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(1) INHABITANTS OF BLOCK HARWAN Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 17-10-2025
Panchayati Raj Act, 1989 and Control of Building Operations Act, 1988 — Jurisdiction — Interpretation of Government Orders — Areas under jurisdiction of LCMA excluded from Panchayati Raj Act for building permissions — Held, Government Order dated 01.04.2022 clearly states that Government Order No. 11-RD&PR of 2022 dated 22.01.2022 (under Panchayati Raj Act) is not applicable in areas falling under the
India Law Library Docid # 2434067

(2) UNION OF INDIA Vs. KULDEEP KOUR AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 16-10-2025
J&K Requisition & Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1968 (RAIP Act) — Appeal against Arbitrator's award — Challenge to the compensation rate determined for requisitioned land — Held that the Arbitrator did not err in increasing the compensation rate from Rs. 2,60,000 to Rs. 7,00,000 per kanal, considering the commercial nature of the property and its surroundings.
India Law Library Docid # 2434078

(3) UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. GURCHARAN SINGH[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 16-10-2025
Consumer Protection Act, 1986 — Insurance claim — Breach of policy condition — Non-standard basis — Insurance company cannot repudiate a claim solely on the ground of breach of a condition if the breach has not directly or indirectly contributed to the accident. In such cases, the claim is to be settled on a "non-standard basis" by deducting a proportionate sum or up to 75% of the admissible claim, referencing
India Law Library Docid # 2434079

(4) DEV RAJ Vs. STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 16-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 307, 326, 109, 34 — Murder, Attempted Murder, Grievous Hurt, Abetment, Common Intention — Conviction for murder and attempt to murder based on eyewitness testimony and recovery of service weapon — Evidence established presence of appellants at scene, use of appellant Dev Raj's service rifle, and instigation by appellant Balwan Singh — Plea of self-defence
India Law Library Docid # 2434080

(5) STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Vs. RAJESH KUMAR ALIAS GULLABU[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 15-10-2025
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Sections 15 and 22 — Acquittal — Appeal against acquittal — Scope of interference is limited — Appellate court can interfere only if the trial court's view is impossible or perverse — If two reasonable conclusions are possible, the appellate court should not disturb the acquittal.
India Law Library Docid # 2434039

(6) FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. SUSHILA GUPTA AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 15-10-2025
Land Acquisition Act, Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 — Return or acquisition of land — Court directed Food Corporation of India to either return illegally occupied land or acquire it under the 2013 Act, with rental compensation for the period of occupation.
India Law Library Docid # 2434077

(7) 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

(8) 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

(9) 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

(10) 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

(11) 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

(12) AMAR NATH Vs. SMT. NAINO DEVI AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 53A — Doctrine of part performance — Essential conditions for defence of part performance under Section 53A include contracted transfer for consideration by written instrument, transferee taking possession in part performance, transferee doing act in furtherance of contract, and transferee performing or willing to perform his part — These conditions must be cumulatively satisfied — If conditions are not met, transferee cannot resist eviction. (Para 14)
India Law Library Docid # 2433888

(13) AJEET SINGH Vs. INDERJEET AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Sections 397, 401, 401(3), 401(5) — Revisional Jurisdiction — Power to convert acquittal to conviction barred — High Court cannot convert finding of acquittal into conviction in revisional jurisdiction, as per Section 401(3) of CrPC — May treat revision petition as appeal if satisfied that it was filed under erroneous belief and in interest of justice — Requires judicial order
India Law Library Docid # 2433898

(14) SANJAY Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 279, 337, 304-A, 427 — Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Sections 181, 192 — Criminal Revision — Conviction and Sentence under — Challenge to — Death of victim — Whether proximate result of accident or due to intervening medical lapses — Victim shifted between hospitals, left against medical advice — Held, shifting itself does not amount to negligence, Petitioner failed to
India Law Library Docid # 2433899

(15) AJAY MARG NIRMAN SANGHARSH SAMITI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 13-10-2025
Master Plan — Adherence to — Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) and Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB) are entrusted with urban planning and cannot act arbitrarily or be influenced by private developers, especially when it undermines public confidence and planned urban development. The master plan, once circulated after public objections, must be strictly followed.
India Law Library Docid # 2433964

(16) STATE OF H.P. Vs. VINOD KUMAR @ GHUNGARU[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Punjab Excise Act, 1914 (as applicable to H.P.) — Section 61(1)(a) — Possession/sale of country liquor without permit — Search without warrant — Non-compliance with Section 165 CrPC — Investigating officer failed to reduce secret information into writing and send it to the nearest Magistrate before conducting a search without a warrant — This procedural lapse vitiates the search and subsequent
India Law Library Docid # 2434034

(17) MAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND ANOTHER[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Service Law — Promotion — Retrospective Promotion — Denial of Actual Monetary Benefits — Notional Promotion — Employee exonerated in disciplinary proceedings and acquitted in criminal proceedings was granted retrospective promotion but with notional benefits, leading to denial of actual monetary benefits for the intervening period — Held, denial of actual monetary benefits without recording
India Law Library Docid # 2434035

(18) BHAJI DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. KRISHAN LAL AND OTHERS[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 (formerly BNSS Section 528) — Inherent powers of High Court — When exercisable — High Court can intervene under Section 482 when there is a grave miscarriage of justice, abuse of process of court, or required statutory procedure not complied with, even if revision is barred under Section 397(3) — Power to be exercised sparingly and cautiously, not as
India Law Library Docid # 2434036

(19) DALEEP KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT (JAMMU BENCH)] 13-10-2025
Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, 2009 — Practice and Procedure — Writ Petition — Maintainability — Challenge to lease deed — Disputed questions of fact involved — Cannot be decided in writ jurisdiction — Petitioners relegated to Civil Court.
India Law Library Docid # 2434075

(20) ANIRUDH DAWAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE NCT OF DELHI AND ANR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 10-10-2025
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita — Section 528 — Quashing of FIR — Settlement between parties — Marriage dispute — FIR registered under Sections 498A/406/377/34 IPC — Parties amicably resolved their disputes, entered into a settlement agreement, and obtained a divorce — Respondent No. 2 (complainant) confirmed settlement and had no objection to quashing the FIR — State also had no objection — Held, in view of settlement and to secure ends of justice, FIR and
India Law Library Docid # 2433775