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(181) IDBI BANK LTD. Vs. SRI. BIJTH SIMON[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 15-10-2025
Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Deficiency in Service — Loss of Title Deeds by Bank — A bank's failure to safeguard original title deeds of a borrower, deposited as security for a home loan, and its significant delay in informing the borrower about the destruction of these documents due to a fire at a third-party storage facility, constitutes a clear deficiency in service and negligence.
India Law Library Docid # 2434649

(182) HYUNDAI MOTOR INDIA LTD. Vs. VIPUL CHAUDHARY AND OTHERS[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 15-10-2025
Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 17(1)(a) and Section 19 — Jurisdiction of State Commission — Appeal against District Forum Order — Coram Non Judice — An order passed by a State Commission which is not duly constituted as per the minimum statutory requirement of at least two members is a nullity in the eyes of law — Such an
India Law Library Docid # 2434650

(183) M. ASHOK KUMAR Vs. K. RAJASEKHAR AND OTHERS[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 15-10-2025
Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Section 2(1)(d) — Definition of "consumer" — Commercial purpose — Burden of proof — The service provider bears the burden of proving that a service was obtained for a commercial purpose, not the complainant. The standard of proof is a preponderance of probabilities, and the facts and circumstances of each case must be evaluated to determine the dominant purpose of the transaction.
India Law Library Docid # 2434651

(184) OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 — Section 10(1) & 10(2) — Prohibition of contract labour — Mandatory consultation with Central Advisory Board — Notification prohibiting contract labour cannot be issued without consulting the Central Advisory Board — Consideration of sub-committee report alone, without endorsement by the Central Advisory Board, is insufficient to satisfy Section 10(1)
India Law Library Docid # 2434690

(185) MANALI CHAUDHARY AND THREE OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Service Law — Recruitment — Educational Qualification — Determination of equivalence — The employer, not the recruiting agency, has the final authority to determine the educational qualifications for a post or whether a qualification is equivalent to the prescribed one — Recruiting agencies like Public Service Commissions are bound by the employer's decision.
India Law Library Docid # 2434691

(186) DHARMENDRA KUMAR @ SAMEER MALIK Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 395, 397, 391 — Dacoity — Essential ingredients — Five or more persons conjointly committing or attempting to commit robbery — Conviction under Section 395 IPC unsustainable when only four individuals were charge-sheeted and tried, with no evidence of a fifth person's participation.
India Law Library Docid # 2434692

(187) AMRIT LAL AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 304 Part II and 201 — Conviction for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and concealment of evidence — Appeal against — Circumstantial evidence — Admissibility of recovery under Section 27 of Evidence Act, 1872 — Requirements for — Held, conviction based on circumstantial evidence requires each circumstance to be firmly proved, consistent only with guilt, and forming a complete chain with no reasonable ground for innocence. Recovery
India Law Library Docid # 2434693

(188) NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. BABLU @ CHANDVEER AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Appeal against award of Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Territorial jurisdiction — Claim petition can be filed where accident occurred, claimant resides, or defendant (including insurance company) carries on business — Filing claim where insurance company has branch office is permissible and such Tribunal rightly exercises jurisdiction.
India Law Library Docid # 2434694

(189) MANALI CHAUDHARY AND THREE OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Service Law — Recruitment — Determination of Educational Qualification — Recruiting agency is bound by the employer's decision on the validity and equivalence of educational qualifications.
India Law Library Docid # 2434695

(190) VARUN KUMAR ALIAS SONU Vs. THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 363, 366, 376, 377 — Kidnapping, Abduction, Rape, Unnatural Offences — Appeal against High Court judgment convicting appellant after trial court acquittal — Dispute centered on evidence and credibility of victim — High Court’s re-appreciation of evidence and conviction upheld.
India Law Library Docid # 2433944

(191) ALAN MERVYN ARTHUR STEPHENSON Vs. J. XAVIER JAYARAJAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(5) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Partnership deed with arbitration clause — Limitation period — Claim for recovery of amounts paid under partnership agreement — Purchase of land occurred on 04.05.2016 — Amounts paid prior to this date were alleged to have not
India Law Library Docid # 2433945

(192) STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Vs. JANVED SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302, 304B, 498A, 201 — Homicidal Death — Dowry Harassment — Fabrication to Conceal Death — Medical evidence confirmed death by strangulation and post-mortem burn injuries, falsifying accused's claim of electrocution. Accused's false report and uncorroborated alibi for being away at the time of death established a chain of incriminating circumstances — Trial court
India Law Library Docid # 2433946

(193) KOMAL PRASAD SHAKYA Vs. RAJENDRA SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B — Cheating, Forgery, Using Forged Document, Criminal Conspiracy — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — High Court quashed criminal complaint and proceedings — Supreme Court allowed appeals, set aside High Court order, and restored criminal complaint to file.
India Law Library Docid # 2433947

(194) SHIVKUMAR @ BALESHWAR YADAV Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 363, 366, 376, 506 — Kidnapping, abduction or compelling woman to marry, rape, criminal intimidation — Offences established by victim's testimony, father's corroboration, and medical evidence of forceful intercourse and presence of semen.
India Law Library Docid # 2433948

(195) DR. BALRAJ SINGH Vs. CHANCELLOR, SRI KARAN NARENDRA AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 14-10-2025
Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University Act, 2013 — Sections 25-A(1) and 25-A(2) — Suspension of Vice-Chancellor — Chancellor’s power — Conditions precedent — Consultation with State Government — Notice to University — Opportunity to show cause — Order of suspension dated 07.10.2025 quashed for non-compliance with mandatory procedural requirements, including lack of consultation with State
India Law Library Docid # 2433965

(196) M/S KHURANA BROTHERS Vs. ANAND BARDHAN PRINCIPAL SECRETARY AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Contempt of Court — Jurisdiction — Doctrine of Merger — The doctrine of merger applies to appellate or revisional orders and its application depends on the nature of the order and the scope of the appellate/revisional jurisdiction. It is not a rigid and universal rule.
India Law Library Docid # 2434013

(197) SUNIL KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397/401 — Revisional Jurisdiction — Scope — High Court in revision cannot re-evaluate evidence or substitute its own findings for those of lower courts unless there is a patent defect, error of jurisdiction, perversity, or gross unreasonableness.
India Law Library Docid # 2434037

(198) URMILA DEVI Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 372 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of appellate court's power — Appellate court can review, re-appreciate, and reconsider evidence, but must remember double presumption of innocence for accused after acquittal by trial court — If two reasonable views are possible from evidence, acquittal should not be disturbed.
India Law Library Docid # 2434038

(199) MUZAFAR HUSSAIN FAROOQUI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 498-A — Cruelty by husband or relatives of husband — Quashing of FIR and Charge Sheet — Allegations primarily against husband only — Other family members roped in without specific allegations of active involvement — Court cautioned against implication of all family members in matrimonial disputes without concrete evidence — Proceedings quashed against family
India Law Library Docid # 2434066

(200) RITIKA JAIN AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court to prevent abuse of process of court — Quashing of FIR — Allegations of forgery of will/codicil when validity of will/codicil is already sub judice before civil court — Civil suit for partition pending, civil applications disposed of, and parties referred to mediation — Criminal proceedings initiated on same subject matter
India Law Library Docid # 2434076