(361) MANISH Vs. AZAD AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation for Injuries — Enhancement — Principles of Just Compensation — The object of awarding damages is to make good the loss suffered as a result of the wrong done, in a fair, reasonable, and equitable manner; compensation must, to the extent possible, fully and adequately restore the claimant to the position prior to the accident — Heads under which compensation is awarded include Pecuniary Damages (treatment expenses, loss of India Law Library Docid # 2437070
(362) IRWIN EDMUND SEQUEIRA AND OTHERS Vs. SALE PROCEEDS OF MV KARNIKA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Admiralty Jurisdiction — Intervention in Suit in Rem — Bombay High Court (Original Side) Rules, 1980 — Rule 1086 — CPC, 1908 — Order 1 Rule 10 — Criteria for Intervention — Where a ship against which a suit in rem is brought is under arrest or money representing the proceeds of sale is in Court, a person with an "interest" in that ship or money may, with leave of the Judge, intervene in the suit (Rule 1086) — The existence of an interest in the vessel or sale proceeds is the true and only test f India Law Library Docid # 2437256
(363) SHRI. BHAGWAT SOPAN BANKAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 12-12-2025 Shree Shanaishwar Devasthan Trust (Shingnapur) Act, 2018 — Sections 3, 5, 36, 44, 48 — Appointment of Administrator — Validity — Appointment of Collector as Administrator on the same day the Act came into force (appointed day) — The statutory scheme contemplates the constitution of a Management Committee under Section 5 before the provision for appointment of an Administrator under Section 36 can be triggered — Section 36 is contingent upon the existing Committee (appointed under India Law Library Docid # 2437121
(364) BALAJI HANUMANT PAWAR Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (CIRCUIT BENCH AT KOLHAPUR)] 12-12-2025 Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug-Ofenders and Dangerous Persons Act, 1981 (MPDA Act) — Section 3(1) — Preventive Detention — Challenge to Detention Order — Unexplained Delay — Proposal for detention submitted by Superintendent of Police to District Magistrate's office on 4th February, 2025; noting submitted to Additional District Magistrate on 21st February, 2025 — Finding that there was unexplained delay of approximately twenty days (from India Law Library Docid # 2437183
(365) SANJIB HAZARIKA Vs. MITALI HAZARIKA[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Power of Superintendence of High Court — Scope of Interference — High Court cannot ordinarily interfere with orders of subordinate courts/tribunals under Article 227 as if acting as a court of appeal, except to ensure courts remain within their authority or where there is patent perversity, gross/manifest failure of justice, or infringement of basic principles of natural justice — This jurisdiction India Law Library Docid # 2437273
(366) MD. ABDUL NOOR Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376(2)(i) — Repeal/Deletion of provision — Retrospective Effect — Conviction under Section 376(2)(i) IPC (read with POCSO Act) reversed to Section 376(1) IPC on grounds that Section 376(2)(i) Clause (i) was deleted by Act 22 of 2018 (w.e.f 21.04.2018), prior to the date of impugned judgment (16.12.2019) — Trial Court erred in applying a provision no longer in existence. India Law Library Docid # 2437274
(367) THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS Vs. DIPAK GOGOI AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Compassionate Appointment — Eligibility Cut-off — Office Memorandum dated 01.06.2015 (Assam) — Clause 1 invalidating compassionate appointment if deceased government employee had less than 3 years of service remaining at time of death — Constitutionality — Whether classification based on remaining service period is justified under Article 14 of the Constitution. India Law Library Docid # 2437275
(368) SMT. NAIR PUSHPA SURESHKUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Sections 154B-8, 154B-23, and 77A — Disqualification of Managing Committee and Members — Non-supply of documents to members — Statutory Rigour: Section 154B-8(2) mandates that a Society must furnish copies of documents to a member upon written request and payment of fees within 45 days (or 30 days if Government-assisted) from the date of India Law Library Docid # 2436973
(369) SURESH RAMCHANDRA SANCHETI AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Maharashtra Stamp Act, 1958 — Sections 2(i), 2(l), 3, 47, 48 — Refund of Stamp Duty — Instrument never executed — Limitation Period under Section 48(3) for claiming allowance of stamp duty — Execution is vital for an instrument to come into existence and attract stamp duty under Section 3 — Stamp duty is a duty on the instrument, not a transaction tax — Where stamp duty was paid electronically for an India Law Library Docid # 2436974
(370) BHAGWANDAS DENGWANI (DEAD) THROUGH LRS AND OTHERS Vs. VINESH KUMAR ASRA[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope of Interference — The High Court, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under Section 100 CPC, should not interfere with concurrent findings of fact recorded by the lower courts unless it is established that the findings are perverse, contrary to law, or contrary to the evidence on record — Interference is restricted to errors in law or procedure, not errors on a question of fact or merely preferring another view — India Law Library Docid # 2437460
(371) RANCHI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER Vs. SURESH TIRKEY AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-12-2025 Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2011 — Section 606 — Encroachment on municipal property — Interpretation — Section 606 prohibits encroachment or obstruction on "any municipal property" and includes "such as a street or footpath or park" by way of elucidation — The provision is not confined only to streets, footpaths, or parks; it covers all municipal property — High Court Division Bench erred in restricting the India Law Library Docid # 2437509
(372) ARUN DASHMALE AND OTHERS Vs. RAMBHAROS SAHU[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378(4) — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of interference — Appellate court must consider whether the trial court’s view is a “possible one” — An order of acquittal strengthens the presumption of innocence in favor of the accused, resulting in a “double presumption” — Reversal of acquittal should be done slowly and only after thorough scrutiny based on accepted legal parameters. India Law Library Docid # 2437530
(373) RAJKUMAR SATNAMI Vs. PANNA LAL SATNAMI AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Succession Act, 1925 — Section 63 — Execution of unprivileged Will — Mandatory Requirements — A will must be proved to be signed or marked by the testator, the signature/mark must be placed with the intention to give effect to the writing as a will, and the will must be attested by two or more witnesses, each of whom must have seen the testator sign and must sign the will in the presence of the testator. Non-compliance with India Law Library Docid # 2437531
(374) DILRAKHAN TIRKY Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 304-B — Dowry Death — Essential ingredients — For sustaining conviction, prosecution must prove: (i) death by burns, injury, or unnatural cause; (ii) death within 7 years of marriage; (iii) woman subjected to cruelty or harassment soon before death; and (iv) cruelty/harassment connected with dowry demand — Elements (i) and (ii) (suicide within 7 years of marriage) admitted; controversy India Law Library Docid # 2437532
(375) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. MAHERIYA SINDHUKUMAR DEVJIBHAI AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against Acquittal — Principle of double presumption — Appellate court's power to review: An appellate court has full power to review, reappreciate, and reconsider evidence in an acquittal appeal, and may reach its own conclusions on law and fact; however, it must bear in mind the double presumption of innocence in favor of the accused (initial presumption and reinforcement by trial court acquittal); Interference is justified only if the India Law Library Docid # 2437816
(376) HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPN. LTD. Vs. HEIRS OF DECD. SHISHIRKUMARI ALLAS FLORABEN AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 (Rent Act) — Section 29(2) — Revision — Scope — The revisional jurisdiction under Section 29(2) is limited to correcting errors that make a decision contrary to law and go to the root of the decision, but it does not confer the power to rehear the matter or reappreciate evidence — The fact that a different view on evidence is possible is not a ground for exercising India Law Library Docid # 2437817
(377) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. JAYANTIBHAI @ LANGHO CHIMANBHAI SOLANKI[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376AB — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 — Sections 5(m) read with 6 — Rape on a child below 12 years of age — Sentencing — Death Penalty confirmed under Section 376AB IPC and Section 5(m) read with 6 POCSO Act by Trial Court — Commutation of sentence — Principles of rarest of rare case — Trial India Law Library Docid # 2437818
(378) PANKAJ ZAVERCHAND HARIA AND OTHERS Vs. NONE[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Succession Act, 1925 — Section 232 — Grant of Letters of Administration with Will Annexed — Application rejected by Civil Court primarily for lack of No Objection Certificate from daughters of the deceased — Daughters subsequently providing No Objection Affidavits before the High Court on appeal — Effect on outcome — Where the deceased made a Will but did not appoint an executor, Section 232 governs the grant of Letters of Administration to a universal or residuary legatee — Public notice of the India Law Library Docid # 2437819
(379) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. PATEL AMBALAL DWARKADAS AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (Atrocity Act) — Investigation by Officer Below Rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP) — Effect on Trial — Where offences relate to both Atrocity Act and Indian Penal Code (IPC), investigation by a Police Sub Inspector (PSI) for IPC offences, if subsequently part of a charge-sheet filed by a Dy.SP, does not automatically render the India Law Library Docid # 2437820
(380) STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Vs. DEEPAK KUMAR[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 12-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against Acquittal — Scope of High Court's Interference — Principles for Reviewing Acquittal — The High Court, while dealing with an appeal against acquittal, has full power to review, reappreciate and reconsider the evidence; however, the scope of interference is limited — Interference is warranted only if the judgment of acquittal suffers from patent perversity, is based on misreading/omission of material evidence, India Law Library Docid # 2437995