(861) M/S KHURANA BROTHERS Vs. ANAND BARDHAN PRINCIPAL SECRETARY AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025 Contempt of Court — Jurisdiction — Doctrine of Merger — The doctrine of merger applies to appellate or revisional orders and its application depends on the nature of the order and the scope of the appellate/revisional jurisdiction. It is not a rigid and universal rule. India Law Library Docid # 2434013
(862) SUNIL KUMAR DAHIYA Vs. SURESH KOCHHAR[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Appeal dismissed for being time-barred — Order of dismissal of appeal after dismissal of delay condonation application is a decree — Remedy lies in Regular Second Appeal under Section 100 CPC, not a revision under Article 227 of the Constitution. India Law Library Docid # 2435185
(863) PREM SINGH Vs. NARINDER SINGH (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS.[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order VI Rule 17 — Amendment of Pleadings — Eviction Petition — Second application for amendment filed after conclusion of evidence — Sought to incorporate details of other properties owned by landlord — Amendments not permissible to fill up lacuna or introduce new facts at a belated stage, especially after evidence has concluded — Such amendments would frustrate the concept India Law Library Docid # 2435186
(864) SMT PREM BAI AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashment of proceedings — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 306 (Abetment of suicide) — Ingredients of abetment — To constitute an offense under Section 306 IPC, there must be a clear mens rea to commit the offense, requiring an active or direct act by the accused that pushes the deceased into a position where they see no option but to India Law Library Docid # 2435681
(865) GANPAT (DIED) THROUGH LRS AS PER HON'BLE COURT ORDER DATED 27.07.2023 Vs. MOHITRAM[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 (Amendment of Pleadings) — Proviso to Order 6 Rule 17 — Application for amendment filed at the stage of Second Appeal after concurrent findings by Trial Court and First Appellate Court — Scope and requirement of proviso — Amendment post-trial requires the Court to conclude that the party despite due diligence could not have raised the matter before India Law Library Docid # 2435854
(866) RAJENDRA PRASAD MISHRA AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHER[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 304-A — Causing death by negligence — Essential ingredients — For conviction under Section 304-A IPC, prosecution must prove a rash or negligent act by the accused which is the direct, proximate, and efficient cause of death, and not merely an event occurring in the backdrop of the India Law Library Docid # 2435908
(867) KACHARA VAHATUK SHARAMIK SANGH Vs. AJOY MEHTA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025 Municipal Corporation — Employees — Permanent status — Contempt petition for non-compliance with judgment directing to treat employees as permanent and extend benefits retrospectively — Supreme Court modified award to grant monetary relief from date of award and actual monetary benefit to serving employees from that India Law Library Docid # 2433949
(868) STATE OF H.P. Vs. VINOD KUMAR @ GHUNGARU[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Punjab Excise Act, 1914 (as applicable to H.P.) — Section 61(1)(a) — Possession/sale of country liquor without permit — Search without warrant — Non-compliance with Section 165 CrPC — Investigating officer failed to reduce secret information into writing and send it to the nearest Magistrate before conducting a search without a warrant — This procedural lapse vitiates the search and subsequent India Law Library Docid # 2434034
(869) MAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Retrospective Promotion — Denial of Actual Monetary Benefits — Notional Promotion — Employee exonerated in disciplinary proceedings and acquitted in criminal proceedings was granted retrospective promotion but with notional benefits, leading to denial of actual monetary benefits for the intervening period — Held, denial of actual monetary benefits without recording India Law Library Docid # 2434035
(870) BHAJI DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. KRISHAN LAL AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 (formerly BNSS Section 528) — Inherent powers of High Court — When exercisable — High Court can intervene under Section 482 when there is a grave miscarriage of justice, abuse of process of court, or required statutory procedure not complied with, even if revision is barred under Section 397(3) — Power to be exercised sparingly and cautiously, not as India Law Library Docid # 2434036
(871) AMAR NATH Vs. SMT. NAINO DEVI AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 53A — Doctrine of part performance — Essential conditions for defence of part performance under Section 53A include contracted transfer for consideration by written instrument, transferee taking possession in part performance, transferee doing act in furtherance of contract, and transferee performing or willing to perform his part — These conditions must be cumulatively satisfied — If conditions are not met, transferee cannot resist eviction. (Para 14) India Law Library Docid # 2433888
(872) AJEET SINGH Vs. INDERJEET AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397, 401, 401(3), 401(5) — Revisional Jurisdiction — Power to convert acquittal to conviction barred — High Court cannot convert finding of acquittal into conviction in revisional jurisdiction, as per Section 401(3) of CrPC — May treat revision petition as appeal if satisfied that it was filed under erroneous belief and in interest of justice — Requires judicial order India Law Library Docid # 2433898
(873) SANJAY Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 279, 337, 304-A, 427 — Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 181, 192 — Criminal Revision — Conviction and Sentence under — Challenge to — Death of victim — Whether proximate result of accident or due to intervening medical lapses — Victim shifted between hospitals, left against medical advice — Held, shifting itself does not amount to negligence, Petitioner failed to India Law Library Docid # 2433899
(874) TAMILAGA VETTRI KAZHAGAM Vs. P.H. DINESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 32 & 226 — Power to direct CBI investigation — Extraordinary power to be exercised sparingly and cautiously in exceptional situations to provide credibility and confidence in investigation, or where incident has national/international ramifications, or for complete justice and enforcing fundamental rights. India Law Library Docid # 2433901
(875) RAHUL AGARWAL Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section not specified, Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Section 349 — Voice Sample — Collection of voice sample for investigation — High Court set aside Magistrate's order allowing collection of voice sample, citing pendency of reference to a Larger Bench — India Law Library Docid # 2433902
(876) THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND OTHERS Vs. M/S SANTI CERAMICS PVT. LIMITED AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Section 5-A — Objections — Restoration of land — Supreme Court judgment in Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal — Relief of restoration of acquired land was intended for vulnerable agricultural communities, not commercial entities — Respondent No. 1, a private limited company, engaged in manufacturing, could not claim parity with cultivators — Company had capacity to India Law Library Docid # 2433903
(877) AJAY MARG NIRMAN SANGHARSH SAMITI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 13-10-2025 Master Plan — Adherence to — Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) and Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB) are entrusted with urban planning and cannot act arbitrarily or be influenced by private developers, especially when it undermines public confidence and planned urban development. The master plan, once circulated after public objections, must be strictly followed. India Law Library Docid # 2433964
(878) DALEEP KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 13-10-2025 Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, 2009 — Practice and Procedure — Writ Petition — Maintainability — Challenge to lease deed — Disputed questions of fact involved — Cannot be decided in writ jurisdiction — Petitioners relegated to Civil Court. India Law Library Docid # 2434075
(879) THE CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, STATE INDUSTRIES PROMOTION CORPORATION OF TAMIL NADU LTD Vs. D. VIJAYKUMAR AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025 Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Award of Compensation — Interim award to be passed by Land Acquisition Collector within four weeks of order — Payment of entire compensation amount to landowners within six weeks of award, with 50% without security and remaining 50% subject to furnishing security to Collector's satisfaction. India Law Library Docid # 2434269
(880) HARADHAN MANDAL Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH RESPONDENT[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 13-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Bail — Anticipatory bail — Appellant accused in multiple FIRs for cheating under Section 420 IPC — High Court rejected bail — Supreme Court grants anticipatory bail — Granted considering appeallant joined investigation and nature of allegations — Release on bail on terms and India Law Library Docid # 2434275