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Indian Air Force — Short Service Commission Officers (SSCOs) — Reinstatement and consideration for Permanent Commission (PC) — Dismissal of appeal challenging AFT order — Delay in approaching legal forum. Short Service Commission Women Officers (SSCWOs) — Eligibility for Permanent Commission (PC) and pensionary benefits — Applicability of Air Force Human Resource Policy — Refusal of benefits due to not meeting minimum average Annual Confidential Report (ACR) grading of 6.5 — Court’s refusal to grant benefits where minimum criteria not met and no demonstrated mitigating circumstances exist compared to other successful applicants. Air Force Act, 1950 — Short Service Commission Women Officers (SSCWOs) — Permanent Commission (PC) — Denial of PC — Assessment of performance and eligibility — HRP 01/2019 — Minimum Performance Criteria — ACR gradings — Mandatory In-Service Courses (MISCs) — Categorisation — Arbitrariness — Hurried implementation — Inadequate opportunity to meet criteria — Pregnancy — Deemed qualifying service for pension — One-time measure. Army Act, 1950 — Short Service Commission Officers (SSCOs) — Permanent Commission (PC) — Annual Vacancy Cap — The Supreme Court examined the annual cap of 250 vacancies for PC, finding it not to be an immutable rule and that it had been breached historically for exigencies of service and policy changes, thus it should not act as an absolute bar to corrective relief, especially when the method of assessment was found to be unfair. Service Law — Indian Navy — Short Service Commission Officers (SSCOs) — Grant of Permanent Commission (PC) — Assessment of suitability for PC — Whether casual grading of ACRs and “Not Recommended for PC” endorsements prejudiced officers’ chances of PC — Held yes, as officers were considered ineligible for PC at the time of their ACRs, leading to a distorted assessment of their inter se merit for PC — This circularity transformed past ineligibility into deemed unsuitability for career progression, creating an uneven playing field.

Acquittal – Identity of the named accused as assailants of the deceased has not been established in the Court beyond a reasonable doubt – Then what remains is the evidence of the alleged recovery of the weapons of assault at the instance of the accused – Conviction cannot be sustained only on the basis of the alleged recovery

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH RADHEY SHYAM AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN — Respondent ( Before : Abhay S. Oka and Rajesh Bindal, JJ. ) Criminal…

Kerala Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Facilitation Act, 2019 – Section 10 – Overriding effect – Once consent is taken from the Pollution Control Board, the necessity for reading down Section 10 of the Kerala MSME Act, for the purpose of protecting the environment, does not arise.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH JOLLY GEORGE AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. GEORGE ELIAS AND ASSOCIATES AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : V. Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal, JJ.…

Vedanta University case – Land Acquisition Act, 1894 – Section 4(1) and 6 – Acquisition of lands – it is required to be noted that the lands to be acquired are agricultural lands belonging to 6000 families and their only source of livelihood is on the agricultural lands, which cannot be compensated in terms of money, therefore, the proposal made now has to be rejected outright.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH ANIL AGARWAL FOUNDATION ETC. ETC. — Appellant Vs. STATE OF ORISSA AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : M.R. Shah And Krishna Murari, JJ.…

Appellants have been admitted to be owner of the property being Khasra No. 4833 the findings recorded by the lower Appellate Court as well as the High Court are perverse if considered in the light of two material documents which are in the form of admission of respondents themselves regarding the identity of the property in their possession High court set aside

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH MURTI SHRI DURGA BHAWANI (HETUWALI) TRUST AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. SH. DIWAN CHAND (DEAD) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before :…

Accused-appellant doing the work of a tailoring – Weapon used is a scissors which is not a normal weapon of offence in case there is any intention to cause death – With the evidence on record and the kind of weapon used, the offence will not fall within Section 307 IPC – 326 IPC made out – Already undergone

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH PANCHRAM — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Abhay S. Oka and Rajesh Bindal, JJ. ) Criminal…

SARFESAI Act, 2002 – Section 13(2) – If someone has been called upon to participate in the bidding process, the facts must be made clear to the parties for the reason that there is always a high variance between market realizable value and the distress value of the mortgaged property when put to public auction under the provisions of the Act, 2002.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH MOHD. SHARIQ — Appellant Vs. PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Ajay Rastogi and Bela M. Trivedi, JJ. ) Civil…

RSS Route Marches in the State of Tamil Nadu – Permission to RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is granted – Special Leave Petition against the order of the Division Bench of Madras High Court directing the State Police to grant permission to RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is dismissed.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH K. PHANINDRA REDDY, I.A.S. AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. G. SUBRAMANIAN — Respondent ( Before : V. Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal, JJ. ) Special…

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