(301) HARMEET SINGH @ YASHMIT AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Bail — Cyber Fraud Case — Appellants accused of wide-ranging cyber fraud involving significant monetary loss routed through multiple 'mule accounts' facilitated from within a bank — Appellants in custody for over six months — Charge sheet filed — Evidence essentially documentary and electronic (seized) — Possibility of tampering evidence deemed unlikely — Witnesses primarily bank officers and victims, unlikely to India Law Library Docid # 2436141
(302) MOHAMMAD JAFAR Vs. STATE OF UP[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Suspension of Sentence — Life Imprisonment — Appeal Pending — Supreme Court earlier declined to suspend a murder convict's life sentence despite 11 years served due to the gravity of the double murder, but expedited the appeal before the High Court — High Court subsequently India Law Library Docid # 2436159
(303) SONTI LAKSHMI KAMALA & 6 OTHERS AND OTHERS Vs. SONTI SIVANANDA RAO[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Interference with Findings of Fact — High Court cannot ordinarily interfere with findings of fact by the First Appellate Court unless such findings are erroneous, contrary to law, based on inadmissible evidence, or without evidence — The present case involved the misconstruction/misinterpretation of a prior decree leading to a India Law Library Docid # 2436189
(304) THE STATE OF AP IRRIGATION AND CAD (R AND R) DEPT AND OTHERS Vs. SK MOD RAFI AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) — Employment for Displaced Persons — G.O.Ms.No.98, Irrigation (Proj.Wing) Dept., dated 15.04.1986 — Scope and Limitation Period — G.O.Ms.No.98 provides jobs to displaced persons/dependants (son/daughter/spouse) where not more than 50% of vacancies are filled on a preferential basis, subject to reservations, provided there is no other earning member India Law Library Docid # 2436190
(305) SBI GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. DHARMENDRA UIKEY AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(2) (as amended) — Appeal against Claims Tribunal Award — Statutory Bar — Appeals are barred if the amount in dispute is less than Rupees One Lakh (enhanced from Rupees Ten Thousand by Amendment Act of 2019) — Where statutory provisions prohibit a statutory appeal India Law Library Docid # 2436394
(306) RAM NIVAS Vs. THE STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Habeas Corpus — Scope and Maintainability — Detention pursuant to judicial remand — A writ of Habeas Corpus is not maintainable to challenge the detention of an accused in a criminal case registered against him, especially when the detention is pursuant to judicial remand and bail applications have been considered and dismissed by competent courts — Detention under judicial India Law Library Docid # 2436395
(307) PURWESH DHANDE Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (Act of 2016) — Section 34 (Reservation) and Section 58 (Procedure for certification) — Madhya Pradesh Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 (Rules of 2017) — Rule 28 (Issuance of Disability Certificate) and Rule 29 (Certificate issued to be generally valid for all purposes) — Reservation in employment for persons with benchmark disabilities. India Law Library Docid # 2436396
(308) SAJID SHAH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 19-11-2025 Criminal Law — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302 (Murder) — Conviction based solely on inconsistent dying declarations — Criteria for relying on dying declaration outlined (citing P.V. Radhkrishna vs. State of Karnataka and Paniben (Smt.) vs. State of Gujarat) — Court must ensure declaration is true, voluntary, not tutored, and consistent; rule of corroboration is one of prudence — When multiple dying declarations exist, if the earliest version is natural and consistent with medical India Law Library Docid # 2436397
(309) RAJU THAPA Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Service Law — Termination based on Criminal Conviction — Subsequent Acquittal — Effect of Acquittal on Termination — Where an employee's services are terminated solely based on a criminal conviction, and that conviction is subsequently set aside (acquittal), the foundation of the termination order vanishes and the termination cannot be sustained in law; the employee is entitled to reinstatement. India Law Library Docid # 2436553
(310) SRI CHANDRA SINGH Vs. ADDITIONAL CHIEF REVENUE COMMISSIONER AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 (Act, 1950) — Section 331 — Scope of Second Appeal — Applicability of amended Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) — Section 331 of the Act, 1950, which provides for an appeal on "one or more of the grounds specified in Section 100 CPC," constitutes 'legislation by incorporation' (incorporating the then-existing grounds of Section 100 India Law Library Docid # 2436554
(311) PRIYANK CHAUHAN Vs. SMT. VINITA CHAUHAN[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) (Cruelty) — Mental Cruelty — Baseless or Reckless Allegations — Unsubstantiated and defamatory allegations of illicit relationships or infidelity made by one spouse against the other constitute grave mental cruelty, causing mental agony and loss of reputation — Continuous and unfounded accusations render it impossible for the aggrieved spouse to cohabit and justify India Law Library Docid # 2436555
(312) GHANSHYAM GUPTA ALIAS GHANSHYAM VAISH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder (Strangulation) — Circumstantial Evidence — Last Seen Theory — Motive — The case against the appellant (father) for the murder of his daughter (deceased) rested on circumstantial evidence, including the deceased being last seen with the appellant in a rented room and overwhelming evidence suggesting homicidal death by strangulation. India Law Library Docid # 2436556
(313) M/S. SRI SARASWATHI BUS SERVICE AND OTHERS Vs. M. CIBIRAJ AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Hindu Law — Joint Family Property — Presumption of Jointness — Properties in the name of male members of a joint family enjoying sufficient ancestral nucleus are presumed to be joint family properties, shifting the burden to the party claiming them as self-acquired — No such presumption exists for properties standing in the name of female members; the party claiming them as joint family property must specifically plead and prove it — Where the evidence shows properties were acquired in the wife' India Law Library Docid # 2436742
(314) JEYARAJ AND OTHERS Vs. A. STALIN AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 19-11-2025 Hindu Law — Marriage — Validity of Second Marriage — Customary Divorce — When a second marriage is performed in 1961 during the subsistence of the first marriage, it is inherently void unless a valid customary divorce is established between the first husband and wife prior to the second marriage — The burden of proving customary divorce lay upon the defendants (seeking to uphold the second marriage) — Where the India Law Library Docid # 2436743
(315) COMMISSIONER OF LAND ADMINISTRATION, EZHILAGAM AND OTHERS Vs. R. MUNIYANDI @ CHANDRAN[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Tamil Nadu Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (Act XXVI of 1948) — Section 7(c) — Powers of Control of Board of Revenue (now Commissioner of Land Administration) — Suo-motu revisionary power — Scope — Section 7(c) empowers the Commissioner of Land Administration to cancel or revise orders of a Settlement Officer (including Assistant Settlement Officer) except those orders where an appeal lies to the Tribunal — Where the Assistant Settlement Officer grants patta under India Law Library Docid # 2436744
(316) R. KARTHIKEYAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Service Law — Seniority and Promotion — Sub Inspector of Police (SIP) — Challenge to promotion of batchmates and draft seniority list — SIP recruitment under three categories: Law & Order (Category I), Armed Reserve (Category II), and Tamil Nadu Special Police (Category III) based on marks, preference, and communal rotation — Petitioners selected in Categories II and III, subsequently converted to Category I on India Law Library Docid # 2436745
(317) DR. LOKESH B.H. AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 18-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 498A — Applicability — Whether applicable only to legally valid marriages — Held, the term “husband” must receive a purposive and expansive construction consistent with the legislative intent to protect women from cruelty — Section 498A is not confined to legally valid marriages but extends to relationships recognized as void, voidable, or in the nature of marriage (live-in India Law Library Docid # 2435922
(318) CONFEDERATION OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS OF INDIA (CREDAI) Vs. VANASHAKTI AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Review Petition — Grounds for Judicial Review — Recall of Judgment (JUR) dated 16th May 2025 (Vanashakti v. Union of India) — Judgment based on precedents (Common Cause, Alembic, Electrosteel) not considered in entirety — Failure of JUR to notice crucial paragraphs in preceding judgments which India Law Library Docid # 2435408
(319) SHRI DIGANT Vs. M/S. P.D.T. TRADING CO. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Scope of Supervisory Jurisdiction — High Court's jurisdiction under Article 227 is to be used sparingly, primarily for keeping subordinate courts within jurisdictional bounds, and not for correcting mere errors — Interference is warranted only in cases of grave injustice, failure of justice, assumption of jurisdiction not possessed, failure to exercise jurisdiction resulting in India Law Library Docid # 2435871
(320) ASHOK S/O VITTHALRAO JAGTAP Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-11-2025 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Compensation — Enhancement — Principle of Parity — Where lands are acquired for setting up an Industrial Area under the Maharashtra Industrial Development Act, 1961, and claimants' appeals challenging the compensation quantum were dismissed by the High Court — If other similarly situated landowners' appeals against the same common judgment were allowed by the India Law Library Docid # 2435872