(561) BINU SENGAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 10-11-2025 Representation of the People Act, 1950 — Section 13-B(2) — Representation of the People Act, 1951 — Section 159 — Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 324(1), 324(6), 327, 51-A(d) — Appointment of Booth Level Officer (BLO) — Anganwadi Workers (Aaganwadi Karyakarta) challenge appointment as BLOs citing impact on primary duties (ICDS, nutrition provision) and non-regular employment status — Contention that instructions from Women & Child Development Department (seeking India Law Library Docid # 2435667
(562) MALI @ MAYANKAM PANGI @ P. MALI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF ORISSA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Bail — Grounds for grant — Petitioners hired on daily wages claimed lack of knowledge regarding contraband they were guarding in deep jungle — Contention that recovery of contraband was not from their conscious custody and they were unaware of the substance — Charge sheet filed but charges not yet framed (in revised order charges framed but trial not commenced) — Considering the facts and circumstances, Supreme India Law Library Docid # 2435685
(563) CHRISTIAN WOMANS BOARD OF MISSION AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Leasehold Property — Renewal of Lease — Discretionary nature — Conditionality — Renewal of a lease for government land is not an inherent or automatic right of the lessee; it is a discretionary act of the lessor (State), contingent upon the lessee’s fulfillment of the lease terms and compliance with the public/charitable purpose of the grant — Where a lessee (Christian Woman’s Board of Mission/UCNITA) is found to be in persistent breach of lease conditions, including unauthorized alienation/sale India Law Library Docid # 2435842
(564) KARIMUNNISA BEGUM AND OTHERS Vs. YALAMANCHILI RAJANI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-11-2025 Special Leave Petition (Civil) — Disposal on basis of Compromise — Parties settling dispute through a notarized Memorandum of Compromise during pendency of SLP, adjusting rights regarding specific performance, land division (Ac. 1-64 cents for Respondent; Ac. 0-56 cents for Petitioners), and division of deposited sale India Law Library Docid # 2435413
(565) MICHAEL MAHESH CHRIS SALDANHA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Arms Rules, 2016 — Rule 25 (1) (b) — Grant of licence to legal heirs — Transfer of firearm and licence during lifetime of licensee — Condition precedent for seeking transfer — Rule 25 (1) (b) allows transfer of a firearm licence to a nominated legal heir if the existing licensee has attained the age of 70 years or has held the firearm for 25 years, whichever is earlier — The conditions for such transfer are the satisfaction of other India Law Library Docid # 2435876
(566) ARUMILLI KASI VISWANADHAM Vs. RIMMALAPUDI KRISHNA VENI AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Interference with finding of fact — High Court cannot ordinarily interfere with findings of fact arrived at by the first appellate Court (the final Court of facts) unless such findings are erroneous, contrary to mandatory provisions of law, contrary to settled position of law based on Apex Court pronouncements, or based upon inadmissible evidence or without evidence. India Law Library Docid # 2436196
(567) UNION TERRITORY OF J&K Vs. ISHFAQ AHMAD ZARGAR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 10-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 227 and 228 — Framing of Charge and Discharge — Scope of Judicial Review — The object of Sections 227 and 228 Cr.P.C. is to ensure that the accusation is not frivolous and that there is sufficient material for proceeding against the accused — At the stage of framing charge, the court must sift the evidence to determine if a prima facie case is made out, but the final India Law Library Docid # 2436300
(568) HAKEEM ABID MUBARAK Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 10-11-2025 Service Law — Appointment — Selection Process — Post Vacancy due to non-joining of selected candidate — Petitioner seeking appointment against the resultant vacancy based on merit — Respondent-Institute claimed selected candidate (Mohsin Qadir Wani) joined and resigned, making fresh selection necessary (referencing Sudesh Kumar Goyal v. State of Haryana) — Finding: Evidence showed the selected candidate India Law Library Docid # 2436301
(569) KARAM CHAND Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Service Law — Recovery of Excess Salary/Payment — Claim by retired teachers (Assistant Teacher/Headmaster) seeking refund of amounts recovered from their retiral dues (Gratuity) due to alleged erroneous pay fixation — Department admitted that excess payment was due to error in pay determination and not on account of fraud or involvement of the employee — Applicability of State of Punjab & others vs. Rafiq India Law Library Docid # 2436536
(570) SURESH CHANDRA AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND THROUGH COLLECTOR AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 9 Rule 13 — Recall of ex parte judgment and decree — Remand order by Revisional Authority — Maintainability of Writ Petition under Article 227 of the Constitution against a remand order — The High Court typically exercises writ jurisdiction under Article 227 only when the lower authority has acted without jurisdiction or in flagrant disregard of law — A remand order, directing the trial India Law Library Docid # 2436537
(571) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. KM. PRITI AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 10-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 and 173 — Motor Accident Claims — Common Issues of Fact and Law — Multiple appeals arising from the same road accident, involving claims for death compensation and injury compensation, are decided jointly due to common facts and legal questions. India Law Library Docid # 2436538
(572) CHITRA AND OTHER Vs. PARAMASIVAM[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 10-11-2025 Hindu Law — Joint Family Property — Partition Suit — Claim for 3/5 share in suit properties by daughters (appellants/plaintiffs) against father (first respondent/defendant) and brother (second respondent/defendant) — Plaintiffs contended that properties were purchased from corpus generated by relinquishment of father's interest in ancestral property (Rs. 10,000/- as per partition deed Ex.A3 dated India Law Library Docid # 2436662
(573) SANJAY VITTHAL PACHAGHARE Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-11-2025 A. Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 306 (Abetment of suicide) — Conviction and Sentence — Reduction of sentence — High Court converted conviction from Section 302 IPC to Section 306 IPC, imposing 10 years RI, fine, and denying remission facility — Supreme Court considered that appellant had served 7 years 1 month and 13 days of sentence (5 years 5 months 3 days actual + remission) and was out on bail — While maintaining the conviction under Section 306 IPC, the Court found the 10-year sentence e India Law Library Docid # 2436074
(574) M/S. AMANDEEP BR MEDICITY LTD. Vs. BASHIR AHMAD DAR AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 08-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 8 — Application for reference to arbitration — Jurisdiction of Civil Court to pass interim orders pending Section 8 application — Once a Section 8 application is filed, the appropriate approach for the Civil Court is to determine if its jurisdiction is ousted by the special statute, not to assess if it retains jurisdiction under general law (generalia specialibus non derogant) (Paras 15, India Law Library Docid # 2436302
(575) GAURAV VISHWAKARMA Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Bail — Special Leave Petition against rejection of regular bail by High Court — Factors considered for grant of bail — Petitioner in custody for more than seven months for offences triable by Magistrate under Chhattisgarh Excise (Amendment) Act, 2002 (Sections 34(2) and 59(a)) — Supreme Court found rejection of bail by India Law Library Docid # 2435448
(576) SIMA DEVI Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Anticipatory Bail — Consideration of merits — Petitioner apprehending arrest in connection with offences under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 109, 118(2), 352 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Interim protection granted earlier subject to cooperation in investigation — Where petitioner joined and cooperated with the investigation, the interim protection confirmed, and petitioner released on anticipatory India Law Library Docid # 2435616
(577) THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS Vs. MOHAMMAD AFZAL MOHAMMAD SHARIF[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Secularism — Institutional Secularism — Communal Riots — Investigation Team Composition — Direction to form SIT with officers from different religious communities is to ensure transparency and fairness in investigation of communal riots, not to prejudge communal bias. India Law Library Docid # 2434964
(578) RAVI PRAKASH SRIVASTAVA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 136 — Special Leave Petition (Civil) — High Court order disposing of writ petition without substantive relief — Petitioners granted liberty to approach Housing Commissioner for society affairs and file civil suit for loan repayment — Supreme Court reviewing High Court's disposition. India Law Library Docid # 2434969
(579) M/S SHANTI CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Odisha Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2016 — Rule 27(4)(iv) — Interpretation of ‘previous Financial Year’ — Tender for extraction of sand — Bidder required to submit IT return of previous financial year — Company had not filed IT return for 2021-2022 as statutory period had not expired — Court held that ‘previous Financial India Law Library Docid # 2434970
(580) INDIAN RAILWAYS CATERING AND TOURISM CORP. LTD. Vs. M/S. BRANDAVAN FOOD PRODUCTS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 07-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Scope of interference with arbitral award — Court should not reappreciate evidence or interfere on grounds of erroneous application of law — Interference is permissible only when award is perverse or manifestly arbitrary, or in conflict with public policy of India, or India Law Library Docid # 2434971