Keeping Pace with Legal Change
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, upholding the Karnataka High Court’s ruling. The Court reiterated that insurance companies are not liable to pay compensation when the accident is caused by the deceased’s own rash and negligent driving
On July 2, 2025, the Supreme Court of India delivered a significant judgment clarifying that legal heirs of a driver who dies due to his own rash and negligent driving are not entitled to compensation from insurance companies under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
The Supreme Court on June 30, 2025, directed Lalit Modi to civil courts for his ₹10.65 crore claim against BCCI. Upholding the Bombay High Court, the ruling clarified BCCI is not a “State” for all writ purposes, emphasizing that financial disputes are for civil remedies.
In this article, the author focuses on the decision of the Supreme Court in a Special Leave Petition where conviction of a public servant was not stayed under Prevention of Corruption Act. It explores the reasoning of the Court in opposing convictions that are stayed with respect to cases in which the charges against a public servant relate to corruption, strengthening the rule of the courts and citing the principles that apply of accountability and good citizenship in public service. It discusses the actual background, the legal provisions at stake, and the underlying facts brought to request by the Court.
The Supreme Court of India in a cheating case has stayed criminal charges against Anupam Mittal, founder of Shaadi.com. The intervention of the apex court is relief enough in a case that raised the eyebrows of the masses and in the legal circles.
This article is an abstract of a Supreme Court case based on which the liberty of an individual had to be delayed due to a minor technicality in a release order. It reviews the vigorous reproach of such developments expressed in the judgment of the Aglo/Buhari case: the principle of substance over form in the judicial order, and strong consequences for the protection of the fundamental rights. The case stresses the importance of the judiciary in aspects of timely execution of orders of release and responsibility for negligence of duty.
The Supreme Court is hearing an important legal issue which is pressed out because of the arrest of Pankaj Bansal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Karnataka states that the ED is only liable to give reasons for its arrest in written form prospectively as held by the Supreme Court in Pankaj Bansal v. Military of India. This might influence many current probes that are going on under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Much of the world has become spellbound and mesmerized, and gone gaga over the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the…
This paper will analyse a ruling of the Supreme Court that was given against a ruling of the High Court in a case that concerned cancellation of a government tender. It notes how the Court has attached importance to issues of public interest, administrative discretion and little judicial review in contractual circumstances, particularly in the event of the unavailability of mala fides.
Advocate Chandra Sen Yadav has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging its May 20 judgment reinstating a mandatory three-year legal practice requirement for civil judge (junior division) exams. The petition argues this rule violates Articles 14 (equality) and 16 (equal opportunity in public employment) of the Indian Constitution, disproportionately excluding recent graduates who prepared under prior eligibility criteria.
