(581) RAKESH KUMAR MAHAJAN AND ANOTHER Vs. SHAKTI MAHAJAN @ SHAKTI GUPTA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 — Section 13 — Provisional Rent Assessment — Eviction petition filed by Landlady (Respondent) citing arrears of rent and personal necessity — Rent Controller provisionally assessed arrears of rent by including 10% increase clause from a Rent Note (dated 12.08.1999) — Appellate Authority upheld assessment — Challenge (by tenant/petitioner) against provisional India Law Library Docid # 2436925
(582) RAKESH KUMAR Vs. SURINDER KUMAR[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Specific Performance — Agreement to Sell — Concurrent Findings of Fact — Suit for specific performance of agreement dated 30.01.1990 for sale of a residential-cum-dairy plot decreed by Trial Court and upheld by First Appellate Court — Both lower courts recorded concurrent findings of fact based on appreciation of evidence, including testimony of attesting witness (PW-3) who proved execution of agreement, India Law Library Docid # 2436926
(583) M/S PEE ESS GALAXY AND ANOTHER Vs. HARINDER SINGH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of cheque) — Compounding of Offence — The offence under Section 138 of the NI Act is fundamentally a civil wrong and is specifically made compoundable — Where parties have settled the matter and the complainant has received the agreed amount, the High Court allows compounding of the offence, even at the revision stage, following India Law Library Docid # 2436927
(584) PARAMJIT SINGH @ BABA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Criminal Law — Rash and Negligent Driving Causing Death (Section 304-A IPC) — Conviction and Sentence — Modification of Sentence — Petitioner convicted under Section 304-A IPC (after acquittal under Section 279 IPC in appeal) and sentenced to one year Rigorous Imprisonment — Appeal confined to sentencing part and not challenging conviction — Sentencing principles require balancing nature of India Law Library Docid # 2436928
(585) PRAVIN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 02-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of FIR/Chargesheet — Principles — The High Court can exercise its inherent powers to quash proceedings when the allegations in the FIR, even if taken at face value, do not prima facie constitute an offence or where the proceedings amount to an abuse of the process of the court or to secure the ends of justice — Power should not be used to stifle a legitimate prosecution. India Law Library Docid # 2437109
(586) THE NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. SMTI RIMA KOUSHIK SARMAH AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Assessment of Income — Deductions — Deceased was an employee under Assam Police with a gross salary of Rs. 33,728/- per month — Professional Tax (Rs. 208/-) was deducted from gross salary — Contention by insurer that a component identified as 'MA' (Medical Allowance/Mess Allowance) should be deducted as it is not part of take-home salary, was rejected as being incidental to service and unsubstantiated — No error in the India Law Library Docid # 2437277
(587) GHULAM HASSAN SHAH Vs. JAMMU & KASHMIR BANK LIMITED AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 02-12-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Sections 13(2), 14, 31 — Challenge to SARFAESI proceedings — Secured asset status — Petitioner repeatedly challenging Bank’s action (after loan default and NPA declaration) alleging secured asset was non-amenable agricultural land (Section 31) and later claiming mistaken identity of sealed India Law Library Docid # 2436235
(588) VENKATESH AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE REPRESENTED BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 326 — Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means — Tamil Nadu Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 1992 (TNPPDL Act) — Section 3(1) — Mischief to public property — Conviction affirmed but sentence reduced — Appellants convicted for five years rigorous imprisonment under S. 326 IPC and two years under S. 3(1) of TNPPDL India Law Library Docid # 2436281
(589) RAJIV SONI Vs. ICICI BANK[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 02-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 19(1)(g) and 21 — Right to travel abroad — Scope — The right to travel abroad is a facet of "personal liberty" guaranteed under Article 21 and is a fundamental right — This right can be regulated or deprived only by ‘enacted law’ or ‘State law’ and according to the procedure established by law — In the absence of specific statutory power under the Act regulating this right India Law Library Docid # 2436286
(590) TMT.R.SANTHI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Registration Act, 1908 — Section 28 — Validity of Sale Deed — Registration outside Local Jurisdiction — Prior to the Registration (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1997, there was no prohibition on registering a document before any Sub-Registrar Office where whole or a portion of the immovable property existed; payment of differential stamp duty and registration fees later under Section 19B of the Indian India Law Library Docid # 2436680
(591) ROUSANARA BEGUM Vs. S.K. SALAHUDDIN @ SK SALAUDDIN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 — Section 3(1)(d) — Right to property given at marriage — Divorced Muslim Woman — The Act allows a divorced woman to claim all properties given to her before, at the time of, or after marriage by her relatives, friends, the husband, or his relatives/friends — The objective of the Act is to secure the financial protection and dignity of a Muslim India Law Library Docid # 2436175
(592) COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, CENTRAL EXCISE & SERVICE TAX, RAJKOT Vs. NARSIBHAI KARAMSIBHAI GAJERA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Section 2(f) (prior to amendment by Act 18 of 2017) — Manufacture — Exemption Notification No.5/98-CE, Entry No.106 — Eligibility for exemption — Manufacture includes series of processes; entire chain of activities must be considered — Where multiple units undertake distinct processes which are 'integrally connected' and form a 'continuous chain' to convert raw material (grey India Law Library Docid # 2436176
(593) TUHIN KUMAR BISWAS @ BUMBA Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 227 — Discharge of Accused — Principles for deciding discharge application — Standard of proof for framing charge — The Court, at the stage of framing charge, must sift the evidence to determine if there is a "sufficient ground for proceeding"; a prima facie case must be established — If two views are possible and one gives rise to "suspicion only, as distinguished India Law Library Docid # 2436177
(594) JYOTI BUILDERS Vs. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 — Section 14(1) — Mandamus to acquire land — Power of State Government to acquire land for Slum Rehabilitation Scheme — Preferential Right of Owner — The power of the State Government to acquire land under Section 14 read with Section 3D(c)(i) of the Slum Act is subject to the preferential right of the owner to redevelop India Law Library Docid # 2436178
(595) KOTHURI NARASIMHARAO Vs. KONDABALU RATTAIAH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope of Interference — High Court cannot interfere with concurrent findings of fact by the First Appellate Court unless such findings are erroneous, contrary to mandatory law, settled legal position by the Apex Court, based on inadmissible evidence, or without any evidence — The power of the High Court in second appeal is limited to India Law Library Docid # 2436180
(596) RAJANI MANOHAR KUNTHA AND OTHERS Vs. PARSHURAM CHUNILAL KANOJIYA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Eviction Suit — Bona Fide Need — Concurrent Findings — Revisional Jurisdiction of High Court — High Court reversing concurrent findings of Trial Court and First Appellate Court regarding bona fide need for commercial premises by undertaking microscopic scrutiny of pleadings and evidence — Held: Such microscopic scrutiny in revisional jurisdiction is impermissible unless concurrent India Law Library Docid # 2437395
(597) SATHYAN NARAVOOR Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Public Interest Litigation (PIL) — Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) — Incarcerated Individuals — Directions sought for providing appropriate legal framework and facilities for PwD inmates (undertrials or convicts) in prisons; concerns raised regarding lack of requisite facilities, accessible infrastructure (ramps, toilets), and specialized accommodations mandated under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPwD Act) and India Law Library Docid # 2437421
(598) RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED AND OTHERS Vs. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 02-12-2025 Securities and Exchange Board of India (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 (2015 Regulations) — Principle (1) and Principle (4) — Duty of public disclosure and prompt dissemination of unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI) — Violation — RIL and Facebook negotiating investment in RIL subsidiary (JPL) — News articles published regarding 'close to signing a preliminary deal' before corporate announcement — SEBI imposed penalty for violating India Law Library Docid # 2437430
(599) SUKHENDRA CHANDRAKAR AND OTHERS Vs. ANAND CHANDRAKAR[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 (d) — Rejection of Plaint — Bar of limitation — Application for rejection of plaint on grounds of suit being barred by limitation — Suit for specific performance based on a 1998 agreement seeking relief after nearly 23 years (Suit filed in 2024) — Limitation under Order 7 Rule 11(d) can only be decided by looking solely at the averments in the plaint — Rejection is warranted only if the plaint averments ex facie establish the suit is barred India Law Library Docid # 2437472
(600) SALIK RAM CHANDRAKAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 02-12-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Constitutional Rights — Right to be Considered for Promotion — Arbitrary denial of timely consideration for promotion to the post of Embankment Inspector in 2011-2012, resulting in delay of nearly ten years, violation of 50:50 promotional quota, and subsequent supersession by juniors in promotion to Assistant Research Officer — Held, the arbitrary action and failure to follow statutory India Law Library Docid # 2437473