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(21) M.C. MEHTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2025
Environmental Law — Pollution Control — Firecrackers — Right to Life vs. Right to Profession — Balancing Exercise — While commercial interests and festive spirit cannot override health and environmental concerns, total prohibition of firecrackers may be unreasonable if alternatives causing less pollution exist. Court must balance livelihood of industry workers with public health.
India Law Library Docid # 2434015

(22) STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Vs. RAJESH KUMAR ALIAS GULLABU[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 15 and 22 — Acquittal — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of interference is limited — Appellate court can interfere only if the trial court's view is impossible or perverse — If two reasonable conclusions are possible, the appellate court should not disturb the acquittal.
India Law Library Docid # 2434039

(23) FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. SUSHILA GUPTA AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 15-10-2025
Land Acquisition Act, Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 — Return or acquisition of land — Court directed Food Corporation of India to either return illegally occupied land or acquire it under the 2013 Act, with rental compensation for the period of occupation.
India Law Library Docid # 2434077

(24) 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

(25) 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

(26) 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

(27) 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

(28) 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

(29) 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

(30) 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

(31) 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

(32) 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

(33) 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

(34) 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

(35) AMAR NATH Vs. SMT. NAINO DEVI AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 53A — Doctrine of part performance — Essential conditions for defence of part performance under Section 53A include contracted transfer for consideration by written instrument, transferee taking possession in part performance, transferee doing act in furtherance of contract, and transferee performing or willing to perform his part — These conditions must be cumulatively satisfied — If conditions are not met, transferee cannot resist eviction. (Para 14)
India Law Library Docid # 2433888

(36) AJEET SINGH Vs. INDERJEET AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397, 401, 401(3), 401(5) — Revisional Jurisdiction — Power to convert acquittal to conviction barred — High Court cannot convert finding of acquittal into conviction in revisional jurisdiction, as per Section 401(3) of CrPC — May treat revision petition as appeal if satisfied that it was filed under erroneous belief and in interest of justice — Requires judicial order
India Law Library Docid # 2433898

(37) SANJAY Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 279, 337, 304-A, 427 — Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 181, 192 — Criminal Revision — Conviction and Sentence under — Challenge to — Death of victim — Whether proximate result of accident or due to intervening medical lapses — Victim shifted between hospitals, left against medical advice — Held, shifting itself does not amount to negligence, Petitioner failed to
India Law Library Docid # 2433899

(38) TAMILAGA VETTRI KAZHAGAM Vs. P.H. DINESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025
Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 32 & 226 — Power to direct CBI investigation — Extraordinary power to be exercised sparingly and cautiously in exceptional situations to provide credibility and confidence in investigation, or where incident has national/international ramifications, or for complete justice and enforcing fundamental rights.
India Law Library Docid # 2433901

(39) RAHUL AGARWAL Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section not specified, Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 349 — Voice Sample — Collection of voice sample for investigation — High Court set aside Magistrate's order allowing collection of voice sample, citing pendency of reference to a Larger Bench —
India Law Library Docid # 2433902

(40) THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS Vs. M/S SANTI CERAMICS PVT. LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 5-A — Objections — Restoration of land — Supreme Court judgment in Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal — Relief of restoration of acquired land was intended for vulnerable agricultural communities, not commercial entities — Respondent No. 1, a private limited company, engaged in manufacturing, could not claim parity with cultivators — Company had capacity to
India Law Library Docid # 2433903