(661) L.K. PRABHU @ L. KRISHNA PRABHU (DIED) THROUGH LRs Vs. K.T. MATHEW @ THAMPAN THOMAS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 38 Rule 5, Rule 8, Rule 10 — Order 21 Rule 58 — Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 53 — Attachment before judgment — Scope of — Effect on prior transfer — Property already transferred by registered sale deed prior to institution of suit cannot be subject to attachment before judgment under Order 38 Rule 5 CPC — Essential condition for Order 38 Rule 5 is that India Law Library Docid # 2435985
(662) HINDUSTAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD. THROUGH ITS AUTHORISED SIGNATORY YOGESH DALAL Vs. BIHAR RAJYA PUL NIRMAN NIGAM LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Power of High Court to Review/Recall - Scope of Judicial Intervention — An order passed under Section 11 appointing an arbitrator is judicial in nature, but the High Court's review jurisdiction over such an order is highly circumscribed and must be limited to correcting a patent or procedural error; it cannot be exercised to revisit findings of law or re-interpret the arbitration agreement based on a subsequent India Law Library Docid # 2435986
(663) A A ESTATES PRIVATE LIMITED THROUGH ITS RESOLUTION PROFESSIONAL HARSHAD SHAMKANT DESHPANDE AND ANOTHER Vs. KHER NAGAR SUKHSADAN CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Section 14 — Moratorium — Applicability to terminated Development Agreements — Development Agreement constitutes ‘asset’ or ‘property’ of Corporate Debtor only if it creates subsisting proprietary, possessory or legally enforceable right — Termination of Development Agreement based on Corporate Debtor's persistent and prolonged non-performance, occurring prior to initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), is India Law Library Docid # 2435987
(664) YOGENDRA PAL SINGH Vs. RAGHVENDRA SINGH ALIAS PRINCE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 439(2) — Cancellation of Bail — Locus Standi — An aggrieved party, including the complainant or father of the deceased, has the requisite locus standi to seek cancellation/annulment of bail granted to the accused, as the power under Section 439(2) Cr.P.C. may be invoked not only by the State but also by any aggrieved party. India Law Library Docid # 2435988
(665) JAI BALAJI INDUSTRIES LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. M/S HEG LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138, Section 142(2), Section 142A — Territorial Jurisdiction for cheque dishonour cases (post-2015 Amendment) — Account Payee Cheques — Jurisdiction for complaints under Section 138 concerning cheques 'delivered for collection through an account' (Account Payee Cheques) lies exclusively with the court having local jurisdiction over the branch of the bank where the payee maintains the account (payee's home branch) — This position is anchored India Law Library Docid # 2435989
(666) PALLA CHENCHU HARIKALA Vs. BYSANI SATISH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 47 Rule 1 — Review Jurisdiction — Scope — A judgment is open to review if there is a mistake or an error apparent on the face of the record or for any sufficient reason analogous to the grounds specified in the Rule — Review is not an appeal in disguise; it cannot be used to re-agitate or re-argue questions already decided or to correct mere erroneous decisions — The India Law Library Docid # 2436119
(667) A.V.SRIDHAR REDDY AND OTHERS Vs. CH RAMANAIAH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96, Order 21 Rule 34 — Appeal against decrees — Scope of appeal against findings — Suit for Permanent Injunction — Specific Performance Decree and Execution — In a suit for permanent injunction, when title is seriously disputed (especially for vacant site), the court must examine title incidentally although the suit is not for declaration; possession follows title (de India Law Library Docid # 2436120
(668) SMT. BODA SUBBALASKHMI Vs. CHODISETTI SATYANARAYANA AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 8 — Operation of transfer — Property sold (Upstair building/First floor) — Balcony (Covered Varanda Portion) — Whether balcony is implicitly included in the transfer of the main building — Section 8 mandates that unless a different intention is expressed or necessarily implied, a transfer of property passes all interests the transferor is capable of passing in the India Law Library Docid # 2436121
(669) STATE OF A.P.DIST.COLLECTOR EG DIST AND OTHERS Vs. B NARASIMHA MURTHY[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Interference with Land Acquisition Proceedings — Maintainability of Suit — Substantial Question of Law — Civil Court Jurisdiction — When evidence indicates that the land in dispute was not acquired by the Government, the apprehension that the Civil Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain a suit against land acquisition India Law Library Docid # 2436122
(670) SUJATA BORA Vs. COAL INDIA LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Persons with Disabilities — Recruitment — Management Trainee (Personnel and HR) — Visually Handicapped (VH) category — Dispute regarding extent of visual disability and whether it meets 'benchmark disability' criteria — Petitioner claimed 60-70% visual disability; Respondent claimed 30% disability — Ascertaining functional disability — Supreme Court directed the Director of All India Institute of India Law Library Docid # 2436125
(671) ATUL SHARMA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 482 — Anticipatory Bail — Grant of relief — Where seven co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail, the High Court erred in singling out the appellant by declining the same relief despite allegations of grievous hurt (partially amputated little finger) — Considering the India Law Library Docid # 2436140
(672) ABDUL RASHID KHAN Vs. STATE OF J.K. AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 10 — Stay of Suit — Res Sub Judice — Parallel Proceedings — Identity of Subject Matter — Revenue Authority vs. Civil Court — Where a civil suit concerning a specific property and cause of action is pending before a competent Civil Court, simultaneous proceedings on the identical issue before a subordinate revenue authority are barred by the doctrine of res sub judice — Revenue India Law Library Docid # 2436237
(673) ARVIND VERMA AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 28-11-2025 Criminal Law — Sections 302, 201, 120-B RPC — Murder based on circumstantial evidence — Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment upheld — The foundational rule (Panchsheel of Proof) for cases resting exclusively on circumstantial evidence requires that circumstances must be fully established, consistent only with the hypothesis of guilt, of a conclusive nature, exclude every India Law Library Docid # 2436259
(674) A. ARAVINDHAN Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968 — Rule 14(ii) — Special Procedure dispensing with enquiry — Dismissal from service — Misconduct of assaulting superior officer — Petitioner, a Junior Clerk appointed under Sports Quota, assaulted and injured an Assistant Divisional Engineer with a wooden reeper inside the office premises — Disciplinary Authority, invoking Rule 14(ii), dispensed with inquiry, India Law Library Docid # 2436646
(675) LOKESH CHANDRA KATAKWAR Vs. SMT. SARITA KATAKWAR[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Divorce on ground of cruelty — Proof of cruelty — Allegations by husband that wife obtained SIM cards used by unknown persons to abuse and threaten him with obscene videos, and that she threatened to file false dowry/tonhi pratadna cases — Husband failed to produce SIM cards or call details, or demonstrate that threats were made at wife’s instance (Paras India Law Library Docid # 2437474
(676) CHANDRA PRAKASH GUPTA AND OTHERS Vs. SHANTI DEVI (DEAD) THROUGH LR.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Legal Representatives (LRs) — Substitution of Deceased Party — Eviction Suit — Effect of Non-Substitution — Where a tenant (respondent) dies during the pendency of a writ petition challenging a remand order in an eviction suit, and the writ petition is disposed of without the actual substitution and hearing of the deceased tenant's legal representatives (LRs), the resulting order is non est (void and India Law Library Docid # 2437500
(677) SMT. UPPALURI ESWARAMMA ETC. Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Review — Maintainability — Rejection of Special Leave Petition (SLP) — Where SLP is rejected without any observation on merits, there is no merger of the High Court's judgment with the Supreme Court's order — In such cases, the grounds for review, if otherwise valid, can be pursued before the High Court. India Law Library Docid # 2437501
(678) MANAGING DIRECTOR, M.P. STATE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BOARD AND OTHERS Vs. HARPAL SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Service Law — Compassionate Appointment — Purpose and interpretation of scheme — Compassionate appointment is not a concession, largesse, or alternative mode of recruitment, but a structured response by the State to prevent the bereaved family of a deceased employee from plunging into destitution — Object is to provide succour to the family suddenly deprived of its sole breadwinner — Policy must be construed with a humanitarian and purposive approach, ensuring the spirit of the India Law Library Docid # 2437502
(679) MOOL CHAND Vs. STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Quashing of FIR/Criminal Proceedings — Power of Supreme Court under Article 142 of the Constitution of India — Offence under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B read with Section 34 of IPC (Cheating, Forgery, etc.) — Dispute stemming from land sale agreement where appellant (real estate agent) and co-accused allegedly cheated complainant — Subsequent Memorandum of India Law Library Docid # 2437503
(680) RAMAVTAR Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 363, 366, 376(1), and 302 — Conviction based on Circumstantial Evidence — Last Seen Theory — DNA Evidence — Homicidal Death and Sexual Assault — The prosecution must establish a complete chain of incriminating circumstances pointing unequivocally to the guilt of the accused; suspicion, however grave, cannot substitute proof — The "last seen India Law Library Docid # 2437535