence Of Kuldeep Singh Sengar In Unnao Rape Case

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (December 23) suspended the life sentence awarded to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in the Unnao rape case.A division bench comprising of Justice Subramonium Prasad and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar while pronouncing the order said:"We are suspending the sentence. Personal bond of Rs. 15 Lakh with three sureties of like amount...Not to come within 5 km radius of the residence...

Dadri Lynching | Victim Akhlaq's Wife Moves High Court Against UP Govt's Proposal To Withdraw Charges Against Accused

[NOTE : After the publication of this story, a court in Gautam Budh Nagar (UP) rejected the Uttar Pradesh Government's application to withdraw the prosecution against the accused in the 2015 Mohammad Akhlaq lynching case. Consequently, the petition filed by the victim's wife (details of which are contained in the news piece below) in the High Court has effectively been rendered infructuous. More information here: https://tinyurl.com/49md8u9d ]The wife of Mohammad Akhlaq,...

'Govt Cannot Act Contrary To Its Own Policy' : Supreme Court Quashes Naming Of Rajasthan Villages After Individuals

The Supreme Court has held that the State Government of Rajasthan acted in violation of its own binding policy by naming newly created revenue villages after private individuals, and restored a Single Judge order quashing such notifications.A Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Alok Aradhe allowed an appeal filed by residents of village Sohda in Barmer district, setting aside a Division Bench judgment of the Rajasthan High Court which had upheld the creation of the revenue villages...

LiveLawBiz: Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 22, 2025

TAX Service Tax | Pairing & Testing Smart-Cards For Set-Top-Boxes Qualifies As Job Work: Bombay High Court Allows CreditCustoms Act | Penalty Cannot Be Sustained Solely On S. 108 Statements Without Compliance Of S. 138B: Kerala High CourtLevy Of Service Tax On 'Access To Amusement Facilities' Unconstitutional: Kerala High CourtNon-Filing Of ITR By Creditor Not Proof For Lack...

Mutation Of Revenue Records Can Be Carried Out Based On Will : Supreme Court

Mutation does not confer title and is done only for fisal purposes, the Court stated.

Plea In Supreme Court Challenges Prime Minister Offering 'Chadar' At Ajmer Sharif Dargah

A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court against the extension of State-sponsored ceremonial honor and symbolic recognition to Islamic scholar and mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti and/or the Ajmer Dargah by the Union and its instrumentalities. It also seeks stay on the offering of a chadar by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Ajmer Sharif dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. The...

'Manifestly Perverse': Supreme Court Sets Aside HC Order Granting Bail To Accused Who Allegedly Murdered Witness While On Bail

The Supreme Court set aside the Madras High Court's order grant bail to the accused in a murder case, noting that the order granting bail was vitiated by perversity, arbitrariness and non-application of mind.A bench comprising Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan was hearing an appeal against an order of the Madurai Bench of the High Court, which had granted bail to the accused in an...

Criminal Revision Filed By Informant Doesn't Abate On His Death; Other Victims Can Continue It : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that a criminal revision petition does not automatically abate upon the death of the revisionist, particularly when the revision is not filed by an accused but by an informant or victim. The Court clarified that in such cases, the revisional court has the discretion to continue examining the legality and propriety of the impugned order and may permit a victim to...