(281) GOVIND AGARWAL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Rajasthan Urban Improvement Trust Act, 1959 — Rajasthan Udaipur Development Authority Act, 2023 — Article 300A — Constitution Of India — Master Plan — Zonal Development Plan — Correction/Modification of Land Use Map — Petitioners owning land in Udaipur area seeking correction of Master Plan-2031 map alleging typographical/drafting error, arguing their land falls under Green Zone-2 (G-2) based on distance criteria, despite being incorrectly demarcated as India Law Library Docid # 2437564
(282) SUNNI MUSLIM IDGAH MASJID TRUST Vs. HARDIK SITARAM PATEL AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Waqf Act, 1995 — Section 83(1), 83(3) and Chapter VIII (Judicial Proceedings) — Applicability of Court Fees Act to proceedings before Waqf Tribunal — Proceedings for recovery of possession and eviction of tenant under Section 83(3), albeit styled as "application," are essentially in the nature of an adversarial "suit" seeking judicial determination of rights and obligations, culminating in a decision having the force of a India Law Library Docid # 2437757
(283) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. RAJENDRASINH PRAHALADJI PARMAR AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Principles governing appellate interference — Double presumption of innocence in favor of the accused (initial presumption plus reinforcement by acquittal) — Appellate court can review evidence but must consider whether the trial court's view is a "possible view" based on the record — If two reasonable conclusions are possible, the appellate court India Law Library Docid # 2437758
(284) VADODARA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION Vs. MOMINABEN MALBULBHAI GHANIVALA AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — First Appeal — Challenge to Judgment and Decree — Suit for damages against Municipal Corporation — Death caused by a stray bull accident — Negligence and Contributory Negligence — Trial Court partly decreed suit, holding Corporation 70% negligent and deceased 30% contributorily negligent — High Court confirmed the findings citing statutory duty of India Law Library Docid # 2437759
(285) HEIRS OF SAIYED RAHIM DALUBHAI- EMNA RAHIM DALUBHAI AND OTHERS Vs. HEIR OF DECD SAIYED KARIMBHAI REHMATULLA-LATE SAIYED DAUDBHAI KARIMBHAI AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) — Order 22 — Abatement of Suit — Drawing of Final Decree — Plaintiffs' failure to bring legal representatives (LRs) on record within the stipulated time after remand order, and subsequent rejection of application (Exh. 78) to bring LRs on record, resulted in the suit being dismissed as abated (below Exh. 1); the rejection of application for drawing a final decree (Exh. 52) was appropriate as the India Law Library Docid # 2437760
(286) GUJARAT WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE BOARD AND ANOTHER Vs. PASHIM GUJARAT VIJ COP LTD AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — First Appeal — Suit for Recovery of Minimum Electricity Charges — Scope of Appeal — Appellant (Original Defendant Nos. 1 & 2) challenging judgment and decree holding them jointly and severally liable for recovery of minimum electricity charges — Suit filed by Plaintiff (Electricity Service Provider) against Appellants (Board and its Subsidiary) and Original India Law Library Docid # 2437761
(287) STATE OF GUJARAT AND OTHERS Vs. HARENDRRAKUMAR NATWARSINHJI PORBANDAR[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960 — Sections 6(1), 6(3-C), 6(3-D), 2(16), 2(20), 2(21) — Determination of Ceiling Area — Unit Allocation to Adopted Son — Scheme of Act — Entitlement of a major son to a separate ceiling unit — Deeming Fiction — The relevant date for considering the entitlement of a major son (including an adopted son) to a separate unit under Section 6(3-C) is the 'appointed day' (June 15, India Law Library Docid # 2437762
(288) M/S AQUAGRI PROCESSING PVT. LTD. Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 17-12-2025 Fertilizer (Inorganic, Organic or Mixed) Control Order, 1985 (FCO, 1985) — Bio-stimulants — Provisional Registration (Form G-3) and Authorization (Form A-2) — Requirement of disclosure — Failure by manufacturer (Petitioner) to make complete and transparent disclosure of all processing units in statutory Forms (G-1 and A-2) for obtaining provisional registration and authorization for sale, constitutes a regulatory India Law Library Docid # 2437778
(289) M/S SRI LAKSHMI BALAJI ENTERPRISES AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S ANGEETHIS RESTAURANT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 17-12-2025 Stamp Act, 1899 — Section 2(5) (a) to (c) — Stamp Duty — Nature of Document — Admissibility in Evidence — Whether a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) constitutes a 'Bond' requiring higher stamp duty — The nature of a document is determined by its contents, not merely its nomenclature — A document qualifies as a 'Bond' under Section 2(5) if it is an instrument by which a person puts himself under India Law Library Docid # 2437832
(290) COMMISSIONERS FOR HIS MAJESTY'S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS Vs. HOTEL LA TOUR LTD[UNITED KINGDOM SUPREME COURT] 17-12-2025 Value Added Tax (VAT) — Input Tax Deduction — Right to Deduct — General Principle — VAT is intended to be a tax borne by the ultimate consumer; a trader generally deducts input VAT paid on goods/services used in business from output VAT collected from customers—Right to deduction applies even if no specific output transaction is linked, provided costs are part of general overheads and are used for the taxable person's economic activity as a whole India Law Library Docid # 2437978
(291) IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW[UNITED KINGDOM SUPREME COURT] 17-12-2025 Public Interest Immunity (PII) — Judicial Review of Coroner's Decision to Disclose Gists – Standard of Review — Whether appellate court must apply ordinary public law standards (such as Wednesbury irrationality) or conduct its own assessment (reconsideration) of the public interest balance — PII assessment involves application of a substantive law of evidence, not the exercise of discretion — Appellate or reviewing court must determine whether the first instance decision India Law Library Docid # 2437979
(292) MOHAN LAL Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 17-12-2025 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7 and 13(2) — Conviction — Essential ingredients — To establish an offence under Section 7, proof of demand and voluntary acceptance of illegal gratification by the public servant are sine qua non — Mere recovery of tainted money, without proof of demand, is insufficient to secure India Law Library Docid # 2437998
(293) ARUN AND OTHERS Vs. SAU. MEENA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 16-12-2025 Hindu Law — Joint Family Property — Ancestral Property vs. Separate Property — Property received by a Hindu male (vendor) from his father, who had received it in a partition post-Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (HSA) — Partition between father and his sons (vendor and brother) resulted in the property becoming the separate property of the father — Upon the father's demise post-HSA, the vendor inherited the property under Section 8 of the HSA (Succession/Inheritance) rather than by survivorship — Such India Law Library Docid # 2437003
(294) MAKIBAR RAHMAN @ MUKIBUR RAHMAN Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 16-12-2025 Criminal Law — Appeal against conviction — Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 419 (Cheating by impersonation) and 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (P.C. Act) — Sections 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) (Criminal misconduct by public servant) — Conviction solely based on Handwriting Expert's opinion (PW19) — Requisite corroboration — Whether conviction can be sustained without substantial or direct India Law Library Docid # 2437239
(295) NORTH EASTERN DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION LTD. (NEDFI) Vs. M/S L. DOULO BUILDERS AND SUPPLIERS CO. PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-12-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act, 2002) — Applicability in Nagaland — Constitutional Mandate — Article 371A of the Constitution of India — Special provision with respect to the State of Nagaland — Article 371A(1)(a)(iv) stipulates that no Act of Parliament concerning ownership and transfer of land and its resources shall apply to Nagaland unless the Legislative Assembly resolves so — SARFAESI India Law Library Docid # 2436961
(296) SANJAY KUMAR UPADHYAY Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-12-2025 Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 — Section 34(4) — Transfer of proceedings and effect of orders — Section 34(4) provides that any order made by the High Court at Patna before the appointed day in certain proceedings, shall for all purposes have effect not only as an order of the High Court at Patna but also as an order made by the High Court of Jharkhand — This deeming provision ensures continuity of judicial India Law Library Docid # 2436962
(297) CEMENT CORPORATION OF INDIA Vs. ICICI LOMBARD GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-12-2025 Insurance Law — Fire Insurance Policy — Scope of Coverage — Proximate Cause — Repudiation of Claim — Loss occasioned by fire following an attempted theft/burglary — Policy covered 'Fire' as a specified peril with limited exclusions which did not include theft/burglary preceding the fire — Insurer denied claim arguing that the proximate cause was theft/burglary, which was excluded under the Riots Strike and Malicious Damages (RSMD) clause — Held: Once the loss is caused India Law Library Docid # 2436963
(298) JAYANTIBHAI CHATURBHAI PATEL Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376(2)(d) — Rape — Appreciation of Evidence — Conviction solely based on First Information Report (FIR) or previous statements of hostile witnesses — Admissibility and reliability — Victim (PW-1) and her husband (PW-2) turned hostile and did not support the prosecution case during trial — Court should be slow to act on the testimony of hostile witness and normally India Law Library Docid # 2436964
(299) RAJ PAL SINGH Vs. RAJVEER AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 read with Section 34 — Murder — Appeal against acquittal — Powers of Appellate Court — Reversal of acquittal — Principles — The guilt of the accused must be established beyond reasonable doubt (must or should, not may be) — Once an accused is acquitted, the presumption of innocence is reinforced — Interference by the appellate court must be minimal and guided by "substantial and compelling reasons" — Reversal should not occur merely because India Law Library Docid # 2436965
(300) R. ASHOKA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 16-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court to quash FIR — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Allegations against former Minister (Chairman of Regularisation Committee) regarding illegal land allotments to non-eligible persons — Principles for quashing FIR reiterated, including where institution and continuance of proceedings amount to abuse of process of court or securing ends of justice, or where proceedings are manifestly India Law Library Docid # 2436966