(901) PRAKASH SINGH Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Essential Qualifications — Draughtsman Examination, 2023 — Challenge to selection result — Urban Development Department — Qualification prescribed: Intermediate (10+2) and Diploma/ITI Certificate in the "concerned Trade" — Interpretation of "concerned Trade" — The term "concerned Trade" in the context of Draughtsman post in the Urban India Law Library Docid # 2436526
(902) MUKUT DAS Vs. THE ASSAM POWER GENERATION CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Superannuation and Pension — Pay Revision — Eligibility — Assam State Electricity Board and its Successor Companies Revised Pay Rules, 2017 — Interpretation of "in service on 31st March 2016" — Employees retiring on 31.03.2016 by virtue of Fundamental Rule 56(a) (FR 56(a)) are entitled to the benefit of pay revision effective from 31.03.2016 as they were 'in service' on that date. (Paras India Law Library Docid # 2436529
(903) PRANJIT BANIK Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Seniority — Determination of seniority in Lower Division Cadre — Assam District and Sessions Judges Establishment (Ministerial) Service Rules, 1987 (Rules of 1987) — Rule 12(i) mandates seniority based on the date of appointment, provided the person joins within 15 days of receiving the appointment order — If multiple persons are appointed on the same date, inter-se seniority is determined by their position in the merit list — Where a candidate, higher in the merit India Law Library Docid # 2437247
(904) AJIJUL ISLAM Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND ANOTHER[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Section 4 — Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 366 — Conviction under Section 4 of POCSO Act and Section 366 of IPC challenged — Prosecution alleged forcible kidnapping, confinement, and repeated sexual assault of a 13-year-old victim. India Law Library Docid # 2437245
(905) SMTI. SANGITA DEVI JALLAN AND OTHERS Vs. M/S TRADE & TRANS AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor accident compensation — Contributory negligence — Assessment of negligence — Accident involving head-on collision between a truck and a van leading to the death of the van driver — Tribunal applied 50% contributory negligence — Head-on collision by itself does not automatically constitute contributory negligence — Evidence of eye witness (PW-2) remained unrebutted, establishing sole negligence of the truck driver — Charge-sheet India Law Library Docid # 2437246
(906) PUNJAB STATE CIVIL SUPPLIES CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. MULKH RAJ[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Promotion — Retrospective Promotion — Entitlement to financial benefits/arrears of pay — Employee granted retrospective promotion but denied monetary benefits by promotion order on the basis of 'no work, no pay' principle — Concurrent findings of fact by Trial Court and Appellate Court that employee's inability to work on the promoted post was due to inaction, delays, and administrative lapses on the part of the employer (PUNSUP), and not due to any fault of the India Law Library Docid # 2436934
(907) CHARAN DASS (DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LRS Vs. PUNJAB STATE AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Service Law — Temporary Employee — Termination of Service — Justification — Termination of a temporary employee is governed by the terms of the contract of service, which can stipulate termination without assigning any cause at any time — Where the termination order is innocuous, stating only that services are 'no longer India Law Library Docid # 2436935
(908) GURMUKH SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Criminal Revision — Modification of Sentence — Scope — Petitioner convicted under Sections 279, 337, and 304-A of the Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Conviction affirmed, but prayer confined to reduction of sentence to the period already undergone — Incident occurred in 2008, resulting in 17 years of protracted trial and agony — Petitioner had already undergone 9 months of imprisonment against a total sentence of 1 year — Mitigating factors considered: long pendency of the case (17 years), India Law Library Docid # 2436936
(909) STATE Vs. M/S MODERN LABORATORIES[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (GOA BENCH)] 04-12-2025 Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 — Sections 23, 25(3), 25(4) — Procedure for taking samples and conclusive evidence of test reports — Mandate of Section 23 requires an Inspector to divide drug sample into four portions: one for the person from whom taken, one for Government Analyst, one for court, and one for the manufacturer/person disclosed under Section 18-A — Section 25(3) establishes the Government Analyst's India Law Library Docid # 2437181
(910) NEERAJ KUMAR @ NEERAJ YADAV Vs. STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 319 — Summoning of Additional Accused — Nature and Scope of Power — The power under Section 319 CrPC is extraordinary and discretionary, intended to be exercised sparingly, but it is an enabling provision aimed at ensuring that no guilty person escapes the process of law — The prerequisite for its exercise is that it must appear from the evidence India Law Library Docid # 2436277
(911) BPL LIMITED Vs. MORGAN SECURITIES AND CREDITS PRIVATE LIMITED[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 31(7)(a) and (b) — Power of Arbitral Tribunal to grant interest — Party Autonomy — Pre-award (pendente lite) interest — Section 31(7)(a) mandates that the Arbitral Tribunal’s discretion to award interest on the sum awarded (from date cause of action arose till date of award) is subject to the agreement between the parties ("unless otherwise agreed by the India Law Library Docid # 2436278
(912) THE STATE OF KARNATAKA AND ANOTHER Vs. TAGHAR VASUDEVA AMBRISH AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Goods and Services Tax (GST) — Exemption Notification — Notification No. 9/2017- Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 — Entry 13 — Exemption on services by way of renting of residential dwelling for use as residence — Renting residential property as hostel to students/working professionals — Conditions for exemption: renting service, residential dwelling, and use as residence — The term "residential dwelling" is not defined under GST laws but refers to any residential India Law Library Docid # 2436279
(913) BHASKAR GOVIND GAVATE (NOW DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LEGAL HEIRS. Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Contempt of Court — Initiating contempt proceedings — Clear and unequivocal terms of the underlying order — A Contempt Petition can be dismissed summarily only if the underlying order, the non-compliance of which is alleged, is genuinely unclear, ambiguous, or susceptible to two equally reasonable interpretations — Where the High Court dismissed a Contempt Petition holding that the underlying order was capable of two interpretations, but the Supreme Court found, upon reading the order India Law Library Docid # 2436280
(914) M/S.KRK EDUCATION TRUST REP. BY ITS MANAGING TRUSTEE MR.K.R.ILANGHOVAN Vs. MR. D. PREM, PROPRIETOR, M/S.D SQUARE, TIRUCHIRAPALLI[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Setting aside/Modification of Arbitral Award — Scope of judicial intervention — High Court cannot sit in appeal over the arbitral award and interfere with findings that are based on appreciation of evidence, unless there is perversity or patent illegality — Arbitral Tribunal's finding regarding reduction in construction rate for ground and first floors India Law Library Docid # 2436679
(915) AXIS BANK AND OTHERS Vs. DR. SHABIR KHAN RANJAN RAWTHER AND OTHERS[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 04-12-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 19 — First Appeal — Deficiency in Service — Fraudulent Online Transactions — Liability of Bank (Axis Bank) and Telecom Service Provider (Vodafone) — Unauthorized transfer of Rs. 11,14,500/- from customer's bank accounts using duplicate SIM — Telecom provider's role in issuing duplicate SIM in a casual manner without proper verification, facilitating hackers to gain access to accounts, constitutes grave deficiency in service — Bank's liability arises from India Law Library Docid # 2437381
(916) JARPULA VEERU AND OTHERS Vs. MAHARASHTRA HYBRID SEEDS COMPANY LTD. AND OTHERS[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 04-12-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Seed Defect — Admixture — Requirement of Scientific Testing — Complaint of crop loss due to defective, spurious, and substandard seeds (Hybrid Chilli Tejaswini, Mahyco) resulting in 30% admixture — District Forum allowed the complaint based primarily on a Committee report which noted 30% admixture without formal seed sample testing — State Commission set aside the order — National Commission holds that a Committee report based merely on field visitation and India Law Library Docid # 2437382
(917) RAJKUMARI PATEL AND OTHERS Vs. ICICI PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND OTHERS[NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION] 04-12-2025 Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 51(2) — Second Appeal — Life Insurance — Repudiation of Claim — Concealment of Material Facts/Pre-existing Disease — Deceased insured obtained a loan protection insurance policy after undergoing Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) and being a known case of Hypertension, but failed to disclose these facts in the Member Consent Form — Insured passed away due to brain hemorrhage within the policy period (Early Claim) — Insurer India Law Library Docid # 2437383
(918) ASHISH RANGARI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 04-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 304-A — Causing death by negligence — Construction site accident — Death due to electrocution — Alleged negligence of construction company officials (Project Head, Site Engineer, Foreman, Supervisor, Contractor) for continuing construction under live 11 K.V. overhead electric lines without taking safety precautions and failing to shift lines despite permission and India Law Library Docid # 2437468
(919) JAI NARAIN VYAS UNIVERSITY, JODHPUR AND ANOTHER Vs. BHANWAR SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Sections 25F (Procedure for retrenchment), 17B (Payment of full wages to workman pending proceedings in higher courts), 33C(2) (Recovery of money due from an employer) — Reinstatement and Regularization — Termination of workman (Junior Clerk) found illegal by Labour Court for non-compliance with Section 25F; reinstatement with 40% back wages directed — India Law Library Docid # 2437508
(920) KAMALA BAI (D) THROUGH LRS Vs. KANNA RAO (D) THR. LRS.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 04-12-2025 Succession Act, 1925 — Section 63(c) — Indian Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 68 — Proof of Will — Substitution of Legal Representatives (LRs) — Application for impleadment under Order 22 Rule 3 CPC based on a Will — Statutory requirement mandates examination of at least one attesting witness to prove execution of the Will — Where the sole attesting witness (PW-5) admits in cross-examination that he did India Law Library Docid # 2437510