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September 25, 2025

No Professional Misconduct If Advocate Merely Identifies Signatures in Consent Terms or Affidavits: Supreme Court Quashes Frivolous Disciplinary Proceedings by Bar Council

By: sayum

"The existence of a jural relationship between the complainant and the advocate concerned is a precondition for the invocation of disciplinary jurisdiction under Section 35 of the Advocates Act" —...

September 25, 2025

Builder Charged 18% Interest from Buyer, But Wanted to Refund with Only 9%—Not Fair: Supreme Court Upholds Parity, Orders Refund With 18% Interest

By: sayum

“Equity and fairness demand that the builder be put to the same rigours for delay, as it imposes on the buyer for default,” declared the Supreme Court on 24 September...

September 25, 2025

Civil Disputes Masquerading as Criminal Cases Must Be Nipped in the Bud: Supreme Court Quashes FIR Alleging Cheating and Forgery in Loan Transaction

By: sayum

In a scathing indictment of the misuse of criminal law for settling civil scores, the Supreme Court of India on 24 September 2025 quashed a 22-year-old criminal case arising from...

September 25, 2025

Sweeping Allegations Without Specifics Cannot Sustain Prosecution Under Section 498A IPC: Supreme Court Quashes FIR Against Brother-in-Law in Dowry Case

By: sayum

In a significant judgment reaffirming judicial caution against vague and generalised accusations in matrimonial disputes, the Supreme Court of India on 24 September 2025 quashed an FIR lodged under Sections...

September 25, 2025

Failure to Perform a Contract Is Not Cheating or Breach of Trust: Supreme Court Quashes 8-Year-Old FIR Terming It Civil Dispute in Criminal Garb

By: sayum

In a significant reiteration of the boundaries between civil and criminal law, the Supreme Court on 24 September 2025 held that mere failure to honour a sale agreement does not...

September 25, 2025

Magistrate Must Rehear Victim’s Plea for Further Probe Where Investigation Appears Superficial: Calcutta High Court Revives Demand for Probe into Overseas Job Fraud

By: sayum

“When investigation is perfunctory and lacks effort to trace the main accused, Magistrate must reconsider the plea for further investigation” — Calcutta HC -Calcutta High Court directed a fresh hearing...

September 24, 2025

Specific Performance is Equitable and Discretionary — But Not When Buyer Shows Complete Readiness: Kerala High Court

By: sayum

“When the plaintiff has paid 87% of the sale price within the agreed time and shows no delay or default, denying specific performance would cause irreparable injustice” — Justice C....

September 24, 2025

21 Years After Opium Possession Case, Court Reduces Sentence to Time Already Served: Punjab & Haryana High Court Applies Reformative Justice in 2004 NDPS Case

By: sayum

“The right to speedy and expeditious trial is one of the most valuable and cherished rights guaranteed under the Constitution” — P&H High Court Punjab and Haryana High Court granted major...

September 24, 2025

Second Letters of Administration Without Revoking Prior Grant Is a Nullity in Law: Bombay High Court Quashes Fraudulent Will, Imposes ₹25 Lakh Costs and Orders Criminal Prosecution

By: sayum

In a landmark decision Bombay High Court held that a second Letters of Administration based on an allegedly forged Will is void ab initio, where a prior Will has already...

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