(541) NEELAM RANI @ NEELAM SINGLA Vs. RAJESH KUMAR AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Execution of Decree — Objections to Execution — Delaying Tactics — The Executing Court must not frame issues and adjourn the case for evidence in a routine manner based on frivolous objections aimed solely at delaying the execution of a final eviction decree, even if the objectors claim subsequent purchase of part of the property; such actions would result in endlessly India Law Library Docid # 2437056
(542) SAMEER BANSAL AND ANOTHER Vs. M/S PREMEDIUM PHARMACEUTICALS PVT LTD AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 5 — Arbitration Proceedings — Judicial Intervention — Non-obstante clause under Section 5 emphasizes minimal judicial intervention in matters governed by the Act — Order passed by a Sole Arbitrator rejecting an application for amendment of the statement of claim is a procedural order — Challenge to such procedural order under Article 227 of the Constitution of India is generally not maintainable as it does not fall under the India Law Library Docid # 2437057
(543) MARKET COMMITTEE, AHMEDGARH Vs. M/S PARKASH CHAND-KIDAR NATH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Punjab Rural Development Fund Act, 1987 — Section 5 and Section 5(2-A) — Levy of Rural Development Fee (RDF) — Liability to pay interest on delayed payment — Where writ petitions challenging the levy were dismissed, the liability to pay the principal amount of the fee stood concluded — Interest is recoverable on delayed payment of statutory levy (RDF) even in the absence of a specific provision, based on the equitable doctrine of restitution, as the plaintiff-dealer retained statutory India Law Library Docid # 2437058
(544) HVPNL THROUGH CHAIRMAN-CUM-M.D. HVPNL LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. LAL CHAND CHANDNA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Civil Service — Military Service Benefit — Counting Intervening Period for Pension — Emergency Concession Rules, 1965 — Suit for Declaration — Respondent retired in 1998, received military service benefit for seniority and increments but was denied benefit of counting the intervening period (between discharge from Army and appointment in civil employment) for pension as it exceeded one year — Civil suit decreed allowing counting of the entire intervening India Law Library Docid # 2437059
(545) INDERJIT Vs. RAM BHAJ[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Sentence reduction — Mitigating circumstances for reducing sentence to period already undergone — Offence relates to 1995, nearly three decades having elapsed — Offence stemming from a friendly loan and not affecting society at large or shocking public conscience — Petitioner being elderly and having undergone agony of protracted trial for thirty years — Petitioner has shown reformative behavior by not indulging in any other India Law Library Docid # 2437060
(546) BIR SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 279 (Rash driving) and 304-A (Causing death by negligence) — Revision Petition against conviction and sentence — Petitioner confining appeal only to quantum of sentence, not challenging conviction — Conviction upheld. India Law Library Docid # 2437061
(547) RAJU Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 279 (Rash driving) and Section 304-A (Causing death by negligence) — Evidence and Proof — Conviction based on cogent and convincing evidence, including identification of the accused by an eye-witness (PW3), recovery of the offending vehicle, and admission by the vehicle owner (PW2, though hostile on one aspect) about the accused being the driver — Manner of accident (dumper hitting motorcycle from behind) indicating rash and negligent act — India Law Library Docid # 2437062
(548) PRITPAL SINGH BATRA @ GIFFY BATRA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) — Sections 13, 16, 20, 43-D(5), 45 — Regular Bail — Grant of bail in UAPA cases — Right to speedy trial under Article 21 of the Constitution — Appellant accused of offences under Arms Act, IPC, and UAPA — Appellant not named in FIR, nominated based on co-accused's disclosure statement and appellant's own disclosure leading to recovery of India Law Library Docid # 2437063
(549) BHOLA SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) — Section 15 — Terrorist Act — Definition and applicability — Allegation that murder of a "Dera Premi" (Pardeep Singh Kataria @ Raju Dodhi, who was an accused in a sacrilege case) was committed using firearms with the intent to strike terror among people/followers of Dera Sacha Sauda, making the act prima facie fall under the definition of 'Terrorist Act' under Section 15 UAPA. India Law Library Docid # 2437064
(550) KAMAL Vs. CHALLANI GINNING AND PRESSING FACTORY[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 17-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 21 Rules 97 to 103 — Resistance or obstruction to possession of immovable property — Adjudication of third party claims — Scope and mandatory duty of Executing Court — A third party (Objector/Appellant), who is mother of Judgment Debtor (JD), filing objection claiming independent 1/3rd share in attached and auctioned property (a non-decreetal property) as joint family property purchased out of joint family nucleus — Objection filed under Order 21 Rule India Law Library Docid # 2437118
(551) SHUKAL GUPTA Vs. EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION[DELHI HIGH COURT] 15-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 22 Rule 3 — Substitution of Legal Representatives (LRs) — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of Delay — Limitation — Application for substituting LRs must be filed within 90 days as per Article 120 of the Limitation Act, 1963 — Where LRs filed substitution application after a delay of over two years (871/819 days) based on alleged ignorance of India Law Library Docid # 2435973
(552) ARPIT KUMAR AGRAWAL Vs. SARIKA AGRAWAL[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i-a) (Cruelty) — Dissolution of Marriage — Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage — Long separation coupled with one spouse's admitted unwillingness to continue the marital relationship constitutes mental cruelty — Where the parties have lived separately for over eleven years (since May 2014) and the wife admits her unwillingness to resume the matrimonial bond and subsequently India Law Library Docid # 2435846
(553) KUMARIL HIRWANI Vs. VISHNU SOREN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency of funds) — Section 139 (Presumption in favour of holder) — Appeal against acquittal — Trial Court convicted accused for dishonour of cheque (Rs. 1,50,000) under Section 138 NI Act; Sessions Court acquitted him — High Court re-examined the basis of acquittal by Sessions Court — Requisite presumption under Section 139 arises India Law Library Docid # 2435847
(554) PAMESH ARORA Vs. U.T., CHANDIGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Susbtances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Sections 21 and 29 — Arms Act, 1959 — Sections 25, 54, 59 — Bail — Possession of heroin (271 grams) — Grounds for granting bail — Release ordered taking into account the facts that the appellant was in custody for more than one year and nine months and a substantial number of witnesses had already been examined; co-accused already India Law Library Docid # 2435622
(555) DINESH KUMAR SACHDEVA Vs. ROHIT SACHDEVA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order XXI Rule 58 — Execution First Appeal — Partition Suit — Preliminary decree for partition — Inter se bidding — Joint owners (siblings) of property in equal shares (1/3rd each) — Property incapable of physical partition — Disposal of property via inter se bidding — Challenge to High Court order disposing of Execution Appeal on ground of offer matching — Where an offer India Law Library Docid # 2435452
(556) M/S A.S. MET CORP PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. THE REGISTRAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 32 — Writ Petition (Criminal) — Seeking registration of FIR and investigation into attempt to influence judicial outcome — Relief for criminal investigation based on disclosure in a judicial order of NCLAT, Chennai Bench — Issues raised are of vital public importance but deemed capable of India Law Library Docid # 2435455
(557) PRATIK JAIN Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Bail — Stage of investigation/Trial — Accused initially not named in FIR but later implicated in Final Report (Chargesheet) for offenses under Sections 318(4), 111, and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, based on allegations of facilitating the prime accused in operating "mule accounts" — When the final report is filed, the necessity India Law Library Docid # 2435459
(558) DR. ANITA Vs. INDRESH GOPAL KOHLI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13 — Cruelty/Desertion — Divorce Petition — Grant of divorce on ground of cruelty by High Court — Remittal for fresh consideration — High Court granted divorce based primarily on oral narrative of mental cruelty without determining crucial factual pleas of wife (appellant), specifically whether she was thrown out of matrimonial home or voluntarily deserted the husband (respondent) — High Court failed to address whether withdrawal of first India Law Library Docid # 2435921
(559) SRI. GANGADHAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959 (KCS Act, 1959) — Section 21(3) — Change of Delegate for Voting in Elections — Requirements — Section 21(3) requires a resolution for changing a nominated delegate to be passed by a two-thirds majority of members present and voting, and must include "substantial reasons" — Where the initial delegate (Respondent No.6) declined to represent the Society, this constitutes a India Law Library Docid # 2435923
(560) MR. GILBERT VAS AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 — Sections 128 & 135 — Mutation of Revenue Records — Decree of Civil Court — Compromise Final Decree for Partition — Obligation of Revenue Authorities — Section 128 mandates reporting acquisition of rights (including by partition/decree), while Section 135 requires revenue records to be amended in accordance with a civil court's declaration — A final compromise decree India Law Library Docid # 2435924