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(221) MUTHULAKSHMI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 28-10-2025
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 and Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 — Habeas Corpus Petitions — Detention Orders — Grounds for quashing — Non-supply of relied-upon documents — Detenus are entitled to receive all documents that form the basis of the detention order to make an effective representation — Documents merely referred to
India Law Library Docid # 2434772

(222) HDFC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LTD Vs. JYOTHI MADHAVAN U.[KERALA HIGH COURT] 28-10-2025
Insurance Law — Life Insurance Proposal — Acceptance — Duty of Insurer to Communicate Decision — Failure to communicate rejection within stipulated time renders delay unreasonable and violates principles of good faith.
India Law Library Docid # 2434858

(223) DEV KARAN MAHALA AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of plaint — Allegations of fraud and coercion in sale of property — Trial Court rejecting plaint on ground of limitation — High Court upholding rejection — Supreme Court observing that issues of fraud and coercion need detailed examination and cannot be summarily rejected on limitation grounds if pleaded factually
India Law Library Docid # 2434891

(224) RAJNEESH KUMAR PANDEY AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
National Capital Territory of Delhi — Appointment of Contractual Teachers — Inclusion of Qualifying Test — Delhi Government's proposal to administer a qualifying test to over 1400 contractual teachers to assess their competence in teaching specially-abled children — Proposal met with opposition from counsel representing the teachers — Court directs Delhi Government to
India Law Library Docid # 2434892

(225) STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS Vs. PURNA CHANDRA BIRUA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Delay and Laches — Writ Petition dismissed by High Court solely on grounds of delay and laches — Supreme Court found delay of one and a half years not to be "gross" — Held that the matter required consideration on merits, and the High Court
India Law Library Docid # 2434895

(226) GAURAV KOHLI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE of HARYANA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT of INDIA] 28-10-2025
Administrative Law — Natural Justice — Audi Alteram Partem — High Court’s directions affecting parties’ civil suits — Such directions issued without joining affected parties and affording them an opportunity to be heard are unsustainable.
India Law Library Docid # 2434896

(227) HEENA THAPA Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 173, 193 — Charge Sheet — Common Charge Sheet in multiple FIRs — Accused individually charge-sheeted in one FIR despite multiple FIRs being lodged — Court found no irregularity where an accused was only framed/charge-sheeted in respect of a second FIR, not a first FIR where they were not involved — Discretionary
India Law Library Docid # 2434897

(228) MOTILAL PATLE Vs. THE STATE OF CHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 376(2)(f), 294, 506 Part-II, 323 — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Section 6 — Conviction and sentence for rape of minor daughter, using abusive language, criminal intimidation, and causing hurt — Appeal against High Court's upholding of conviction and sentence — Appellant claimed false implication due to opposition to daughter's relationship, sought leniency based on being sole family provider and time
India Law Library Docid # 2434899

(229) CHAIRMAN, RAM MANOHAR LOHIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND OTHERS Vs. SUMAN SINGH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Interpretation of Government Orders — Beneficial Provisions — When a Government Order is beneficial in nature, it must be interpreted liberally to extend the intended benefits to the recipient. If two interpretations are possible, the one that further benefits the recipient should be preferred.
India Law Library Docid # 2434901

(230) NEETA SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 173(2) — Charge-sheet filed — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 504, 506, 406, 409 & 420 — Bail in anticipation of arrest — High Court rejected prayer for bail — Supreme Court grants leave and allows appeal setting aside High Court's order — Appellants to be released on bail on terms fixed by trial court — Court clarifies
India Law Library Docid # 2434918

(231) ASIF Vs. STATE OF U.P[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Suspension of Sentence — Special Leave Petition (Crl.) — Petitioner sought suspension of jail sentence arguing his case was not different from a co-accused whose sentence was already suspended — Court found the petitioner's situation to be similar to the co-accused — Accordingly, substantive jail sentence of the petitioner was suspended
India Law Library Docid # 2434921

(232) VAIBHAV DIGAMBER NIKAM AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 109, 309(4), 115(2), 352, 351(2), 351(3) and 3(5) — Arms Act, 1959, Sections 3, 4 and 25 — Bail — Allegations of attempting to disconnect water connection, assault, and fleeing scene — Appellants cooperated with investigation — Complicity in offence to be decided at trial — Appellants entitled to bail subject to conditions imposed by
India Law Library Docid # 2434923

(233) M/S HINDUSTAN PREFAB LIMITED Vs. NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY ODISHA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Scope of power — When an arbitration agreement exists, the role of the Chief Justice or their designate under Section 11(6) is limited to examining, prima facie, the existence of such an agreement — Issues regarding sustainability of a claim or whether a cause of action has arisen are matters best
India Law Library Docid # 2434927

(234) T. SAIRAM AND OTHERS Vs. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Administrative Law — Government Orders (GOs) — Setting aside of GO — Employees appointed under a GO were discharged, but a subsequent GO (G.O.Rt.No.1207) allowed them to continue in service as fresh appointees, based on compassionate and equitable considerations. The High Court set aside this subsequent GO. The Supreme Court, considering the affidavit of the State
India Law Library Docid # 2434934

(235) BHAG CHAND Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-10-2025
Service Law — Regularisation — Claim for work charge status — Eligibility criteria — Petitioner engaged as daily wager Beldar in 1995, services regularized in 2007 — Claimed work charge status from 2003 based on 8 years of continuous daily wage service — Mandays chart confirmed continuous service of over 240 days from 1995 till 2003 — Petitioner held entitled to work charge status from 01.01.2003 as per Supreme Court judgments in Surajmani and Ashwani Kumar cases. (Paras 5(i), 6, 10,
India Law Library Docid # 2434938

(236) GARGESH KUMAR Vs. ADITYA AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-10-2025
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 140, 2(30) — No-fault liability for interim compensation — Driver vs. Registered Owner — Section 140 imposes joint and several liability on the owner(s) of the vehicle for interim compensation in case of death or permanent disablement arising from an accident — The owner, as defined in Section 2(30), means the person in whose name the motor vehicle stands registered —
India Law Library Docid # 2434939

(237) KULDEEP CHAND Vs. SH. SODHI RAM AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-10-2025
Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Appeal under Section 14 of H.P. Land Revenue Act — Exclusion of period during COVID-19 pandemic — Supreme Court extended limitation period from 15.03.2020 to 28.02.2022 for computing period of limitation — Order under challenge was passed during this period and appeal was
India Law Library Docid # 2434948

(238) V. KRISHNAMMA AND OTHERS Vs. GARIMA BAIS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-10-2025
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (D.V. Act) — Section 12(1) — Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Cr.P.C.) — Section 528 (analogous to Section 482) — Quashing of proceedings — Maintainability of petition under Section 528 (Section 482 Cr.P.C.) challenging proceedings under Section 12(1) of D.V. Act — Held to be maintainable as settled by Supreme Court in Shaurabh Kumar Tripathi vs. Vidhi Rawal.
India Law Library Docid # 2435039

(239) HITANSHU SANKHLA Vs. UNION OF INDIA (CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU), REGIONAL UNIT, JAIPUR[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 28-10-2025
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 8/20, 8/22 — Bail Application under Section 483 BNSS — Applicant is an engineering student, aged 22, with parents in government service, residing in a hostel. Counsel argued non-compliance with Section 52A, quantity being small, not for commercial transaction,
India Law Library Docid # 2435167

(240) ANANDRAJ Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 28-10-2025
Official Secrets Act, 1923 — Sections 3 & 9 — Bail Application — Prolonged Incarceration — Speedy Trial — While the gravity of the offense is a consideration, prolonged detention without speedy trial, especially due to prosecution's laxity, can violate Article 21 of the Constitution — Bail granted when trial is stalled due to
India Law Library Docid # 2435168