(901) MANALI CHAUDHARY AND THREE OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Educational Qualification — Determination of equivalence — The employer, not the recruiting agency, has the final authority to determine the educational qualifications for a post or whether a qualification is equivalent to the prescribed one — Recruiting agencies like Public Service Commissions are bound by the employer's decision. India Law Library Docid # 2434691
(902) DHARMENDRA KUMAR @ SAMEER MALIK Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 395, 397, 391 — Dacoity — Essential ingredients — Five or more persons conjointly committing or attempting to commit robbery — Conviction under Section 395 IPC unsustainable when only four individuals were charge-sheeted and tried, with no evidence of a fifth person's participation. India Law Library Docid # 2434692
(903) AMRIT LAL AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 304 Part II and 201 — Conviction for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and concealment of evidence — Appeal against — Circumstantial evidence — Admissibility of recovery under Section 27 of Evidence Act, 1872 — Requirements for — Held, conviction based on circumstantial evidence requires each circumstance to be firmly proved, consistent only with guilt, and forming a complete chain with no reasonable ground for innocence. Recovery India Law Library Docid # 2434693
(904) NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. BABLU @ CHANDVEER AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Appeal against award of Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Territorial jurisdiction — Claim petition can be filed where accident occurred, claimant resides, or defendant (including insurance company) carries on business — Filing claim where insurance company has branch office is permissible and such Tribunal rightly exercises jurisdiction. India Law Library Docid # 2434694
(905) MANALI CHAUDHARY AND THREE OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Determination of Educational Qualification — Recruiting agency is bound by the employer's decision on the validity and equivalence of educational qualifications. India Law Library Docid # 2434695
(906) STATE OF KERALA Vs. ANIL KUMAR @ KOLUSU BINU[KERALA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Circumstantial Evidence — Court's reliance on a chain of circumstances, including motive, opportunity, recoveries, and medical evidence, to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt. India Law Library Docid # 2434862
(907) PATTAYAN SREEKANTH Vs. STATE OF KERALA[KERALA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 120B — Criminal Conspiracy — Essential ingredients — Agreement between two or more persons to do an illegal act or a legal act by illegal means — Mere suspicion or circumstantial evidence not sufficient to prove conspiracy beyond reasonable doubt, especially when the accused is the son of India Law Library Docid # 2434863
(908) MAJU SUSAN BABU Vs. SUNIL MATHEW[KERALA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Divorce Act, 1869 — Section 10(1)(x) — Cruelty as a ground for divorce — Wife sought divorce on grounds of mental and physical cruelty — Court considered the allegations of suspicion, monitoring of movements, and restriction of communication as severe mental cruelty — Held that unfounded suspicion by a husband constitutes serious mental cruelty, destroying mutual trust, self-respect, and mental peace of the India Law Library Docid # 2434864
(909) NIRBHAI SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. DARSHAN SINGH @ DARSHAN SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(2) — Appeal against award of Claims Tribunal — Amendment and interpretation — Provision prohibits appeals if amount in dispute is less than one lakh rupees — Petitioners attempted to circumvent this statutory bar by filing a revision petition under Article 227 of the Constitution — This is not permitted as it seeks to bypass a specific legal prohibition. India Law Library Docid # 2435191
(910) VED PARKASH AND ANOTHER Vs. FAKIR CHAND AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 151 — Condonation of delay — Application for condonation of delay of 70 days in refiling the appeal — Allowed for reasons mentioned in the application supported by affidavit of learned counsel. India Law Library Docid # 2435192
(911) KRISHAN SINGH Vs. KULDIP SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Sufficient cause — Courts should adopt a liberal approach, but substantial justice requires that negligence, inaction, or lack of bona fides cannot be imputed to the party seeking condonation — There is no straitjacket formula, and each case must be decided on its own facts — Inordinate delay generally attracts the doctrine of prejudice, requiring a stricter approach. India Law Library Docid # 2435193
(912) GURBACHAN KAUR (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS AND ANOTHER Vs. AJIT SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 110-A — Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal — Appeal against dismissal of claim petition — Deceased travelling in a bus that collided with a tractor-combine harvester — Bus turned turtle and caught fire, causing death — Claimants alleged rash and negligent driving by bus driver — Tribunal dismissed claim, finding no negligence on bus driver's part — High Court found bus driver failed to India Law Library Docid # 2435194
(913) ORIENTAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. Vs. KANTA RANI AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor Accident Claims Tribunal — Award — Quantum of compensation — Appeal against — Appellant insurance company contended compensation awarded by Tribunal was on the higher side — Sole issue for determination confined to quantum of compensation — Detailed narration of facts not required for brevity. India Law Library Docid # 2435195
(914) M.C. MEHTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2025 Environmental Law — Pollution Control — Firecrackers — Right to Life vs. Right to Profession — Balancing Exercise — While commercial interests and festive spirit cannot override health and environmental concerns, total prohibition of firecrackers may be unreasonable if alternatives causing less pollution exist. Court must balance livelihood of industry workers with public health. India Law Library Docid # 2434015
(915) M. JAMEELA Vs. THE STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER ETC[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 15-10-2025 Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971 — Sections 3(1), 3(2), 3(3) — Exemption from vesting — Lands under bona fide cultivation — Test is whether land was under cultivation on the appointed day (10.05.1971) — Evidence of clearing, planting, registration with commodity boards, payment of land and plantation taxes, and official recognition in land reform proceedings established that the entire 37.50 acres were under bona fide coffee and cardamom plantation prior to India Law Library Docid # 2434483
(916) EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, PHED CITY DIVISION II KOTA RAJATSHAN AND OTHERS Vs. SACHDEVA METAL WORKS AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 15-10-2025 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (MSMED Act) — Section 18 — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Overriding effect — MSMED Act, being a special law, prevails over the Arbitration Act, a general law, in matters of dispute resolution for MSMEs, including provisions related to arbitration. India Law Library Docid # 2435164
(917) RAHUL SINGH PARMAR Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 15-10-2025 Compassionate Appointment — Eligibility — Policy Clause 4.1 — Policy dated 29.09.2014, Clause 4.1 stipulates that if any eligible member of the deceased employee's family is already in Government service, no other family member is entitled to compassionate appointment — The objective of compassionate appointment is to protect the family from penury on the death of the sole breadwinner India Law Library Docid # 2435678
(918) SANTOSHI LAL BATHAM Vs. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 15-10-2025 M.P. Civil Services (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1966 — Rule 27 — Consultation with Public Service Commission (PSC) — Scope and Necessity — When Appellate Authority decides to reduce the penalty, it is not required to refer the matter to the PSC for concurrence, as reducing the punishment does not "adversely affect" the delinquent employee; consultation is only necessary in cases where the decision adversely affects the civil servant (e.g., enhancement of punishment). (Paras India Law Library Docid # 2435679
(919) SAHABLAL AND OTHERS Vs. SHEKH JIBRAEEL AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173 — Motor Accident Claims — Compensation for Death of a Child — In case of a minor child's death in a motor accident, the notional income of the deceased child must be considered as Rs. 30,000/- per annum, as settled by the Supreme Court in Kishan Gopal vs. Lala — Compensation calculation methodology requires applying a multiplier of 15 and adding 40% towards future prospects, without any deduction for personal expenses — Conventional heads of compensation (L India Law Library Docid # 2435680
(920) DHANMOTI PATEL Vs. ARKHIT[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 54 — Registration Act, 1908 — Section 17 — Sale of Immovable Property and Transfer of Title — A transfer of ownership in immovable property valued at Rs. 100 or more can only be effected by a registered conveyance deed (sale deed) in compliance with Section 54 of the T.P. Act and India Law Library Docid # 2435855