(401) VASHRAMBHAI SHAMJIBHAI BARAIYA AND OTHERS Vs. L H OF DECD. NARANBHAI DEVABHAI SADADIYA AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Mamlatdar Courts Act, 1906 — Section 5 — Right of Way — Obstruction — Scope of Mamlatdar's jurisdiction — Mamlatdar found obstruction on pathway traditionally used by petitioners (agriculturists) and their forefathers for access to their land (Survey No. 116) and found no alternate way based on spot inspection, panchkyas (inspection report), and neighbor statements — Deputy Collector, in revision, despite DILR India Law Library Docid # 2437821
(402) SHEETAL CHANDRAKANT KUNJIR Vs. CHANDRAKANT TUKARAM KUNJIR AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 2(f) — 'Domestic relationship' and 'relationship in the nature of marriage' (Live-in Relationship) — Petitioner married Respondent No. 1 (who was already married to Respondent No. 2) — Issue is whether such a relationship, entered into with knowledge of the male partner's existing marriage, qualifies as a 'relationship in the India Law Library Docid # 2437953
(403) DR. SOHAIL MALIK Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act) — Section 11 — Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) — Jurisdiction against employee of different department — The ICC constituted at the workplace/department of the "aggrieved woman" has jurisdiction to entertain and inquire into a complaint of sexual harassment against a "respondent" India Law Library Docid # 2436626
(404) NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 36(1)(viii) — Deduction for profits derived from the business of providing long-term finance — Scope and Interpretation of "derived from" — The amendment by Finance Act, 1995, intentionally narrowed the scope of deduction from "total income" to "profits derived from such business of providing long-term finance" to prevent corporations from claiming benefits on diversified income, thereby "ring-fencing" the fiscal benefit India Law Library Docid # 2436627
(405) THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL Vs. ANIL KUMAR DEY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (PC Act) — Section 18A — PC Act read with Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 1944 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 102 — Seizure vs. Attachment/Confiscation of Property — Whether power of police officer to freeze accounts under Section 102 CrPC is co-existent or mutually exclusive with the machinery for attachment under Section 18A India Law Library Docid # 2436628
(406) MOHAN LAL FATEHPURIA Vs. M/S BHARAT TEXTILES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 29A(1), 29A(4), 29A(6), 23(4) — Time limit for arbitral award — Termination of mandate — Substitution of Arbitrator — Section 29A aims for time-bound disposal of arbitration proceedings — An award in non-international commercial arbitration must be made within twelve months from completion of pleadings (Section 23(4)) — If the award is not made India Law Library Docid # 2436629
(407) M/S. SHRI KARSHNI ALLOYS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. RAMAKRISHNAN SADASIVAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Section 62 — Liquidation Process — Sale of Assets — Appeals against NCLAT majority decision confirming forfeiture of amount paid by bidder — Private sale requiring Adjudicating Authority's prior approval — Regulation 33(2)(d) of IBBI (Liquidation Process) Regulations, 2016 — Where liquidator seeks NCLT approval for private sale after failed auctions India Law Library Docid # 2436630
(408) M/S. SARASWATI WIRE AND CABLE INDUSTRIES Vs. MOHAMMAD MOINUDDIN KHAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 9 — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) — Application by Operational Creditor — Pre-existing Dispute — Adjudicating authority must determine if operational debt exists, if non-payment has occurred, and if a dispute existed prior to the demand notice (Section 8) — Dispute must be genuine, substantial, and not spurious, hypothetical, or illusory India Law Library Docid # 2436631
(409) VINEETA SRINANDAN Vs. HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ON ITS OWN MOTION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Sections 2(c), 12, 19 — Criminal Contempt — Power to Punish and Forgive — The power to punish for contempt carries the concomitant power to forgive when the contemnor demonstrates genuine remorse and repentance, making the extension of mercy an integral part of judicial conscience — Contempt jurisdiction is neither a personal armour for Judges nor a sword to silence India Law Library Docid # 2436632
(410) KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK LTD Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 — Section 60(1), 60(2), 60(3) — Adjudicating Authority — Jurisdiction over Personal Guarantor — Where a Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) or liquidation proceeding of a corporate debtor is pending before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), any application relating to the insolvency resolution or bankruptcy of the personal India Law Library Docid # 2436978
(411) ASHIT KUKIAN AND OTHERS Vs. SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC COMPANIES ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Civil Contempt — Maintainability of Contempt Petition for Non-Payment of Money/Royalty — When the original order in Civil Miscellaneous Appeals (CMAs) fixes the royalty rate (2% of net advertisement earnings plus a minimum floor rate of Rs. 660/- per needle hour) but does not quantify the final executable amount, non-payment of such unquantified money does not constitute willful India Law Library Docid # 2436655
(412) DR. ANAMYA ROY Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Service Law — Appointment — Assistant Professor — Eligibility — Post advertised required candidates to possess qualifications (including NET/SLET/Ph.D. in the concerned subject) as on the last date of application submission — Petitioner acquired NET qualification subsequent to the cut-off date stated in the advertisement — Acquiring requisite qualification after the cut-off date renders a candidate ineligible; subsequent events cannot be considered for eligibility India Law Library Docid # 2437321
(413) RAJIB LUTHANI ALIAS RAJIB LONGTHULU AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 456(1) — Restoration of possession of immovable property — Executability of order — Whether specific description of land is mandatory in conviction judgment — Original conviction directed restoration of possession but did not specify the land's boundary/survey details — Subsequent miscellaneous case to enforce restoration led to the trial court identifying the land using details from a collateral proceeding India Law Library Docid # 2437322
(414) MADHURJYA HAZARIKA Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 — Section 6 (Aggravated penetrative sexual assault) — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 366 (Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc.) — Conviction and Sentencing — Appeal against conviction and sentence of rigorous imprisonment for life under Section 6 of POCSO Act and 10 years India Law Library Docid # 2437323
(415) MD. ABUL KALAM AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302/34, 324/34, 325/34 — Murder and Voluntarily causing hurt — Appeal against conviction — Conviction by Additional Sessions Judge under Sections 302/34, 324/34, and 325/34 IPC affirmed — Incident stemmed from a dispute over cattle damaging cultivation and subsequent altercation/premeditated assault — Deceased, a 13-year-old boy, died from a head injury caused by blunt force (lathi) — Injured witnesses India Law Library Docid # 2437324
(416) THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH THR. ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS Vs. JYOTI BHUSHAN MISHRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Forest Law — Exchange of Land — Validity and Consequences — Agricultural land exchanged with forest land in 1965 with State Government approval — Forest Department planted trees and maintained continuous, uninterrupted possession for over 20 years — Subsequent sale of exchanged forest land by original farmers to third parties (respondents) held void ab initio by the State — High Court erred by not considering the legal status of the land and relevant notifications and documents India Law Library Docid # 2437399
(417) HARI SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 306 read with Section 107 — Essential Ingredients of Abetment — To sustain conviction under Section 306 IPC, prosecution must prove (i) commission of suicide and (ii) abetment by the accused through instigation, intentional aiding, or active participation with the requisite clear mens rea to provoke the act — Abetment requires an active and direct act or continuous conduct proximate to the time of suicide, leaving the deceased with no other option India Law Library Docid # 2437459
(418) AMRIT LAL KERKETTA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860, Sections 376(1), 420, 376(1)/109 — Conviction set aside due to unreliable prosecutrix testimony and lack of corroborating evidence — Prosecutrix, a major and educated woman, failed to resist or report the alleged confinement and sexual assault despite multiple opportunities over several days — Initial statement given to police favored the accused, changed only upon arrival of family members/uncle (who had prior enmity allegation with accused) — Medical evidence did not find any India Law Library Docid # 2437461
(419) RATTANINDIA POWER LIMITED Vs. MAHARASHTRA STATE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Electricity Act, 2003 — Section 125 — Appeal to Supreme Court — Scope of Judicial Review — Appeal against Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) order denying compounding interest on Carrying Cost (for Change in Law compensation) — APTEL's powers under Section 111(6) (suo motu) vs. Supreme Court's powers under Section 125 — Supreme Court's power under Section 125 is invoked by an aggrieved person on grounds under Section 100 CPC; unlike APTEL, Supreme Court India Law Library Docid # 2437483
(420) MANEETA SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. VIRENDRA PRATAP SINGH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Enhancement — Quantum of Income — Deceased engaged in videography and computer mixing work — High Court adopted notional income of Rs. 48,000/- per annum — Supreme Court found it reasonable to accept the income claimed by the appellants (Rs. 7,000/- per month), considering the incremental increase allowed in precedents like Pranay Sethi, which India Law Library Docid # 2437506