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(281) THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR, DISTRICT COLLECTORATE, MAYILADUTHURAI AND OTHERS Vs. DHANRAJ JAIN AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ Jurisdiction — Disputed Questions of Fact — High Court should not exercise its writ jurisdiction for adjudication when the case involves disputed questions of fact, as writ jurisdiction is for enforcement of rights and not for detailed fact-finding suitable for civil courts.
India Law Library Docid # 2434818

(282) 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

(283) 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

(284) 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

(285) VARUN KUMAR ALIAS SONU Vs. THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 363, 366, 376, 377 — Kidnapping, Abduction, Rape, Unnatural Offences — Appeal against High Court judgment convicting appellant after trial court acquittal — Dispute centered on evidence and credibility of victim — High Court’s re-appreciation of evidence and conviction upheld.
India Law Library Docid # 2433944

(286) ALAN MERVYN ARTHUR STEPHENSON Vs. J. XAVIER JAYARAJAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(5) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Partnership deed with arbitration clause — Limitation period — Claim for recovery of amounts paid under partnership agreement — Purchase of land occurred on 04.05.2016 — Amounts paid prior to this date were alleged to have not
India Law Library Docid # 2433945

(287) STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Vs. JANVED SINGH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 302, 304B, 498A, 201 — Homicidal Death — Dowry Harassment — Fabrication to Conceal Death — Medical evidence confirmed death by strangulation and post-mortem burn injuries, falsifying accused's claim of electrocution. Accused's false report and uncorroborated alibi for being away at the time of death established a chain of incriminating circumstances — Trial court
India Law Library Docid # 2433946

(288) KOMAL PRASAD SHAKYA Vs. RAJENDRA SINGH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B — Cheating, Forgery, Using Forged Document, Criminal Conspiracy — Quashing of Criminal Proceedings — High Court quashed criminal complaint and proceedings — Supreme Court allowed appeals, set aside High Court order, and restored criminal complaint to file.
India Law Library Docid # 2433947

(289) SHIVKUMAR @ BALESHWAR YADAV Vs. THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 363, 366, 376, 506 — Kidnapping, abduction or compelling woman to marry, rape, criminal intimidation — Offences established by victim's testimony, father's corroboration, and medical evidence of forceful intercourse and presence of semen.
India Law Library Docid # 2433948

(290) DR. BALRAJ SINGH Vs. CHANCELLOR, SRI KARAN NARENDRA AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 14-10-2025
Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University Act, 2013 — Sections 25-A(1) and 25-A(2) — Suspension of Vice-Chancellor — Chancellor’s power — Conditions precedent — Consultation with State Government — Notice to University — Opportunity to show cause — Order of suspension dated 07.10.2025 quashed for non-compliance with mandatory procedural requirements, including lack of consultation with State
India Law Library Docid # 2433965

(291) 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

(292) SUNIL KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF H.P.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397/401 — Revisional Jurisdiction — Scope — High Court in revision cannot re-evaluate evidence or substitute its own findings for those of lower courts unless there is a patent defect, error of jurisdiction, perversity, or gross unreasonableness.
India Law Library Docid # 2434037

(293) URMILA DEVI Vs. STATE OF H.P. AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 372 — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of appellate court's power — Appellate court can review, re-appreciate, and reconsider evidence, but must remember double presumption of innocence for accused after acquittal by trial court — If two reasonable views are possible from evidence, acquittal should not be disturbed.
India Law Library Docid # 2434038

(294) MUZAFAR HUSSAIN FAROOQUI AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 498-A — Cruelty by husband or relatives of husband — Quashing of FIR and Charge Sheet — Allegations primarily against husband only — Other family members roped in without specific allegations of active involvement — Court cautioned against implication of all family members in matrimonial disputes without concrete evidence — Proceedings quashed against family
India Law Library Docid # 2434066

(295) RITIKA JAIN AND ANOTHER Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 14-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court to prevent abuse of process of court — Quashing of FIR — Allegations of forgery of will/codicil when validity of will/codicil is already sub judice before civil court — Civil suit for partition pending, civil applications disposed of, and parties referred to mediation — Criminal proceedings initiated on same subject matter
India Law Library Docid # 2434076

(296) NILESH MAGANLAL SHAH Vs. SUHAS CHAMPAKLAL DESAI AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 16 Rule 1 — Issuance of witness summons — Right of a party — A party to a suit has a right at any stage to apply for a witness summons to give evidence or produce documents. The court cannot refuse this application simply because it might cause delay.
India Law Library Docid # 2434188

(297) BHIMJIBHAI KADVABHAI RUPARELIADECD.THROUGH HIS HEIRS AND OTHERS Vs. PATEL VALLABHBHAI KADVABHAI RUPARELIA[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Registration Act, 1908 — Section 17 — Compulsory Registration — Family Arrangement — Document recording a family arrangement already concluded, merely for purpose of record or information, does not require registration unless it is intended to be the instrument of title itself — A memorandum of what was agreed upon orally, which does not create or extinguish rights in immovable property, is not compulsorily registrable.
India Law Library Docid # 2434189

(298) STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. CHANDRIKABEN SUDHIRBHAI RATHOD[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 363, 302 — Kidnapping, Murder — Appeal against acquittal — Prosecution based on circumstantial evidence — Complainant (PW-1) turned hostile in chief examination and their testimony had contradictions with cross-examination — PW-4, key witness for "last seen together" theory, made improvements in his deposition compared to his police statement, making his
India Law Library Docid # 2434190

(299) CHIRALA SESHA SRINIVAS, INSPECTOR OF CETRAL EXCISE AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND ANOTHER[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Section 19(3)(b) and (c) — Bar on stay or revision of interlocutory orders — Statutory embargo clear on granting stay or entertaining revision against interlocutory orders while trial is ongoing — Attempt to circumvent this bar by invoking writ jurisdiction under Article 226 is impermissible and amounts to abuse of process of law.
India Law Library Docid # 2434191

(300) ABHISHEK BANSAL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025
Succession Act, 1925 — Section 278 — Letter of Administration — Petition seeking grant of Letter of Administration for an agricultural land based on a registered Will dated 23.03.2011 — Testator expired on 17.01.2022 — The Will was duly executed, attested, and registered by the testator when of sound mind — Class-I legal heirs are son, daughter, and daughter — Petitioner No. 1 is the grandson and
India Law Library Docid # 2434216