(441) BRANCH MANAGER, PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND OTHERS Vs. GURU NANAK ENGINEERING WORKS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-11-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Debts Recovery Tribunal — Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 (RDB Act) — Non-Performing Asset (NPA) — High Court set aside demand notice under Section 13(2) of SARFAESI Act and quashed all further India Law Library Docid # 2435415
(442) CHANDIMA JANAKA WIJESINGHE Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-11-2025 Family Law — Custody/Visitation/Interlocutory Arrangement — Dispute between husband (Sri Lankan citizen) and wife concerning children — Supreme Court facilitated interaction between parties and children and recorded encouraging signs of lack of animosity — Interim arrangement agreed upon: (i) Wife to arrange a nearby 2/3 bedroom India Law Library Docid # 2435416
(443) SMT MEENAKSHI OBERG Vs. SH. KARUN DUBE AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Sections 61, 64, 65(c), 65-B — Electronic Evidence — Admissibility of secondary evidence — Compliance with Best Evidence Rule — Where the Appellant/Plaintiff No.1 admits losing the original Loan Agreement (LA) and only produces a scanned copy, she fails to meet the requirement of proving a document through primary evidence (Sections 61 and 64) — Inability to produce the India Law Library Docid # 2435976
(444) HIMMAT SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. ARUP SINHA ROY[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 and Order 41 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13 — Appeal against judgment and decree of Commercial Court — Brokerage/Commission for introducing a builder — Existence of Contract/Enforceable Understanding — Where the broker (Respondent/Plaintiff) introduced a builder (M/s Design Consortia) to the property owners India Law Library Docid # 2435977
(445) STATE Vs. DAYA SHANKAR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378(1)(b) — Appeal against Acquittal — Principle of Double Presumption of Innocence — The presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is reinforced and strengthened upon acquittal by the Trial Court — An appellate court should be slow in reversing an India Law Library Docid # 2435978
(446) MATTEM PENCHALAIAH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF A.P. AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Mandamus — Land Acquisition — Compensation vs. Ex gratia Payment — Petitioners sought payment of compensation instead of ex gratia for lands resumed for a new broad gauge line, relying on previous High Court and Supreme Court judgments holding assignees entitled to compensation as pattadars/landowners — Action of revenue authority in India Law Library Docid # 2436217
(447) PUJALI DURGA DEVI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF AP[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 372/374(2)/378(4) — Appeal against conviction — Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Section 302 — Murder — Dying Declaration — Reliability — Conviction based primarily on two dying declarations (Exs.P1 and P9) — Ex.P1 deemed unreliable as Prosecution Witness (P.W.1) admitted police obtained deceased's thumb impression on a blank paper before India Law Library Docid # 2436218
(448) ALI MOHAMMAD MIR AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Clarification of Judgment — Scope and Purpose — Application seeking clarification of a previous judgment (dated 25.04.2025 in WP(C) No. 3395/2023) to address impediments raised by revenue authorities (Tehsildar) during implementation — Clarification granted to remove obstruction raised by Tehsildar regarding the status of ancestors of petitioners as "Assamis" and their entitlement to proprietary rights based on India Law Library Docid # 2436257
(449) ZAIN ELECTRICALS AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) — Mootness — Allotment of Contract — Appeal challenging composite e-NITs dismissed as infructuous because contracts were already allotted to successful bidders and appellants failed to challenge the allotment — However, appeal heard on merits due to appellants' insistence on adjudication of underlying legal issues. India Law Library Docid # 2436296
(450) ABDUL AZIZ HAFIZ AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Letters Patent Appeal — Against dismissal of writ petition challenging Financial Commissioner’s order — Scope of interference — High Court affirming the Writ Court's dismissal, holding that the Financial Commissioner rightly exercised supervisory powers to set aside illegal and void ab initio mutations that divested a lawful heir of her India Law Library Docid # 2436297
(451) RAKESH PRASAD UNIYAL Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Right to Consideration — Petitioner's Right — A candidate for promotion has only a right to be considered for promotion in accordance with relevant rules, and no fundamental right to the promotion itself — Employer has the discretion to set criteria for recruitment and cancel or withhold a recruitment process for cogent reasons — Mere issuance of an advertisement or midway selection does not confer a right to appointment. India Law Library Docid # 2436543
(452) DR. HARI DATT PATHAK Vs. SMT. SANJEEDA BEGUM (NOW REPRESENTED THROUGH LEGAL HEIR MOHD. ASHEEM SIDDIQUI) AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 — Section 21(1)(a) (Release proceedings on ground of bona fide requirement) and Section 22 (Appeal) — Application of Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) — Proceedings under the U.P. Act are special proceedings governed by a self-contained mechanism (Rule 22 of the Rules) — CPC does not apply in its entirety; only limited application is India Law Library Docid # 2436544
(453) M/S. JINDAL INDIA THERMAL POWER LIMITED Vs. COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCIAL TAXES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Odisha Entry Tax Act, 1999 — Liability to Pay Interest — Payment of arrears of Entry Tax (Principal component) in installments sanctioned by Commissionerate — Order granting installments explicitly clarified liability to pay statutory interest "as per the Odisha Entry Tax Act, 1999 till full discharge of the principal component of the entry tax dues" — Applicant challenging liability to pay statutory interest at 12% per annum on India Law Library Docid # 2435440
(454) LATA TOLANI Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Bail — Grant of bail by Supreme Court — Setting aside High Court's dismissal of bail application — Grounds for grant include prolonged trial (only one out of fourteen witnesses examined) and appellant being a lady entitled to protection under Section 480, Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Appellant need not be detained in India Law Library Docid # 2435445
(455) AMOL Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail Cancellation — Power of High Court — Offence involving minor victim (16 years old) with alleged consensual relationship and no physical exploitation (Section 161 CrPC statement) — Initial grant of bail based on absence of force and victim appearing to be in consensual relationship — Subsequent cancellation of bail based on coercion/pressure India Law Library Docid # 2435447
(456) SONAL SHROFF Vs. KARAN GAJJAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Transfer Petition (Civil) — Matrimonial Disputes — Amicable Settlement — Supreme Court successfully persuades parties (husband and wife) to resolve all disputes amicably and enter into a full and final Settlement Agreement dated 11-11-2025. India Law Library Docid # 2435451
(457) NANKI BAI SEN Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against Acquittal — Standard of Review — An appellate court should be cautious and slow in interfering with a trial court’s judgment of acquittal, recognizing the trial court’s advantage in observing witness demeanor and the strengthening of the presumption of innocence in favor of the accused upon acquittal (double presumption) — Interference is justified only India Law Library Docid # 2435843
(458) SMT. MAGLINCE JOHN Vs. SHRI THOMAS JOHN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 19(1) — Appeal against Judgment and Decree of Family Court — Divorce Act, 1869 — Sections 10(ix) (Desertion) and 10(x) (Cruelty) — Grounds for Dissolution of Marriage — Appeal filed by wife challenging the decree of divorce granted to the husband on grounds of desertion and cruelty — Findings of the Family Court upheld based on the evidence that the parties were living separately for a India Law Library Docid # 2435844
(459) BHUPINDER KAUR ALIAS BHUPINDER KAUR BOPARAI Vs. DIAMON SANDHU ALIAS SUKHDEEP SINGH SANDHU AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(b) — Rejection of plaint — Court fees — Where a non-executant of a sale deed sues for a declaration that the deed is invalid and not binding on them, and they are in possession, only a fixed court fee is payable, not ad valorem. India Law Library Docid # 2435216
(460) JARNAIL SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 450, 376, 302, 201 — House-trespass to commit offence punishable with imprisonment for life, Rape, Murder, Causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information — Conviction based on circumstantial evidence — The court must be satisfied that the evidence clearly establishes each link in the chain, and the entire chain rules out any reasonable India Law Library Docid # 2435221