(41) TULARAM KASHYAP Vs. LIMSAR AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(2) and 166 — Appeal against dismissal of claim petition — Dismissal by Tribunal on ground of failure to prove vehicle involvement and rash/negligent driving — Appellant/claimant argued Tribunal overlooked evidence, wrongly presumed collusion, and appliedHyper-technical reasoning — Supreme Court precedent emphasizes liberal approach and preponderance of probability over strict proof in MACT cases, distinguishing them from criminal trials. India Law Library Docid # 2428083
(42) M/S. STEEL CENTRE Vs. UNION OF INDIA[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 25-07-2025 Central Goods and Service Tax Rules, 2017 — Rule 86A — Blocking of Input Tax Credit (ITC) — Constitutional validity challenged on grounds of violation of natural justice — Held, rule does not explicitly provide for a pre-blocking hearing, but sub-rule (2) allows for post-decisional objections and sub-rule (3) limits the blocking period to one year — These provisions adequately safeguard a dealer’s interest — Rule cannot be India Law Library Docid # 2428084
(43) BRAND PROTECTORS INDIA PVT. LTD. Vs. ANIL KUMAR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (B.N.S.S.) — Section 223 — Examination of complainant — Notice to accused before taking cognizance — Proviso to Section 223(1) mandates that no cognizance shall be taken without giving the accused an opportunity of being heard — This is a procedural safeguard not present in the earlier India Law Library Docid # 2428095
(44) SMT.LALITABAI AND OTHERS Vs. NEW INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 25-07-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(1) — Appeal against award of compensation — Court reiterated that while compensation should not be a windfall or a pittance, it must be just, reasonable, and based on rational factors, not whims or guesses — Tribunal's reliance on an estimated monthly income without proper justification or India Law Library Docid # 2428117
(45) PRINCE PRATAP SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 307 — Attempt to murder — Ingredients — For framing charge, there is no requirement for injury to be on a vital part of the body; merely causing hurt is sufficient. The intention or knowledge that the act might cause death is crucial. Proof of grievous or life-threatening hurt is not essential. The intention can be inferred India Law Library Docid # 2428118
(46) M/S. JABS INTERNATIONAL PVT. LTD. Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Maharashtra Industrial Development Act, 1961 (MID Act), Section 1(3) & 32(1) — Notification — Land Acquisition — Notifications issued for industrial development and acquisition of land for industrial purposes — Land vested in State free from encumbrances — Handed over to MIDC for development — Industrial area developed, plots allotted — Forest Department claiming land as "Forest Land" based on notice under India Law Library Docid # 2428213
(47) PUSHPRAJ SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 24-07-2025 Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 — Section 24 — Purpose of Provision — Purpose is to ensure no stigma attaches to a juvenile and to provide a fresh start, allowing past records to be erased. India Law Library Docid # 2428045
(48) SMT. RACHNA BAI GURJAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 24-07-2025 Madhya Pradesh Uccha Nyayalaya (Khand Nyaypith Ko Appeal) Adhiniyam, 2005 — Section 2(1) — Maintainability of Writ Appeal — Preliminary objection raised that Writ Appeal is not maintainable at the instance of an intervener or proposed intervener without filing an application for leave to appeal — Whether an intervener or person aggrieved can file an appeal or writ appeal with an application for leave to file appeal — What are the India Law Library Docid # 2428046
(49) MUSTAFA RAZA AND OTHERS Vs. AMREEN NAAZ AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 24-07-2025 Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 — Sections 25 & 26 — Custody of minor child — Welfare of child is paramount consideration — Mother entitled to custody of male child until seven years of age — Even if personal law grants custody to mother, welfare of child will prevail in case of conflict. India Law Library Docid # 2428082
(50) STATE OF MAHARASHTRA Vs. SANJAY BABAN KATKAR[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 391, 313, 366 — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 — DNA reports — Expert witnesses — Capital punishment — Where the conviction relies heavily on DNA reports and the prosecution failed to examine the experts who conducted the DNA analysis, denying the accused opportunity to cross-examine them on the scientific and technical aspects of the report, this amounts to a failure of justice and vitiates the trial, India Law Library Docid # 2428020
(51) RASIDA KHATOON Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 23-07-2025 Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009, Section 39(1) Proviso — Removal of Member — Enquiry Procedure — State Government can conduct enquiry itself, through existing or retired officer not below State Level Service rank, or through any directed authority — Additional Collector seeking fact-finding reports from subordinates is not an illegal delegation of power for statutory enquiry India Law Library Docid # 2428021
(52) STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. FATEH LAL[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 201 — Murder and Causing Evidence of Offence to Disappear — Appeal against acquittal — Held, prosecution failed to establish motive and "last seen" theory — Contradictory statements of prosecution witnesses and lack of corroboration for key prosecution theories rendered the case highly doubtful — Acquittal upheld. India Law Library Docid # 2428022
(53) PRABH KIRAN SINGH ALIAS PRABHKIRAN SINGH Vs. GURMAIL SINGH KHINDA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 311 — Additional Evidence — Trial Court's power to permit — Scope and principles discussed — Evidence essential for just decision — Can be allowed even after cross-examination foreclosed — Court can summon witnesses or allow further examination at instance of party or suo motu — Successive applications require higher circumspection — No straight jacket formula, India Law Library Docid # 2428023
(54) MR. SATISH KUMAR @ BABAL Vs. STATE[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 326, 324, 325, 341, 34 — Applicability — Grievous hurt by dangerous weapon or means — Conviction under Section 326 RPC for an injury caused by a human bite — Held, human teeth are a natural part of the human body and cannot be equated with weapons specifically categorized as dangerous or India Law Library Docid # 2428026
(55) PARVEZ AHMAD PADROO AND OTHERS Vs. J&K BANK LIMITED, THROUGH ITS CHAIRMAN AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 14, 16, 21 — Equality, Non-discrimination, Right to Life — Petitioners engaged as casual workers by Respondent-Bank, later services utilized through outsourcing agency — Bank formulated "Absorption Policy" for contractual engagement/regularization of casual workers — Petitioners figured in India Law Library Docid # 2428027
(56) DAULT RAM AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U.P.[ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 386, 374 — Hearing of Criminal Appeals — Absence of Appellant/Counsel — Amicus Curiae — Supreme Court judgments in Surya Baksh Singh, K.S. Panduranga, and Mohd. Sukur Ali — High Court's discretion to dismiss appeal for non-prosecution or decide on merits in absence of appellant/counsel — Appointment of Amicus Curiae is discretionary — Court can decide appeal after perusing record and trial court judgment, with or without Amicus Curiae if India Law Library Docid # 2428017
(57) BHARGAVI AUTOMOBILES PVT. LTD. Vs. K.S. RAVI KUMAR AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Civil Procedure — Principles of Natural Justice — Violation of — Order passed without impleading affected parties liable to be set aside. Civil Procedure — Principles of Natural Justice — Revival of illegal order — Court may refuse relief if setting aside an order revives an earlier illegal order, but the earlier order must be demonstrably illegal. India Law Library Docid # 2428019
(58) THE STATE Vs. ASHOK[DELHI HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 378(1) — Appeal against acquittal — Grounds for appeal — Judgment based on conjecture and surmises, against facts and law — Victim’s statement narrated entire incident consistently, role of respondent specifically described — Trial court did not consider tender age of prosecutrix (nine years old) — Deviations due to passage of time natural — Children are receptive to India Law Library Docid # 2428035
(59) AMRENDRA KUMAR YADAV AND OTHERS Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (NEW DELHI)[PATNA HIGH COURT] 23-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 223 — Joint trial of accused — Application for joint trial of three special cases was rejected by the Trial Court on the grounds that it would cause judicial delay and violate Supreme Court directions for expeditious disposal of one of the cases. Held, the application was filed at a belated stage, after the prosecution evidence was closed and the cases were at the stage of India Law Library Docid # 2428037
(60) RANDHIR JAIN Vs. SAI TRADERS AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 22-07-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 21 — Execution of Decree — Objections — Re-agitation of matters already decided — Petitioner filed third-party objections which were dismissed, subsequent appeal and Execution Second Appeal (ESA) were also dismissed, and review application was dismissed — Petitioner then filed a second set of objections raising the same grounds — Held, filing a second objection petition on the same grounds after the matter had attained finality in higher courts without challeng India Law Library Docid # 2428024