Supreme Court Weekly Round-up: April 07, 2025 to April 13, 2025

Nominal IndexCitationsKarandeep Sharma @ Razia @ Raju v. State of Uttarakhand 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 398G.C. Manjunath & Ors. v. Seetaram 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 399Amritpal Jagmohan Sethi v. Haribhau Pundlik Ingole 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 400Securities and Exchange Board of India v. Ram Kishori Gupta & Anr. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 401K. Gopi v. Sub-Registrar & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 402Sohom Shipping Pvt. Ltd. v. M/S. The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. & Anr. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 403Biswajyoti Chatterjee v. State of West Bengal & Anr. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 404Sakshi Arha v. Rajasthan High Court and Ors., C.A. No. 3957/2023 (and connected cases) 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 405Kabir Paharia v. National Medical Commission and Ors. | Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 29275 of 2024 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 406Rakesh Kumar Verma v. HDFC Bank Ltd, HDFC Bank v. Deepti Bhatia 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 407M/S. Chatha Service Station v. Lalmati Devi & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 408Jagdish Gond v. State of Chhattisgarh and Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 409Indian Medical Association v. Union of India 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 410Annaya Kocha Shetty (Dead) Through Lrs v. Laxmibai Narayan Satose Since Deceased Through Lrs & Others 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 411State of Karnataka v. Sri Channakeshava.H.D. & Anr. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 412Sh. Dayanand Saraswati Swamiji (Dead) and Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors. and connected matters 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 413Serious Fraud Investigation Office v. Aditya Sarda | Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No. 13956 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 414Rajiv Ghosh v. Satya Naryan Jaiswal 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 415R. Nagaraj (Dead) Through Lrs. and Anr. v. Rajmani and Others 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 416Vinay Aggarwal v. State of Haryana and Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 417Rajeswar Prasad Roy v. State of Bihar & Ors., SLP(C) No. 7675/2024 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 418State of Tamil Nadu v. Governor of Tamil Nadu and Anr. | W.P.(C) No. 1239/2023 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 419Hyeoksoo Son Authorized Representative For Daechang Seat Automotive Pvt. Ltd. v. Moon June Seok & Anr., SLP(Crl.) No.6917 of 2024 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 420OrdersDebu Singh and Anr. v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Anr. | SLP(Crl) No. 3620/2025Hans Raj Jain v. Election Commission of India | Diary No. 1865-2025PTC India Limited v. MB Power (Madhya Pradesh) Limited, SLP(C) No. 5276/2023Tehseen Poonawalla v. State of Haryana and Anr.State of West Bengal v. Baishakhi Bhattacharyya (Chatterjee) and Ors. | C.A. No. 4800/2025State of Tamil Nadu v. Directorate of Enforcement T.P.(Crl.) No. 309/2025 & TASMAC v. Directorate of Enforcement T.P.(Crl.) No. 306-307/2025MC Mehta v. Union of IndiaBar Council of India v. S. Basavaraj and Ors., SLP(C) No. 20647/2024Ashok Kumar Sinha v. Union of India, Civil Appeal No. 3367/2020In Re: Heritage Building of The Bombay High Court and Allotment of Additional Lands For The High Court, SMW (C) No. 5/2024S. Rajaseekaran v. Union of India and Ors.B.S Yeddiyurappa v. VA Alam Pasha & Ors. | Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No.520/20213S and Our Health Society v. Union of India & Ors., Writ Petition (Civil) No.437/2024Other DevelopmentsReports/JudgmentsDeath Penalty In Child Rape-Murder Case Set Aside; Supreme Court Flags Illegal Admission Of Confession, Lapses In DNA EvidenceCase Details: Karandeep Sharma @ Razia @ Raju v. State of UttarakhandCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 398The Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a man accused of raping and causing the death of a minor, observing that the trial was conducted in a flawed and irregular manner. The Court noted that the trial judge had improperly allowed the investigating officer to narrate the accused's confessional statements during his examination-in-chief and admitted those statements as evidence.The appellant-accused was sentenced to suffer the death penalty in connection with the offences punishable under Sections 376A (rape causing death), 302 (murder), 366 (kidnapping), 363 (kidnapping a minor), 201 (destruction of evidence) IPC, and Sections 5/6 of the POCSO Act. However, during the trial, aside from other discrepancies, the trial court permitted the investigating officer to narrate the accused's confessions during his examination-in-chief, recorded by him during the investigation. Furthermore, the court admitted these confessions as evidence through the prosecution witness.The bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol, and Sandeep Mehta questioned the conduct of the trial, noting that the trial judge's decision to admit the accused's confessional statements, narrated by the investigating officer, into evidence was in violation of the law of evidence because under Section 164 of the CrPC, only those confessional statements which is recorded by a magistrate, even if in the presence of the police, are legally admissible.S.197 CrPC | Prior Sanction Mandatory To Prosecute Police Officers For Acts In Excess Of Duty If Reasonably Connected To Official Functions: Supreme CourtCase Details: G.C. Manjunath & Ors. v. SeetaramCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 399The Supreme Court...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-up: April 07, 2025 to April 13, 2025

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