(961) NAJMA KHATUN AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Constitutional Law — Article 32 — Writ Petition — Maintainability — Petitioners (approx. 361) challenging denial of regular appointment status and salary entitlement by a Committee constituted by the Supreme Court, claiming appointment as teachers/non-teaching staff in West Bengal Madrasahs after the Madrasah Service Commission Act, 2008 was held unconstitutional by a High Court Division Bench — India Law Library Docid # 2436127
(962) VIKASH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 — Sections 30(a) and 47 — Anticipatory Bail — Rejection by High Court — Legality — Accused seeking anticipatory bail against FIR alleging recovery of country liquor (22 litres claimed by appellant, not 44 litres) — Appellant cooperating with investigation since grant of interim protection (no coercive steps) by Supreme Court — Investigation inconclusive and delayed — Considering India Law Library Docid # 2436132
(963) SACHIN KUMAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Consideration of grant — Appellant accused of offences under Sections 420, 467, 468, and 471 IPC — High Court rejected prior application for anticipatory bail — Supreme Court noted that the appellant had joined the investigation pursuant to an earlier order — Held that considering the nature of allegations and the fact that the appellant had joined India Law Library Docid # 2436135
(964) HARMEET SINGH @ YASHMIT AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Bail — Cyber Fraud Case — Appellants accused of wide-ranging cyber fraud involving significant monetary loss routed through multiple 'mule accounts' facilitated from within a bank — Appellants in custody for over six months — Charge sheet filed — Evidence essentially documentary and electronic (seized) — Possibility of tampering evidence deemed unlikely — Witnesses primarily bank officers and victims, unlikely to India Law Library Docid # 2436141
(965) MOHAMMAD JAFAR Vs. STATE OF UP[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Suspension of Sentence — Life Imprisonment — Appeal Pending — Supreme Court earlier declined to suspend a murder convict's life sentence despite 11 years served due to the gravity of the double murder, but expedited the appeal before the High Court — High Court subsequently India Law Library Docid # 2436159
(966) SONTI LAKSHMI KAMALA & 6 OTHERS AND OTHERS Vs. SONTI SIVANANDA RAO[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Interference with Findings of Fact — High Court cannot ordinarily interfere with findings of fact by the First Appellate Court unless such findings are erroneous, contrary to law, based on inadmissible evidence, or without evidence — The present case involved the misconstruction/misinterpretation of a prior decree leading to a India Law Library Docid # 2436189
(967) THE STATE OF AP IRRIGATION AND CAD (R AND R) DEPT AND OTHERS Vs. SK MOD RAFI AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) — Employment for Displaced Persons — G.O.Ms.No.98, Irrigation (Proj.Wing) Dept., dated 15.04.1986 — Scope and Limitation Period — G.O.Ms.No.98 provides jobs to displaced persons/dependants (son/daughter/spouse) where not more than 50% of vacancies are filled on a preferential basis, subject to reservations, provided there is no other earning member India Law Library Docid # 2436190
(968) SBI GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. DHARMENDRA UIKEY AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(2) (as amended) — Appeal against Claims Tribunal Award — Statutory Bar — Appeals are barred if the amount in dispute is less than Rupees One Lakh (enhanced from Rupees Ten Thousand by Amendment Act of 2019) — Where statutory provisions prohibit a statutory appeal India Law Library Docid # 2436394
(969) RAM NIVAS Vs. THE STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Habeas Corpus — Scope and Maintainability — Detention pursuant to judicial remand — A writ of Habeas Corpus is not maintainable to challenge the detention of an accused in a criminal case registered against him, especially when the detention is pursuant to judicial remand and bail applications have been considered and dismissed by competent courts — Detention under judicial India Law Library Docid # 2436395
(970) PURWESH DHANDE Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (Act of 2016) — Section 34 (Reservation) and Section 58 (Procedure for certification) — Madhya Pradesh Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 (Rules of 2017) — Rule 28 (Issuance of Disability Certificate) and Rule 29 (Certificate issued to be generally valid for all purposes) — Reservation in employment for persons with benchmark disabilities. India Law Library Docid # 2436396
(971) SAJID SHAH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 19-11-2025 Criminal Law — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302 (Murder) — Conviction based solely on inconsistent dying declarations — Criteria for relying on dying declaration outlined (citing P.V. Radhkrishna vs. State of Karnataka and Paniben (Smt.) vs. State of Gujarat) — Court must ensure declaration is true, voluntary, not tutored, and consistent; rule of corroboration is one of prudence — When multiple dying declarations exist, if the earliest version is natural and consistent with medical India Law Library Docid # 2436397
(972) RAJU THAPA Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Service Law — Termination based on Criminal Conviction — Subsequent Acquittal — Effect of Acquittal on Termination — Where an employee's services are terminated solely based on a criminal conviction, and that conviction is subsequently set aside (acquittal), the foundation of the termination order vanishes and the termination cannot be sustained in law; the employee is entitled to reinstatement. India Law Library Docid # 2436553
(973) SRI CHANDRA SINGH Vs. ADDITIONAL CHIEF REVENUE COMMISSIONER AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 (Act, 1950) — Section 331 — Scope of Second Appeal — Applicability of amended Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) — Section 331 of the Act, 1950, which provides for an appeal on "one or more of the grounds specified in Section 100 CPC," constitutes 'legislation by incorporation' (incorporating the then-existing grounds of Section 100 India Law Library Docid # 2436554
(974) PRIYANK CHAUHAN Vs. SMT. VINITA CHAUHAN[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) (Cruelty) — Mental Cruelty — Baseless or Reckless Allegations — Unsubstantiated and defamatory allegations of illicit relationships or infidelity made by one spouse against the other constitute grave mental cruelty, causing mental agony and loss of reputation — Continuous and unfounded accusations render it impossible for the aggrieved spouse to cohabit and justify India Law Library Docid # 2436555
(975) GHANSHYAM GUPTA ALIAS GHANSHYAM VAISH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder (Strangulation) — Circumstantial Evidence — Last Seen Theory — Motive — The case against the appellant (father) for the murder of his daughter (deceased) rested on circumstantial evidence, including the deceased being last seen with the appellant in a rented room and overwhelming evidence suggesting homicidal death by strangulation. India Law Library Docid # 2436556
(976) HEMANT S. HATHI Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Criminal Law — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — Settlement — Loan Default/Financial Fraud — Writ petitions sought quashing of multiple FIRs, charge sheets, ECIRs/PMLA proceedings, Fugitive Economic Offenders Act proceedings, Companies Act/SFIO proceedings, and Black Money Act proceedings concerning alleged financial irregularities and loan default — Court observed that if petitioners are willing to return public money to lender banks, continuation of criminal India Law Library Docid # 2437434
(977) SNIDHA MEHRA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 19-11-2025 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Section 15(1)(b) — Constitutional Validity — Challenge under Article 32 (Public Interest Litigation) against Section 15(1)(b) of the Act (which stipulates that if a female Hindu dies intestate without a son, daughter, or husband, her property devolves upon the heirs of the husband, before her parents) was not entertained on merits by the Supreme Court at the instance of a practicing India Law Library Docid # 2437441
(978) NAKUL PATIDAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Service Law — Transfer and Postings — Scheduled Tribe Area — Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) Area — Employees residing in TSP area appointed under Non-TSP cadre — Right to seek transfer under Government Circulars — Petitioners, permanent residents of TSP area, appointed as Constables in Minerals Protection Force (later merged into 14th Battalion RAC) under Non-TSP cadre despite applying under TSP category — India Law Library Docid # 2437723
(979) COUNCIL OF INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA Vs. S.N. VALERA, FCA M/S. S.N. VALERA & CO.[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 — Section 21(3), 21(5), 21(6) — Professional Misconduct — Procedure in inquiries relating to misconduct — Power and Role of the Council (ICAI) — The Council must record its independent findings on the professional misconduct of a member after receiving the report from the Disciplinary Committee and considering the members written/oral representation; merely agreeing India Law Library Docid # 2437868
(980) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. PARBATSINH CHHAGANSINH ZALA[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of Interference — High Court can interfere with a judgment of acquittal only in exceptional cases where there are compelling circumstances, if the judgment is found to be perverse, or if the findings are without reason, unreasonable, or contrary to evidence — The Appellate Court must consider the presumed innocence of the accused, which is reinforced by the acquittal, and should avoid routine India Law Library Docid # 2437869