(521) PAWAN KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. RAJASTHAN STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation — Contributory Negligence — Standard of Proof — High Court reducing motor accident compensation by 40% based on alleged contributory negligence of deceased — Supreme Court holds that benefit of doubt regarding contributory negligence must be given to the deceased when no deliberate or willful conduct constituting negligence is established — Finding of contributory India Law Library Docid # 2436099
(522) SHUKLA PRASAD Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 147, 302 read with Section 149 — Murder — Appreciation of evidence — Reliability of prosecution witnesses (PWs 1, 2, and 3) — Multiple material contradictions between witnesses' trial testimonies and First Information Report (FIR) and Merg Intimation (Exhibit P/1) — PW-1's significant improvement in testimony (claiming to be eyewitness in chief-examination vs. stating in India Law Library Docid # 2436101
(523) C.M. MEENAKSHI Vs. ARCHBISHOP OF BANGALORE AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(a) and (d) — Rejection of Plaint — Grounds for rejection — Application for rejection of plaint on grounds of no cause of action, bar by limitation, res judicata (due to earlier dismissed/withdrawn suits), and bar under Order II Rule 2 (non-inclusion of reliefs in earlier suits) — Trial Court allowed the application rejecting the plaint — High Court set aside the India Law Library Docid # 2436113
(524) ROBERT LALCHUNGNUNGA CHONGTHU @ R L CHONGTHU Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF NDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Arms Act, 1959 — Section 13(2A) — Prosecution of public servant (IAS officer/District Magistrate) for alleged irregularities in issuing arms licenses and criminal conspiracy (Sections 109, 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B IPC and Section 30 Arms Act) — Delay in investigation India Law Library Docid # 2435645
(525) IN RE : ISSUE RELATING TO DEFINITION OF ARAVALI HILLS AND RANGES[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Environmental Law — Conservation of Aravali Hills and Ranges — Definition of Aravali Hills and Ranges for mining purposes — Supreme Court accepts the definition recommended by the Committee constituted under the direction of the Court, thereby providing a uniform definition across Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, and India Law Library Docid # 2435646
(526) JALGAON DISTRICT CENTRAL COOP. BANK LTD. Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Priority of Debts — Section 26E — When two enactments contain non-obstante clauses, the provision incorporated later in time prevails; however, if one enactment creates a statutory 'first charge', that charge prevails over the general 'priority' conferred by the later non-obstante clause — India Law Library Docid # 2435647
(527) IN RE: ASSENT, WITHHOLDING OR RESERVATION OF BILLS BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 143(1) — Presidential Reference — Scope and Maintainability — Reference relating to interpretation of powers of Governor (Article 200) and President (Article 201) regarding assent, withholding, or reservation of Bills — Constitutional functionaries, constitutional mechanics, and federalism — Reference presents questions of law that have arisen or are likely to arise, which are India Law Library Docid # 2435648
(528) BHARAT KANTILAL DALAL (DEAD) THROUGH LR. Vs. CHETAN SURENDRA DALAL AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Execution of Arbitral Award — Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) — Maintainability — Code of Civil Procedure (CPC), 1908 — Order 21 Rule 22 — Execution proceedings against legal representatives — The Act is a self-contained code restricting judicial interference — An order passed by a Single Judge in the course of executing an arbitral award is traceable to the Act, not the CPC; therefore, a Letters Patent Appeal against such an order is not maintainable India Law Library Docid # 2435649
(529) UTTAR PRADESH STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION THROUGH ITS REGIONAL MANAGER Vs. R.K. SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Service Law — Termination of Conductor — Labour Court’s Award — Reinstatement with Back-wages — Validity of Domestic Inquiry — Where a domestic inquiry is found vitiated due to the employer's failure to provide the workman with a due opportunity of hearing, the employer must be given an India Law Library Docid # 2436123
(530) IN RE : ASSENT, WITHHOLDING OR RESERVATION OF BILLS BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 200 — Governor's Powers regarding Bills — Options available to Governor — The Governor has three constitutional options under Article 200: to assent to the Bill, to reserve the Bill for the President's consideration, or to withhold assent and return the Bill to the Legislature with comments — The first proviso to Article 200 restricts the existing options and does India Law Library Docid # 2436128
(531) BANABIHARI MISHRA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) — Quashing of Proceedings — Principles Governing Quashing — High Court quashed criminal proceedings (FIR and subsequent proceedings including cognizance) solely based on an affidavit by the Opposite Party stating misunderstanding and intent not to proceed further against the petitioner — Supreme Court held that the order did not meet the principles laid down in State of India Law Library Docid # 2436131
(532) MANISH YADAV Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Consideration — Grant of bail when complicity is primarily based on co-accused's confessional statement and lack of recovery of incriminating material from the accused — High Court rejected bail — Supreme Court allowed the appeal, noting that nothing incriminating was recovered from the appellant and complicity was based solely on the India Law Library Docid # 2436133
(533) M/S. DEEP CONSTRUCTION AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Suspension of sentence — Condition of deposit — High Court required petitioner (convicted by two lower courts) to deposit Rs. 35 lakhs (in addition to interim compensation paid under Section 143A) for suspension of sentence during criminal revision — Petitioner argued that the complaint was defective (not lodged by payee but India Law Library Docid # 2436136
(534) FAIZALKHAN @ ZOYEBKHAN BADSHAHKHAN PATHAN Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 8(C), 20(b)(ii)(A), 22(a), 22(b) and 29 — Bail — Grant of bail after previous misuse — Appellant previously granted bail; non-bailable warrants issued due to non-appearance; subsequently arrested — Supreme Court granting appellant "one more opportunity" for India Law Library Docid # 2436139
(535) GULAM FAREED Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 — Section 132 — Bail application — Tax Evasion — Bail granted despite seriousness of offence and reliance on supporting evidence against systematic network for tax evasion — Consideration of factors like nature of evidence (documentary/electronic, already seized), identity of witnesses (tax department officers, reducing risk of influencing them), maximum sentence (five years, India Law Library Docid # 2436148
(536) MADHYA PRADESH JUDGES ASSOCIATION Vs. HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Service Law — Judicial Officers — Superannuation Age — Enhancement — Challenge to rejection by High Court (administrative side) of representation to enhance superannuation age of Judicial Officers in Madhya Pradesh — State Government increased superannuation age of all its employees to 62 years — Petitioner-Association India Law Library Docid # 2436155
(537) IN RE: ISSUE RELATING TO DEFINITION OF ARAVALLI HILLS AND RANGES[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Environmental Law — Aravalli Hills and Ranges — Definition and Conservation — Supreme Court accepts recommendations of Committee of Experts (CEC) regarding the definition of Aravalli Hills and Ranges as given by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in the context of the region's conservation and protection. India Law Library Docid # 2436165
(538) AKBAR Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Capital Punishment — Appeal against Death Sentence — Review of Sentencing — Supreme Court granted leave to appeal and stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded to the appellant (Akbar) — Directed summoning of original records from Trial Court and High Court, and supply of translated records to the parties. India Law Library Docid # 2436168
(539) DEEPAK KUMAR @ GOLU @ D. KUMAR Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Death Sentence — Stay of Execution — Supreme Court orders stay of execution of the death sentence awarded to the appellant pending appeal. India Law Library Docid # 2436169
(540) VICTIM FATHER Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Stay of Conviction — Distinction between Suspension of Sentence and Stay of Conviction — Parameters for consideration are "totally different" — Stay of conviction should not be granted unless an "exceptional case" is made out, or it amounts to the "rarest of the rare" case — High Court erred in granting stay of conviction solely on the ground that the application for suspension of sentence India Law Library Docid # 2437566