(161) RAJENDRA PRASAD MAHIPAL AND OTHERS Vs. NAND KISHORE AGARWAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 163-A — Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) — Compensation Award — Reversal by High Court — Refund of Compensation Amount — Principles of Equity — Where MACT awarded compensation under Section 163-A (₹1,90,000/-) which was received by claimants but subsequently set aside by High Court holding the application not maintainable, India Law Library Docid # 2436092
(162) C/M ZILA MAHILA SAMITI Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Societies Registration Act, 1860 — Societies in Uttar Pradesh — Governing Body Composition — Colonial Mindset — Challenge to composition of Zila Mahila Samiti, Bulandshahar, where bye-laws (amended) designated the District Magistrate's wife as President, sidelining elected members — Supreme Court notes that this structure reflects India Law Library Docid # 2436097
(163) CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATION BSNL Vs. KAMAL SHANKAR SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Industrial Disputes — Termination of Service — Reinstatement and Back Wages — Extreme Delay in Raising Dispute — Workman reinstated with 50% back wages by Labour Court after raising industrial dispute 13 years post-termination — High Court upheld award — Supreme Court, considering the workman's age (approx. 59 years and near superannuation) and delay in raising dispute, settled the matter by awarding a lump India Law Library Docid # 2436102
(164) KONKAN RAILWAY CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. S.D. MANOHARA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Service Law — Resignation — Withdrawal of Resignation — Review Petition — Konkan Railway Corporation (employer) challenged the judgment allowing employee's appeal based on two 'apparent errors': (i) Communication of resignation acceptance letter (dated 15.04.2014) to the employee on 16.04.2014, and (ii) Employee not reporting to duty on 19.05.2014 — Supreme Court held that the India Law Library Docid # 2436112
(165) HARISH Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Excise Act — Quashing of FIR — Second FIR on identical facts and occurrence — Principles of law — Where two FIRs (No. 126/2012 and No. 127/2012) were lodged on the same day for the same incident and under the same legal provisions, the lodging of the second FIR is an infraction of settled principles of law and an abuse of the process of India Law Library Docid # 2436138
(166) MRS. YEJJAPURAPU HEMA Vs. YEJJAPURAPU RAMANA[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce) — Cruelty (Mental and Physical) — Scope and Definition — Cruelty, whether physical or mental, is difficult to define precisely; it depends on the way of life, social, economic conditions, customs, and traditions of the parties — Causes warranting separation must be grave and weighty, showing an absolute impossibility for discharging marital India Law Library Docid # 2436181
(167) K.LAKSHMI NARASAIAH ACHARI Vs. KAMARI SIRISHA[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Family Law — Child Custody — Paramount Consideration of Welfare of Minor — Courts deciding child custody disputes (under Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 or Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956) must prioritize the interest and welfare of the minor child as paramount — It is not the superior right of either parent that governs the adjudication — Relevant factors include the child's desire, presence of a India Law Library Docid # 2436182
(168) DEEPANKAR TIKEDAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Criminal Law — Sentencing — Reduction of Sentence — Conviction under Section 376(3) IPC and Section 6 POCSO Act — Sentence of life imprisonment until natural death confirmed by High Court — Factors considered for modification of sentence by Supreme Court: grievous nature of offence (minor victim aged 15-16 years), appellant accepting conviction, lack of prior criminal antecedents, and India Law Library Docid # 2436283
(169) DR. MAHENDRA KUSHWAHA Vs. POOJA KUSHWAHA[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 10 (Judicial Separation) and Section 13(1)(ia) (Cruelty) — Grounds for Judicial Separation — Husband filed for judicial separation alleging cruelty based on suppression of wife's pre-marital disease (Epilepsy/seizures) and subsequent false allegations of conspiracy against him and his mother; Trial Court dismissed the application — Held, failure to disclose suffering from seizures/Epilepsy prior to marriage, coupled with baseless allegations (that India Law Library Docid # 2436388
(170) PRABHAT KISHORE Vs. SMT. RUKMANI DEVI[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972) — Section 21(1)(a) — Release Application — Amendment of Pleadings — Bona fide requirement — Tenant (Petitioner) sought amendment to written statement to introduce pleadings concerning Landlord's (Respondent's) subsequent conduct, including sale deeds and dealings with properties India Law Library Docid # 2436512
(171) PANCHAL RANJAN Vs. SMT. SHIVANI[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Ex Parte Maintenance Order — Recall of Ex Parte Order — Section 126(2) — Grounds for ‘Sufficient Cause’ — Husband working as Constable (Fire) with CISF, posted outside State (Tamil Nadu) — Non-appearance on first date (05.10.2023) due to alleged non-sanction of required leave — Proceeding ex parte and subsequent maintenance order India Law Library Docid # 2436513
(172) RASHIDA Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND & OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 — Sections 8(1)(q), 8(5), and 138(1)(d)(iii) — Disqualification of Member, Gram Panchayat on grounds of educational qualification — Where a Member of Gram Panchayat filed nomination based on an affidavit and transfer certificate asserting passing of 8th Standard from a specific school, which subsequently proved to be fake, the Member is rightly disqualified India Law Library Docid # 2436514
(173) NATHU SINGH SODHA Vs. ASHOK NARUKA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Upon perusal of the case file and the impugned order, this Court finds that the petitioner had issued the cheque in question, which was returned unpaid due to insufficient funds in his account. The petitioner is facing trial for the offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act before the learned trial Court. An application was filed by the petitioner seeking referral of the cheque to the State Forensic Science Laboratory, Rajasthan for comparison of handwriting, on the ground that India Law Library Docid # 2436625
(174) SAUKAR SINGH RAWAT Vs. DIRECTOR, SECONDARY EDUCATION AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 25-11-2025 Service Law — Seniority — Challenge to Seniority List — Availability of alternate remedy — Jurisdiction of Writ Court — Where determination of seniority by the Committee of Management is appealable before the Regional Additional Director of Education, the proper course for the aggrieved party is to approach the appellate authority. India Law Library Docid # 2436637
(175) V. SAHAYA ANTONY Vs. VASUKI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 25-11-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Specific Performance of Agreement of Sale — Partial Enforcement — Agreement executed by one co-owner (mother/First Defendant) regarding entire property, part of which belonged to another co-owner (daughter/Second Defendant) who was not party to agreement — Agreement can be enforced only for the share of the executant co-owner — Specific performance granted only for 16.5 cents India Law Library Docid # 2436656
(176) T. PERUMAL NADAR (DIED) THR. LRS. Vs. P. RAJENDRA CHORIDA AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 25-11-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 16(c) — Suit for specific performance of agreement of sale — Readiness and willingness of purchaser (Plaintiff) — Essential condition — Continuous readiness and willingness from date of execution until date of decree must be proved — Mere pleading is insufficient; requires proof of having means/funds (availability of consideration) and willingness to perform — Conduct of India Law Library Docid # 2436657
(177) M. PREMKUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. P. MURUGAN AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 25-11-2025 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 8 — Nature of property inherited by son from father after 1956 — Absolute property vs. Ancestral/Coparcenary property — Property that was the self-acquired property of the grandfather (Pitchiah) and was inherited by his son (1st defendant) upon his death after 1956 devolves under Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act — Such property becomes the absolute property of the son (1st India Law Library Docid # 2436658
(178) VINOD KUMAR BHATIA Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 24-11-2025 Companies Act, 1956 — Section 630 — Wrongful withholding of company property by employee/ex-employee — Conviction for failure to vacate company quarter post-retirement — Scope of High Court's revisional jurisdiction — High Court, while exercising revisional jurisdiction, must assess correctness, legality, and propriety of findings below (concurrent findings of ASJ and ACMM) and should not re-appreciate evidence or interfere unless orders are wholly unreasonable or lead to India Law Library Docid # 2435956
(179) ENVITECH CONSULTANTS INDIA PVT LTD Vs. RUDRABHISHEK ENTERPRISES LIMITED AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 24-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 (a) and (d) — Rejection of Plaint — Applicable principles — Power to reject a plaint is a drastic one and conditions must be strictly adhered to — Court must look only at the averments in the plaint and documents annexed; defendant’s defense or arguments in the application are irrelevant — Allegations in the plaint must be taken as correct for deciding the India Law Library Docid # 2435957
(180) SH. GAURAV KHATTAR Vs. SH. VIRENDER AGGARWAL[DELHI HIGH COURT] 24-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 114 read with Order XLVII Rule 1 — Review Petition — Grounds for Review — Alleged error apparent on the face of the record and discovery of new and important evidence — Standard for 'new and important evidence' (Aadhar Card and Bank Passbook showing different address) — Where documents (proof of address) claimed to be new evidence were at all times India Law Library Docid # 2435958