(141) ABP NETWORK AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Investigation — Interim Protection — Writ Petition seeking transfer of investigation in specified FIRs (FIR Nos. 1 & 2 of 2024, SAS Nagar, Punjab) from State Police to a Central agency, relying on rights under Articles 19(1)(a), 19(1)(g), 14, and 21 of the Constitution — Supreme Court directs continuation of interim order providing protection against coercive steps (non-coercive measures) against petitioners in India Law Library Docid # 2436105
(142) ANIKET Vs. NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATION IN MEDICAL SCIENCES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 NEET-PG 2025 Examination — Eligibility for In-Service Quota — Upper Age Limit — Postponement of Examination Date — The petitioner was eligible for the 20% state-quota reserved for in-service candidates based on the original examination date (June 15, 2025), having not yet reached the maximum age of 45 years as stipulated in the Government Resolution dated July 19, 2023 — The examination date India Law Library Docid # 2436129
(143) DHARMENDRA PRASAD JAISWAL Vs. THE STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 438 — Anticipatory Bail — Consideration for Grant — Petitioner apprehending arrest for offenses under Sections 272/273 IPC and Section 30(a) of Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act — Interim protection against coercive steps previously granted subject to cooperation in India Law Library Docid # 2436130
(144) HARISH Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 — Sections 3 and 4 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 409 and 420 read with Section 34 — Bail — Consideration for grant of bail — Where the main accused in the case has already been granted bail, the co-accused (appellant) is generally entitled to parity in bail consideration — Supreme Court granted bail to the appellant, setting aside India Law Library Docid # 2436134
(145) RAHUL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Special Leave Petition (Crl.) — Suspension of Sentence — Challenge against High Court’s rejection of application for suspension of sentence — Factors warranting consideration: petitioner married the victim while she was a minor; parties’ dispute arose during a family function leading to FIR; petitioner claims false implication asserting no subsequent marriage and victim was pursuing education — India Law Library Docid # 2436144
(146) AMEEN AHMAD Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Service Law — Regularization — Retiral Benefits — Reckoning of Service — Appellant sought reckoning of his service for retiral benefits from the date he started working (02.11.1994) instead of the date of formal regularization (19.09.2008), despite admitted undisputed service starting from 02.11.1994 — Supreme Court directed that the period from 02.11.1994 to 19.09.2008 shall be reckoned for the purpose of determining India Law Library Docid # 2436152
(147) DEVANAND SRIVASTAV Vs. STATE OF BIHAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(c) — Bail application — Rejection by High Court set aside — Supreme Court granted bail considering the totality of circumstances, nature of the crime, and the fact that the appellant was in custody since 10.09.2023. (Paras 3, 4, 6, 9) India Law Library Docid # 2436153
(148) SHUBHAM Vs. STATE OF UP[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Suspension of Sentence during Pendency of Appeal — Convict sentenced to 5 years rigorous imprisonment appeals to High Court — Application for suspension of sentence rejected by High Court — Supreme Court grants leave and allows appeal for suspension of sentence — Factors considered include appellant's period of incarceration (nearly three years) and unlikelihood of the High Court appeal being heard India Law Library Docid # 2436154
(149) SHANKARLAL PALIWAL Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Bail — Pre-arrest interim protection — Confirmation of — Where Supreme Court previously granted interim anticipatory bail to the appellant subject to conditions, and subsequently, during the appeal hearing, it was undisputed that the appellant fully complied with all conditions (cooperated with investigation, did not threaten witnesses, and did not try to influence the investigation), the interim order was India Law Library Docid # 2436156
(150) ARVIND KUMAR Vs. BAR COUNCIL OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 21-11-2025 Writ Jurisdiction — Alternative Remedy — Challenge to disciplinary action (suspension from legal practice) and bar association election invalidity — High Court declining to interfere with matter of suspension when statutory appeal is pending and interim protection granted by Appellate Authority — High Court declining to adjudicate election dispute when regulations provide for remedy through election petition before a India Law Library Docid # 2436161
(151) G.APPAJI RAO Vs. D SATHEMMA DIED AND OTHERS BY LRS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 21-11-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 16(c) — Specific Performance of Agreement of Sale — Readiness and Willingness — Requirement to aver and prove continued readiness and willingness to perform part of contract from date of contract to date of hearing — Where time for performance (3 months) was stipulated in the agreement (Ex.A-2), the plaintiff's failure to pay the balance consideration or issue notice India Law Library Docid # 2436184
(152) ROUF AHMAD GANIE AND ANOTHER Vs. UT OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 21-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Section 37 — Bail — Ingredients and mandatory nature — Section 37 imposes cumulative conditions for granting bail in cases involving commercial quantity: (i) Public Prosecutor must be given opportunity to oppose, and (ii) The court must be satisfied there are reasonable grounds for believing the accused is not guilty, and (iii) The accused is not likely to India Law Library Docid # 2436246
(153) SHAHNAWAZ AHMAD DAR Vs. U.T OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 21-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Section 37 — Bail — Commercial Quantity — Twin Conditions — Where an offense involves commercial quantity of contraband, the statutory bar under Section 37 applies, requiring the court to be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing the accused is not guilty and is unlikely to commit any offense while on bail (Section 37(1)(b)(ii)) — The India Law Library Docid # 2436247
(154) YASIR AMIN KHANDAY AND ANOTHER Vs. UT OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 21-11-2025 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 — Section 28 (Special Courts) — Designation of Special Courts — Plea that Principal Sessions Judge, Kulgam, lacked jurisdiction as Special Court rejected because Government Notification dated June 25, 2018, designated all Principal Sessions Judges in J&K as Special Courts to try POCSO offences — Similarly, Public Prosecutors were appointed as Special Public India Law Library Docid # 2436248
(155) MST KHATI Vs. ABDUL RASHID SALROO[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 21-11-2025 J&K Transfer of Property Act, 1977 — Section 138 — Transfer of Immovable Property — Registered Document Mandatory — Requirement for valid transfer — Section 138 mandates that no transfer of immovable property (in the Province of Kashmir) is valid unless it is in writing, registered, and registration is complete — No person shall take possession or commence building unless the transfer is valid under India Law Library Docid # 2436249
(156) IQBAL SINGH Vs. DURGA DEVI AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 21-11-2025 J&K Right of Prior Purchase Act — Right of Pre-emption — Nature of Right — Right of pre-emption is a statutory, secondary, or remedial right of substitution, not of re-purchase, requiring the pre-emptor to acquire the whole property; it is inherently a very weak right, looked upon with distaste by courts as it interferes with freedom to alienate property, and can be defeated by all legitimate means. India Law Library Docid # 2436263
(157) AKSHAY KUMAR JAIN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 21-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1(r) — Appeal against rejection of temporary injunction (Order 39 Rules 1 & 2) — Scope of Appellate Court’s Jurisdiction — The appellate court reviewing a discretionary order (grant or refusal of temporary injunction) will not substitute its own discretion unless the trial court's discretion was exercised arbitrarily, capriciously, perversely, or ignored settled India Law Library Docid # 2436392
(158) DEEPMALA DAWAR Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 21-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Judicial Review — Public Employment — Eligibility Criteria and Cut-off Dates — Petitioner, successful in written examination for Assistant Professor, denied interview opportunity for failing to submit Ph.D. degree before the stipulated document verification cut-off date due to delay by the awarding University (Respondent No.4) — Recruitment advertisement India Law Library Docid # 2436393
(159) AMISH BAJAJ AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 20-11-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 528 (erstwhile Section 482 CrPC) — Quashing of FIR — Matrimonial Offences — Compromise — FIR registered under IPC Sections 498A/406/34 (and Section 354 against one petitioner) arising out of matrimonial dispute — Marriage dissolved by mutual consent divorce and matter amicably settled between the parties before Mediation India Law Library Docid # 2435964
(160) ANIL Vs. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA, DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY AND SECRETARY EDUCATION[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT (DHARWAD BENCH)] 20-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 23 — Prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced labour (Begar) — Non-payment of salary as "forced labour" or "Begar" — Withholding of monthly salary of Assistant Teachers and Physical Education Teacher by the State authorities for a period of 19 months, despite their continuous service, constitutes a violation of Article 23 (prohibiting India Law Library Docid # 2435892