(561) CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Vs. DAYAMOY MAHATO ETC.[SUPREME COURT OF INDA] 11-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 — Section 436-A — Applicability — Undertrial detention exceeding half of maximum sentence — Section 436-A mandates release of undertrial prisoners who have undergone detention extending up to one-half of maximum period of imprisonment specified for the offence, unless further detention is ordered with reasons — Exception: This provision is explicitly India Law Library Docid # 2436684
(562) ILLIYAS MANGROO SHAIKH Vs. BOMBAY ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT UNDERTAKING AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Electricity Act, 2003 — Sections 127(2), 127(6) and 62(6) — Interest on Statutory Pre-deposit — Unauthorised use of electricity — Appeal against assessment — Requirement to deposit 50% of assessed amount (pre-deposit) — Assessment set aside in appeal — Consumer's right to interest on the pre-deposit amount — Section 127(2) mandatory deposit is a pre-condition for appeal, not a voluntary payment or India Law Library Docid # 2436975
(563) KAPIL WADHAWAN Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 11-12-2025 Criminal Procedure – Bail Jurisprudence – Fundamental Principles for Grant of Bail – "Bail is the rule and jail is an exception" entrenched in criminal jurisprudence and constitutional guarantee of personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India – Presumption of innocence mandates that pre-trial incarceration should not degenerate into punishment – Courts must intervene when prolonged custody becomes disproportionate, arbitrary, or excessive. India Law Library Docid # 2437400
(564) ASHISH KUMAR PANDEY Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) — Section 20(b)(ii)(C) — Conviction and Sentencing — Appeal against conviction — Link Evidence — Failure of prosecution to establish integrity of seized material and sample collection process — Contradictions regarding preparation time of three critical panchnamas (Taul Panchnama Ex.P-11, Samras Panchnama Ex.P-13, and Sample India Law Library Docid # 2437533
(565) BHANWAR SINGH Vs. RAMESH KUMAR SABU AND OTHER[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 163-A — Claim for compensation on structured formula basis — Nature of liability — Section 163-A establishes a "No Fault Liability" regime, intended as a speedy and effective social security scheme, overriding other provisions of the Act — Claimants are not required to plead or prove any wrongful act, neglect, or default (negligence) of the vehicle owner or driver for compensation. India Law Library Docid # 2437562
(566) KAILASH RAM Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 11-12-2025 Criminal Procedure — Quashing of First Information Report (FIR) — Scope of inherent powers of High Court (Section 528 of Bharatiya Nyayik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, corresponding to Section 482 of Cr.P.C.) — Inherent power to quash an FIR must be exercised sparingly, only when no offence is disclosed, the report is filed with malice, or the proceeding amounts to an abuse of the criminal process — Where the police have concluded the investigation and filed a closure report (FR) before the competent India Law Library Docid # 2437776
(567) VASHRAMBHAI SHAMJIBHAI BARAIYA AND OTHERS Vs. L H OF DECD. NARANBHAI DEVABHAI SADADIYA AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Mamlatdar Courts Act, 1906 — Section 5 — Right of Way — Obstruction — Scope of Mamlatdar's jurisdiction — Mamlatdar found obstruction on pathway traditionally used by petitioners (agriculturists) and their forefathers for access to their land (Survey No. 116) and found no alternate way based on spot inspection, panchkyas (inspection report), and neighbor statements — Deputy Collector, in revision, despite DILR India Law Library Docid # 2437821
(568) SHEETAL CHANDRAKANT KUNJIR Vs. CHANDRAKANT TUKARAM KUNJIR AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 2(f) — 'Domestic relationship' and 'relationship in the nature of marriage' (Live-in Relationship) — Petitioner married Respondent No. 1 (who was already married to Respondent No. 2) — Issue is whether such a relationship, entered into with knowledge of the male partner's existing marriage, qualifies as a 'relationship in the India Law Library Docid # 2437953
(569) SELLAMMAL Vs. PALANISAMY AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Hindu Succession Act, 1956 — Sections 6, 8, 15 — Partition Suit — Inheritance of Ancestral/Self-Acquired Property — Daughter's Coparcenary Rights — Ouster of Co-heir/Co-owner — Sale Deed by Co-owner — Suit Properties consisting of 2 Acre 60 Cents purchased via Sale Deed (1940) and 92 Cents for which documents were unavailable — Evidence (1959 Sale Deed of other property) indicated father had ancestral properties and was farmer — Court inferred 1940 purchase was using India Law Library Docid # 2438127
(570) MOHAN Vs. STATE REP BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) — Section 5(n) read with Section 6 — Aggravated penetrative sexual assault — Conviction confirmed — Accused (father) convicted for sexually assaulting his minor daughter (PW1), aged 12 years — Evidence of victim (PW1), corroborated by testimony of school social teacher (PW10) and child helpline volunteer (PW2), accepted — Delayed complaint not fatal as victim feared her father, informing school teacher first India Law Library Docid # 2438128
(571) KAMBALA BAPIRAJU Vs. THE INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Banking Law — Wilful Defaulter — Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Circulars — Classification of a Non-whole Time/Non-executive Director as a Wilful Defaulter — RBI Master Circular on Wilful Defaulters (DBR.No.CID.BC.57/20.16.003/2014-15 dated 01.07.2014) mandates that a non-whole time director should not be considered a wilful defaulter except in "very rare cases," unless it is "conclusively established" that (i) they were aware of the wilful default via board or committee minutes and failed to India Law Library Docid # 2438129
(572) SRI BULU JENA Vs. STATE OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 11-12-2025 Odisha Excise Rules, 2017 — Rule 26 and Rule 53(5) — Odisha Excise Act, 2008 — Section 41(1) — Direction to shift an excise shop during its currency — Superintendent of Excise lacks authority to issue such direction — Power to fix and shift shop premises lies with the Collector, involving a specific procedure and approval from the Excise Commissioner — Action by Superintendent without India Law Library Docid # 2438169
(573) DR. SOHAIL MALIK Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act) — Section 11 — Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) — Jurisdiction against employee of different department — The ICC constituted at the workplace/department of the "aggrieved woman" has jurisdiction to entertain and inquire into a complaint of sexual harassment against a "respondent" India Law Library Docid # 2436626
(574) NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Income Tax Act, 1961 — Section 36(1)(viii) — Deduction for profits derived from the business of providing long-term finance — Scope and Interpretation of "derived from" — The amendment by Finance Act, 1995, intentionally narrowed the scope of deduction from "total income" to "profits derived from such business of providing long-term finance" to prevent corporations from claiming benefits on diversified income, thereby "ring-fencing" the fiscal benefit India Law Library Docid # 2436627
(575) THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL Vs. ANIL KUMAR DEY[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (PC Act) — Section 18A — PC Act read with Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 1944 — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 102 — Seizure vs. Attachment/Confiscation of Property — Whether power of police officer to freeze accounts under Section 102 CrPC is co-existent or mutually exclusive with the machinery for attachment under Section 18A India Law Library Docid # 2436628
(576) MOHAN LAL FATEHPURIA Vs. M/S BHARAT TEXTILES AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 29A(1), 29A(4), 29A(6), 23(4) — Time limit for arbitral award — Termination of mandate — Substitution of Arbitrator — Section 29A aims for time-bound disposal of arbitration proceedings — An award in non-international commercial arbitration must be made within twelve months from completion of pleadings (Section 23(4)) — If the award is not made India Law Library Docid # 2436629
(577) M/S. SHRI KARSHNI ALLOYS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. RAMAKRISHNAN SADASIVAN[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) — Section 62 — Liquidation Process — Sale of Assets — Appeals against NCLAT majority decision confirming forfeiture of amount paid by bidder — Private sale requiring Adjudicating Authority's prior approval — Regulation 33(2)(d) of IBBI (Liquidation Process) Regulations, 2016 — Where liquidator seeks NCLT approval for private sale after failed auctions India Law Library Docid # 2436630
(578) M/S. SARASWATI WIRE AND CABLE INDUSTRIES Vs. MOHAMMAD MOINUDDIN KHAN AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 — Section 9 — Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) — Application by Operational Creditor — Pre-existing Dispute — Adjudicating authority must determine if operational debt exists, if non-payment has occurred, and if a dispute existed prior to the demand notice (Section 8) — Dispute must be genuine, substantial, and not spurious, hypothetical, or illusory India Law Library Docid # 2436631
(579) VINEETA SRINANDAN Vs. HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ON ITS OWN MOTION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 10-12-2025 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Sections 2(c), 12, 19 — Criminal Contempt — Power to Punish and Forgive — The power to punish for contempt carries the concomitant power to forgive when the contemnor demonstrates genuine remorse and repentance, making the extension of mercy an integral part of judicial conscience — Contempt jurisdiction is neither a personal armour for Judges nor a sword to silence India Law Library Docid # 2436632
(580) KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK LTD Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 — Section 60(1), 60(2), 60(3) — Adjudicating Authority — Jurisdiction over Personal Guarantor — Where a Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) or liquidation proceeding of a corporate debtor is pending before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), any application relating to the insolvency resolution or bankruptcy of the personal India Law Library Docid # 2436978