(121) SMT. POONAM SINHA Vs. BASHANT SINHA[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i) (Adultery) and Section 13(1)(i-a) (Cruelty) — Divorce — Ground of Adultery and Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage — Husband sought divorce alleging wife was living in an adulterous relationship with another person since 2015 — Wife acknowledged leaving the matrimonial home and living with another person as his wife; police closure report confirms this — Single act of sexual intercourse outside marriage is sufficient to invoke the provision for dissolv India Law Library Docid # 2435845
(122) SHYAMA VERMA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Service Law — Regularization and Seniority — Appointment on Daily Wage Basis — Petitioner appointed as daily wager earlier than Respondent Nos. 4 and 5; juniors (Respondents 4 and 5) were regularized earlier — Petitioner's regularization granted with a condition (Condition No. 8) denying seniority and arrears of monetary benefits — High Court in earlier litigation (WP No. 4803/2011) struck down Condition No. 8 as India Law Library Docid # 2435661
(123) TUSHAR @ NANDI @ ANAND Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Madhya Pradesh Rajya Suraksha Adhiniyam, 1990 — Sections 5(a), 5(b), 8(1), 9 — Externment Order — Validity — Requirements for passing externment order — Necessary conditions under Section 5(b) require reasonable grounds to believe the person is engaged in or about to engage in specific offences (involving force or violence or under Chapters XII, XVI or XVII, or Sections 506 or 509 IPC) AND that witnesses are India Law Library Docid # 2435662
(124) SHRI. NAGARAJAPPA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984 — Section 2(12)(e) — Definition of 'Public Servant' — Status of Chairman of a Government Company — The Chairman or Vice-Chairman of a Government Company (under Section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956) is deemed a 'public servant' under the Lokayukta Act — Petitioner, as Chairman of MySugar Company (a State Government Company), was a public servant during his tenure, and India Law Library Docid # 2435926
(125) CHAMUNDEWHWARI NAGARA SARVODAYA AND OTHERS Vs. SRI. DINESH KUMAR AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 — Sections 11 and 12 — Willful Disobedience — Non-Compliance with Court Order — Order obtained by misleading the Court — A Contempt Petition (CCC No. 655/2023) alleged willful disobedience of an order dated 19.04.2023 passed in a Review Petition (RP No. 135/2023) — The High Court found that the order in the Review Petition was obtained by misleading the Court regarding the India Law Library Docid # 2435927
(126) SMT MEENAKSHI OBERG Vs. SH. KARUN DUBE AND OTHERS[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Evidence Act, 1872 — Sections 61, 64, 65(c), 65-B — Electronic Evidence — Admissibility of secondary evidence — Compliance with Best Evidence Rule — Where the Appellant/Plaintiff No.1 admits losing the original Loan Agreement (LA) and only produces a scanned copy, she fails to meet the requirement of proving a document through primary evidence (Sections 61 and 64) — Inability to produce the India Law Library Docid # 2435976
(127) HIMMAT SINGH AND ANOTHER Vs. ARUP SINHA ROY[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 and Order 41 — Commercial Courts Act, 2015 — Section 13 — Appeal against judgment and decree of Commercial Court — Brokerage/Commission for introducing a builder — Existence of Contract/Enforceable Understanding — Where the broker (Respondent/Plaintiff) introduced a builder (M/s Design Consortia) to the property owners India Law Library Docid # 2435977
(128) STATE Vs. DAYA SHANKAR[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378(1)(b) — Appeal against Acquittal — Principle of Double Presumption of Innocence — The presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is reinforced and strengthened upon acquittal by the Trial Court — An appellate court should be slow in reversing an India Law Library Docid # 2435978
(129) MATTEM PENCHALAIAH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF A.P. AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ of Mandamus — Land Acquisition — Compensation vs. Ex gratia Payment — Petitioners sought payment of compensation instead of ex gratia for lands resumed for a new broad gauge line, relying on previous High Court and Supreme Court judgments holding assignees entitled to compensation as pattadars/landowners — Action of revenue authority in India Law Library Docid # 2436217
(130) PUJALI DURGA DEVI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF AP[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 13-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 372/374(2)/378(4) — Appeal against conviction — Penal Code (IPC), 1860 — Section 302 — Murder — Dying Declaration — Reliability — Conviction based primarily on two dying declarations (Exs.P1 and P9) — Ex.P1 deemed unreliable as Prosecution Witness (P.W.1) admitted police obtained deceased's thumb impression on a blank paper before India Law Library Docid # 2436218
(131) ALI MOHAMMAD MIR AND OTHERS Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Clarification of Judgment — Scope and Purpose — Application seeking clarification of a previous judgment (dated 25.04.2025 in WP(C) No. 3395/2023) to address impediments raised by revenue authorities (Tehsildar) during implementation — Clarification granted to remove obstruction raised by Tehsildar regarding the status of ancestors of petitioners as "Assamis" and their entitlement to proprietary rights based on India Law Library Docid # 2436257
(132) ZAIN ELECTRICALS AND OTHERS Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Civil Procedure — Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) — Mootness — Allotment of Contract — Appeal challenging composite e-NITs dismissed as infructuous because contracts were already allotted to successful bidders and appellants failed to challenge the allotment — However, appeal heard on merits due to appellants' insistence on adjudication of underlying legal issues. India Law Library Docid # 2436296
(133) ABDUL AZIZ HAFIZ AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 13-11-2025 Letters Patent Appeal — Against dismissal of writ petition challenging Financial Commissioner’s order — Scope of interference — High Court affirming the Writ Court's dismissal, holding that the Financial Commissioner rightly exercised supervisory powers to set aside illegal and void ab initio mutations that divested a lawful heir of her India Law Library Docid # 2436297
(134) NANKI BAI SEN Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against Acquittal — Standard of Review — An appellate court should be cautious and slow in interfering with a trial court’s judgment of acquittal, recognizing the trial court’s advantage in observing witness demeanor and the strengthening of the presumption of innocence in favor of the accused upon acquittal (double presumption) — Interference is justified only India Law Library Docid # 2435843
(135) SMT. MAGLINCE JOHN Vs. SHRI THOMAS JOHN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 19(1) — Appeal against Judgment and Decree of Family Court — Divorce Act, 1869 — Sections 10(ix) (Desertion) and 10(x) (Cruelty) — Grounds for Dissolution of Marriage — Appeal filed by wife challenging the decree of divorce granted to the husband on grounds of desertion and cruelty — Findings of the Family Court upheld based on the evidence that the parties were living separately for a India Law Library Docid # 2435844
(136) BHUPINDER KAUR ALIAS BHUPINDER KAUR BOPARAI Vs. DIAMON SANDHU ALIAS SUKHDEEP SINGH SANDHU AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11(b) — Rejection of plaint — Court fees — Where a non-executant of a sale deed sues for a declaration that the deed is invalid and not binding on them, and they are in possession, only a fixed court fee is payable, not ad valorem. India Law Library Docid # 2435216
(137) JARNAIL SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 450, 376, 302, 201 — House-trespass to commit offence punishable with imprisonment for life, Rape, Murder, Causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information — Conviction based on circumstantial evidence — The court must be satisfied that the evidence clearly establishes each link in the chain, and the entire chain rules out any reasonable India Law Library Docid # 2435221
(138) KULBIR @ ANKU Vs. STATE OF HARYANA[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302 and 324 — Murder and causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means — Appeal against conviction — Court assessed evidence of injured witnesses, medical reports, post-mortem examination, and recovery of weapon — Held, evidence proved guilt beyond reasonable doubt. India Law Library Docid # 2435222
(139) JAYANT KUMAR MAHATO @ JAYAN KUMAR MAHATO AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND AND OTHER[JHARKHAND HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 B.N.S.S., 2023 — Section 528 (formerly Section 482 Cr.P.C.) — Quashing of criminal proceedings — Offences under Section 498A/34 IPC and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act — Matrimonial/family dispute — Compromise between parties — High Court's inherent power to quash proceedings when dispute between offender and victim is settled— Case involves a private marital dispute where the India Law Library Docid # 2435539
(140) RAM AVTAR Vs. STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI)[DELHI HIGH COURT] 12-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302/34 — Murder — Circumstantial Evidence — Conviction based on ‘last seen’ circumstance and extra-judicial confession by co-accused — Last Seen Theory — Evidence of multiple prosecution witnesses (sons of the deceased and neighbour) confirming that the deceased was last seen consuming India Law Library Docid # 2435979