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September 09, 2025

Allocation Under Fuel Supply Agreements Is Plant-Wide, Not PPA-Specific: Supreme Court Upholds Pro Rata Apportionment of Coal and Compensation Orders by CERC and APTEL

By: sayum

“Coal allocation under the Fuel Supply Agreements is not PPA-wise, but for the entire generating station. No beneficiary can claim priority over firm or tapering coal linkage based on PPA...

September 08, 2025

Witness Protection Scheme Cannot Be Used as a Pretext to Deny Bail Cancellation When Accused Intimidates Witnesses: Supreme Court Slams Allahabad High Court's Template Orders

By: sayum

“Violation of Bail Conditions Is a Ground for Cancellation—Witness Protection Is Not a Substitute”, Supreme Court of India delivered a scathing judgment which has now become a landmark ruling on...

September 08, 2025

Not Arrested for Four Years? That Itself Is a Ground for Bail — Supreme Court Pulls Up Punjab & Haryana High Court for Cryptic Anticipatory Bail Order

By: sayum

“Why Should the High Court Ask Why Accused Was Not Arrested for Four Years? That Is a Ground to Grant Bail, Not a Question to Be Raised” — Supreme Court...

September 08, 2025

A Minor Child Is Not a Non-Earning Individual Merely Because He Doesn’t Earn Yet — Supreme Court Grants ₹35.90 Lakh Compensation to 8-Year-Old Amputee

By: sayum

“We Are Constrained to Observe That Appeals to High Court and Supreme Court Were Entirely Avoidable” — Supreme Court of India delivered a forceful and precedent-enforcing judgment, correcting what it...

September 07, 2025

Clubbed Recovery Without Proof of Conspiracy is Illegal: Supreme Court Sets Aside NDPS Conviction for Commercial Quantity

By: Deepak Kumar

“Suspicion, however strong, cannot take the place of proof”: Apex Court holds contraband quantities from two accused cannot be added without concrete evidence of common intention or conspiracy. Supreme Court...

September 05, 2025

No Causal Link Between Injury and Death: Supreme Court Rejects Compensation Claim Where Victim Died Five Months After Accident

By: sayum

Supreme Court upheld a High Court judgment that denied compensation to dependents of a deceased man under the Motor Vehicles Act, ruling that no proximate or direct causal connection existed...

September 05, 2025

Delayed FIR, Allegations Appear Motivated—Liberty Must Prevail: Supreme Court Grants Anticipatory Bail to Accused Godman in Sexual Assault Case

By: sayum

Supreme Court of India reversed the Bombay High Court’s denial of anticipatory bail to a self-proclaimed spiritual leader accused of rape and unnatural sex under Sections 376(1) and 377 IPC....

September 05, 2025

High Court Cannot Modify Bail While SLP Is Pending Before Supreme Court: Apex Court Stays Travel Orders in ₹100 Crore Fraud Case

By: sayum

Supreme Court of India passed a strong rebuke to the Kerala High Court for modifying the terms of anticipatory bail granted to Anitha R. Nair, accused in over 31 criminal...

September 05, 2025

Disability Is Medical, But Compensation Must Reflect Functional Loss: Supreme Court Affirms 50% Functional Disability Despite 90% Medical Certificate

By: sayum

In a detailed ruling Supreme Court emphasized that functional disability, not merely the medical percentage, must guide compensation in motor accident cases involving income loss. The appellant, a young graduate...

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