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(61) MANGILAL DECEASED THROUGH LRS RADHA BAI AND OTHERS Vs. PAWAN SINGH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 22-07-2025
Registration Act, 1908 — Section 17 and Section 49 — Effect of non-registration of documents required to be registered.

B. Loan Agreement vs. Mortgage Deed — A document primarily acknowledging a loan transaction and ensuring repayment is considered a loan agreement and does not require registration. However, if it also
India Law Library Docid # 2428025

(62) AMALOR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Vs. THE BRANCH HEAD CANARA BANK HONG KONG BRANCH AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 22-07-2025
Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Generally — Scope of Jurisdiction — Loan sanctioned by a foreign branch of an Indian bank secured by Indian property — SARFAESI Act applies even if loan agreement specifies foreign law and jurisdiction, as statutory rights cannot be contracted out of to avoid public policy provisions
India Law Library Docid # 2428028

(63) ASHWINBHAI PREMJIBHAI VISPARA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 22-07-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 498A and 306 — Cruelty and abetment to suicide — Conviction for cruelty and abetment to suicide against husband and mother-in-law — Appeal against conviction — Allegations solely based on a single incident on the day of the deceased's death, where she was asked not to assign domestic work to her brother-in-law's son who was learning tailoring — Dying declaration and evidence
India Law Library Docid # 2428036

(64) SARFARAZ AHMAD KHAN Vs. PARWEJ AHMAD KHAN AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 22-07-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of Pleadings — Allowing amendments to clarify existing pleas — Courts can allow amendments to pleadings even at a later stage if they are necessary to clarify existing pleas and do not fundamentally alter the nature of the suit
India Law Library Docid # 2428201

(65) ANUP TIRKEY Vs. SANJAY TIRKEY AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 21-07-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of Pleadings — Allowing amendment to withdraw admission at the fag end of trial — Held, erroneous — Once an admission is made in a written statement, it cannot be withdrawn through an amendment, particularly when the suit is nearing conclusion and the amendment would prejudice the case of the other party.
India Law Library Docid # 2428018

(66) SMT. SUJATA Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 11-07-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 46(4) — Arrest of Woman — After Sunset and Before Sunrise — Mandate for Lady Police Officer and Prior Permission from Judicial Magistrate — When a woman is accused of an offense, her arrest between sunset and sunrise is prohibited unless exceptional circumstances exist — In such exceptional cases, a lady police officer must make a written report and
India Law Library Docid # 2427795

(67) SK. FAKRODDIN Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 11-07-2025
Criminal Law — Rape — Penal Code, 1860 — Section 376(2)(f) — Conviction Challenge — Evidentiary Value — Sufficiency of Evidence — In a case challenging conviction under Section 376(2)(f) IPC, the court must meticulously evaluate the prosecution evidence, including the victim’s testimony, parental testimony, and medical evidence for corroboration.
India Law Library Docid # 2427796

(68) RUPA JITENDRA DESHPRABHU Vs. DR. VASUDEV RAJENDRA DESHPRABHU[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (GOA BENCH)] 11-07-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 47 — Execution of Decree — Objections by Third Party — Maintainability of Repeated Objections — A second application by a third party raising objections identical to a previously dismissed application under Section 47, where the previous dismissal was on merits and upheld by higher courts, is not maintainable — The principle of res judicata or issue estoppel prevents re
India Law Library Docid # 2427797

(69) MS. NEERA MISRA Vs. RAKESH CHANDRA MISRA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 6, Rule 17 — Amendment of Pleadings — Precedence over Order VII, Rule 11 Application — An application for amendment of plaint under Order VI, Rule 17 CPC must be decided before an application for rejection of plaint under Order VII, Rule 11 CPC, even if the latter was filed earlier in time.
India Law Library Docid # 2427798

(70) VINOD RAI @ BHULLAN Vs. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 11-07-2025
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Sections 2(d), 5(m), 6, 12, 29, 30, 42 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 354A, 376(2)(n)(i), 450, 506 — Sexual Offences — Conviction and Sentence — Appeal against conviction for sexual assault, house trespass, criminal intimidation and sexual harassment — Age of victim crucial for POCSO Act application.
India Law Library Docid # 2427799

(71) 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

(72) 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

(73) 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

(74) 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

(75) 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

(76) 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

(77) 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

(78) 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

(79) 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

(80) 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