(861) MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, REWARI Vs. SANJAY JAIN AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Punjab Courts Act, 1918 — Section 41 — Regular Second Appeal — Scope — Second appeals in Punjab and Haryana are treated under this section, not Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure — No substantial question of law arises in such appeals, as per established legal position. India Law Library Docid # 2435260
(862) RADHA DEVI Vs. KHARATI LAL[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Specific Performance — Agreement to Sell — Plaintiff's readiness and willingness — Plaintiff's son, as Power of Attorney Holder, is competent to depose about plaintiff's readiness and willingness. Where the defendant denies the agreement itself, they cannot later raise the defense that the plaintiff was India Law Library Docid # 2435261
(863) GURMUKH SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Compounding of offence — Settlement between parties — High Court can quash conviction and acquit accused if parties have genuinely settled their dispute, even after conviction and dismissal of appeal — Such power stems from inherent jurisdiction to prevent abuse of process and secure justice — Compromise should not India Law Library Docid # 2435262
(864) NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. RAM RATI AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Appeal against award — Contributory negligence — Motorcyclist carrying two pillion riders — Insurance company's contention that motorcyclist was negligent due to carrying two pillion riders — Held, such violation of law (carrying more than one India Law Library Docid # 2435263
(865) SANDEEP KUMAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Criminal Appeal — Conviction and Sentence — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 (Rape), Section 365 (Kidnapping or abducting) — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Sections 3 and 4 (Penetrative Sexual Assault and Punishment) — Appeal against conviction where appellant was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment under IPC and POCSO Act sections — India Law Library Docid # 2435865
(866) AJAY UPADHAYAY Vs. UCO BANK AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Sections 13(2), 13(3A), 13(4), 13(8) — Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 — Rules 8(1), 9(3), 9(4) — Auction Sale Challenge — Mandatory Provisions — The requirement under Section 13(3A) obligating the secured creditor to consider and respond to the borrower's India Law Library Docid # 2435866
(867) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. MALTI DEVI AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 30-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(1) — Claim for Compensation — Accident — Deceased driving a borrowed motorcycle — Status of driver vis-à-vis owner and insurance liability — When the deceased borrows and drives a vehicle, he steps into the shoes of the owner — Claim under the insurance policy is limited to the extent of the premium paid for "Personal Accident Cover for Owner-Driver" — The deceased, being in the shoes of the owner, is not a 'third party' for the purpose of general liability India Law Library Docid # 2435704
(868) MUNNA SIDDIQUI Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Criminal Law — Appeal against acquittal — Section 372 CrPC against acquittal under Section 306 IPC (Abetment of suicide) — Principles governing appellate court interference — An appeal against acquittal requires the appellate court to find illegality, perversity, or error of law/fact in the trial court's decision; mere possibility of a contrary view does not justify reversal — If two views on evidence are possible, the view favoring India Law Library Docid # 2435705
(869) CHARAN H.V. Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 — Section 483 (equivalent to Section 439 CrPC) — Regular Bail — Detention beyond initial remand period without fresh order — Non-production of accused before Magistrate during extension of judicial custody — Where initial remand order expires and no fresh remand order is passed, merely noting the next date of production without an order continuing custody renders India Law Library Docid # 2435878
(870) MORAGUDI JAYA PRASADA REDDY AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 145, 397, 401 — Disputes concerning Immovable Property — Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrate — The invocation of Section 145 Cr.P.C. by an Executive Magistrate is impermissible and amounts to judicial impropriety when a dispute concerning the same immovable property is already sub judice before a competent Civil Court (O.S. No. 219/2022 was pending for India Law Library Docid # 2436231
(871) KOLLU RAVEENDRA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Section 188 — Disobedience to Order Duly Promulgated by Public Servant — Invocation of Section — Essential ingredients for prosecution under S. 188 IPC: (i) an order promulgated by a lawfully empowered public servant; (ii) knowledge of the order by the accused; (iii) disobedience of the order; and (iv) the disobedience causing or tending to cause obstruction, annoyance, danger to life/health, or India Law Library Docid # 2436232
(872) MOHAMMAD ASHRAF WANI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 30-10-2025 Targeted Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2015 — J&K S.O. 41 of 2023 — Validity of Policy Decision — Fair Price Shops (FPS) Dealers — Challenge to reduction in allocated ration tickets, imposition of renewal fee, and maximum age limit (65 years) for dealers — S.O. 41 issued pursuant to Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and National Food Security Act, 2013 to reorganize the PDS network and ensure food security (public interest) — The primary object of the SO is maintaining supply India Law Library Docid # 2436305
(873) MS. SABIYA TARIQ Vs. UT OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 30-10-2025 Writ Jurisdiction — Applicability in Contractual Matters — Claim for Compensation Against Government — Appellant claimed compensation for investments made in a Nursing Home taken over by Government, based on an agreement with a private Trust (Respondent No. 2) — Official Respondents were not parties to the agreement — High Court affirmed that, in the absence of privity of India Law Library Docid # 2436306
(874) SHANU PRAKASH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Educational Qualification — Equivalence of Degrees — Post of District Tourism Officer — Advertisement prescribed Graduation in Tourism/Hotel Management or equivalent qualification — Petitioner holding B.Sc. in Hospitality and Hotel Administration — Public Service Commission denied permission to appear in Mains Exam alleging lack of requisite qualification — High Court directed India Law Library Docid # 2436497
(875) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. Vs. SRI SANJAY PANDEY (MINOR) AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 (Appeal) read with Section 166 (Claim Petition) — Motor Accident Claim — Negligence — Proof of Accident and Negligence — Appellant-Insurance Company challenging award alleging fabrication, delay in lodging FIR, and collusion — Tribunal relying on consistent eyewitness testimony of the injured claimant (PW1) and contemporaneous medical evidence — Finding of Rash and India Law Library Docid # 2436498
(876) MAHANT YOGI LAXMI Vs. GYANENDRA SINGH BISHT[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of Cheque) — Revision against concurrent conviction and sentence — Scope of Revisional Jurisdiction — Limited jurisdiction does not permit re-appreciation of evidence unless findings are manifestly unreasonable, perverse, or based on a clear misreading of material — Interference justified only for procedural irregularity or gross miscarriage of justice — India Law Library Docid # 2436499
(877) THE LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA Vs. MAHESWARI AND OTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 29-10-2025 Insurance Law — Repudiation of claim — Non-disclosure of material facts — Insured died in a motor accident, not due to any pre-existing medical condition — Prior accident and medical treatment not related to the cause of death after seven and three years respectively — Non-disclosure of these past events for policies taken subsequently does not amount to suppression of material facts that would influence a India Law Library Docid # 2434835
(878) K. NAGENDRA Vs. THE NEW INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act — Section 149 — Liability of insurer — Deviation from route — Accident occurred while offending vehicle was outside permitted route — High Court applied 'pay and recover' principle — Insurance company directed to pay award and recover from owner — Held, High Court's order justified — Purpose of insurance is to shield owner from liability, denying compensation is unjust to victim — However, insurer acts within contract bounds and should not pay for claims outside agreement India Law Library Docid # 2434636
(879) MOHAMED SAMEER KHAN Vs. STATE REPRESENTED BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 449, 376, 394 — Appeal against High Court's upholding of conviction and sentence — Case based on circumstantial evidence — Absence of direct evidence connecting appellant to offense — Falsely implicated — Prosecution failed to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt — No scientific evidence linking appellant — Important witnesses not associated in India Law Library Docid # 2434637
(880) JEMABEN Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Appeal against High Court conviction — Trial Court acquitted, High Court convicted appellant for murder — Prosecution case rested mainly on dying declarations — Defence argued discrepancies in dying declarations and other evidence — Trial Court acquitted giving benefit of doubt due to discrepancies in three dying declarations — High Court relied India Law Library Docid # 2434638