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Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2025 On Murder Trial
Appellant-accused was sentenced to death for murder and rape of the victim under section 302, 376 and 397 of the IPC - Faulty Investigation - i. identity of accused could not be sufficiently protected leading to its disclosure before the TIP; ii. 9-day delay in TIP is unexplained; iii. Lack of coordination between investigating agencies and not arraying person having direct link...
Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 31, 2025
TAX Kerala High Court Grants Bail To Accused Caught In ₹5,000 Land Tax Bribery Trap By VigilanceCustoms | I-STAT Blood Gas Cartridges Are Accessories Of Analyser And Not Diagnostic Reagents; No Differential Duty Payable: CESTAT MumbaiNo Interest On Excise Duty Payable In Revenue-Neutral Situation Even Though Duty Demand Attained Finality: Calcutta High CourtCustoms | Barcode Scanners...
2025-Unprecedented Year For Judiciary
To borrow Charles Dickens' words, 2025 was the “best of times, it was the worst of times” for the judiciary.The year began with an extraordinary incident which sent shockwaves not just to the judiciary but also to the legal fraternity after a fire incident led to the accidental discovery of piles of burnt currency at a judge's official residence.It went on to witness some rare...
Time, Arguments And Justice: Cooperation, Not Compulsion, At The Heart Of New SOP
The Chief Justice of India Surya Kant made several specific public and in-court remarks regarding the restriction of argument time in the weeks leading up to the release of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on December 29, 2025. The CJI's comments cantered on the idea that judicial time is a "limited public resource" and that prolonged oral arguments by senior counsel were unfairly depriving "poor and ordinary litigants" of their day in court.On December 11, 2025, during a hearing involving...
Igniting Flame Of Growth: A New Year's Call To Evolve In Justice
Dear Brother and Sister Judges, Esteemed Young Advocates, and Fellow Legal Minds across India,As 2025 draws to a close, a simple book has quietly reshaped my own approach to our demanding profession. Dr. Carol S. Dweck's Mindset: The New Psychology of Success draws a clear line between two ways of seeing ourselves: the fixed mindset, which treats abilities as unchangeable traits, and the growth mindset, which views them as muscles strengthened through effort, challenge, and learning. In the...
Supreme Court Round-Up 2025: Free Speech
In 2025, the Supreme Court handled significant cases dealing with free speech. From poetry and political dissent to Wikipedia entries, online comedy, social media commentary and cinema, the Court was repeatedly required to navigate the fraught boundary between liberty and regulation. When poetry was criminalised - Imran Pratapgarhi caseOne of the clearest affirmations of free speech came...
Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2025 On Bail & Arrest
Amicus Curiae Suggestions - Policy strategy for bail and speedy disposal of criminal appeals - Model Action Plan for Baseline Report of NCMS (National Case Management System) - which has been approved by Chief Justice of India and forwarded to all High Courts for adoption - Vacancies in High Courts directly impact and corelate with the pendency of criminal appeals - Video Conferencing...
Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 30, 2025
TAX Taxpayers To Be Barred From Filing GSTR-3B Return For Excess GST ITC Claims: GSTN Issues AdvisoryService Tax | Co-Op Society Paying Rent Arrears To Local Municipality For Gas Transportation Pipeline Not Liable Under Reverse Charge : CESTAT AhmedabadProfit From Securitisation/Sell-Down Of Loan Receivables Not Taxable As Service: CESTAT ChennaiExcise | Cutting/Slitting HR-CR Coils...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: December 15, 2025 To December 21, 2025
JudgmentsS. 389 CrPC | Gravity Of Offence And Role Of Accused Must Guide Suspension Of Sentence: Supreme CourtCase Details: Rajesh Upadhayay v. State of Bihar & Anr.Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1127The Supreme Court set aside the Patna High Court's order suspending sentence of a murder convict, holding that the relief was wrongly granted in ignorance of the gravity of the offence and...
Supreme Court Annual Digest 2025 - Lok Adalat
Adalat Code of Civil Procedure, 1908; Order XXI Rules 97, 99, and 101 — Powers of Executing Court regarding Lok Adalat Awards — Held, while these provisions enable an Executing Court to address incidental questions during execution (such as the extent of enforceability against a person in possession), they do not authorize the court to examine the validity of the award itself...
Tripura Student's Tragic Death: Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Recognition Of 'Racial Slur' As Hate Crime & Guidelines To Tackle Discrimination
Following the tragic death of a 24-year old student subjected to a racial attack in Dehradun over his north-eastern appearance, a public interest litigation has been initiated before the Supreme Court to address racial discrimination and violence against Indian citizens from north-eastern states and other frontier regions of India.The plea, filed by Advocate-on-Record Anoop Prakash Awasthi,...