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(161) STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Vs. JANVED SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302, 304B, 498A, 201 — Homicidal Death — Dowry Harassment — Fabrication to Conceal Death — Medical evidence confirmed death by strangulation and post-mortem burn injuries, falsifying accused's claim of electrocution. Accused's false report and uncorroborated alibi for being away at the time of death established a chain of incriminating circumstances — Trial court
India Law Library Docid # 2433946

(162) KOMAL PRASAD SHAKYA Vs. RAJENDRA SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B — Cheating, Forgery, Using Forged Document, Criminal Conspiracy — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — High Court quashed criminal complaint and proceedings — Supreme Court allowed appeals, set aside High Court order, and restored criminal complaint to file.
India Law Library Docid # 2433947

(163) SHIVKUMAR @ BALESHWAR YADAV Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 363, 366, 376, 506 — Kidnapping, abduction or compelling woman to marry, rape, criminal intimidation — Offences established by victim's testimony, father's corroboration, and medical evidence of forceful intercourse and presence of semen.
India Law Library Docid # 2433948

(164) DR. BALRAJ SINGH Vs. CHANCELLOR, SRI KARAN NARENDRA AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 14-10-2025
Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University Act, 2013 — Sections 25-A(1) and 25-A(2) — Suspension of Vice-Chancellor — Chancellor’s power — Conditions precedent — Consultation with State Government — Notice to University — Opportunity to show cause — Order of suspension dated 07.10.2025 quashed for non-compliance with mandatory procedural requirements, including lack of consultation with State
India Law Library Docid # 2433965

(165) M/S KHURANA BROTHERS Vs. ANAND BARDHAN PRINCIPAL SECRETARY AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Contempt of Court — Jurisdiction — Doctrine of Merger — The doctrine of merger applies to appellate or revisional orders and its application depends on the nature of the order and the scope of the appellate/revisional jurisdiction. It is not a rigid and universal rule.
India Law Library Docid # 2434013

(166) SUNIL KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397/401 — Revisional Jurisdiction — Scope — High Court in revision cannot re-evaluate evidence or substitute its own findings for those of lower courts unless there is a patent defect, error of jurisdiction, perversity, or gross unreasonableness.
India Law Library Docid # 2434037

(167) URMILA DEVI Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 372 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of appellate court's power — Appellate court can review, re-appreciate, and reconsider evidence, but must remember double presumption of innocence for accused after acquittal by trial court — If two reasonable views are possible from evidence, acquittal should not be disturbed.
India Law Library Docid # 2434038

(168) MUZAFAR HUSSAIN FAROOQUI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 498-A — Cruelty by husband or relatives of husband — Quashing of FIR and Charge Sheet — Allegations primarily against husband only — Other family members roped in without specific allegations of active involvement — Court cautioned against implication of all family members in matrimonial disputes without concrete evidence — Proceedings quashed against family
India Law Library Docid # 2434066

(169) RITIKA JAIN AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court to prevent abuse of process of court — Quashing of FIR — Allegations of forgery of will/codicil when validity of will/codicil is already sub judice before civil court — Civil suit for partition pending, civil applications disposed of, and parties referred to mediation — Criminal proceedings initiated on same subject matter
India Law Library Docid # 2434076

(170) NILESH MAGANLAL SHAH Vs. SUHAS CHAMPAKLAL DESAI AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 16 Rule 1 — Issuance of witness summons — Right of a party — A party to a suit has a right at any stage to apply for a witness summons to give evidence or produce documents. The court cannot refuse this application simply because it might cause delay.
India Law Library Docid # 2434188

(171) BHIMJIBHAI KADVABHAI RUPARELIADECD.THROUGH HIS HEIRS AND OTHERS Vs. PATEL VALLABHBHAI KADVABHAI RUPARELIA[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Registration Act, 1908 — Section 17 — Compulsory Registration — Family Arrangement — Document recording a family arrangement already concluded, merely for purpose of record or information, does not require registration unless it is intended to be the instrument of title itself — A memorandum of what was agreed upon orally, which does not create or extinguish rights in immovable property, is not compulsorily registrable.
India Law Library Docid # 2434189

(172) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. CHANDRIKABEN SUDHIRBHAI RATHOD[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 363, 302 — Kidnapping, Murder — Appeal against acquittal — Prosecution based on circumstantial evidence — Complainant (PW-1) turned hostile in chief examination and their testimony had contradictions with cross-examination — PW-4, key witness for "last seen together" theory, made improvements in his deposition compared to his police statement, making his
India Law Library Docid # 2434190

(173) CHIRALA SESHA SRINIVAS, INSPECTOR OF CETRAL EXCISE AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 19(3)(b) and (c) — Bar on stay or revision of interlocutory orders — Statutory embargo clear on granting stay or entertaining revision against interlocutory orders while trial is ongoing — Attempt to circumvent this bar by invoking writ jurisdiction under Article 226 is impermissible and amounts to abuse of process of law.
India Law Library Docid # 2434191

(174) ABHISHEK BANSAL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Succession Act, 1925 — Section 278 — Letter of Administration — Petition seeking grant of Letter of Administration for an agricultural land based on a registered Will dated 23.03.2011 — Testator expired on 17.01.2022 — The Will was duly executed, attested, and registered by the testator when of sound mind — Class-I legal heirs are son, daughter, and daughter — Petitioner No. 1 is the grandson and
India Law Library Docid # 2434216

(175) DR. JAYA THAKUR AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of pleadings — Notice issued on application for amendment of writ petition and on amended writ petition itself — Court directed issuance of notice.
India Law Library Docid # 2434256

(176) NAGESH Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Suspension of Sentence — Delay in lodging FIR, victim suffering from mental retardation, and medical reports not indicating sexual assault are grounds for suspending sentence and granting bail.
India Law Library Docid # 2434312

(177) T. PRABHAKAR RAO Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR — Abuse of process of law — Formatting of digital devices by petitioner — State's application seeking vacating of interim order or directions for passwords and information regarding backups — Petitioner’s counsel offering to re-set and activate passwords in presence of forensic experts for personal devices to retrieve
India Law Library Docid # 2434325

(178) CHINTU KUMAR Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Considerations for grant — Delay in trial — Appellant accused of serious offences under IPC and in custody for approximately two years and nine months — One witness examined, five remaining — High Court directed trial court to expedite trial within one year — Supreme Court holds prolonged custody coupled with delay in trial warrants release on bail.
India Law Library Docid # 2434336

(179) HARPREET SINGH, DIRECTOR, THE HARYANA STATE CO-OPERATIVE APEX BANK LTD. CHANDIGARH Vs. OM PARKASH RANA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Service Law — Age of Superannuation — Interim Orders — Principle that no interim order should be passed permitting continuation in service beyond the prescribed age of superannuation is a well-settled principle of law — Such orders are contrary to public policy and settled canons of law.
India Law Library Docid # 2434342

(180) ANKIT Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Power to proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty of offence — Appellant roped in by order under this section after investigation and chargesheet — Appellant initially not named in FIR and exonerated by investigation — Added as accused later based on witnesses' testimony during trial.
India Law Library Docid # 2434353