(221) LAXMAN PRASAD Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code, 1959 — Section 230 — Appointment of Kotwar — Eligibility criteria — Residence — Residence within the concerned village is a mandatory and foundational requirement (jurisdictional fact) for appointment as a Kotwar under the Rules framed under Section 230 — Failure to satisfy this mandatory criterion constitutes a statutory disqualification that goes to the root of eligibility and cannot be India Law Library Docid # 2437420
(222) DUDHU GRAM SEVA SHAKARI SAMITI LTD. Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 19(1)(g), 300A, 226 — Judicial Review — Economic Policy — Demonetisation — Challenge to RBI Circulars dated November 14 and 17, 2016, prohibiting District Central Co-operative Banks (DCCBs)/Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) from accepting deposits of Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) — Scope of judicial review in economic matters is India Law Library Docid # 2437718
(223) RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION, CORPORTATION LTD Vs. M/S PRAMAN CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD.[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Limitation Act, 1963 — Articles 18, 55, and 113 — Suit for recovery of money and breach of contract following contract rescission — Accrual of Cause of Action — Contract for construction rescinded by Corporation on 23.09.2010; final measurement conducted on 06.10.2010 — Cause of action for initiating legal proceedings stood crystallized, at the latest, on the date of final measurement (06.10.2010) — The India Law Library Docid # 2437719
(224) BHAURIKBHAI UTTAMBHAI GHIWALA AND OTHERS Vs. KOKILABEN W/O NADUBHAI @ NANDUBHAI HARIBHAI SURATI AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 (Rent Act) — Section 29(2) — Civil Revision Application — Scope of Revisional Jurisdiction — The revisional power under Section 29(2) is limited to correcting errors of law that go to the root of the decision; it does not authorize the High Court to re-hear the matter or reappreciate evidence, even if a different view of the evidence is possible — The High India Law Library Docid # 2437750
(225) RAVAL BHANUBEN BABUBHAI AND OTHERS Vs. RASHMIKABEN DEEPAKBHAI DOSHI AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Scope of Jurisdiction — When considering an application for rejection of plaint under Order 7 Rule 11(d) (suit barred by law), the court must confine itself strictly to the averments made in the plaint and nothing else, without undertaking an inquiry into disputed facts, veracity of documents, or considering the defense — The suit must be India Law Library Docid # 2437751
(226) SHRI ASHWINBHAI MANUBHAI PATEL AND OTHERS Vs. HEIRS OF CHUNIBHAI VERIBHAI PATEL AND HEIRS OF LATE PRAVINBHAI CHUNIBHAI PATEL AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 (Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948) — Sections 85 and 85A — Bar of Civil Court Jurisdiction — Suits involving tenancy issues — Mandate to stay suit — Section 85 expressly bars the Civil Court from settling, deciding, or dealing with any question required to be determined by the Mamlatdar or Tribunal, including the question of whether a person is or was in the past a tenant — Section 85A obligates the Civil Court to stay a suit and India Law Library Docid # 2437752
(227) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. PRAMODBHAI MANILAL PATEL AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of Appellate Court’s Power — The appellate court in an appeal against acquittal should not substitute its own view by reversing the acquittal into conviction, even if an alternate view is possible, unless the trial court’s findings are perverse, contrary to the material on record, palpably wrong, manifestly erroneous, or demonstrably unsustainable India Law Library Docid # 2437753
(228) LAND ACQUISITION AND REHABILITATION OFFICER AND ANOTHER Vs. PATEL MEGHAJI PABAJI AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Sections 4, 6, 11, 28 — Determination of Compensation — Uniformity in Valuation — Land acquired for "Sujalam Safalam" Canal — Applicability of Precedent — Where appeals and cross objections arise from the acquisition of land in the same village (Ghela) or an adjacent village (Lakhani) for the same public purpose—and an earlier coordinate bench judgment determined the compensation for the adjacent village based on the Valuation Committee Report and India Law Library Docid # 2437754
(229) SAIYED SABBIRALI AKBARMIYA Vs. BANUBIBI AKBARMIYA SAIYED[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 37 (Summary Suits) — Leave to Defend — Effect of unconditional leave to defend — Once a court grants unconditional leave to defend, the summary suit is converted into a long cause suit, and the Civil Court must proceed further to decide the matter on merits by allowing parties to place their evidence on record, thereby crossing the threshold of proceedings under Order 37 of the CPC — India Law Library Docid # 2437755
(230) KAILASH CHAND SAINI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 19-12-2025 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) — Essential Ingredients — Proof of Offence — For conviction under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d), the prosecution must prove three essential ingredients beyond reasonable doubt: (1) demand of illegal gratification by the public servant, (2) acceptance or recovery thereof, and (3) pendency of work related to the bribe. India Law Library Docid # 2437779
(231) JAI RAO AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 19-12-2025 Writ Petition — Maintainability — Locus Standi and Exhaustion of Alternative Remedy — Petitioners (a handful of students) sought directions for conducting annual Student Union Elections based on the Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations — Held, the petitions lacked locus standi because a minuscule number of students without authorization cannot represent the student community at large (approximately India Law Library Docid # 2437780
(232) PYAR SINGH Vs. MEENA KUMARI[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-12-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138, 139 — Dishonour of cheque — Presumption of legally enforceable debt (Section 139) — Financial capacity of Complainant — While the presumption under Section 139 arises upon admission of signature, it is rebuttable; the accused can rebut it by raising a probable defence through cross-examination or independent evidence, including questioning the complainant's financial capacity to advance the loan. India Law Library Docid # 2438001
(233) RAJESH UPADHAYAY Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Suspension of execution of sentence pending appeal and release on bail — Scope and distinction with bail — Appellate Court must record proper reasons for suspending sentence; it should not be passed as a matter of routine — The Appellate Court must not reappreciate evidence or attempt to find lacunae in the prosecution case at this stage — Once convicted, the India Law Library Docid # 2437075
(234) LALU SHEIKH @ MALU SHEIKH Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 18-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ Jurisdiction — Judicial Review of Foreigners' Tribunal Order — Scope of Certiorari — A Writ Court exercising certiorari jurisdiction does not act as an Appellate Court and does not reweigh or review evidence — Intervention is limited to examining the decision-making process for procedural impropriety or illegality, not findings of fact made by the Tribunal. India Law Library Docid # 2437236
(235) M/S. SURGUJA BRICKS INDUSTRIES COMPANY Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-12-2025 Tender and Contract — Eligibility Criteria — Interpretation of "prime contractor" and "in the same name and style" — Requirement of work experience — Where an NIT's pre-qualification document requires "each prime contractor in the same name and style (tenderer)" to have completed previous work, and the term "prime contractor" is undefined, its meaning must be derived from common parlance as the India Law Library Docid # 2437088
(236) M/S. CARBORANDUM UNIVERSAL LTD. Vs. ESI CORPORATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-12-2025 Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 — Section 45A — Determination of contributions in certain cases — Preconditions for invoking Section 45A — Section 45A is a special provision for best-judgment assessment applicable only when an employer fails to submit, furnish, or maintain returns, particulars, registers, or records as required by Section 44, OR obstructs an Inspector or official in discharging duties India Law Library Docid # 2437089
(237) PUNIMATI AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 18-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) —Section 302 read with Sections 149 and 148 — Murder —Conviction affirmed by High Court — Appeal to Supreme Court — Sufficiency of evidence — Role of interested/related witnesses — Deposition of PW-4 (mother of deceased and alleged eyewitness) scrutinized closely — Material contradictions found in PW-4’s evidence regarding the manner of assault and who informed her — Failure India Law Library Docid # 2437090
(238) SURAJIT KUMAR BHAGOWATI Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 18-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 482, 320, 397, 401 — Indian Penal Code (IPC) — Section 354A, 447, 506 — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Exercise of Inherent Powers of High Court — Offence non-compoundable but dispute is private and personal — Two cross-petitions (sexual harassment charge under Section 354A IPC, and threat/trespass charge under Sections 447/506 IPC) arising between two College faculty members (Principal and Assistant Professor) — India Law Library Docid # 2437233
(239) ARNESH HARIZON Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 18-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 304 Part II — Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder — Conviction — Modification — Lower Court found accused lacked intention to cause death but acted with knowledge that injury was likely to cause death — Appellate Court finds contradictions between eyewitness accounts (kick to stomach) and post-mortem report (death due to head injury/haemorrhage) — Head injury seemingly caused by falling on bamboo during scuffle — Lack of direct India Law Library Docid # 2437234
(240) MISS SAHIN AKHTAR AHMED AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 18-12-2025 Railways Act, 1989 — Section 124 read with Section 124A — Compensation for Untoward Incident (Accidental Falling) — Strict Liability — Death of bona fide passenger travelling on a valid ticket, sustained injuries after accidentally falling from a running train, and subsequently succumbed to injuries — Incident qualifies as an 'untoward incident' under Section 123(c) (accidental falling of any passenger from a train carrying passengers) — Whether the Tribunal erred in dismissing the claim due India Law Library Docid # 2437235