(141) HARIOM RATHORE Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Regular Bail — Grant of bail by Supreme Court — Consideration of allegations and medical evidence — Appellant accused of hitting victim with a hockey stick on his legs — Contention that medical report shows no corresponding injury — Though common intention with co-accused (who caused grievous injury) was alleged, considering the nature of specific India Law Library Docid # 2435597
(142) RIBUL HOSSAIN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) — Sections 21(c) and 29 — Regular Bail — Factors for granting bail — Appellant in custody for nearly one year and three months; chargesheet filed but charges yet to be framed; trial likely to be delayed due to large number of witnesses — Supreme Court allowed bail based India Law Library Docid # 2435598
(143) GOURAV PATHAK Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Anticipatory Bail — Quashing of FIR — Offences under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) Section 69, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (DP Act) Sections 3 and 4, and Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act) Section 67A — Original complaint (FIR) filed by Respondent No. 2 against appellant and family members due to apprehension/misunderstanding regarding marriage promise — Subsequent marriage India Law Library Docid # 2435600
(144) VINEET CHATWAL Vs. STATE OF ORISSA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Protest Petition — Cognizance and Summoning — Setting aside of — Appellant, a key witness in an initial CBI-related FIR (FIR 17/2021) against the University management, was subsequently subjected to a second FIR (FIR 24/2021) filed by the University, allegedly in retaliation for his deposition — Police filed a Cancellation Report in the second FIR— University filed India Law Library Docid # 2435601
(145) VIKAS KUMAR GOSWAMI Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Anticipatory Bail — Special Leave Petition against denial of anticipatory bail — High Constitutional Functionaries (Civil Servants) — Alleged Liquor Scam — Petitioners (Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Excise Commissioner, etc.) accused of collusion in organized illegal liquor sale syndicate (allegedly Rs. 432 crores) — Petitioners initially protected from arrest by interim orders subject to surrender and India Law Library Docid # 2435606
(146) RENU KUMARI Vs. NARENDRA KUMAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 25 — Transfer Petition — Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Proceedings under Section 12 — Transfer of marital proceedings (H.M.A. No. 1139/2021) sought by wife from Principal Judge, Family Court, South East District, Saket Courts, Delhi to Family Court, Makhdumpur, Jehanabad, Bihar — Grounds for transfer — Great inconvenience to wife due to India Law Library Docid # 2435607
(147) BILAL Vs. STATE OF U.P[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Grant of regular bail for offence under Section 307 IPC — Appellant in custody since 09.07.2024 — Implication based on disclosure statement of co-accused — Chargesheet filed and charges framed — Supreme Court finding no grounds to continue pre-conviction incarceration despite daunting past criminal antecedents — Entitlement to India Law Library Docid # 2435615
(148) NANKI BAI SEN Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against Acquittal — Standard of Review — An appellate court should be cautious and slow in interfering with a trial court’s judgment of acquittal, recognizing the trial court’s advantage in observing witness demeanor and the strengthening of the presumption of innocence in favor of the accused upon acquittal (double presumption) — Interference is justified only India Law Library Docid # 2435843
(149) SMT. MAGLINCE JOHN Vs. SHRI THOMAS JOHN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 19(1) — Appeal against Judgment and Decree of Family Court — Divorce Act, 1869 — Sections 10(ix) (Desertion) and 10(x) (Cruelty) — Grounds for Dissolution of Marriage — Appeal filed by wife challenging the decree of divorce granted to the husband on grounds of desertion and cruelty — Findings of the Family Court upheld based on the evidence that the parties were living separately for a India Law Library Docid # 2435844
(150) RAM AVTAR Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302/34 — Murder — Circumstantial Evidence — Conviction based on ‘last seen’ circumstance and extra-judicial confession by co-accused — Last Seen Theory — Evidence of multiple prosecution witnesses (sons of the deceased and neighbour) confirming that the deceased was last seen consuming India Law Library Docid # 2435979
(151) MOHSIN AHMAD Vs. STATE (GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 451/34 and 308/34 — Conviction — Appellate stage — Offence relating to house trespass and attempt to commit culpable homicide not amounting to murder — High Court upholding Trial Court’s findings of guilt based on consistent testimonies of victim and eyewitnesses, and corroborating evidence of weapons recovered — Appeals not pressed on merits, prayer confined India Law Library Docid # 2435980
(152) AJIT KUMAR SENGUPTA (DECEASED) THER LRS. Vs. SMT. MANASHI SENGUPTA BHADRA[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 11-11-2025 Probate — Application for grant of probate — Will challenged as vague, false, forged, and fabricated — Signatures and initials allegedly false and forged — Opposition based on testator's alleged lack of sound mind, undue influence, and coercion — Plaintiff's case is that the Will was duly executed and attested and that the testator had severed ties with India Law Library Docid # 2435134
(153) SUSHIL KUMAR DAS Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 11-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 498A, 302, 201, 34 — Cruelty, Murder, Causing disappearance of evidence, Common intention — Appeal against acquittal — Court can re-appreciate evidence in appeal against acquittal but should not interfere unless order is based on misreading of evidence or erroneous understanding of law, and if two plausible India Law Library Docid # 2435138
(154) JYOTSNA GHOSH Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 11-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 341/376 — Appeal by de-facto complainant against acquittal — Trial court judgment not based on evidence — Trial court misappreciated evidence — Victim was deaf and dumb — Probability of false implication is low — Prosecution established guilt — Trial court erred in acquittal — India Law Library Docid # 2435139
(155) K. SUBRAMANIAM (DIED) THROUGH LRS K.S. BALAKRISHNAN AND OTHERS Vs. M/S KRISHNA MILLS PVT.LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-11-2025 Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960 — Section 10(2)(i) — Wilful default in payment of rent — Eviction sought on the ground of wilful default — Lessee challenged fair rent fixation but did not seek stay of its operation — Payments made belatedly after protracted litigation — Conduct inconsistent with bona India Law Library Docid # 2435150
(156) SURENDRA KOLI Vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 164 — Confession — Admissibility — Curative jurisdiction — Inconsistency in judgments on identical evidence — Petitioner convicted and sentenced to death based on a confession recorded under Section 164 CrPC and recoveries under Section 27 Evidence Act — Subsequently, in India Law Library Docid # 2435151
(157) KAPADAM SANGALAPPA AND OTHERS Vs. KAMATAM SANGALAPPA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 92 — Representative suit — Long-standing dispute over religious rituals and custody of deity idols and paraphernalia between two sects — First suit dismissed, appeal also dismissed — District Judge observed that a fresh suit could be filed in a representative capacity under Section 92 CPC for proper management of endowment — Subsequent suit filed in representative capacity during pendency of which a compromise decree was passed — High Court rightly set India Law Library Docid # 2435152
(158) BUDH SINGH Vs. AMRIT LAL @ AMRIT PAL SINGH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 11-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of plaint — Application for amendment filed after commencement of trial and cross-examination of a witness allowed — Amendment necessary for effective adjudication and to avoid multiplicity of proceedings — Dispossession occurred during pendency of suit — India Law Library Docid # 2435217
(159) SMT. SUKHWINDER KAUR Vs. SANDEEP KAUR & OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 11-11-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 20 — Specific Performance of Contract of Sale — Readiness and Willingness — Suit for specific performance of a contract for sale of property is an equitable remedy and is at the discretion of the court. The court must exercise this discretion based on sound judicial principles. The buyer must demonstrate not only presence at the registration office but also the availability of India Law Library Docid # 2435218
(160) M/S. S.J.S. INTENTIONAL AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-11-2025 Alternative remedy — When High Court ought to have entertained writ petition under Article 226 — High Court relegating appellant-assessee to alternative remedy against demand notice and original order — Appellant approaching High Court primarily on ground of delay and laches (demand notice issued nearly seven years after Assessment Year) and not for merits adjudication — High Court erred in refusing to interfere and India Law Library Docid # 2435426