(841) GUJARAT INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT CORPORATION LTD. Vs. RAMANBHAI CHANDULAL PARIKH AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 20, Rule 4 — Judgment — Essential contents — A judgment of a court other than a Small Cause Court must contain a concise statement of the case, points for determination, the decision thereon, and reasons for such decision — Trial Court’s dismissal of a suit based on the nature of a guarantee (simple vs. continuing) without framing a specific issue on this point constitutes an error of law and facts and a violation of Order XX, Rule 4. India Law Library Docid # 2427800
(842) ELDER ICIC HEALTH PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. GLIDE CHEM PVT. LTD. AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 482 — Quashing of FIR/Complaint — Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Grounds for Quashing — Supreme Court guidelines regarding quashing of criminal proceedings are illustrative and not exhaustive, to prevent abuse of process or secure ends of justice — Principles include: no prima facie offence made out, allegations are absurd/improbable, express India Law Library Docid # 2427801
(843) STATE (NOW U.T) OF JAMMU & KASHMIR Vs. SANJEEV KUMAR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 11-07-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 47 Rule 1 — Review Application — Scope of Review — A review application cannot be used as an appeal in disguise to re-argue a case or introduce new grounds not previously raised before the Tribunal or Writ Court — Review is permissible only for errors apparent on the face of the record, not for re-hearing or correcting an erroneous decision, or to allow parties to argue new India Law Library Docid # 2427802
(844) DEVENDRA NATH PRAMANICK (THAKUR) Vs. RAMESH CHANDRA PRAMANICK[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 152 — Amendment of judgment, decree or order — Partition Suit — Joinder of properties — Where the trial court and the first appellate court have concurrently found, based on evidence, that certain lands were not proven to be joint ancestral property and thus not subject to partition, an application under Section 152 CPC to add such lands after a preliminary decree is not India Law Library Docid # 2427803
(845) BABBU @ BABU SINGH LODHI Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025 Criminal Law — Conviction and Sentence — Quashing — Lack of Substantial Evidence — Where the prosecution’s case relies heavily on the testimony of the victim and her mother, but their evidence is internally contradictory, medically unsubstantiated, and influenced by personal/political motivations leading to manipulation and false implication, the conviction is liable to be set aside. India Law Library Docid # 2427804
(846) B/S BEIJING SPC ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION TECH CO. LTD. THRU. OPERATION MANAGER LU. JING Vs. M/S UTTAR PRADESH RAJYA VIDHYUT UTPADAN NIGAM LTD. THRU. CHIEF ENGINEER AND OTHERS[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT (LUCKNOW BENCH)] 11-07-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 9 — Interim measures — Bank Guarantee — Injunction against encashment — Principles — A bank guarantee is a separate contract from the main contract and its invocation depends on its terms — Injunction against encashment of an unconditional bank guarantee can only be granted in two exceptions: (i) fraud of an egregious nature vitiating the entire bank guarantee transaction, or (ii) existence of special equities leading to “irretrievable India Law Library Docid # 2427792
(847) AMARAVATHI YANTHRIKA ISUKA PADAVA YAJAMANULA SANGHAM OFFICE Vs. THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Seventh Schedule — List I, Entry 30; List III, Entry 32 — Legislative Competence — National Waterways — Inland Waterways — Executive Power — Where a river stretch is declared a “National Waterway,” Parliamentary legislation (Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985, read with National Waterways Act, 2016) governs the field, and the executive power in respect India Law Library Docid # 2427793
(848) PASUMARTHI VEERA BHADRA RAO Vs. CHINNI VEERABHADRAVATHI[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope of Interference — High Court’s jurisdiction in a second appeal is limited to cases involving a substantial question of law — It cannot re-appreciate evidence or interfere with concurrent factual findings of lower courts unless those findings are contrary to mandatory law, contrary to Apex Court pronouncements, or based on inadmissible/no India Law Library Docid # 2427794
(849) BHARATPUR URBAN COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED Vs. SMT. VIMLA DEVI AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 10-07-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Section 34 — Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts — Civil court has no jurisdiction to entertain a suit pertaining to the SARFAESI Act proceedings as the same is barred by Section 34 of the said Act. India Law Library Docid # 2428609
(850) HEERANAND NARWANI Vs. M/S. MANIFEST VENTURES LLP AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11 — Appointment of Arbitrator — Allegations of fraud and forgery do not automatically bar arbitration unless they are serious, complicated, or go to the root of the arbitration agreement itself. India Law Library Docid # 2428751
(851) KAMAL KISHORE SONI Vs. LR OF SMT. INDIRA DEVI AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 151 & Order 8 Rule 1 — Application for filing written statement — Rejection on grounds of delay and improper provision invoked — Held, procedural technicalities should not defeat substantive justice — Court should grant opportunity to file written statement, with costs, even if delay is caused by non-service of summons. India Law Library Docid # 2428752
(852) STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. PANNA RAM AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 201 — Murder, Causing disappearance of evidence of offence — Appeal against acquittal — Standard of appellate review — Appellate court can interfere with acquittal only if trial court's finding is illegal, perverse, or based on misreading/omission of material evidence, and no other reasonable view is possible except the guilt of the accused. India Law Library Docid # 2428753
(853) SWATI SWAMI Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376 — Rape — Ingredients — False promise of marriage to a married woman — Allegations of sexual assault based on a promise to marry a woman who was already married to another person at the time of the alleged incident — Such promise cannot be considered a basis for inducement or coercion as the woman was aware of her subsisting marriage — Held, allegations do not satisfy the India Law Library Docid # 2428754
(854) SAGATA RAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 306 & 107 — Abetment of Suicide — Ingredients of abetment of suicide require direct or indirect instigation, conspiracy, or intentional aid with clear mens rea to abet the commission of suicide, and the act must be in close proximity to the suicide, leaving the victim with no other option India Law Library Docid # 2428755
(855) KIRAN SINGARIA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control And Appeal) Rules, 1958 — Rule 13(1) — Suspension — Suspension of employee is permissible when departmental inquiry is contemplated or pending, or criminal proceedings are pending — Authority must apply its mind to the allegations before passing suspension order India Law Library Docid # 2428756
(856) KARTIKEY Vs. RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT, JODHPUR THROUGH REGISTRAR GENERAL[RAJASTHAN BENCH HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 10-07-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Stenographer Grade-III — Rajasthan District Courts Ministerial Establishment Rules, 1986 — Rule 10 — Academic Qualifications — Hindi Shorthand Speed Test — Mandatory requirement — A candidate applying for the post of Stenographer (Hindi) must pass a speed test of 70 words per minute (WPM) in Hindi shorthand as per Rule 10(b)(i) of the 1986 Rules. This is a mandatory academic qualification, not merely a criterion for marks. (Paras 4, 9, 10, India Law Library Docid # 2427747
(857) XXX Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 — Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003 — Termination of unwanted pregnancy (approx. 23 weeks) resulting from sexual assault — Petitioner, having recently attained legal adulthood, seeks medical assistance for termination — Board of doctors’ report indicates no substantial risk to mother’s health and foetal age of 23 weeks — Case falls within categories for termination up to 24 weeks, India Law Library Docid # 2427748
(858) GANESH CHAUHAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[PATNA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Criminal Law - Murder (Section 302 IPC) and Attempted Murder (Section 307 IPC) - Common Intention (Section 34 IPC) - Arms Act, 1959 (Section 27) - Evidentiary Value of Witness Testimony - Appreciation of Evidence - Conviction upheld where there is consistent ocular evidence from eyewitnesses (including injured witnesses) corroborated by medical evidence, proving the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt. India Law Library Docid # 2427749
(859) ROSILY ANTONY Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Kerala Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 2007 (KAA(P) Act) — Section 3(1) — Preventive Detention — Non-Application of Mind by Detaining Authority — Subjective Satisfaction — Verbatim Reproduction of Sponsorship Report — The detaining authority’s subjective satisfaction must be based on proper, independent consideration of all relevant materials, not merely mechanical reproduction of police India Law Library Docid # 2427750
(860) BHUBNESHWAR MAHTO Vs. KUMARI NAMIA[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 10-07-2025 Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 — Section 7 — Requisites of valid adoption — Capacity of male Hindu to take in adoption — Consent of wife — Mandatory nature — A male Hindu with a living wife cannot adopt without her consent unless she has renounced the world, ceased to be a Hindu, or been declared of unsound mind by a court — The burden of proving these exceptional circumstances to India Law Library Docid # 2427751