(441) ZAIN ELECTRICALS AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) — Mootness — Allotment of Contract — Appeal challenging composite e-NITs dismissed as infructuous because contracts were already allotted to successful bidders and appellants failed to challenge the allotment — However, appeal heard on merits due to appellants' insistence on adjudication of underlying legal issues. India Law Library Docid # 2436296
(442) ABDUL AZIZ HAFIZ AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Letters Patent Appeal — Against dismissal of writ petition challenging Financial Commissioner’s order — Scope of interference — High Court affirming the Writ Court's dismissal, holding that the Financial Commissioner rightly exercised supervisory powers to set aside illegal and void ab initio mutations that divested a lawful heir of her India Law Library Docid # 2436297
(443) RAKESH PRASAD UNIYAL Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Right to Consideration — Petitioner's Right — A candidate for promotion has only a right to be considered for promotion in accordance with relevant rules, and no fundamental right to the promotion itself — Employer has the discretion to set criteria for recruitment and cancel or withhold a recruitment process for cogent reasons — Mere issuance of an advertisement or midway selection does not confer a right to appointment. India Law Library Docid # 2436543
(444) DR. HARI DATT PATHAK Vs. SMT. SANJEEDA BEGUM (NOW REPRESENTED THROUGH LEGAL HEIR MOHD. ASHEEM SIDDIQUI) AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 — Section 21(1)(a) (Release proceedings on ground of bona fide requirement) and Section 22 (Appeal) — Application of Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) — Proceedings under the U.P. Act are special proceedings governed by a self-contained mechanism (Rule 22 of the Rules) — CPC does not apply in its entirety; only limited application is India Law Library Docid # 2436544
(445) M/S. JINDAL INDIA THERMAL POWER LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCIAL TAXES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Odisha Entry Tax Act, 1999 — Liability to Pay Interest — Payment of arrears of Entry Tax (Principal component) in installments sanctioned by Commissionerate — Order granting installments explicitly clarified liability to pay statutory interest "as per the Odisha Entry Tax Act, 1999 till full discharge of the principal component of the entry tax dues" — Applicant challenging liability to pay statutory interest at 12% per annum on India Law Library Docid # 2435440
(446) LATA TOLANI Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Bail — Grant of bail by Supreme Court — Setting aside High Court's dismissal of bail application — Grounds for grant include prolonged trial (only one out of fourteen witnesses examined) and appellant being a lady entitled to protection under Section 480, Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Appellant need not be detained in India Law Library Docid # 2435445
(447) AMOL Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail Cancellation — Power of High Court — Offence involving minor victim (16 years old) with alleged consensual relationship and no physical exploitation (Section 161 CrPC statement) — Initial grant of bail based on absence of force and victim appearing to be in consensual relationship — Subsequent cancellation of bail based on coercion/pressure India Law Library Docid # 2435447
(448) SONAL SHROFF Vs. KARAN GAJJAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Transfer Petition (Civil) — Matrimonial Disputes — Amicable Settlement — Supreme Court successfully persuades parties (husband and wife) to resolve all disputes amicably and enter into a full and final Settlement Agreement dated 11-11-2025. India Law Library Docid # 2435451
(449) NANKI BAI SEN Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against Acquittal — Standard of Review — An appellate court should be cautious and slow in interfering with a trial court’s judgment of acquittal, recognizing the trial court’s advantage in observing witness demeanor and the strengthening of the presumption of innocence in favor of the accused upon acquittal (double presumption) — Interference is justified only India Law Library Docid # 2435843
(450) SMT. MAGLINCE JOHN Vs. SHRI THOMAS JOHN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 19(1) — Appeal against Judgment and Decree of Family Court — Divorce Act, 1869 — Sections 10(ix) (Desertion) and 10(x) (Cruelty) — Grounds for Dissolution of Marriage — Appeal filed by wife challenging the decree of divorce granted to the husband on grounds of desertion and cruelty — Findings of the Family Court upheld based on the evidence that the parties were living separately for a India Law Library Docid # 2435844
(451) BHUPINDER KAUR ALIAS BHUPINDER KAUR BOPARAI Vs. DIAMON SANDHU ALIAS SUKHDEEP SINGH SANDHU AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(b) — Rejection of plaint — Court fees — Where a non-executant of a sale deed sues for a declaration that the deed is invalid and not binding on them, and they are in possession, only a fixed court fee is payable, not ad valorem. India Law Library Docid # 2435216
(452) JARNAIL SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 450, 376, 302, 201 — House-trespass to commit offence punishable with imprisonment for life, Rape, Murder, Causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information — Conviction based on circumstantial evidence — The court must be satisfied that the evidence clearly establishes each link in the chain, and the entire chain rules out any reasonable India Law Library Docid # 2435221
(453) KULBIR @ ANKU Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 324 — Murder and causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means — Appeal against conviction — Court assessed evidence of injured witnesses, medical reports, post-mortem examination, and recovery of weapon — Held, evidence proved guilt beyond reasonable doubt. India Law Library Docid # 2435222
(454) PILA PAHAN @ PEELA PAHAN AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Judicial Procedure — Pronouncement of judgments — Delay in pronouncement — Supreme Court directing Registrar Generals of all High Courts to submit reports regarding cases where judgments were reserved on or before January 31, 2025, and were awaiting pronouncement as of May 5, 2025 — High Courts of Karnataka, Bombay, India Law Library Docid # 2435432
(455) ANOOP SHARMA Vs. PRERNA SHARMA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Transfer Petition (Civil) — Matrimonial Disputes — Settlement through Mediation — The parties reached a full and final settlement, including resolution of pending Family Case (Divorce U/S 13 HMA) and Criminal Case (FIR U/S 498A IPC), before the Supreme Court Mediation Centre. India Law Library Docid # 2435435
(456) JAYANT KUMAR MAHATO @ JAYAN KUMAR MAHATO AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHER[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 B.N.S.S., 2023 — Section 528 (formerly Section 482 Cr.P.C.) — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Offences under Section 498A/34 IPC and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act — Matrimonial/family dispute — Compromise between parties — High Court's inherent power to quash proceedings when dispute between offender and victim is settled— Case involves a private marital dispute where the India Law Library Docid # 2435539
(457) THE DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER (TECHNICAL) AND PROJECT DIRECTOR NATIONAL HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNIT -TIRUCHIRAPPALLI AND ANOTHER Vs. T. CIBI CHAKRABORTHY AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 National Highways Act — Access to Property from National Highway — Road Safety — High Court had directed the removal of a Metal Beam Crash Barrier (MBCB) and permitted a property owner direct access from NH-83 (Trichy-Dindigul Section) to his property — Supreme Court set aside the direction, holding that direct access would be a "traffic hazard" and the MBCB was "extremely important for road safety" — Interference India Law Library Docid # 2435541
(458) SANJAY TIWARI Vs. YUGAL KISHORE PRASAD SAO AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 8 Rule 6A — Counter-claim — Specific wording of the rule states that a counter-claim shall be against the plaintiff — It cannot be directed against a co-defendant — While a counter-claim can be based on a different cause of action than the suit, it must be incidental or connected to the suit's cause of action. India Law Library Docid # 2435180
(459) SUMA G.P. AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 — Sections 316(2), 318(2), 318(4) & 3(5) — Grant of anticipatory bail — Appellants seeking anticipatory bail rejected by High Court — Supreme Court granting anticipatory bail after noting that appellants had joined the investigation pursuant to earlier orders and considering the facts, circumstances, and India Law Library Docid # 2435559
(460) ROHIT BISHNOI Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 — Section 439 — Bail — Cancellation of Bail — Murder Case — High Court ignored observations of Trial Court regarding the specific role of the accused while granting bail — Trial Court had refused bail based on elaborately mentioned role of accused in the charge-sheet, despite accused not being India Law Library Docid # 2435561