(41) LAXMIKANT SHARMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Termination of Contractual Service — Qualifications — Interpretation of Educational Qualifications — Advertisement requiring “Postgraduate degree in Statistics” — Appellant holding M.Com. degree with Business Statistics and Indian Economic Statistics as principal subjects — Where no Government university offers a degree exclusively titled "Postgraduate degree in India Law Library Docid # 2436314
(42) ROCKY Vs. STATE OF TELANGANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Sections 420 (Cheating), 344 (Wrongful confinement for ten or more days), and 506 (Criminal intimidation) — Scope of quashing power: Quashing under Section 482 CrPC must be exercised sparingly, with circumspection, and only in exceptional India Law Library Docid # 2436315
(43) PRAKASH SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Essential Qualifications — Draughtsman Examination, 2023 — Challenge to selection result — Urban Development Department — Qualification prescribed: Intermediate (10+2) and Diploma/ITI Certificate in the "concerned Trade" — Interpretation of "concerned Trade" — The term "concerned Trade" in the context of Draughtsman post in the Urban India Law Library Docid # 2436526
(44) MUKUT DAS Vs. THE ASSAM POWER GENERATION CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Superannuation and Pension — Pay Revision — Eligibility — Assam State Electricity Board and its Successor Companies Revised Pay Rules, 2017 — Interpretation of "in service on 31st March 2016" — Employees retiring on 31.03.2016 by virtue of Fundamental Rule 56(a) (FR 56(a)) are entitled to the benefit of pay revision effective from 31.03.2016 as they were 'in service' on that date. (Paras India Law Library Docid # 2436529
(45) M/S.KRK EDUCATION TRUST REP. BY ITS MANAGING TRUSTEE MR.K.R.ILANGHOVAN Vs. MR. D. PREM, PROPRIETOR, M/S.D SQUARE, TIRUCHIRAPALLI[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Setting aside/Modification of Arbitral Award — Scope of judicial intervention — High Court cannot sit in appeal over the arbitral award and interfere with findings that are based on appreciation of evidence, unless there is perversity or patent illegality — Arbitral Tribunal's finding regarding reduction in construction rate for ground and first floors India Law Library Docid # 2436679
(46) BAL KUMAR PATEL @ RAJ KUMAR Vs. STATE OF U.P[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 321 — Withdrawal from prosecution — Requirement of High Court permission for withdrawal of cases against sitting or former MPs/MLAs — Following Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v. Union of India — High Court must exercise judicial mind and give a reasoned order when considering an application for permission to withdraw prosecution against India Law Library Docid # 2436212
(47) MISSION ACCESSIBILITY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 21 — Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPwD Act) — Substantive Equality and Inclusion — Scope and Spirit — The measure of a just society demands the removal of barriers for all citizens to realize their potential, transforming formal equality into substantive inclusion — Constitutional vision requires every person, regardless of physical or India Law Library Docid # 2436213
(48) ARFAZ MEHBOOB TAK Vs. UNION OF INDIA, THROUGH SUB-INSPECTOR NARCOTICS CONTROL BUREAU, JAMMU ZONAL UNIT, JAMMU AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 03-12-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Section 37 — Grant of Bail — Successive Bail Application — Commercial Quantity — Financing Illicit Traffic (Section 27A) — Rigors of Section 37 — The existence of 'reasonable grounds' to believe the accused is guilty, which bars bail under Section 37, must be inferred from facts and circumstances, specifically the nature of evidence, India Law Library Docid # 2436258
(49) DEVENDRA JOSHI UNSOUND MIND THROUGH MOTHER SMT. JAYSHREE Vs. CHOLAMANDALAM M.S. GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 03-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Motor Accident Claim — Proof of involvement of insured vehicle — Standard of Proof — Claims Tribunal dismissed claim petitions, finding the involvement of the insured vehicle (a tractor-tanker) in the accident (which involved a stationary vehicle without signage) was not proved, citing delay in FIR (lodged on 11.08.2010 for accident on 14.05.2010) and unreliability of India Law Library Docid # 2436287
(50) SACHIN SISODIYA Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 03-12-2025 Public Interest Litigation (PIL) — Maintainability and Abuse of Process — A PIL seeking registration of an FIR against a Police Officer (Respondent No. 5) was dismissed as not genuine, constituting an abuse of process — The Court noted that a prior PIL seeking similar relief for the same incident, filed on behalf of the victim (Respondent No. 6), was withdrawn after the victim himself had approached the Court India Law Library Docid # 2436288
(51) NATIONAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY OF INDIA Vs. BALKAR SINGH AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 03-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Challenge to Arbitral Award — Scope of Judicial Review — Patent Illegality — An arbitral award that suffers from patent illegality or perversity, or conflicts with the public policy of India, remains unsustainable and is liable to be set aside under Sections 34 and 37 — Patent illegality arises when the Arbitral Tribunal blatantly disregards the express India Law Library Docid # 2436524
(52) KHUSBOO SINGH Vs. SHRI SANDEEP KUMAR[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 03-12-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i-a) (Cruelty) — Divorce — What constitutes Cruelty — Making unsubstantiated and indecent defamatory allegations against spouse or their relatives, including accusations of extra-marital relations and false allegations of serious criminal offences (such as rape and dowry harassment), constitutes mental cruelty sufficient for dissolution of marriage — Where appellant India Law Library Docid # 2436525
(53) ABHISHEK GUPTA Vs. DINESH KUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 03-12-2025 Allahabad High Court Rules, 1952 — Chapter 8 Rule 5 — Special Appeal — Maintainability — Bar created by Rule 5 against Special Appeals from Single Judge orders in Article 226/227 petitions must yield to foundational principles of natural justice where a non-party to the writ petition is adversely affected — An aggrieved person whose interests are prejudicially affected by an order of a Single Judge in a India Law Library Docid # 2436528
(54) ROUSANARA BEGUM Vs. S.K. SALAHUDDIN @ SK SALAUDDIN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 — Section 3(1)(d) — Right to property given at marriage — Divorced Muslim Woman — The Act allows a divorced woman to claim all properties given to her before, at the time of, or after marriage by her relatives, friends, the husband, or his relatives/friends — The objective of the Act is to secure the financial protection and dignity of a Muslim India Law Library Docid # 2436175
(55) COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, CENTRAL EXCISE & SERVICE TAX, RAJKOT Vs. NARSIBHAI KARAMSIBHAI GAJERA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 2(f) (prior to amendment by Act 18 of 2017) — Manufacture — Exemption Notification No.5/98-CE, Entry No.106 — Eligibility for exemption — Manufacture includes series of processes; entire chain of activities must be considered — Where multiple units undertake distinct processes which are 'integrally connected' and form a 'continuous chain' to convert raw material (grey India Law Library Docid # 2436176
(56) TUHIN KUMAR BISWAS @ BUMBA Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 227 — Discharge of Accused — Principles for deciding discharge application — Standard of proof for framing charge — The Court, at the stage of framing charge, must sift the evidence to determine if there is a "sufficient ground for proceeding"; a prima facie case must be established — If two views are possible and one gives rise to "suspicion only, as distinguished India Law Library Docid # 2436177
(57) JYOTI BUILDERS Vs. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 — Section 14(1) — Mandamus to acquire land — Power of State Government to acquire land for Slum Rehabilitation Scheme — Preferential Right of Owner — The power of the State Government to acquire land under Section 14 read with Section 3D(c)(i) of the Slum Act is subject to the preferential right of the owner to redevelop India Law Library Docid # 2436178
(58) KOTHURI NARASIMHARAO Vs. KONDABALU RATTAIAH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope of Interference — High Court cannot interfere with concurrent findings of fact by the First Appellate Court unless such findings are erroneous, contrary to mandatory law, settled legal position by the Apex Court, based on inadmissible evidence, or without any evidence — The power of the High Court in second appeal is limited to India Law Library Docid # 2436180
(59) GHULAM HASSAN SHAH Vs. JAMMU & KASHMIR BANK LIMITED AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 02-12-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Sections 13(2), 14, 31 — Challenge to SARFAESI proceedings — Secured asset status — Petitioner repeatedly challenging Bank’s action (after loan default and NPA declaration) alleging secured asset was non-amenable agricultural land (Section 31) and later claiming mistaken identity of sealed India Law Library Docid # 2436235
(60) VENKATESH AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE REPRESENTED BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 326 — Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means — Tamil Nadu Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 1992 (TNPPDL Act) — Section 3(1) — Mischief to public property — Conviction affirmed but sentence reduced — Appellants convicted for five years rigorous imprisonment under S. 326 IPC and two years under S. 3(1) of TNPPDL India Law Library Docid # 2436281