(361) THE DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER (HRD)-T, KARNATAKA POWER CORPORATION LIMITED Vs. SUGANA GOWDA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-11-2025 Service Law — Recruitment under Land Looser Scheme — Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) — High Court direction to 'forthwith recruit' Land Looser dependent as Trainee Grade-D — Modification by Supreme Court — Scheme/Clause 5.2 provides for training first, and then consideration for absorption upon satisfactory completion of training — High Court's direction modified to direct the Appellant to India Law Library Docid # 2436160
(362) RAMA SINGH Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Power to proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty of offence — Summoning of additional accused — Original accused omitted from charge-sheet after investigation despite being named in FIR — Trial court summoned original accused under Section 319 Cr.P.C. after recording statements of prosecution witnesses — High Court upheld summoning order — Supreme India Law Library Docid # 2436163
(363) M.C. MEHTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-11-2025 Environmental Law and Pollution Control — Air Quality in Delhi — Supreme Court's approach — Need for long-term and graded solutions to tackle high pollution levels in Delhi, balancing environmental concerns with developmental activities and livelihoods — Refusal to order a complete year-round ban on construction and demolition activities despite severity of pollution, recognizing impact on a large populace's livelihood and India Law Library Docid # 2436164
(364) SUMIT UPADHYAY Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-11-2025 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Section 94(2) — Determination of Age — Hierarchy of evidence — Ossification Test Report — Evidentiary Value — High Court erred in setting aside Juvenile Justice Board's finding of juvenility solely based on the Board's failure to strictly follow the evidence hierarchy India Law Library Docid # 2436166
(365) THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS Vs. RAJOLA JAGANNADHA REDDY AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Service Law — Compassionate Appointment — Land Displaced Persons — Policy — Andhra Pradesh G.O.Ms.No.98 of 1986 — Providing employment quota (50% of Junior Assistant/Typist equivalent posts and below) to displaced families/dependants whose lands were acquired for Major and Medium Irrigation & Power Projects — Initial condition of one-year limitation for application (from date of displacement) India Law Library Docid # 2436194
(366) GHULAM MOHAMMAD SHEIKH AND OTHERS Vs. GULZAR AHMAD SHEIKH AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 17-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 41 Rule 1 and 2 (Applicability) — Limitation Act, 1963 — Condonation of Delay — Appeal filed against order of Trial Court — Appellant failed to file appeal within limitation period — Appellate Court dismissed the application for condonation of delay and consequently the appeal — High Court held that the explanation tendered for delay must not be fanciful, concocted, vague, India Law Library Docid # 2436252
(367) SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 17-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Successive Bail Applications — Changed Circumstances — Mere rejection of an earlier bail application does not bar the filing of a fresh application if circumstances have changed post-rejection — Court entertaining a successive application must consider the reasons for the earlier rejection and record fresh grounds that persuade it to take a India Law Library Docid # 2436266
(368) DIWAN SINGH DIYOLIYA AND ANOTHER Vs. MADAN SINGH AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 9 Rule 13 — Setting aside ex parte decree — Sufficient Cause — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of Delay — Where the appellate court finds sufficient cause for the defendant’s non-appearance, attributing it to the death of their main counsel and a lack of knowledge of India Law Library Docid # 2436548
(369) METROPOLIS RESIDENT WELFARE ASSOCIATION Vs. REGISTRAR, FIRMS SOCIETIES AND CHITS AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Societies Registration Act, 1860 — Section 12-D — Functioning of Society — Membership Cap — Association Byelaws — Challenge to Registrar’s order directing removal of cap on maximum number of members and holding fresh elections — Where maximum membership was capped at 100 while 1600 persons had a stake and paid maintenance charges — Held: Cap on maximum number of members of a Society cannot India Law Library Docid # 2436549
(370) KULDEEP NANDRAJOG Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420 (Cheating), 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) — Regular Bail — Single set of allegations leading to multiplicity of FIRs — Applicant, a Director of a builder company, implicated in an FIR concerning a dispute arising from an agreement for land allotment and residential project development ('Santour City') — Agreement included clauses for India Law Library Docid # 2436550
(371) SHUKAL GUPTA Vs. EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION[DELHI HIGH COURT] 15-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 22 Rule 3 — Substitution of Legal Representatives (LRs) — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of Delay — Limitation — Application for substituting LRs must be filed within 90 days as per Article 120 of the Limitation Act, 1963 — Where LRs filed substitution application after a delay of over two years (871/819 days) based on alleged ignorance of India Law Library Docid # 2435973
(372) ARPIT KUMAR AGRAWAL Vs. SARIKA AGRAWAL[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i-a) (Cruelty) — Dissolution of Marriage — Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage — Long separation coupled with one spouse's admitted unwillingness to continue the marital relationship constitutes mental cruelty — Where the parties have lived separately for over eleven years (since May 2014) and the wife admits her unwillingness to resume the matrimonial bond and subsequently India Law Library Docid # 2435846
(373) KUMARIL HIRWANI Vs. VISHNU SOREN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency of funds) — Section 139 (Presumption in favour of holder) — Appeal against acquittal — Trial Court convicted accused for dishonour of cheque (Rs. 1,50,000) under Section 138 NI Act; Sessions Court acquitted him — High Court re-examined the basis of acquittal by Sessions Court — Requisite presumption under Section 139 arises India Law Library Docid # 2435847
(374) PAMESH ARORA Vs. U.T., CHANDIGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Susbtances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 21 and 29 — Arms Act, 1959 — Sections 25, 54, 59 — Bail — Possession of heroin (271 grams) — Grounds for granting bail — Release ordered taking into account the facts that the appellant was in custody for more than one year and nine months and a substantial number of witnesses had already been examined; co-accused already India Law Library Docid # 2435622
(375) DINESH KUMAR SACHDEVA Vs. ROHIT SACHDEVA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order XXI Rule 58 — Execution First Appeal — Partition Suit — Preliminary decree for partition — Inter se bidding — Joint owners (siblings) of property in equal shares (1/3rd each) — Property incapable of physical partition — Disposal of property via inter se bidding — Challenge to High Court order disposing of Execution Appeal on ground of offer matching — Where an offer India Law Library Docid # 2435452
(376) M/S A.S. MET CORP PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. THE REGISTRAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Writ Petition (Criminal) — Seeking registration of FIR and investigation into attempt to influence judicial outcome — Relief for criminal investigation based on disclosure in a judicial order of NCLAT, Chennai Bench — Issues raised are of vital public importance but deemed capable of India Law Library Docid # 2435455
(377) PRATIK JAIN Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Bail — Stage of investigation/Trial — Accused initially not named in FIR but later implicated in Final Report (Chargesheet) for offenses under Sections 318(4), 111, and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, based on allegations of facilitating the prime accused in operating "mule accounts" — When the final report is filed, the necessity India Law Library Docid # 2435459
(378) DR. ANITA Vs. INDRESH GOPAL KOHLI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13 — Cruelty/Desertion — Divorce Petition — Grant of divorce on ground of cruelty by High Court — Remittal for fresh consideration — High Court granted divorce based primarily on oral narrative of mental cruelty without determining crucial factual pleas of wife (appellant), specifically whether she was thrown out of matrimonial home or voluntarily deserted the husband (respondent) — High Court failed to address whether withdrawal of first India Law Library Docid # 2435921
(379) SRI. GANGADHAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959 (KCS Act, 1959) — Section 21(3) — Change of Delegate for Voting in Elections — Requirements — Section 21(3) requires a resolution for changing a nominated delegate to be passed by a two-thirds majority of members present and voting, and must include "substantial reasons" — Where the initial delegate (Respondent No.6) declined to represent the Society, this constitutes a India Law Library Docid # 2435923
(380) MR. GILBERT VAS AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 — Sections 128 & 135 — Mutation of Revenue Records — Decree of Civil Court — Compromise Final Decree for Partition — Obligation of Revenue Authorities — Section 128 mandates reporting acquisition of rights (including by partition/decree), while Section 135 requires revenue records to be amended in accordance with a civil court's declaration — A final compromise decree India Law Library Docid # 2435924