(501) SMT. MAYA DHAKAD Vs. SHRI BHARAT DHAKAD[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 05-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Supervisory Jurisdiction — Challenging Appellate Order on Temporary Injunction — Power under Article 227 is exercised to correct manifest injustice, jurisdictional error, or perversity, not merely because a different view is possible — High Court affirmed the Appellate Court's decision granting temporary injunction as it found the order legal, proper, and India Law Library Docid # 2436290
(502) SANDEEP SINGH THAKUR Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Power of Supreme Court to do complete justice — Invocation of extraordinary powers — Case involving conviction for sexual offense (Sections 376(2)(n) and 417 IPC) based on 'false promise of marriage' — Parties (appellant and prosecutrix) subsequently agreed to marry and got married during the pendency of appeal against rejection of suspension of sentence — Supreme Court, upon noting the marriage and cohabitation, invoked Article 142 to India Law Library Docid # 2437397
(503) SHEIKH IRSHAD @MONU Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 20 and 29 — Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) — Sections 3(1)(i)(ii), 3(2), 3(4) — Bail Cancellation — Interference — Bail cancellation merely due to non-compliance with a condition requiring appearance at the police station (twice a month) is not justified, especially when the seized quantity is intermediate (non-commercial - 2 kgs 728 grams Ganja), the accused has completed India Law Library Docid # 2437406
(504) T. DHANYA Vs. THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Education/Admission — Payment of Fees — Time extension for deposit — In the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, petitioner(s)/appellant(s) granted entitlement to complete deposit of requisite fees by a specific extended date (10.12.2025) — Upon deposit, seats allocated in appropriate college(s). India Law Library Docid # 2437423
(505) TONLONG KONYAK Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 05-12-2025 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) — Section 43D(2)(a) — Default Bail — Right to Statutory Bail — Extension of time for investigation — Investigation period can be extended to 180 days only by an express order of the Court recording specific reasons — Where the Special Judge rejected the application for extension of time to complete investigation, and the chargesheet was filed almost two years after the petitioner’s arrest, the prolonged custody without chargesheet India Law Library Docid # 2437424
(506) PANCHRAM KURRE AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Criminal Law — Conviction and Sentence — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 325/34 (Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by several persons) and 341 (Wrongful restraint) — Appeal against conviction — Evidence — Consistency of prosecution evidence regarding wrongful restraint and assault causing grievous hurt (including fracture) upheld based on medical and police evidence — Non-establishment of India Law Library Docid # 2437467
(507) HIMMAT SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Essential Commodities Act, 1955 — Sections 2(a), 3 and 7 — Applicability — Essential Commodity — Gas Regulator — Penal provisions under the EC Act can only be invoked if the commodity is expressly enumerated in Section 2(a) or notified by the Central Government — A gas regulator, being merely an accessory used with LPG, cannot be treated as an “essential commodity” unless specifically declared so by a statutory instrument — In the absence of such a notification or control order India Law Library Docid # 2437555
(508) BRIJ MOHAN @ RAJA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 — Section 3(1)(x) (as applicable in 1991) — Essential Ingredients — Requirement of 'In any place within public view' — The provision punishes intentional insult or intimidation with intent to humiliate a member of SC/ST when committed 'in any place within public view' — This phrase mandates that the alleged act must occur at a location where it is capable of being observed, perceived, or witnessed by objective India Law Library Docid # 2437556
(509) MEHRUNISHA AND OTHERS Vs. LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF MANSUR AHMAD AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — First Appeal — Scope of Appellate Review — The duty of the appellate court is to reassess both facts and law, testing each finding of the Trial Court against settled principles of evidence like onus probandi and that the plaintiff must succeed on the strength of their own case, not the weakness of the defence. India Law Library Docid # 2437557
(510) DALPAT SINGH AND OTHER Vs. LRS OF JABBAR SINGH, THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Legality and correctness of rejection of plaint under Order 7 Rule 11 affirmed by Appellate Court — Suit seeking permanent and mandatory injunction to restrain alienation of plots allotted by RIICO (Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation) and direction to RIICO to execute a lease deed in favour of the plaintiff — Plaint rejected concurrently by Trial Court and First Appellate Court. India Law Library Docid # 2437558
(511) NURMOHMMED JAMAL BHADRKA Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 — Declaration of Evacuee Property — Land purchased via registered sale deed in 1951 from a person who subsequently left India for Pakistan and returned in 1980 — Declaration of land as 'Evacuee Property' in 1993 based on the original owner's affidavit from 1980 denying the sale — High Court quashed the declaration orders on the ground that similar declarations concerning India Law Library Docid # 2437839
(512) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. VIKRAMBHAI KESHAVBHAI PATEL AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378(1) — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of interference — High Court analyzing evidence in appeal against acquittal in dowry death case, finding trial court's reasons for acquittal just and proper — Interference warranted only if judgment of acquittal suffers from patent perversity, misreading/omission of material evidence, or if only conclusion possible is guilt of India Law Library Docid # 2437840
(513) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. BABUBHAI KALIDAS RATHOD[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 05-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of interference by Appellate Court — Principles guiding review of acquittal — Appellate court has full power to review and re-appreciate evidence — However, there is a double presumption of innocence in favor of the accused (initial presumption and reinforcement by acquittal) — If two reasonable conclusions are possible, the finding of acquittal recorded by the Trial Court should not be disturbed — Appellate Co India Law Library Docid # 2437841
(514) LAXMIKANT SHARMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Termination of Contractual Service — Qualifications — Interpretation of Educational Qualifications — Advertisement requiring “Postgraduate degree in Statistics” — Appellant holding M.Com. degree with Business Statistics and Indian Economic Statistics as principal subjects — Where no Government university offers a degree exclusively titled "Postgraduate degree in India Law Library Docid # 2436314
(515) ROCKY Vs. STATE OF TELANGANA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Sections 420 (Cheating), 344 (Wrongful confinement for ten or more days), and 506 (Criminal intimidation) — Scope of quashing power: Quashing under Section 482 CrPC must be exercised sparingly, with circumspection, and only in exceptional India Law Library Docid # 2436315
(516) PRAKASH SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Essential Qualifications — Draughtsman Examination, 2023 — Challenge to selection result — Urban Development Department — Qualification prescribed: Intermediate (10+2) and Diploma/ITI Certificate in the "concerned Trade" — Interpretation of "concerned Trade" — The term "concerned Trade" in the context of Draughtsman post in the Urban India Law Library Docid # 2436526
(517) MUKUT DAS Vs. THE ASSAM POWER GENERATION CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Superannuation and Pension — Pay Revision — Eligibility — Assam State Electricity Board and its Successor Companies Revised Pay Rules, 2017 — Interpretation of "in service on 31st March 2016" — Employees retiring on 31.03.2016 by virtue of Fundamental Rule 56(a) (FR 56(a)) are entitled to the benefit of pay revision effective from 31.03.2016 as they were 'in service' on that date. (Paras India Law Library Docid # 2436529
(518) PRANJIT BANIK Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Seniority — Determination of seniority in Lower Division Cadre — Assam District and Sessions Judges Establishment (Ministerial) Service Rules, 1987 (Rules of 1987) — Rule 12(i) mandates seniority based on the date of appointment, provided the person joins within 15 days of receiving the appointment order — If multiple persons are appointed on the same date, inter-se seniority is determined by their position in the merit list — Where a candidate, higher in the merit India Law Library Docid # 2437247
(519) AJIJUL ISLAM Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Section 4 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 366 — Conviction under Section 4 of POCSO Act and Section 366 of IPC challenged — Prosecution alleged forcible kidnapping, confinement, and repeated sexual assault of a 13-year-old victim. India Law Library Docid # 2437245
(520) SMTI. SANGITA DEVI JALLAN AND OTHERS Vs. M/S TRADE & TRANS AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor accident compensation — Contributory negligence — Assessment of negligence — Accident involving head-on collision between a truck and a van leading to the death of the van driver — Tribunal applied 50% contributory negligence — Head-on collision by itself does not automatically constitute contributory negligence — Evidence of eye witness (PW-2) remained unrebutted, establishing sole negligence of the truck driver — Charge-sheet India Law Library Docid # 2437246