The Supreme Court allowed the criminal appeal filed by V. Balakrishnan, a former bank branch manager, setting aside concurrent judgments of conviction under Section 420 IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act. A bench comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran held that the prosecution case built by the
The Supreme Court allowed the appeals filed by Madhav Vidarbha Estate Private Limited, setting aside a 117-page common judgment and order passed by the Bombay High Court. The High Court had erroneously interfered in its revisional jurisdiction under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) to overturn
The Supreme Court allowed a set of civil appeals challenging a High Court appellate order that had set aside the confirmation of a public auction involving 65.94 acres of land previously held by M/s Circar Paper Mills Ltd. (a company in liquidation) and purchased by M/s Jeevaka Kandasari Sugar Mills.
The Supreme Court addressed an appeal arising from a nearly 2.5-decade-old writ petition initially filed by the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) against the Union of India and defence establishments regarding interference with a developed colony’s land. The Allahabad High Court had previously dismissed the petition after collaborative efforts failed, erroneously
This civil appeal addressed whether a multi-story property subject to a gift deed should be classified as “industrial” or “commercial” for computing stamp duty under the Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1998. While the deed was registered on the basis of residential land valuation (which carries a higher stamp duty than industrial
This civil appeal arose from a multi-layered litigation originating from a partition suit filed way back in 1940. The core controversy centered around an execution proceeding initiated in 1979 concerning a property in Solapur, where the original decree-holder entered into a compromise and settlement with third-party purchasers (predecessors of the
