(981) HARCHARAN SINGH Vs. PUNJAB STATE COOP. BANK LIMITED AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Second Appeal — Scope — Plaintiff filed suit for damages for malicious prosecution after acquittal in a criminal case — Trial court and lower appellate court dismissed the suit — High Court can only interfere if findings of lower courts are perverse or based on misreading of evidence — Plaintiff failed to prove malice and lack of reasonable cause — Second appeal upheld the dismissal of the suit India Law Library Docid # 2433890
(982) RAMESH KUMAR Vs. JAGBIR SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 166 and 140 — Motor Vehicular Accident — Compensation — Appeal for enhancement — Appeal filed against award passed by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal for enhancement of compensation — Sole issue for determination is quantum of compensation awarded. India Law Library Docid # 2433896
(983) HARDEV SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Articles 226/227 — Writ Petition for regularization — Petitioner sought regularization based on Supreme Court judgments and State policy claiming continuous service for over a decade — Petitioner was recruited as Home Guard/Volunteer and served for three decades as Driver/Gunman — State argued that petitioner was a volunteer under relevant Act and Rules and Home Guards India Law Library Docid # 2433897
(984) BHIMA AND OTHER Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 201 — Murder and Causing Disappearance of Evidence — Circumstantial Evidence — Burden of Proof — Prosecution failed to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt — No eyewitness — Circumstances did not form a complete chain — Lack of motive — Unreliable hearsay evidence — Doubtful extra-judicial confession — Infirmities in medical and recovery evidence — Benefit of doubt must go to the accused. India Law Library Docid # 2433999
(985) VACHNA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Proof beyond reasonable doubt — Ocular and medical evidence — Discrepancy between FIR and charge-sheet — Interested witness — Absence of external injuries despite alleged fatal blow — Possibility of death due to fall — Uncertainty regarding cause of death, favoring the accused. India Law Library Docid # 2434000
(986) PUNAM CHAND Vs. RAJASTHAN FERTILIZERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Scope — A Second Appeal under Section 100 CPC lies only on a substantial question of law. Pure questions of fact, based on the appraisal of evidence, are not grounds for interference in second appeal where both lower courts have concurrently decided the matter. India Law Library Docid # 2434001
(987) PRAKASH KUMAR Vs. BHIMARAM AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Compensation for motor accident — Assessment of income — Tribunal erred in assessing income of claimant as unskilled labour at Rs. 3,000/- per month — Claimant was a motor mechanic running his own shop — Income Tax Returns (ITRs) reflecting higher income were erroneously discarded by the Tribunal — Held, ITRs are the most reliable evidence for assessing income. (Para India Law Library Docid # 2434002
(988) LRS. OF BHERA RAM AND OTHER Vs. KANHAIYA LAL AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Civil Procedure — Abatement of revision petition — Death of a respondent — Petition does not abate if other legal representatives are on record and were in possession, or if deceased respondent's daughters were not in possession. India Law Library Docid # 2434003
(989) NARSINGH NARAYAN AND OTHERS Vs. MAHESH[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 6 — Suit for possession — Trial Court erroneously decided issues on the basis of the will (ownership claim) when the suit was filed under Section 6 of the said Act — Issues of ownership and will are not to be considered in a suit under Section 6, which only deals with possession and dispossession within six months preceding the filing of the suit — Trial Court's India Law Library Docid # 2434004
(990) THE SOUTHERN NAGPUR CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED Vs. GANPATI YADAVRAO KUMBHARE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 — Plot Allotment Dispute — Member's right to plot — Cooperative Court directed allotment of Plot No. 5A to a member — This decision was upheld by the Cooperative Appellate Court and subsequently by the High Court — The Appellant Society's objections regarding the plot's identity merger and inexecutability of the decree were not sustained at multiple India Law Library Docid # 2434009
(991) JAGAT RAM Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 324 — Causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means — Conviction for offence under Section 324 IPC — Appeal against — Victim’s testimony corroborated by previous statement to police and medical evidence — Medical examination revealed incised wound consistent with a sharp-edged weapon — Clothes of victim found torn with blood stains, ruling out fall as India Law Library Docid # 2434092
(992) RANI KUMARI Vs. RAVI PANDEY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Civil Procedure — Settlement Agreement — Disposal of transfer petition — Parties amicably resolved all disputes and agreed to part ways on certain terms and conditions — Settlement Agreement placed on record and made part of the order — All pending cases between the parties to stand closed as per the terms of the agreement. India Law Library Docid # 2434259
(993) AYUSHI KUMARI Vs. VED PRAKASH PANDEY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 142 — Inherent powers of Supreme Court — Dissolution of marriage by mutual consent — Court can dissolve a marriage by mutual consent under Article 142 even if Section 13-B of Hindu Marriage Act has specific procedural requirements, in the interest of justice and to do complete justice between the parties. India Law Library Docid # 2434264
(994) GAURI VIJAY SHANKHAPAL Vs. SCHEDULED TRIBE CASTE CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION COMMITTEE AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 — Caste Certificate — Invalidation — Appeal filed against High Court order dismissing writ petition challenging order invalidating caste certificate — Appellant agreed to not press appeal, surrender caste certificate, and not rely on it in future — Court directed educational institution to return original documents and India Law Library Docid # 2434268
(995) KAMLESH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 120B — Criminal conspiracy — Suspension of sentence and grant of bail — Appellant convicted only under Section 120B IPC — Appellant has undergone incarceration for approximately five years — Court inclined to grant suspension of sentence and release on bail, subject to terms and conditions imposed by the Trial Court. India Law Library Docid # 2434271
(996) YOUSEF AND OTHER Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 09-10-2025 Bombay High Court Appellate Side Rules, 1960, Chapter I Rule 2(h)(ii) and Chapter XVII Rule 18(4) — Jurisdiction of Division Bench vs. Single Judge — Applications seeking quashing of FIR, CR, or Charge Sheet are exclusively within the domain of the Division Bench, regardless of whether filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. or with the aid of Articles 226/227 of the Constitution. India Law Library Docid # 2434381
(997) YUVRAJ SINGH KASHYAP Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Offences under Sections 61, 317(5), 318(4), 111(3)(4) and 323 — Bail application — Appellant in custody for nearly 7 months — Co-accused enlarged on bail — Supreme Court inclined to set aside impugned order and grant bail, subject to conditions. India Law Library Docid # 2434405
(998) VIMLENDU KUMAR JHA Vs. MINAL BHATNAGAR[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Writ Petition maintainability — A writ petition filed before a Full Bench judgment was pronounced, which later placed a bar on filing such petitions, is maintainable as the bar had not come into existence at the time of filing. India Law Library Docid # 2434461
(999) GEETANJALI SOMNATH ROY (MUKHERJEE) Vs. SOMNATH GOPAL CHANDRA ROY@ SOMNATH ROY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Execution Petitions — Timely disposal — Supreme Court directs all High Courts to ensure execution petitions pending in district judiciary are decided within six months — Concerned presiding officers to be answerable to High Court for non-compliance — Further directions issued for India Law Library Docid # 2434473
(1000) ESKAY HOSPITALITY SERVICES INDIA PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. M/S. STERLING HOSPITALITY[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-10-2025 Partnership Act, 1932 — Section 69(2) — Bar to suit by unregistered firm — Conditions for attracting the bar — Suit must be by an unregistered firm against a third party to enforce a right arising from a contract entered into by the firm with that third party in the course of its business dealings — If the suit is for enforcement of a statutory India Law Library Docid # 2434511