The Supreme Court has told the Delhi authorities that its suo motu case on sexual offences in the capital is about prevention and about making every woman in the city feel safe, and not merely about action after a crime has been committed. New Delhi: Hearing the suo motu case registered after a series of […]
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of a successful bidder in an IBC liquidation auction that did not pay the balance price within 90 days, upholding the NCLAT’s order affirming forfeiture of its earnest money and the other sums it paid, on the strength of the forfeiture clause in the e-auction notice.
In its suo motu case on recent sexual offences in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court has directed Delhi authorities to complete, within four weeks, a police survey of vulnerable locations and an audit of lighting and CCTV, called for detailed status reports on women’s safety mechanisms, and sought an affidavit from the Delhi High Court on fast track and POCSO courts.
The Supreme Court has clarified that the grievousness of an injury, or its capacity to cause death, is not a necessary ingredient of the offence of attempt to murder under Section 307 IPC; what the section requires is an act done with the intention or knowledge that it could cause death. Even so, the Court declined to add a Section 307 charge in an assault case, holding that no such intention had been alleged at any stage and that the prayer to alter the charge came too late.
The Supreme Court has stayed the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s judgment striking down Section 147A of the Income Tax Act as unconstitutional, on the Union’s plea, but on the condition that the assessment proceedings shall not proceed further until the appeal is finally decided. The provision, inserted retrospectively to clarify that a jurisdictional officer can conduct faceless-era reassessment, will be finally heard on December 3, 2026.
The former NSE Managing Director argued that officers of a private company cannot be public servants under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Supreme Court declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court’s rejection of that argument, holding that whether she was discharging a public duty is a question she can raise at trial.
In one of the first Supreme Court readings of Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Court quashed a “false promise of marriage” FIR, holding that the new offence carries the same rigour as the old law: the promise must have been made with no intention of ever fulfilling it. New Delhi: The Supreme […]
The Supreme Court held that the extended limitation under Section 11A cannot be invoked where facts were already known to the Excise Department, as an omission is not wilful suppression. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that the Central Excise Department cannot invoke the extended period of limitation to raise a duty demand where […]
The Supreme Court cancelled anticipatory bail granted to three police officers accused of extorting a railway passenger, observing that unlawful conduct by law enforcers undermines public confidence in the justice system and warrants thorough investigation into allegations of abuse of official authority.
