(521) DHARAM SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Section 20(b)(ii)(c) — Commercial Quantity — Sentence Modification — Recovery of Charas slightly above commercial quantity (1 kg) — Alleged recovery weight was 1 kg 80 gms — Challenge to weight measurement procedure: failure to prove that the electronic scale was recalibrated to zero before weighing — Where the recovered India Law Library Docid # 2435620
(522) RIYAS Vs. P. N. SHINOSH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Claims Tribunal — Enhancement of compensation — High Court enhanced compensation awarded by Claims Tribunal for a 14-year-old minor student who suffered 77.1% permanent disability due to a motor accident. Supreme Court reviewed the calculation of compensation. India Law Library Docid # 2435075
(523) NANDKUMAR @ NANDU MANILAL MUDALIAR Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 504, 324 — Conviction for murder and causing insult with intent to provoke breach of peace — Appeal against High Court judgment confirming conviction — Appellant convicted for murder and causing insult, acquitted of voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means — Case India Law Library Docid # 2435076
(524) AKULA NARAYANA Vs. THE ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 147 — Insurance policy — Statutory policy — Coverage of gratuitous passengers — A gratuitous passenger, other than the driver, cleaner, or conductor, is not considered a third party under a statutory policy, meaning the insurer is not liable for their injuries. India Law Library Docid # 2435077
(525) R. RAJENDRAN Vs. KAMAR NISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 112 — Presumption of legitimacy — Conclusive proof of legitimacy of a child born during a valid marriage — Can only be rebutted by proving non-access between spouses at the time the child could have been conceived — Presumption favours legitimacy and law frowns upon illegitimacy — Burden to India Law Library Docid # 2435078
(526) SURESH KUMAR JAIN Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Anticipatory Bail Application — Multiple Applications — Successive applications for anticipatory bail are not to be entertained, especially when the accused is absconding and not cooperating with investigations, and no significant change in circumstances or law has occurred since the rejection of earlier applications. India Law Library Docid # 2435124
(527) M/S SHREE BALAJEE ENTERPRISES AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S MAHASHIAN DI HATTI (MDH) PVT LTD[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint on grounds of lack of territorial jurisdiction — Held, while the court must consider the content of the application, if the plaint raises a cause of action, even if disputed, the consequence of failure to prove jurisdiction would be return of plaint, not rejection. India Law Library Docid # 2435125
(528) BIJENDER SINGH Vs. GOVT. OF N.C.T. OF DELHI AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules, 1980 — Rule 15(2) — Preliminary enquiries — Cognizable offence disclosed — Approval for departmental enquiry or criminal prosecution — Rule requires prior approval of Additional Commissioner of Police regarding appropriate course of action — In this case, departmental enquiry India Law Library Docid # 2435126
(529) MD. MOFAZZULAR RAHMAN AND OTHERS Vs. MD. SARFARAZ ALAM AND OTHERS[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 22 Rule 3 and Order 30 Rule 4 — Substitution of legal heirs — Partnership firm — Death of partner — Legal heirs unwilling to join firm — Partnership deed allows surviving partners to purchase deceased partner's share if heirs are unwilling — Death of partner does not automatically dissolve India Law Library Docid # 2435135
(530) ASHOK SARAF AND OTHERS Vs. ASANSOL DURGAPUR DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 2(1)(c)(vi) — "Commercial dispute" — Construction and infrastructure contracts, including tenders — A development agreement for a housing project involving the construction of roads, sewerage, and drainage systems, which arises from a tender process, falls under this category and constitutes a commercial dispute. The distinction between pure construction agreements and India Law Library Docid # 2435140
(531) SRI. RAMPADA JANA Vs. SRI. MANIKLAL SAMANTA[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 — Sections 8 & 9 — Right of Pre-emption — Co-sharer — To claim pre-emption, the applicant must prove they are a co-sharer in the plot of land. If a plot of land is transferred with specific demarcation, the purchasers of different demarcated portions do not become co-sharers with each other. India Law Library Docid # 2435141
(532) JOGINDER SINGH Vs. SURJIT KAUR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 53A — Part performance — Protection of possession delivered in part performance of agreement to sell — For attracting this principle, there must be a contract to transfer for consideration of immovable property, in writing and signed by the transferor, from which terms can be ascertained; the transferee must have taken possession in part performance, done India Law Library Docid # 2435219
(533) MADRAS BAR ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 National Green Tribunal (NGT) — Appointment of Members — Interim arrangement for functioning of Principal Bench — Applications seeking direction for appointment of NGT Members — Grievance that retirement of two Members might render Principal Bench non-functional — Attorney General's statement that current incumbents will continue to discharge duties until new Members are appointed and take charge — India Law Library Docid # 2435434
(534) SRI RAGHAVENDRA EDUCATIONAL TRUST AND OTHERS Vs. AUTHUM INVESTMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 406 — Transfer Petition — Suit under Negotiable Instruments Act — Application for transfer of criminal complaint (C.S. No. 279389/2024) from Kolkata to Erode (Tamil Nadu) — Petitioner alleging malicious filing in Kolkata despite loan transaction and cheque issuance occurring in Tamil Nadu, India Law Library Docid # 2435436
(535) TARUN Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of First Information Report (FIR) and Stay of Arrest/Coercive Action — Serious Allegations — Where allegations against the accused (mother-in-law) in an FIR for unnatural death of the deceased (daughter-in-law) and injury/strangulation are serious in nature, an order by the High Court granting protection from coercive action/arrest to the India Law Library Docid # 2435453
(536) ELECTROSTEEL CASTING LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF CGST AND CX, KOLKATA SOUTH COMMISSIONERATE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 35G — Appeal to High Court — Requirement of formulating substantial question of law — High Court's jurisdiction to entertain appeal is contingent upon formulation and satisfaction regarding a substantial question of law — High Court erred in staying the CESTAT's order concerning India Law Library Docid # 2435454
(537) GUDLA JAYANCHANDRA REDDY AND ANOTHER Vs. THE CHILD WELFARE PROJECT DIRECTOR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Powers under Article 142 — Welfare of Child — Best Interest of the Child — Appeals concerning custody of infants who have been with "adoptive parents" for a considerable period (nearly twenty months, up to three years in similar cases) — Finding of significant bonding between the children and the "adoptive parents" — Similar relief granted as in prior batch of appeals (Dasari Anil Kumar and Anr. vs. India Law Library Docid # 2435456
(538) BARUN KUMAR CHOUDHARY AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Special Leave Petition — Stay of Proceedings — Supreme Court issued notice, tagged the matter with another connected SLP (Crl.) No. 14932/2025 (“Sunil Kumar Kedia & Anr. vs. The State of Bihar & Ors.”), and stayed the proceedings arising from FIR No. 74/2025 dated 02.04.2025 (registered under India Law Library Docid # 2435457
(539) DAMAYANTI PATRA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Delay in Filing Appeal — Condonation of Delay — High Court dismissed Writ Appeal solely on basis of 421 days delay without hearing on merits — Appellant submitted that denial of an Appellate Forum for a matter with grave and serious penal consequences was unjust and that the delay was not so substantial as to deny the right to present the case on merits — Supreme Court held India Law Library Docid # 2435458
(540) PRADEEP KUMAR RAJARATHINAM Vs. NEIL PATEL DIGITAL LLC AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 9 — Interim Measures by Court — Appeal under Section 37 — Where a petition for interim measures under Section 9 is partly allowed by the High Court, the aggrieved party challenging the order must prefer an appeal under Section 37 of the Act rather than filing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) against the interim order — The proper remedy for challenging an India Law Library Docid # 2435464