(61) MAHESH SAH AND ANOTHER Vs. COMMISSIONER AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Supervisory Jurisdiction — Mutation Proceedings — Scope of Interference — Writ Petition challenging orders of Tehsildar and Commissioner in mutation proceedings dismissed as not maintainable under Article 227 — Supervisory jurisdiction is only attracted in cases of total absence of jurisdiction, patent illegality, or violation of natural justice — In present case, India Law Library Docid # 2436521
(62) ANAND SINGH Vs. CHAMPA DEVI[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 01-12-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Sections 13(1)(ia) (Cruelty) and 13(1)(ib) (Desertion) — Divorce — Mental Cruelty post-Compromise — Parties entered into a compromise in 2017 after a previous divorce petition was filed, agreeing to separate residence and maintenance — Respondent's subsequent conduct, including repeatedly visiting the husband's workplace (restaurant) and using abusive/insulting language in India Law Library Docid # 2436522
(63) MOTOR AND GENERAL FINANCE LIMITED Vs. DIRECTOR GENERAL AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI Act) — Section 82(2) — Appeal to High Court — Scope — An appeal under Section 82(2) is confined strictly to substantial questions of law — Findings of fact recorded by the Employees Insurance Court (EIC) regarding the nature of the establishment, wage records, admissibility of documents, and credibility of witnesses are outside the scope of interference unless India Law Library Docid # 2435948
(64) L.K. PRABHU @ L. KRISHNA PRABHU (DIED) THROUGH LRs Vs. K.T. MATHEW @ THAMPAN THOMAS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Order 38 Rule 5, Rule 8, Rule 10 — Order 21 Rule 58 — Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 53 — Attachment before judgment — Scope of — Effect on prior transfer — Property already transferred by registered sale deed prior to institution of suit cannot be subject to attachment before judgment under Order 38 Rule 5 CPC — Essential condition for Order 38 Rule 5 is that India Law Library Docid # 2435985
(65) HINDUSTAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD. THROUGH ITS AUTHORISED SIGNATORY YOGESH DALAL Vs. BIHAR RAJYA PUL NIRMAN NIGAM LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Power of High Court to Review/Recall - Scope of Judicial Intervention — An order passed under Section 11 appointing an arbitrator is judicial in nature, but the High Court's review jurisdiction over such an order is highly circumscribed and must be limited to correcting a patent or procedural error; it cannot be exercised to revisit findings of law or re-interpret the arbitration agreement based on a subsequent India Law Library Docid # 2435986
(66) A A ESTATES PRIVATE LIMITED THROUGH ITS RESOLUTION PROFESSIONAL HARSHAD SHAMKANT DESHPANDE AND ANOTHER Vs. KHER NAGAR SUKHSADAN CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Section 14 — Moratorium — Applicability to terminated Development Agreements — Development Agreement constitutes ‘asset’ or ‘property’ of Corporate Debtor only if it creates subsisting proprietary, possessory or legally enforceable right — Termination of Development Agreement based on Corporate Debtor's persistent and prolonged non-performance, occurring prior to initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), is India Law Library Docid # 2435987
(67) YOGENDRA PAL SINGH Vs. RAGHVENDRA SINGH ALIAS PRINCE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 439(2) — Cancellation of Bail — Locus Standi — An aggrieved party, including the complainant or father of the deceased, has the requisite locus standi to seek cancellation/annulment of bail granted to the accused, as the power under Section 439(2) Cr.P.C. may be invoked not only by the State but also by any aggrieved party. India Law Library Docid # 2435988
(68) JAI BALAJI INDUSTRIES LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. M/S HEG LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138, Section 142(2), Section 142A — Territorial Jurisdiction for cheque dishonour cases (post-2015 Amendment) — Account Payee Cheques — Jurisdiction for complaints under Section 138 concerning cheques 'delivered for collection through an account' (Account Payee Cheques) lies exclusively with the court having local jurisdiction over the branch of the bank where the payee maintains the account (payee's home branch) — This position is anchored India Law Library Docid # 2435989
(69) RAHUL RAMESH WAGH Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Local Body Elections — Maharashtra — Reservation Limit — Supreme Court directs that elections for Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats where the election process has already commenced (40 Municipal Councils and 17 Nagar Panchayats with reservation exceeding 50%) may proceed as per the notified schedule, but the result shall be subject to the final outcome of the pending proceedings concerning the 50% reservation limit. India Law Library Docid # 2436096
(70) SAGAR Vs. STATE OF UP AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Grant of bail on ground of parity — Scope and limits — Parity cannot be the sole ground for granting bail — While assessing parity, the focus must be on the specific role, position, and similar acts performed by the accused compared to the co-accused granted bail, not merely their involvement in the same offence — Bail order must reflect application of India Law Library Docid # 2436111
(71) PALLA CHENCHU HARIKALA Vs. BYSANI SATISH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 47 Rule 1 — Review Jurisdiction — Scope — A judgment is open to review if there is a mistake or an error apparent on the face of the record or for any sufficient reason analogous to the grounds specified in the Rule — Review is not an appeal in disguise; it cannot be used to re-agitate or re-argue questions already decided or to correct mere erroneous decisions — The India Law Library Docid # 2436119
(72) A.V.SRIDHAR REDDY AND OTHERS Vs. CH RAMANAIAH AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96, Order 21 Rule 34 — Appeal against decrees — Scope of appeal against findings — Suit for Permanent Injunction — Specific Performance Decree and Execution — In a suit for permanent injunction, when title is seriously disputed (especially for vacant site), the court must examine title incidentally although the suit is not for declaration; possession follows title (de India Law Library Docid # 2436120
(73) SMT. BODA SUBBALASKHMI Vs. CHODISETTI SATYANARAYANA AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 8 — Operation of transfer — Property sold (Upstair building/First floor) — Balcony (Covered Varanda Portion) — Whether balcony is implicitly included in the transfer of the main building — Section 8 mandates that unless a different intention is expressed or necessarily implied, a transfer of property passes all interests the transferor is capable of passing in the India Law Library Docid # 2436121
(74) STATE OF A.P.DIST.COLLECTOR EG DIST AND OTHERS Vs. B NARASIMHA MURTHY[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Interference with Land Acquisition Proceedings — Maintainability of Suit — Substantial Question of Law — Civil Court Jurisdiction — When evidence indicates that the land in dispute was not acquired by the Government, the apprehension that the Civil Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain a suit against land acquisition India Law Library Docid # 2436122
(75) SUJATA BORA Vs. COAL INDIA LIMITED AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Persons with Disabilities — Recruitment — Management Trainee (Personnel and HR) — Visually Handicapped (VH) category — Dispute regarding extent of visual disability and whether it meets 'benchmark disability' criteria — Petitioner claimed 60-70% visual disability; Respondent claimed 30% disability — Ascertaining functional disability — Supreme Court directed the Director of All India Institute of India Law Library Docid # 2436125
(76) ATUL SHARMA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 28-11-2025 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — Section 482 — Anticipatory Bail — Grant of relief — Where seven co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail, the High Court erred in singling out the appellant by declining the same relief despite allegations of grievous hurt (partially amputated little finger) — Considering the India Law Library Docid # 2436140
(77) ABDUL RASHID KHAN Vs. STATE OF J.K. AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 10 — Stay of Suit — Res Sub Judice — Parallel Proceedings — Identity of Subject Matter — Revenue Authority vs. Civil Court — Where a civil suit concerning a specific property and cause of action is pending before a competent Civil Court, simultaneous proceedings on the identical issue before a subordinate revenue authority are barred by the doctrine of res sub judice — Revenue India Law Library Docid # 2436237
(78) ARVIND VERMA AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 28-11-2025 Criminal Law — Sections 302, 201, 120-B RPC — Murder based on circumstantial evidence — Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment upheld — The foundational rule (Panchsheel of Proof) for cases resting exclusively on circumstantial evidence requires that circumstances must be fully established, consistent only with the hypothesis of guilt, of a conclusive nature, exclude every India Law Library Docid # 2436259
(79) SARTHAK LANDCON PVT. LTD. THROUGH AUTHORISED SIGNATORY BALRAM MATHUR Vs. AKILA BI THROUGH POWER OF ATTORNEY MOHABBAT AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1, Section 151, Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 — Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 5, Section 54 — Temporary Injunction — Grant of temporary injunction in a suit for declaration of title and to declare a registered sale deed void, based solely on an unregistered agreement to sell executed 31 years prior to the suit — Ingredients for valid sale of India Law Library Docid # 2436293
(80) LALITA Vs. RAMI BAI AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 28-11-2025 M. P. Municipalities Act, 1961 — Sections 20, 22, 34, 35 — Election Petition — Rejection of Petition (Order 7 Rule 11 CPC) — Maintainability of Election Challenge based on dual enrolment in voter lists — Qualification for contesting election — Under Section 34(1) of the Act, being enrolled in the Municipal electoral roll as a voter is the qualification for Presidential election — There is no specific India Law Library Docid # 2436294