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Inequitable To Undo Sale Executed Pursuant To Specific Performance Decree Decades Ago By Ordering Refund: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that once a decree for specific performance of an agreement to sell has culminated in execution of the sale deed and delivery of possession, the completed transaction cannot be undone by substituting it with an enhanced monetary refund merely to "settle equities".A bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice K Vinod Chandran made the observation while restoring a...

Principal Employer Not Liable To Pay Gratuity To Contractual Workmen; Controlling Authority Cant Decide Who Must Pay : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that a principal employer cannot be held liable to pay gratuity to workers engaged through a contractor when there is no employer-employee relationship between the principal employer and such contractual workmen.The Court set aside a Bombay High Court order holding Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) liable to pay gratuity to workers engaged through...

Delhi High Court Highlights Poor Pay, Neglect Of Labourers; Says Society Has Failed To Value Their Work

The Delhi High Court has observed that the society has failed to value and respect physical labour as labourers in the country are “least paid, least cared and least bothered.” [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 883]Justice Vimal Kumar Yadav made the observations while dealing with an appeal arising from a 2002 assault on a labourer who was sleeping at a shop in city's Lajpat Rai Market.The Court...

Dowry Demand For Setting Up Business Still Dowry Under S. 304B IPC: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that a demand for money connected with the marital relationship does not cease to be a dowry demand merely because the money is sought for setting up a business rather than for personal use. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 882]Justice Vimal Kumar Yadav made the observation while dismissing an appeal filed by two, challenging their conviction under Sections 304B and 498A of...

Supreme Court Acquits 4 Murder Convicts, Says Eyewitnesses Couldnt Have Identified Accused On Pitch-Dark Night

The Supreme Court has acquitted four persons convicted for the 2001 murder of one Dhruba Pradhan in Odisha, holding that the prosecution failed to prove its case either through direct or circumstantial evidence, and that the trial court and the High Court erred in relying on eyewitness testimony that could not withstand scrutiny.A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale made...

Ukraine MBBS Student Moves MP High Court, Says NMC Rules Requiring 12-Month Internship There Impossible Amid War

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has sought the Union Government's response on a plea filed by an MBBS student studying in Ukraine, challenging the applicability of the National Medical Commission's (NMC) Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate (FMGL) Regulations 2021, particularly the requirement of completing a 12-month internship in the same foreign medical institution.The petitioner has...

Surprising: Patna High Court Grants Bail To Juveniles Who Drove From Assam To Patna While Carrying 65-Kg Ganja, Orders Inquiry

The Patna High Court has granted bail to two juveniles apprehended with over 65 kg of ganja, while directing an inquiry into how they allegedly travelled from Guwahati, Assam to Patna carrying commercial quantity of contraband without identification or vehicle documents. A Single Judge Bench of Justice Arun Kumar Jha was hearing two criminal revision petitions arising from a DRI case...