(821) SHASHI SAPRA AND OTHERS Vs. NAFE SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor accident compensation — Principles of assessment — Just Compensation — It is imperative to follow a structured and uniform methodology for determining compensation in motor accident fatality claims to ensure the grant of “just compensation” under Section 166 of the Act. India Law Library Docid # 2436897
(822) SMT. POONAM SINHA Vs. BASHANT SINHA[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i) (Adultery) and Section 13(1)(i-a) (Cruelty) — Divorce — Ground of Adultery and Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage — Husband sought divorce alleging wife was living in an adulterous relationship with another person since 2015 — Wife acknowledged leaving the matrimonial home and living with another person as his wife; police closure report confirms this — Single act of sexual intercourse outside marriage is sufficient to invoke the provision for dissolv India Law Library Docid # 2435845
(823) MUSTT. KUDRATANI KHATUN @ RAMISA KHATOON Vs. STATE OF ASSAM[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 314 — Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage — Ingredients and applicability — Section 314 punishes voluntarily causing the death of a woman by an act done with intent to cause miscarriage, even if the miscarriage itself was attempted with the woman’s consent — Conviction affirmed where appellant, lacking medical qualification, attempted to terminate 8-month pregnancy by inserting a root-like object and subsequently a fishing hook into the wom India Law Library Docid # 2437301
(824) M/S SILCHAR INDANE SERVICE AND OTHERS Vs. INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Constitutional Law — Writ Jurisdiction — Availability of Alternative Remedy (Arbitration Clause) — Maintainability of Writ Petition under Article 226 — While availability of an effective alternative remedy (like arbitration) is usually a ground for a High Court to decline exercising jurisdiction, this is not an absolute legal bar — Where a respondent fails to object to the maintainability of a writ petition on this ground, and the petition is heard and decided on merits, the resulting judgment c India Law Library Docid # 2437302
(825) SMT. MAUSUMI DE Vs. STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Land Settlement — Modification of Settlement Conditions — Conditions subsequent to initial approval — Settlement initially approved in 1991 for a plot in favor of original allottees (husband and wife) — Subsequent modifications in 1992 (December 30, 1992) incorporated specific conditions for keeping a ten-feet-wide public road to the east and a sixteen-feet-wide public road to the west of the settled land, along with a revised premium rate — Settlement process was incomplete until these modified India Law Library Docid # 2437303
(826) M/S ROYAL COAL PRODUCTS AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Writ Petition — Article 226 of the Constitution of India — Relief sought for illegal demolition and compensation — Demolition of business premises (coke manufacturing unit) without prior notice or hearing — Violation of Principles of Natural Justice — Petitioner claimed possession based on mutation in revenue records (Jamabandi) and payment of land revenue — Respondent Coal India Limited (CIL) claimed ownership by nationalization and invoked Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) A India Law Library Docid # 2437304
(827) SHYAMA VERMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Service Law — Regularization and Seniority — Appointment on Daily Wage Basis — Petitioner appointed as daily wager earlier than Respondent Nos. 4 and 5; juniors (Respondents 4 and 5) were regularized earlier — Petitioner's regularization granted with a condition (Condition No. 8) denying seniority and arrears of monetary benefits — High Court in earlier litigation (WP No. 4803/2011) struck down Condition No. 8 as India Law Library Docid # 2435661
(828) TUSHAR @ NANDI @ ANAND Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Madhya Pradesh Rajya Suraksha Adhiniyam, 1990 — Sections 5(a), 5(b), 8(1), 9 — Externment Order — Validity — Requirements for passing externment order — Necessary conditions under Section 5(b) require reasonable grounds to believe the person is engaged in or about to engage in specific offences (involving force or violence or under Chapters XII, XVI or XVII, or Sections 506 or 509 IPC) AND that witnesses are India Law Library Docid # 2435662
(829) SHRI. NAGARAJAPPA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984 — Section 2(12)(e) — Definition of 'Public Servant' — Status of Chairman of a Government Company — The Chairman or Vice-Chairman of a Government Company (under Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956) is deemed a 'public servant' under the Lokayukta Act — Petitioner, as Chairman of MySugar Company (a State Government Company), was a public servant during his tenure, and India Law Library Docid # 2435926
(830) CHAMUNDEWHWARI NAGARA SARVODAYA AND OTHERS Vs. SRI. DINESH KUMAR AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Sections 11 and 12 — Willful Disobedience — Non-Compliance with Court Order — Order obtained by misleading the Court — A Contempt Petition (CCC No. 655/2023) alleged willful disobedience of an order dated 19.04.2023 passed in a Review Petition (RP No. 135/2023) — The High Court found that the order in the Review Petition was obtained by misleading the Court regarding the India Law Library Docid # 2435927
(831) SMT MEENAKSHI OBERG Vs. SH. KARUN DUBE AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Sections 61, 64, 65(c), 65-B — Electronic Evidence — Admissibility of secondary evidence — Compliance with Best Evidence Rule — Where the Appellant/Plaintiff No.1 admits losing the original Loan Agreement (LA) and only produces a scanned copy, she fails to meet the requirement of proving a document through primary evidence (Sections 61 and 64) — Inability to produce the India Law Library Docid # 2435976
(832) HIMMAT SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. ARUP SINHA ROY[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 and Order 41 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13 — Appeal against judgment and decree of Commercial Court — Brokerage/Commission for introducing a builder — Existence of Contract/Enforceable Understanding — Where the broker (Respondent/Plaintiff) introduced a builder (M/s Design Consortia) to the property owners India Law Library Docid # 2435977
(833) STATE Vs. DAYA SHANKAR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378(1)(b) — Appeal against Acquittal — Principle of Double Presumption of Innocence — The presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is reinforced and strengthened upon acquittal by the Trial Court — An appellate court should be slow in reversing an India Law Library Docid # 2435978
(834) ALI MOHAMMAD MIR AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Clarification of Judgment — Scope and Purpose — Application seeking clarification of a previous judgment (dated 25.04.2025 in WP(C) No. 3395/2023) to address impediments raised by revenue authorities (Tehsildar) during implementation — Clarification granted to remove obstruction raised by Tehsildar regarding the status of ancestors of petitioners as "Assamis" and their entitlement to proprietary rights based on India Law Library Docid # 2436257
(835) RAKESH PRASAD UNIYAL Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Right to Consideration — Petitioner's Right — A candidate for promotion has only a right to be considered for promotion in accordance with relevant rules, and no fundamental right to the promotion itself — Employer has the discretion to set criteria for recruitment and cancel or withhold a recruitment process for cogent reasons — Mere issuance of an advertisement or midway selection does not confer a right to appointment. India Law Library Docid # 2436543
(836) DR. HARI DATT PATHAK Vs. SMT. SANJEEDA BEGUM (NOW REPRESENTED THROUGH LEGAL HEIR MOHD. ASHEEM SIDDIQUI) AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 — Section 21(1)(a) (Release proceedings on ground of bona fide requirement) and Section 22 (Appeal) — Application of Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) — Proceedings under the U.P. Act are special proceedings governed by a self-contained mechanism (Rule 22 of the Rules) — CPC does not apply in its entirety; only limited application is India Law Library Docid # 2436544
(837) C. BALASUBRAMANIAN Vs. RAMESH[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 13-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of Cheque) and Section 147 — Compounding of Offence at Revision Stage — The offence under Section 138 NI Act is primarily a civil wrong and compoundable under Section 147 NI Act, which has an overriding effect on general compounding provisions (e.g., Section 359 Bharatiya India Law Library Docid # 2436759
(838) S. KAMARAJA Vs. MOHANRAN[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 13-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138, Section 148 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Appeal against conviction — Suspension of Sentence — Condition for deposit of compensation amount — Appellate Court's power to impose condition of deposit — Section 148 mandates minimum deposit of 20% of fine or compensation; Appellate Court can order more than 20% deposit — Direction by India Law Library Docid # 2436760
(839) MATTEM PENCHALAIAH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF A.P. AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Mandamus — Land Acquisition — Compensation vs. Ex gratia Payment — Petitioners sought payment of compensation instead of ex gratia for lands resumed for a new broad gauge line, relying on previous High Court and Supreme Court judgments holding assignees entitled to compensation as pattadars/landowners — Action of revenue authority in India Law Library Docid # 2436217
(840) PUJALI DURGA DEVI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF AP[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 372/374(2)/378(4) — Appeal against conviction — Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Section 302 — Murder — Dying Declaration — Reliability — Conviction based primarily on two dying declarations (Exs.P1 and P9) — Ex.P1 deemed unreliable as Prosecution Witness (P.W.1) admitted police obtained deceased's thumb impression on a blank paper before India Law Library Docid # 2436218