(601) THE MANAGEMENT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT (OPERATIONS) Vs. THE GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA AND OTHERS[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Sections 10(1) and 10(4) — Reference to Tribunal — Adjudication of disputes — Award passed by the Tribunal requires consideration of rival claims and material evidence on record — Failure to do so renders the award unsustainable — Remittal of the case for fresh adjudication. India Law Library Docid # 2438170
(602) SEIKH TAJUDDIN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF ODISHA[ORISSA HIGH COURT] 10-12-2025 Indian Penal Code, 1860 / Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 528 (corresponding to Section 482 Cr.P.C.) — Quashing of proceedings — Rejection of application for No Objection Certificate (NOC) for passport — Petitioner involved in rioting cases from 2017, seeks NOC for Haj pilgrimage — Trial not commenced despite passage of time — No criminal cases registered after 2017 — Petitioner has India Law Library Docid # 2438171
(603) SURENDER KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Conviction — Appellate Review — Scope of inquiry limited to considering if conviction should be altered to a lesser offense — Deceased sustaining four knife blows on vital body parts (common carotid and subclavian arteries cut), injuries which, in ordinary course, would cause death — Absence of defense evidence and appellant's Section 313 CrPC statement India Law Library Docid # 2436633
(604) SMT. BERTHA CARVALHO (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS Vs. SHRI BALDWIN JOSEPH FRANCIS D' SOUZA (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS.[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 — Eviction — Bona Fide Requirement and Comparative Hardship — Landlord-Tenant Dispute — Subsequent Events — Landlords' bona fide requirement for grown-up son (Yohann) following marriage in 2007, necessitating independent accommodation, was introduced via amendment and subsequent evidence after remand by High Court — India Law Library Docid # 2436979
(605) LOKRANJAN BREWERIES PRIVATE LIMITED & ANR Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THROUGH THE SECRETARY, STATE .RESPONDENTS EXCISE DEPARTMENT & ANR[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 14 — Equality before law — Arbitrary discrimination — State Excise — Licence fees for Country Liquor (CL-1) licence — Challenge to demand for deficit licence fees based on slab-wise differential rate (Rs. 10 per case up to 10 lakh cases, Rs. 7 per case thereafter) — Notification dated January 30, 2016 specified advance payment based on average production of India Law Library Docid # 2436980
(606) JANARDHAN SITARAM SURVE AND OTHER Vs. SUNIL RAMESH UKRULKAR AND OTHER[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Claim for compensation for death in motor vehicle accident — Essential requirement for claim under Section 166 (based on torts principles) is proof of negligence on the part of the driver of the offending vehicle in the occurrence of the accident — Claimants must prove negligence (wrong) for owner/insurer to be vicariously liable for compensation — Mere involvement of a India Law Library Docid # 2436981
(607) THE LOKMANYA PAN BAZAR ASSOCIATION LTD. Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Maharashtra Ownership of Flats (Regulation of the Promotion of Construction, Sale, Management and Transfer) Act, 1963 (MOFA) — Applicability — Statutory right to conveyance — Agreements for sale explicitly stating that the transaction is governed by MOFA and its rules — The promoter (petitioner) cannot later resile from the statutory character expressly given to the transaction after deriving benefit, based India Law Library Docid # 2436982
(608) AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA Vs. LITE BITE FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11 — Appointment of Arbitrator — Existence of Arbitration Agreement — Effect of Prior Arbitration and Constructive Res Judicata — Where disputes, including incidental issues like interest payment prior to commencement of arbitration, were covered by an earlier arbitration that culminated in an Arbitral Award, subsequent petition to re-agitate issues relating India Law Library Docid # 2436983
(609) SHRI SHIVNERI SAHAKARI BANK LTD. Vs. RUPEE COOPERATIVE BANK LTD. AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Constitutional Law — High Courts — Jurisdiction under Article 227 — Supervisory Jurisdiction — Territorial Allocation of Work — The High Court of Bombay has supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution over all courts and tribunals within the State of Maharashtra (including the Co-operative Court at Kolhapur and the State Co-operative Appellate Court at Pune) — The Court, India Law Library Docid # 2436984
(610) AJAY KUMAR HANDIQUE @ AJAY KR HANDIQUE Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Service Law — Departmental Enquiry — Procedure for Imposing Penalties — Assam Services (Discipline & Appeal) Rules, 1964 (Services Rules, 1964) — Rule 9 — Disciplinary Authority (DA) — Role of DA upon receipt of Enquiry Report (ER) — Rule 9 mandates DA to consider records and record findings on each charge, but does not empower DA to discard ER altogether and direct fresh/de novo enquiry merely based on disagreement with findings. India Law Library Docid # 2437240
(611) ABDUR RAHIM Vs. THE STATE OF ASSAM AND OTHERS[GAUHATI HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Assam Sale of Forest Produce, Coupes and Mahal Rules, 1977 — Rules 16, 17, and 18 — Recovery of dues — Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913 — Forest Mahal settlement — Recovery sought as arrears of land revenue — Failure by accepted tenderer to deposit security/installment or execute agreement (Rule 16) — Rule 17 mandates cancellation, forfeiture of earnest money/security deposit, and mandatory resale at the tenderer’s risk for loss recovery (difference between original India Law Library Docid # 2437241
(612) SUVEJ SINGH Vs. RAM NARESH AND OTHERS[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006 — Section 30 — Maintenance of Map and Field Book — Correction of Revenue Map — Scope of Section 30 — Section 30 allows the Collector to record annual changes in boundaries or correct errors or omissions detected in the map or field book (khasra) — It does not permit reopening an issue settled previously between parties regarding the location or extent of plots, India Law Library Docid # 2436530
(613) ASHOK KUMAR DABAS (DEAD THROUGH LEGAL HEIRS) Vs. DELHI TRANSPORT CORPORATION[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Service Law — Resignation — Forfeiture of past service — Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1972 — Rule 26(1) — Distinction between Resignation and Voluntary Retirement — An employee who resigns from service forfeits past service as per Rule 26(1) of the 1972 Rules, regardless of the length of service completed (20 years or more) — The act of resignation cannot be re-classified as voluntary India Law Library Docid # 2436531
(614) AMAL KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of First Information Report (FIR) — Abuse of process of law — When civil dispute is masked as criminal complaint — Allegations in FIR (claiming criminal conspiracy, forcible occupation, and caste abuse) found inconsistent with contemporaneous civil suit filed by the informant regarding the same property and on the same day — Suit's India Law Library Docid # 2436532
(615) HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD. Vs. BCL SECURE PREMISES PVT. LTD.[SUPREME COURT OF INDIA] 09-12-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(4) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Existence of Arbitration Agreement — Non-Signatory/Third Party — The Referral Court (Appointing Authority) is required to inspect and scrutinize the dealings between the parties to prima facie examine the existence of an arbitration agreement, including whether a non-signatory is a "veritable party" to the agreement. India Law Library Docid # 2436533
(616) POOJA DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. DAVINDER KUMAR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Claim Petition for Compensation — Impleadment of Parties — Dominus Litis — Claimants/Petitioners are dominus litis and cannot be forced to litigate against persons against whom they do not seek relief, especially when such persons are not necessary parties — Where the claim is based on the alleged rash and negligent driving of one vehicle's driver, the owner of the India Law Library Docid # 2436940
(617) VINOD KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. ELIZABETH AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 47 — Execution Proceedings — Frivolous Objections and Delay — Where an eviction order has attained finality up to the High Court, and the judgment debtor, over 10 years after the eviction order, raises objections in execution for the first time, alleging the decree holder is "non-existent" or dead without producing a death certificate, such objections are found to be frivolous, malafide, and solely aimed at India Law Library Docid # 2436941
(618) RAJ PAL Vs. DHARAMVIR SINGH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of Delay — Delay of 86 days in filing appeal — Principles governing condonation — Application for condonation of delay allowed as explanation furnished appeared bona fide, not indicating deliberate negligence, inaction, or lack of diligence — Procedural laws of limitation should not defeat substantial justice — Adopting a liberal yet judicious approach, the Court India Law Library Docid # 2436942
(619) EX. HEAD CONSTABLE RAJINDER SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UT CHANDIGARH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Excise Act — Section 68 — Offence of consuming liquor at a public place while on duty (Police officials) — Conviction affirmed where prosecution successfully established essential components: petitioners were on duty, and were consuming liquor at a public place, supported by consistent testimony of official witnesses (DSP, other Police officials) and reliable medical evidence (Doctor's report showing India Law Library Docid # 2436943
(620) MISHRA SINGH Vs. SANJEEV GOYAL AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 09-12-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Compounding of Offence — The offence under Section 138 can be compounded at all levels of litigation, including when the matter reaches the High Court after conviction by the Magistrate and dismissal of appeal by the Sessions Court, provided the parties reach an amicable settlement. India Law Library Docid # 2436944