(621) SHEIKH SEHZAD Vs. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Bail (Regular Bail) — Prolonged incarceration pending trial — Considerations for bail — Appellant incarcerated since January 21, 2021 (nearly five years) pending trial for an offense related to FIR No. 30 of 2021 — Supreme Court grants regular bail emphasizing that long periods of pre-trial detention India Law Library Docid # 2435588
(622) RAVI SINGH Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) — Appeal against High Court order rejecting regular bail — Allegation of involvement based on mobile numbers disclosed by co-accused (from whom contraband was recovered) — Subsequent India Law Library Docid # 2435595
(623) SHYAMA VERMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Service Law — Regularization and Seniority — Appointment on Daily Wage Basis — Petitioner appointed as daily wager earlier than Respondent Nos. 4 and 5; juniors (Respondents 4 and 5) were regularized earlier — Petitioner's regularization granted with a condition (Condition No. 8) denying seniority and arrears of monetary benefits — High Court in earlier litigation (WP No. 4803/2011) struck down Condition No. 8 as India Law Library Docid # 2435661
(624) TUSHAR @ NANDI @ ANAND Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Madhya Pradesh Rajya Suraksha Adhiniyam, 1990 — Sections 5(a), 5(b), 8(1), 9 — Externment Order — Validity — Requirements for passing externment order — Necessary conditions under Section 5(b) require reasonable grounds to believe the person is engaged in or about to engage in specific offences (involving force or violence or under Chapters XII, XVI or XVII, or Sections 506 or 509 IPC) AND that witnesses are India Law Library Docid # 2435662
(625) SHRI. NAGARAJAPPA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984 — Section 2(12)(e) — Definition of 'Public Servant' — Status of Chairman of a Government Company — The Chairman or Vice-Chairman of a Government Company (under Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956) is deemed a 'public servant' under the Lokayukta Act — Petitioner, as Chairman of MySugar Company (a State Government Company), was a public servant during his tenure, and India Law Library Docid # 2435926
(626) CHAMUNDEWHWARI NAGARA SARVODAYA AND OTHERS Vs. SRI. DINESH KUMAR AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Sections 11 and 12 — Willful Disobedience — Non-Compliance with Court Order — Order obtained by misleading the Court — A Contempt Petition (CCC No. 655/2023) alleged willful disobedience of an order dated 19.04.2023 passed in a Review Petition (RP No. 135/2023) — The High Court found that the order in the Review Petition was obtained by misleading the Court regarding the India Law Library Docid # 2435927
(627) BRANCH MANAGER, PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK AND OTHERS Vs. GURU NANAK ENGINEERING WORKS AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-11-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Debts Recovery Tribunal — Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 (RDB Act) — Non-Performing Asset (NPA) — High Court set aside demand notice under Section 13(2) of SARFAESI Act and quashed all further India Law Library Docid # 2435415
(628) CHANDIMA JANAKA WIJESINGHE Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-11-2025 Family Law — Custody/Visitation/Interlocutory Arrangement — Dispute between husband (Sri Lankan citizen) and wife concerning children — Supreme Court facilitated interaction between parties and children and recorded encouraging signs of lack of animosity — Interim arrangement agreed upon: (i) Wife to arrange a nearby 2/3 bedroom India Law Library Docid # 2435416
(629) SMT MEENAKSHI OBERG Vs. SH. KARUN DUBE AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Sections 61, 64, 65(c), 65-B — Electronic Evidence — Admissibility of secondary evidence — Compliance with Best Evidence Rule — Where the Appellant/Plaintiff No.1 admits losing the original Loan Agreement (LA) and only produces a scanned copy, she fails to meet the requirement of proving a document through primary evidence (Sections 61 and 64) — Inability to produce the India Law Library Docid # 2435976
(630) HIMMAT SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. ARUP SINHA ROY[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 and Order 41 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13 — Appeal against judgment and decree of Commercial Court — Brokerage/Commission for introducing a builder — Existence of Contract/Enforceable Understanding — Where the broker (Respondent/Plaintiff) introduced a builder (M/s Design Consortia) to the property owners India Law Library Docid # 2435977
(631) STATE Vs. DAYA SHANKAR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378(1)(b) — Appeal against Acquittal — Principle of Double Presumption of Innocence — The presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is reinforced and strengthened upon acquittal by the Trial Court — An appellate court should be slow in reversing an India Law Library Docid # 2435978
(632) MATTEM PENCHALAIAH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF A.P. AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Mandamus — Land Acquisition — Compensation vs. Ex gratia Payment — Petitioners sought payment of compensation instead of ex gratia for lands resumed for a new broad gauge line, relying on previous High Court and Supreme Court judgments holding assignees entitled to compensation as pattadars/landowners — Action of revenue authority in India Law Library Docid # 2436217
(633) PUJALI DURGA DEVI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF AP[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 372/374(2)/378(4) — Appeal against conviction — Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Section 302 — Murder — Dying Declaration — Reliability — Conviction based primarily on two dying declarations (Exs.P1 and P9) — Ex.P1 deemed unreliable as Prosecution Witness (P.W.1) admitted police obtained deceased's thumb impression on a blank paper before India Law Library Docid # 2436218
(634) ALI MOHAMMAD MIR AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Clarification of Judgment — Scope and Purpose — Application seeking clarification of a previous judgment (dated 25.04.2025 in WP(C) No. 3395/2023) to address impediments raised by revenue authorities (Tehsildar) during implementation — Clarification granted to remove obstruction raised by Tehsildar regarding the status of ancestors of petitioners as "Assamis" and their entitlement to proprietary rights based on India Law Library Docid # 2436257
(635) ZAIN ELECTRICALS AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) — Mootness — Allotment of Contract — Appeal challenging composite e-NITs dismissed as infructuous because contracts were already allotted to successful bidders and appellants failed to challenge the allotment — However, appeal heard on merits due to appellants' insistence on adjudication of underlying legal issues. India Law Library Docid # 2436296
(636) ABDUL AZIZ HAFIZ AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Letters Patent Appeal — Against dismissal of writ petition challenging Financial Commissioner’s order — Scope of interference — High Court affirming the Writ Court's dismissal, holding that the Financial Commissioner rightly exercised supervisory powers to set aside illegal and void ab initio mutations that divested a lawful heir of her India Law Library Docid # 2436297
(637) RAKESH PRASAD UNIYAL Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Right to Consideration — Petitioner's Right — A candidate for promotion has only a right to be considered for promotion in accordance with relevant rules, and no fundamental right to the promotion itself — Employer has the discretion to set criteria for recruitment and cancel or withhold a recruitment process for cogent reasons — Mere issuance of an advertisement or midway selection does not confer a right to appointment. India Law Library Docid # 2436543
(638) DR. HARI DATT PATHAK Vs. SMT. SANJEEDA BEGUM (NOW REPRESENTED THROUGH LEGAL HEIR MOHD. ASHEEM SIDDIQUI) AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 — Section 21(1)(a) (Release proceedings on ground of bona fide requirement) and Section 22 (Appeal) — Application of Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) — Proceedings under the U.P. Act are special proceedings governed by a self-contained mechanism (Rule 22 of the Rules) — CPC does not apply in its entirety; only limited application is India Law Library Docid # 2436544
(639) C. BALASUBRAMANIAN Vs. RAMESH[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 13-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of Cheque) and Section 147 — Compounding of Offence at Revision Stage — The offence under Section 138 NI Act is primarily a civil wrong and compoundable under Section 147 NI Act, which has an overriding effect on general compounding provisions (e.g., Section 359 Bharatiya India Law Library Docid # 2436759
(640) S. KAMARAJA Vs. MOHANRAN[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 13-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138, Section 148 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 389 — Appeal against conviction — Suspension of Sentence — Condition for deposit of compensation amount — Appellate Court's power to impose condition of deposit — Section 148 mandates minimum deposit of 20% of fine or compensation; Appellate Court can order more than 20% deposit — Direction by India Law Library Docid # 2436760