(821) LALIT KUMAR PANWAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 — Section 73-B — Revocation of allotment and cancellation of lease deed — Power of Municipality — Municipality has power to initiate action under Section 73-B even if patta (lease deed) is registered, if it was obtained by misrepresentation, fraud, or in contravention of law. India Law Library Docid # 2435160
(822) JAI SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT, JODHPUR AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 31-10-2025 Rajasthan High Court Staff Service Rules, 2002, Rule 4-A (as amended by Order dated 05.12.2002) — Recruitment by promotion for Assistant Stamp Reporter and Court Fee Examiners — Eligibility — Interpretation of "officials in the equivalent or above grade" — Held, eligibility is based on grade, not exclusively on cadre — India Law Library Docid # 2435172
(823) MANTRI DEVELOPER PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. MR. SNIL PATHIYAM VEETIL AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA Act) — Nature of RERA orders and Jurisdiction of Civil Courts — Whether an order passed by RERA or RERA Appellate Tribunal can be executed by a competent Civil Court under the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Held, the RERA Act is a self-contained code providing an in-built mechanism for enforcement and recovery, including recovery of amounts as India Law Library Docid # 2435930
(824) STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS Vs. SRI ANTONY PAULY MUKKANNIKKAL[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Writ Appeal — Setting aside of impugned order — Compensation for land voluntarily surrendered under Kudremukh National Park Resettlement Scheme — Writ petition filed impugning District Level Committee proceedings regarding re-examination of compensation for land surrendered to Forest Department — Impugned order of Single Judge directed re-determination of compensation under the Right to Fair Compensation India Law Library Docid # 2435931
(825) ZURBAGAN SHIPPING LLC Vs. C.S. FLOURISH AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Act, 2017 — Section 5(1)(a) and (b) — Arrest of Vessel in Rem — Requirements for Arrest — Arrest of a vessel requires satisfaction of specific criteria: either the liable person owned the vessel when the maritime claim arose and still owns it when the arrest is effected (Section 5(1)(a)), or the demise charterer at the time the claim arose is liable and is the demise India Law Library Docid # 2435932
(826) EXCEL INTELLIGENCE SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. DATACON TECH PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Sole Arbitrator — Reference of disputes arising under multiple interrelated agreements — Where agreements between the Petitioner (Excel Intelligence Services Private Limited), Respondent 1 (Datacon Tech Private Limited) and Respondent 2 (Karnataka State Electronic Development Corporation Limited - KSEDCL) are interconnected, arising India Law Library Docid # 2435933
(827) MR. M. SEEDIABBA AND OTHERS Vs. MANGALORE ELECTRICTY SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED (MESCOM) AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Jurisdiction of Civil Court — Electricity Act, 2003 — Sections 126, 127 and 145 — Bar to jurisdiction of Civil Court — Demand notice issued by Electricity Board (MESCOM) for unauthorized use of electricity (running a hostel under commercial tariff LT-3 instead of domestic tariff LT-2(a)) — Such issue falls under "unauthorized use of electricity" India Law Library Docid # 2435934
(828) MAVERICK MOTORS LLP AND OTHERS Vs. ROHITH MURTHY[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(5) & (6) — Appointment of Sole Arbitrator — Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Agreement — Statutory Arbitration Clause — Even if an LLP Agreement lacks an express arbitration clause, disputes between partners that cannot be resolved under the agreement must be referred India Law Library Docid # 2435885
(829) STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH Vs. KATURI VINODH KUMAR[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Powers of Appellate Court — An Appellate Court should not ordinarily interfere with an acquittal unless the lower court's approach is vitiated by manifest illegality, the conclusion is perverse, or leads to a miscarriage of justice — Merely because two views are possible, the view favoring the accused taken by the trial court should generally be India Law Library Docid # 2436227
(830) NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. CHITTIBOYINA VIJAYA LAKSHMI AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 (Compensation under) — Delay in Lodging First Information Report (FIR) — Effect on Claim — Delay in lodging FIR cannot be grounds to doubt claimant's case; common man prioritizes victim's treatment over immediately rushing to police — Courts must examine evidence closely in case of delay, but if no indication of fabrication or concoction is found, claim cannot be dismissed India Law Library Docid # 2436228
(831) PATTA SATHIBABU AND OTHERS Vs. AKKALA SARVE VIJAYA KUMAR AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 18 Rule 17, Section 151 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 45 — Reopening of suit and referring documents for expert opinion — Comparison of disputed signatures — Suit for cancellation of sale deeds based on alleged prior sale deed (Exs. A1, A2, A4) executed by common vendor (Kommu India Law Library Docid # 2436229
(832) GRUHALAKSHMI FINANCE AND OTHERS Vs. ANDAVARAPU GOVINDARAJULU AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Scope and Ambit — Rejection of plaint is a drastic power to be exercised at the threshold, considering only the averments in the plaint — If the plaint ex facie does not disclose a cause of action or the relief is barred by limitation, the plaint can be rejected — If the foundational facts pleaded squarely attract the bar of limitation, no trial is India Law Library Docid # 2436230
(833) ABDUL LATIEF Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 31-10-2025 Waqf Land/Proprietary Land Dispute — Non-Interference Direction — Petitioner claimed co-ownership and sought direction restraining respondents (Waqaf Board/Revenue) from interfering with or dispossessing him from his proprietary land on the garb that it was Waqf land (Khanka Sharif) — Respondents admitted petitioner's ownership/possession over land under specific Khasra numbers (124 and 125) — High Court directed respondents not to evict or interfere with petitioner's India Law Library Docid # 2436273
(834) MUSHTAQ AHMAD SHAH AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 31-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of FIR — Whether continuation of proceedings would amount to abuse of process of law — FIR lodged based on civil dispute between parties concerning property — Allegations giving a criminal colour to a purely civil matter — Growing tendency of complainants to convert civil disputes into criminal cases to wreak India Law Library Docid # 2436303
(835) INHABITANTS CUM ESTATE HOLDERS OF VILLAGE KHIMBER AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 31-10-2025 Revenue Law and Administration — Shamilat Land — Proprietary Rights — Challenge to Government Order restraining issuance of revenue extracts for "Shamilat Land" (Section 5) in village Khimber — Order No. 03-FC (Rev.) of 2024 dated 24.04.2024 quashed to the extent it barred issuance of revenue extracts for sale/purchase of Rule 5 Shamilat Land — High Court holds that rights and incidents India Law Library Docid # 2436304
(836) NAVRATAN KUMAR SHANT AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Criminal Procedure — Transfer of Cases — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS, 2023) — Section 447 — High Court’s power to transfer cases — Grounds for transfer — Applicant sought transfer of a criminal case (Sections 323, 504, 506 IPC) from Kashipur to Nainital primarily alleging apprehension that the respondent (an Advocate) might implicate them in further false cases if the case remains in Kashipur — India Law Library Docid # 2436500
(837) PAWAN KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Uttar Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1901 — Sections 34, 35, 39, 40A — Mutation Proceedings — Nature and Scope — Proceedings for mutation of names in revenue records under Sections 34 and 39 are summary in nature and serve a merely fiscal purpose (i.e., for payment of land revenue) — Such proceedings do not create, extinguish, or adjudicate title to the property — Title must be decided by a competent India Law Library Docid # 2436501
(838) THANGADURAI Vs. SWAMIDOSS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 30-10-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Cheque dishonour — Compounding of offences — Criminal revision petition filed after conviction and dismissal of appeal — Parties entered into compromise outside court — Entire compensation and costs paid — High Court can compound offence exercising inherent powers to secure ends of justice, even at appellate or revision stage — Object of Act is India Law Library Docid # 2434841
(839) DEVARAJ RENGAN Vs. ESWARAN[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 30-10-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Compounding of offence — Offences under Section 138 of NI Act are compoundable — Parties entered into a Memorandum of Compromise and settled the dispute amicably — Full settlement amount paid by demand draft — Conviction and sentence stands annulled. India Law Library Docid # 2434764
(840) ORION CONMERX PVT. LTD. Vs. NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 30-10-2025 Insurance Law — Fire Insurance — Accidental Fire — Cause of fire is immaterial if the insured is not the instigator and there is no fraud. The objective of fire insurance is to indemnify the insured against loss by fire. India Law Library Docid # 2434698