(761) DR. ARUN PRAKASH BUKHARIA Vs. THE STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 26-11-2025 Service Law — Pension — Qualifying Service — Counting of Ad-hoc Service — Madhya Pradesh Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1976 — Rule 15-A (Unamended) — Rule 15-A required ad-hoc service to qualify for pension if appointment was against a regular post and regularization occurred without interruption in service — Petitioner, an ad-hoc lecturer from 1977, whose services were regularized in 1987 and retired in 2009, sought inclusion of ad-hoc period for pension — Breaks of two or three days India Law Library Docid # 2436385
(762) CHANDRESH RATHORE Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 26-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226, Articles 14 and 16 — Public Employment and Recruitment — Reduction in Advertised Posts — Power of Recruiting Authority — Challenge to reduction of Assistant Engineer (Civil) posts from 302 to 289 after preliminary and mains examinations were conducted — Advertised posts were subject to revision/reduction as per Clause 6(i) of the advertisement — Reduction permissible when appointments cannot exceed sanctioned India Law Library Docid # 2436386
(763) SMT MAHESHWARI Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 26-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Compassionate Appointment — Eligibility — Deceased employee was initially a daily wager, later classified as a permanent employee (Sthai Karmi) under circular dated 07.10.2016 — Claim for compassionate appointment by widow — Policy/Circulars dated 29.09.2014 and 31.08.2016 require the deceased employee to be a regular employee appointed against India Law Library Docid # 2436387
(764) M/S. THE SILOAM CHRISTIAN AID MISSION PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS Vs. GNANANAMANI LOUIS (DIED) AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 26-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 14 Rule 1 & 2 — Framing and Determination of Issues — Requirement to decide all issues — Trial Court's judgment is not a judgment in the eye of law if it fails to indicate the issues framed and fails to state findings on each issue, even if fair issues were framed previously by the court — Court is mandated to pronounce judgment on all issues framed on material propositions of fact or India Law Library Docid # 2436652
(765) SMT. VIJAYA Vs. RAJKUMAR (DIED) THR. LRS.[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 26-11-2025 Hindu Law — Joint Family Property — Ancestral Property — Presumption — Properties acquired by father from his self-earned income, without the aid of any ancestral nucleus or surplus thereof, and purchased in the names of his wife and sons, are not considered ancestral property or joint family property — Such properties become the absolute properties of the respective individuals in whose names they stand — No India Law Library Docid # 2436653
(766) G. AMIRTHARAJ Vs. J. SELVARAJ[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 26-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of Cheque — Compounding of Offence — The offence under Section 138 NI Act is primarily a civil wrong and is compoundable under Section 147 NI Act, which has an overriding effect on the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (or its successor, BNSS, 2023) regarding compounding. India Law Library Docid # 2436654
(767) CHATRA PAL Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 26-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Appeals pending for over 15 years — Listing and disposal progress — Supreme Court monitors progress in listing and disposal of old criminal appeals pending before the Allahabad High Court (including the Lucknow Bench) — High Court officials report on listability of matters more than fifteen years old, affirming paper books preparation and listing before appropriate Benches within three India Law Library Docid # 2437429
(768) SAHAB SINGH (D) THROUGH LRs. Vs. DIRECTOR GENERAL, RPF, RAIL BHAWAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 26-11-2025 Railway Protection Force (RPF) Rules, 1987 — Rule 153 — Disciplinary proceedings — Misconduct — Suppression of involvement in criminal case and failure to intimate arrest and detention — Allegation of misconduct proven in inquiry — However, the punishment of dismissal from service held to be disproportionate, particularly considering the appellant had completed approximately seventeen years India Law Library Docid # 2437490
(769) HITESH BHAI PATEL Vs. NANDKISHORE KHANDELWAL ALIAS NANDU OCCUPATION CONTRACTOR[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 26-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — First Appeal — Suit for damages for loss of reputation (Defamation) — Plaintiff (contractor) alleged that defendant (competitor contractor) maliciously filed a false police complaint and published defamatory news in local newspapers, causing loss of reputation and financial loss (non-award of contract) — Trial Court dismissed the suit — Appeal India Law Library Docid # 2437517
(770) KISHAN LAL @ PAPPU Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 26-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 386 — Appeal against conviction — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 325 and 323 — Conviction and Sentence — Non-pressurisation of appeal against conviction — Appellate Court maintaining conviction but modifying sentence — Where counsel for appellant does not press appeal against conviction under Sections 325 and 323 IPC, and no intervention is warranted in the finding of guilt, the conviction judgment is India Law Library Docid # 2437540
(771) AJAY @ BHAGAT Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 26-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Suspension of Sentence during pendency of appeal — Principle of considering suspension of life sentence where appeal hearing is remote — Applicant convicted under IPC Sections 363, 366-A and POCSO Act Section 5(L)/6, awarded life imprisonment — Applicant has already undergone 10 years of sentence, and appeal hearing is not likely in near future India Law Library Docid # 2437541
(772) SIVANMALAI SUBRAMANIASWAMY DEVASTHANAM REP. BY ITS EXECUTIVE OFFICER Vs. S. MUTHUSAMY GOUNDER (DEAD) BY LRS. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 26-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Substantial Question of Law — Jurisdiction of High Court — High Court must exercise jurisdiction under Section 100 only where correct and appropriate substantial questions of law arise at the time of admission — Where prior proceedings under the Tamil Nadu Inam (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari), Act, 1963 culminated in favour of the Appellant, and the High Court, acting as an Appellate Tribunal, reserved India Law Library Docid # 2437586
(773) ASHRAF Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 26-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 279 and 304A — Rash and Negligent Driving Causing Death — Conviction affirmed but sentence modified — Supreme Court, considering the total facts and circumstances, while affirming conviction, converted the sentence from simple imprisonment (as imposed by High Court) to imprisonment till the rising of the Court and significantly enhanced the total fine amount from Rs. India Law Library Docid # 2437588
(774) ASHISH DAVE Vs. THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 26-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Quashing of First Information Report (FIR) — Scope of inherent powers of High Court under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) (equivalent to Section 482 of Cr.PC) — High Court should exercise powers sparingly, cautiously, and in exceptional cases — Court cannot embark upon a roving inquiry, conduct a mini-trial, or appreciate evidence to ascertain the India Law Library Docid # 2437764
(775) NAGENDRA CHOUDHARY Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 26-11-2025 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Sections 276C(1)(i), 271AAB, 278E — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Willful Attempt to Evade Tax — Effect of Deletion of Penalty by Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) — Where the ITAT, the final fact-finding authority, deleted the penalty imposed under Section 271AAB (for undisclosed income discovered during search) on merits, finding no concealment or satisfaction of India Law Library Docid # 2437765
(776) RAJEEV KUMAR GUPTA AND OTHERS Vs. BHANU PRATAP SHARMA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Contempt of Court — Initiating Contempt Proceedings — Non-Implementation of Court Order — Where a judgment dated 14-15.01.2020 of the Supreme Court pertaining to Civil Appeal No. 1567/2017 was allegedly not implemented by the State of Karnataka, and the alleged contempt was deemed a continuing one — Supreme Court prima facie found that no sincere effort was made by State officers to India Law Library Docid # 2436064
(777) RAJNEESH KUMAR PANDEY AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Education Law — Appointment of Educators — Special Educators — Qualifications — Supreme Court addressing confusion regarding mandatory qualifications for Special Educators, specifically pertaining to Teacher’s Eligibility Test (TET) and Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) qualification — Issue arising from prior differing impressions and State notifications omitting TET requirement — India Law Library Docid # 2436066
(778) UNION OF INDIA Vs. RADHA YADAV[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Railways — Safety Issues — Directions to Union of India (Railways) — Review of Railways' report highlighting issues concerning system and passenger safety — Supreme Court directs initial focus to be on safety of tracks and railway crossings — Railways directed to file a better affidavit focusing on two specific issues (items no. 3 and 7 of the submitted report) where no definite timelines were provided for proposed India Law Library Docid # 2436072
(779) INDER PAL SINGH Vs. AJAY VIR SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 — Sections 8(2) and 8(3) — Disposal of minor's immovable property by natural guardian — Voidable nature of transaction — Agreement to Sell of minor's share in property by natural guardian (father) without court permission — Minor's right to repudiate transaction after attaining majority — India Law Library Docid # 2436073
(780) NARENDRA PRATAP SINGH Vs. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 25-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Assessment of Loss of Earning Capacity — Claimant (Driver), aged 32, suffered 50% disability in right leg due to 3-inch shortening following an accident in 1996 — Tribunal awarded Rs. 4,08,000/- for loss of earning capacity using Rs. 4,000/- monthly income and multiplier 17 — High Court reduced compensation drastically, holding that renewal of transport vehicle India Law Library Docid # 2436078