(661) BHUMESH KUMAR Vs. KUSHAL RAJ AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Transfer of Proceedings — Transfer Petition (Civil) — Interim Order by Supreme Court — Trial Court's Deviation — A previous Supreme Court order directed that the petitioner may appear before the trial court personally or through video conferencing — Despite this liberty being communicated, the trial court subsequently directed the petitioner to appear physically in person based on a prayer by the respondents, and India Law Library Docid # 2435581
(662) UMESH CHANDER RAJPAL Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Anticipatory Bail (Pre-arrest Bail) — IPC Sections 385, 387, 504, 506(2), 120-B read with Section 34 — Grant of anticipatory bail by Supreme Court — Factors considered: Appellant's cooperation with the investigation and the fact that a co-accused person had already been granted bail by a Coordinate Bench of the Supreme Court — Impugned order refusing anticipatory bail set aside and India Law Library Docid # 2435582
(663) ANURAG BANSAL Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Non-performance of Agreement for Sale — Dispute predominantly civil in nature — Where prosecution materials indicate an advance payment made by the complainant was partially returned by the accused, the dispute may be characterized as primarily a civil dispute concerning non-performance of an agreement for sale. India Law Library Docid # 2435586
(664) SAROJA RAJAN Vs. BALA RAMAN KRISHNAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Law — Bail — Fraud and Misrepresentation — Quashing of High Court order granting bail — Supreme Court considers Special Leave Petition against High Court granting bail to accused who allegedly defrauded an elderly petitioner (aged 90 years) of Rs. 12.5 Crores — State supports petitioner's allegations of fraud against the India Law Library Docid # 2435587
(665) POONAM GULIA Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Special Leave Petition — Anticipatory Bail — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 120B, 406, 420 — Petition seeking anticipatory bail against FIR No. 19 of 2025 — Interim protection granted earlier subject to cooperation in investigation — Where petitioner has participated and cooperated in investigation, interim protection is confirmed and petitioner is released on anticipatory bail, without India Law Library Docid # 2435609
(666) SANDIP @ DIPU @ DIKU Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Suspension of Sentence Pending Appeal — Grounds for Grant — Appellant convicted under Sections 307, 326, 323 read with Sections 114 and 34 of IPC and sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment — High Court rejected prayer for suspension of sentence — Factors considered by Supreme Court for suspending sentence: (i) suspension of sentence granted to co-accused; (ii) appeal India Law Library Docid # 2435612
(667) VIRENDRA GUPTA Vs. SMT. LAXMI DEVI[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 06-11-2025 Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1961 — Sections 23, 23-A, 23-D(1), 23-D(3), and 23-J — Eviction of tenant on ground of bonafide need for non-residential purpose — Summary procedure — Landlord falling under special categories (e.g., widow, divorced wife) — Presumption of bonafide need — Section 23-D(3) provides a presumption of bonafide need in favor of the landlord which must be rebutted by the tenant — Where the landlord falls under a special category like a widow (S. 23-J), the proce India Law Library Docid # 2435670
(668) SONU KUMAR Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Bihar Prohibition and Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022 — Section 30(a) — Anticipatory Bail — Grant of bail considering that the appellant had already joined and was cooperating with the investigation, alongside the facts and circumstances of the case — Impugned order refusing bail set aside. India Law Library Docid # 2435687
(669) SANJOY HALDAR Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Rejection of anticipatory bail by High Court — Appeal to Supreme Court — Interim protection from arrest granted during investigation — Subsequent submission of charge-sheet by investigating authority — Custodial interrogation deemed no longer required after submission of charge-sheet — Interim protection made absolute subject to India Law Library Docid # 2435689
(670) BABULAL SONI (DIED AND DELETED LRS OF APPELLANT) Vs. SMT. PUNAI BAI AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 06-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — First Appeal — Scope of Interference — Appreciation of evidence — When a finding of fact is recorded by the trial court mainly on the appreciation of oral evidence, it should not be lightly disturbed unless the trial court’s approach in appraising the evidence is erroneous, contrary to established principles of law, or unreasonable — Appellate court possesses same powers India Law Library Docid # 2435838
(671) JAWAHAR CHANDRA Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 06-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 (Murder) and 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence) — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Principles of Proof — The conviction in a case based on circumstantial evidence must rest upon a complete, cogent, and unbroken chain of circumstances pointing unerringly towards the guilt of the accused, excluding every other hypothesis except the India Law Library Docid # 2435839
(672) ASHOK KUMAR UBRANI Vs. RAMESHWAR PRASAD TIWARI DEAD LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 06-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Substantial Question of Law — Concurrent Findings of Fact — Where both the Trial Court and the First Appellate Court, upon appreciation of evidence and provisions of law including Section 54 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, concurrently hold that the plaintiff is India Law Library Docid # 2435840
(673) KUPPAYEE AND OTHERS Vs. P. SUBRAMANIAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Specific Performance of Contract — Sale Agreement — Escalation of Real Estate Value — High Court enhanced sale consideration due to significant time elapsed since the agreement and property value escalation, allowing landowner to benefit — Parties directed to deposit agreed sale consideration and execute sale deed. (Para 18(i) of impugned judgment) India Law Library Docid # 2435044
(674) RAJNISH KUMAR SANGHI AND ANOTHER Vs. RAJ KEMTANI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Civil Procedure, 1908 — Order XVIII, Rule 2 — Procedure for hearing — Court directs respondent authorities to appear with records, but they fail to do so without proper explanation — Court further directs Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Jabalpur, to appear personally with records and explain non-compliance of previous order — Commissioner appears and explains non-compliance due to lack of proper India Law Library Docid # 2435047
(675) ABDUL BASIR Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Factors to consider — Appellant incarcerated for over three and a half years without framing of charges — Multiple accused, some granted bail, others absconding — Trial progressing slowly — Prosecution case against appellant based on circumstantial evidence — Considering lengthy period of incarceration, delay in trial proceedings, and other India Law Library Docid # 2435048
(676) MANISH @ BOXER AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Criminal Law — Appeal against Conviction and Sentence — Concurrent Findings of Fact — Interference by Supreme Court — Where the High Court correctly and completely appreciated the testimonies of prosecution witnesses (19 in number) and affirmed the conviction, and the findings of fact are concurrent and not perverse or India Law Library Docid # 2435411
(677) RAJEEV @ RAJEEV SINGH Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 06-11-2025 Bail/Anticipatory Bail Condition — Modification of Condition — Appellant, having secured an interim order staying the condition to meet the Investigating Officer (IO) weekly, cooperated with the investigation — State submitted that investigation is complete and charge sheet has been filed — Court found merit in the appellant's request India Law Library Docid # 2435417
(678) SMT. SHARADAMMA AND OTHERS Vs. RANJITH AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 06-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 14 — Currency of Driving Licences — Grace Period for Renewal — Applicability — The proviso to unamended Section 14 extended the validity of a driving licence by 30 days from its expiry date for the purpose of renewal, meaning the licence continued to be effective for this period — Where the accident occurred within 8 days of the expiration date (Expired on April 16, 2018; India Law Library Docid # 2435884
(679) G. SREEKANTH Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 06-11-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 482 (read with specific sections of the erstwhile Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, applicable to anticipatory bail proceedings in this context, although not explicitly mentioned in the operative section 482 reference) — Application for pre-arrest bail under Section 482 BNSS in a case involving alleged offenses under Sections 318(2) and 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya India Law Library Docid # 2436204
(680) STATE OF A.P. Vs. DONAMPUDI SAMUEL AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 06-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 372, 374(2), 378(4) — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of Appellate Interference — The Appellate Court must bear in mind the presumption of innocence, which is bolstered by the acquittal judgment — Interference is warranted only in exceptional circumstances where the findings are perverse (contrary to evidence), the approach is patently illegal leading to miscarriage of India Law Library Docid # 2436205