(561) SHRI SHRI SWAMI SAMARTH CONSTRUCTION AND FINANCE SOLUTION AND ANOTHER Vs. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF NKGSB CO-OP. BANK LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2025 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 — Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 — Constitution of India, Article 32 — Framework for Revival and Rehabilitation of MSMEs — Interpretation of Framework — Bank's obligation to identify incipient stress vs. MSME's obligation to proactively seek revival — Framework requires MSME to voluntarily initiate proceedings by apprehending business failure and supporting with an affi India Law Library Docid # 2428333
(562) CHIRAG SEN AND ANOTHER ETC. Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 420, 468, 471 — Cheating, Forgery, Using Forged Document — Essential Ingredients — Complaint based on a GPF nomination form from 1996 failed to establish fraudulent intent or any act attributable to the accused; it did not override statutory birth certificates, nor did it prove falsification by the accused — No evidence of dishonest inducement, wrongful gain, or loss — India Law Library Docid # 2428066
(563) MANOHAR AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2025 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 18 — Maharashtra Industrial Development Act, 1961 — Compensation — Enhancement of — While determining market value, the highest bona fide sale exemplar should generally be considered, not an average of varying sale prices, unless prices have only marginal variations — Averaging of sale instances with significantly different prices is impermissible India Law Library Docid # 2428067
(564) DAIVSHALA AND OTHERS Vs. ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-07-2025 Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 (EC Act) & Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI Act) — Section 3 of EC Act & Section 2(8) of ESI Act — “Arising out of and in the course of employment” — Interpretation of — Accidents during commuting to or from workplace. India Law Library Docid # 2428099
(565) CHHAGAN LAL AND OTHERS Vs. RAM CHANDRA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 28-07-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Appeal against Motor Accident Claims Tribunal's decision — Challenge to dismissal of claim petition — Deceased died due to cardio pulmonary arrest following intracranial hemorrhage — Tribunal dismissed claim solely based on "no visible physical injury" remark in post-mortem report — High Court found the Tribunal failed to consider other crucial evidence in the post-mortem report, specifically the mention of "frontal hematoma of 25x10 cm" India Law Library Docid # 2428577
(566) CANARA BANK (ERSTWHILE SYNDICATE BANK) Vs. JAI KUMAR MITTAL[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 28-07-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Deficiency in service — Fixed Deposits — Non-renewal — Bank failed to provide justification for the interest rate applied on matured and lapsed Fixed Deposits, leading to a finding of deficient service by the Commission, despite challenges to the State Commission's order. India Law Library Docid # 2428108
(567) LUNKAD MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 28-07-2025 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 133A — Survey proceedings — The petitioners alleged that the survey was conducted in excess of the authority conferred by Section 133A, involving unlawful entry into residential premises, seizure of records beyond scope, and recording of statements under coercion. India Law Library Docid # 2428115
(568) SAIFAN HUSSAIN NADAF AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 28-07-2025 Maharashtra Prevention of Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1947 — Section 35 — Power to call for proceedings — State Government or Commissioner can examine orders of subordinate officers without prescribed limitation period for the purpose of satisfying legality or propriety of the order. Mentioning of a wrong provision (Section 257 of M.L.R. Code instead of Section 35 of the Act) does not vitiate the order. India Law Library Docid # 2428119
(569) SUJAY KUMAR MAHTO @ MITHUN Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHERS[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 125 — Maintenance — Subsequent events — Remarriage of claimant — A claimant's remarriage during the pendency of a revision application is a subsequent development that cannot be considered in the revision itself. The parties are at liberty to approach the India Law Library Docid # 2428200
(570) STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. MANGILAL AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378(3)(1) — Appeal against acquittal — Higher courts are reluctant to interfere with an acquittal unless the trial court's reasoning is flawed, legally erroneous, or based on a perverse approach to the facts, leading to a miscarriage of justice. India Law Library Docid # 2428676
(571) STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. RAKAMA[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Appeal against acquittal — Grounds for interference — Higher courts are generally reluctant to interfere with an acquittal order unless it is based on flawed reasoning, legally erroneous, or involves a perverse approach to facts, leading to a miscarriage of justice. India Law Library Docid # 2428677
(572) PURANRAM Vs. LRS OF KHETARAM AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Powers of High Court — High Court cannot interfere with concurrent findings of fact by lower courts if they are based on proper appreciation of evidence and not perverse. India Law Library Docid # 2428678
(573) KRISHAN KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. JAMANA DEVI[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 65 — Secondary Evidence — Admissibility — When allowed — Court can permit leading secondary evidence if non-availability of original document is sufficiently and properly explained and the party seeking to lead secondary evidence is not at fault for its non-production. India Law Library Docid # 2428915
(574) VISHU MIDDHA AND OTHERS Vs. SHREE GURUDWARA SINGH SABHA (REGD.) ABOHAR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 — Section 13(3)(a)(i) — Bonafide necessity — Landlord is the best judge of their requirements — Tenant cannot dictate how the landlord should utilize the property — Court should not interfere unless the need is disproved by cogent evidence. India Law Library Docid # 2428916
(575) NISHAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 — Section 302 — Murder — Conviction unsustainable — Medical evidence showing cause of death as septicaemia, developing about a month after the injury, and not directly attributable to the alleged axe blow — Initial FIR and challan under Sections 323, 324, 325 IPC, with Section 302 added belatedly without direct medical link. India Law Library Docid # 2428917
(576) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. NO. 13742023 EX NK MILAP CHAND AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 28-07-2025 Army Pensions Regulations, 1961 – Regulations 179, 280 – Disability Pension – Re-employment in Defence Security Corps (DSC) – Entitlement of discharged personnel to disability pension, including service element and disability element, even if service period is less than 15 years, if disability is attributable to or aggravated by military service. India Law Library Docid # 2428918
(577) KALU RAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 304 Part I, 460 — Appeal against conviction for murder and house trespass committed at the time of murder — Appellant convicted by trial court under Sections 302 and 460 IPC — Held, evidence shows death caused by injuries inflicted by appellant — However, absence of premeditation, motive, and act done in sudden quarrel supports conviction under Section 304 Part I IPC instead of Section 302 IPC — Conviction altered from Section India Law Library Docid # 2428721
(578) PRITAM KAUR Vs. ABEY SINGH NAHAR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 140, 141 — No Fault Liability — Compensation awarded under this section even when claim petition under Section 166 dismissed due to lack of evidence of rash and negligent driving — High Court found the award of Rs. 50,000/- under ‘No Fault Liability’ to be fair and just in the absence of proof of India Law Library Docid # 2428043
(579) SUMAN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Service Law — Rejoining duty — Lien — A government employee appointed to a permanent post substantively acquires a lien on that post. Even if appointed substantively to a post outside their cadre, their lien on the parent post is suspended, not terminated, unless they consent or specific circumstances apply. If the suspended lien is not terminated, especially if the subsequent appointment is not confirmed, the employee India Law Library Docid # 2428044
(580) NEW INDIA ASSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. G & M INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND OTHERS[KERALA HIGH COURT] 25-07-2025 Insurance Ombudsman Act, 1998 — Redressal of Public Grievances Rules, 1998 — Jurisdiction of Ombudsman — Complaints related to personal lines of insurance only — Policies obtained by proprietorship concerns are not covered — Dispute concerning a marine cargo policy taken by a proprietorship concern falls outside the Ombudsman’s jurisdiction. India Law Library Docid # 2428047