(881) CHARAN H.V. Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 — Section 483 (equivalent to Section 439 CrPC) — Regular Bail — Detention beyond initial remand period without fresh order — Non-production of accused before Magistrate during extension of judicial custody — Where initial remand order expires and no fresh remand order is passed, merely noting the next date of production without an order continuing custody renders India Law Library Docid # 2435878
(882) MORAGUDI JAYA PRASADA REDDY AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 145, 397, 401 — Disputes concerning Immovable Property — Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrate — The invocation of Section 145 Cr.P.C. by an Executive Magistrate is impermissible and amounts to judicial impropriety when a dispute concerning the same immovable property is already sub judice before a competent Civil Court (O.S. No. 219/2022 was pending for India Law Library Docid # 2436231
(883) KOLLU RAVEENDRA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Section 188 — Disobedience to Order Duly Promulgated by Public Servant — Invocation of Section — Essential ingredients for prosecution under S. 188 IPC: (i) an order promulgated by a lawfully empowered public servant; (ii) knowledge of the order by the accused; (iii) disobedience of the order; and (iv) the disobedience causing or tending to cause obstruction, annoyance, danger to life/health, or India Law Library Docid # 2436232
(884) MOHAMMAD ASHRAF WANI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 30-10-2025 Targeted Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2015 — J&K S.O. 41 of 2023 — Validity of Policy Decision — Fair Price Shops (FPS) Dealers — Challenge to reduction in allocated ration tickets, imposition of renewal fee, and maximum age limit (65 years) for dealers — S.O. 41 issued pursuant to Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and National Food Security Act, 2013 to reorganize the PDS network and ensure food security (public interest) — The primary object of the SO is maintaining supply India Law Library Docid # 2436305
(885) MS. SABIYA TARIQ Vs. UT OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 30-10-2025 Writ Jurisdiction — Applicability in Contractual Matters — Claim for Compensation Against Government — Appellant claimed compensation for investments made in a Nursing Home taken over by Government, based on an agreement with a private Trust (Respondent No. 2) — Official Respondents were not parties to the agreement — High Court affirmed that, in the absence of privity of India Law Library Docid # 2436306
(886) SHANU PRAKASH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Educational Qualification — Equivalence of Degrees — Post of District Tourism Officer — Advertisement prescribed Graduation in Tourism/Hotel Management or equivalent qualification — Petitioner holding B.Sc. in Hospitality and Hotel Administration — Public Service Commission denied permission to appear in Mains Exam alleging lack of requisite qualification — High Court directed India Law Library Docid # 2436497
(887) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO. Vs. SRI SANJAY PANDEY (MINOR) AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 (Appeal) read with Section 166 (Claim Petition) — Motor Accident Claim — Negligence — Proof of Accident and Negligence — Appellant-Insurance Company challenging award alleging fabrication, delay in lodging FIR, and collusion — Tribunal relying on consistent eyewitness testimony of the injured claimant (PW1) and contemporaneous medical evidence — Finding of Rash and India Law Library Docid # 2436498
(888) MAHANT YOGI LAXMI Vs. GYANENDRA SINGH BISHT[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 30-10-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of Cheque) — Revision against concurrent conviction and sentence — Scope of Revisional Jurisdiction — Limited jurisdiction does not permit re-appreciation of evidence unless findings are manifestly unreasonable, perverse, or based on a clear misreading of material — Interference justified only for procedural irregularity or gross miscarriage of justice — India Law Library Docid # 2436499
(889) THE LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA Vs. MAHESWARI AND OTHER[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 29-10-2025 Insurance Law — Repudiation of claim — Non-disclosure of material facts — Insured died in a motor accident, not due to any pre-existing medical condition — Prior accident and medical treatment not related to the cause of death after seven and three years respectively — Non-disclosure of these past events for policies taken subsequently does not amount to suppression of material facts that would influence a India Law Library Docid # 2434835
(890) K. NAGENDRA Vs. THE NEW INDIA INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act — Section 149 — Liability of insurer — Deviation from route — Accident occurred while offending vehicle was outside permitted route — High Court applied 'pay and recover' principle — Insurance company directed to pay award and recover from owner — Held, High Court's order justified — Purpose of insurance is to shield owner from liability, denying compensation is unjust to victim — However, insurer acts within contract bounds and should not pay for claims outside agreement India Law Library Docid # 2434636
(891) MOHAMED SAMEER KHAN Vs. STATE REPRESENTED BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 449, 376, 394 — Appeal against High Court's upholding of conviction and sentence — Case based on circumstantial evidence — Absence of direct evidence connecting appellant to offense — Falsely implicated — Prosecution failed to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt — No scientific evidence linking appellant — Important witnesses not associated in India Law Library Docid # 2434637
(892) JEMABEN Vs. THE STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Appeal against High Court conviction — Trial Court acquitted, High Court convicted appellant for murder — Prosecution case rested mainly on dying declarations — Defence argued discrepancies in dying declarations and other evidence — Trial Court acquitted giving benefit of doubt due to discrepancies in three dying declarations — High Court relied India Law Library Docid # 2434638
(893) ANNAMALAI Vs. VASANTHI AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 10 and Section 14 — Specific Performance — Discretionary Relief — Time Essence of Contract — Agreement for Sale — Plaintiff paid over 90% of consideration and additional amount, demonstrating readiness and willingness; defendants accepting additional payment waived right to forfeit earnest money for non-payment within six months — Non-issuance of notice India Law Library Docid # 2434639
(894) HARIBHAU @ BHAUSAHEB DINKAR KHARUSE AND ANOTHER Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 149, 302, 307 — Unlawful Assembly and Vicarious Liability — High Court correctly reversed acquittal based on misappreciation of evidence by Trial Court, specifically overlooking credibility of injured eyewitnesses and legal effect of active participation in unlawful assembly India Law Library Docid # 2434640
(895) GOUTAM DUTT Vs. NAMITA BUSFORE & KUMARI RUMPA BUSFORE[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 29-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 41 — Appeal — Remand of suit — First Appellate Court set aside Trial Court's judgment and remanded suit for amendment of pleadings and adducing further evidence — High Court found no irregularity in the First Appellate Court's order for remand, noting that ownership of the suit property was India Law Library Docid # 2435148
(896) REKHA MINOCHA Vs. AMIT SHAH MINOCHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 29-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Maintenance — Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12, 21, 22 — Matrimonial dispute — Wife filed for maintenance — Trial court awarded maintenance and compensation — Appellate court upheld — High Court partly set aside compensation and dismissed Section 125 CrPC application — Supreme Court India Law Library Docid # 2434699
(897) K. GANESAN Vs. MS. S. SELVI[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 29-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96, Order 41 Rule 1 — First Appeal — Plaintiff filed suit for specific performance of Sale Agreement and injunction, alternatively for refund of advance amount with interest — Trial Court dismissed suit — High Court upheld dismissal of specific performance and injunction but granted alternate relief of refund of advance amount. India Law Library Docid # 2434766
(898) M. GANESAMOORTHY Vs. G. REGINAMARY[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 29-10-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Compounding of offence — Compromise — After conviction and dismissal of appeal, parties entered into a compromise — High Court allowed compounding and set aside conviction and sentence, considering the object of NI Act is primarily compensatory and not punitive, and the spirit of compromise. India Law Library Docid # 2434767
(899) R. BANUMATHI Vs. CHIEF EDUCATIONAL OFFICER, VELLORE DISTRICT AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 29-10-2025 Service Law — Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) — Estate — Nomination — Benefits under CPS are part of the deceased employee’s estate. Unlike non-contributory pension schemes, CPS amounts are quantified and can be diverted from natural succession. Nomination for CPS benefits does not confer absolute ownership on the nominee, who acts as a mere trustee. Legal heirs are entitled to claim these benefits India Law Library Docid # 2434768
(900) KORANIL YUSAF Vs. V.A FIROZ AND OTHER[KERALA HIGH COURT] 29-10-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency of funds — Appeal by complainant against acquittal — Accused borrowed Rs. 3,75,000 and issued cheque — Cheque dishonoured — Accused acquitted by Sessions Court — Grounds for appeal by complainant and defence arguments — Trial court convicted accused, Sessions Court acquitted — Complainant argued signature on cheque not disputed and presumption under Sections 139 and 118 should apply — Defence argued complaint India Law Library Docid # 2434857