(161) BANGALORE METRO RAIL CORPORATION LTD., EMPLOYEES UNION (REGD.) AND OTHERS Vs. BANGALORE METRO RAIL CORPORATION LTD. AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 03-11-2025 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — Section 2(a)(i) and 2(o) — Appropriate Government — Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) is the "Appropriate Government" for BMRCL for industrial disputes is the Central Government as BMRCL is a "Railway company." India Law Library Docid # 2435939
(162) SRI B S KIRAN KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 03-11-2025 Constitutional Law — Right to Life (Article 21) — Environment and Public Health — Municipal Solid Waste Management (SWM) — The failure of municipal authorities to effectively implement SWM and address persistent "garbage blackspots" is a violation of the fundamental Right to a clean and healthy environment under Article 21 of the Constitution of India; opacity and inefficiency in SWM are an India Law Library Docid # 2435940
(163) RAMESH PAL AND OTHERS Vs. IDFC FIRST BANK LIMITED AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 03-11-2025 Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) — Section 17(1) — Application to Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) — Limitation Act, 1963 — Applicability of Section 5 (Condonation of Delay) and Sections 4 to 24 (Computation of Period) — The DRT is the only competent forum for the borrower to challenge measures taken by a secured creditor under Section 13(4) and seek restoration of property, as the jurisdiction of Civil Courts is barr India Law Library Docid # 2435703
(164) MR. ALPHONSA SALDANA Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 03-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 311 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 45 — Expert Opinion — Power to summon material witness — Application seeking expert opinion from Forensic Psychiatry Department (NIHMANS) regarding accused's mental state for defence of insanity — Trial court's discretion — Court may entertain application under Section 45 only if deemed necessary — Opinion of experts is India Law Library Docid # 2435877
(165) STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND ORS Vs. NARESH CHANDRA PATEL[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 01-11-2025 Teacher Grade III, Level-I recruitment — Candidate's claim for consideration based on graduation mark-sheet after initial application based on Senior Secondary qualification — Court held non-disclosure of graduation qualification at the time of application and subsequent belated claim to be invalid grounds for relief. India Law Library Docid # 2435161
(166) SURENDRA SHARMA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 01-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Inherent powers of High Court — Quashing adverse remarks — High Court can exercise inherent powers to expunge adverse remarks against an individual, including a police officer, to prevent abuse of process or secure ends of justice, but this power is exceptional and to be exercised in exceptional cases. India Law Library Docid # 2435173
(167) M/S DAULAT AND CO. AND OTHER Vs. THE UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 01-11-2025 Central Excise Act, 1944 — Sections 11A(1)(a), 11A(4) — Show cause notice — Limitation — Petitioners challenged show cause notice on grounds that it was beyond limitation and issued under the wrong Act — Petitioners claimed to be traders, not manufacturers, receiving goods from others and collecting GST — Authorities alleged petitioners misrepresented themselves as manufacturers and evaded GST — India Law Library Docid # 2435174
(168) KOUSTAV BAGCHI Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 199(2) (Corresponding to Section 222(2) Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023) — Prosecution for defamation of a public functionary in discharge of public functions — Complaint by Public Prosecutor against an Advocate and politician for posting excerpts from a book on social media and making India Law Library Docid # 2435147
(169) MUDI SINGH Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 376 and 493 — Rape and Co-habitation caused deceitfully, respectively — Appeal against conviction — Victim was major and in love relationship with accused — Cohabitation occurred over a period with expressed intention of marriage, but non-fulfillment of promise doesn't automatically make it rape India Law Library Docid # 2435149
(170) SATISH SONDHIYA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Conviction challenged on appeal — Prosecution case rested on the accused/appellant allegedly running over the deceased with an Innova Car after a prior dispute at a petrol pump — Non-conduction of Test Identification Parade — Identification of the accused driver and the offending vehicle (Innova Car) held highly doubtful due to lack of standard identification India Law Library Docid # 2435706
(171) ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. SMT. SHARDA DEVI AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 31-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(1) — Motor Accident Claims — False Implication of Vehicle — Delay in FIR — Evidentiary Value of Medical Record (MLC) — Where claimants rely on an MLC report (Ex. P-9), which states the injury was caused by a "head-on collision with another motorcycle," and this document is signed by the deceased's son (AW-1), the claimants cannot selectively discard this content; they are duty-bound to explain how the insured car was implicated despite the medical record India Law Library Docid # 2435709
(172) STATE BANK OF INDIA Vs. SRI. NANJUNDAPPA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Service Law — Disciplinary Proceedings — Natural Justice — Right to Defence Representative/Advocate — Banking Service — State Bank of Mysore Officers’ Service Regulations, 1979, Regulation 68(2)(VII) — Regulation 68(2)(VII) permits the charged officer to take assistance of another officer as a representative but prohibits engaging a Legal Practitioner — Sufficient opportunity was provided to the charged officer to India Law Library Docid # 2435886
(173) SRI. SUBHASH MEHTA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S BABA DEVELOPERS PVT. LTD.[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Waiver of right to arbitration — A party who voluntarily chooses to approach a Civil Court (by filing a suit) or Consumer Forum for adjudication of disputes governed by an arbitration clause cannot subsequently invoke Section 11(6) of the Act to seek the appointment of an arbitrator concerning the same issues. India Law Library Docid # 2435888
(174) THE COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE Vs. M/S. TANISKA LODGING AND BOARDING[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT (DHARWAD BENCH)] 31-10-2025 Karnataka Excise (General Conditions of Licences) Rules, 1967 — Rule 17A (Transfer in the event of death) and Rule 17B (Transfer of licence in other cases) — Interpretation of Rules — Distinction between Transfer and Transmission — Rule 17A covers transmission (involuntary conveyance by operation of law) of licence rights occasioned by the death of the licensee or constituent partner, transferred to India Law Library Docid # 2435890
(175) HIMACHAL PRADESH ROAD AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORP. LTD Vs. M/S C & C CONSTRUCTION LTD.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 & 37 — Scope of interference by Courts — High Court cannot re-appreciate evidence in an arbitration appeal and should not sit as a court of appeal unless the award is patently illegal or suffers from perversity or is against the fundamental policy of Indian law, justice, or morality. India Law Library Docid # 2434935
(176) LALIT KUMAR PANWAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 — Section 73-B — Revocation of allotment and cancellation of lease deed — Power of Municipality — Municipality has power to initiate action under Section 73-B even if patta (lease deed) is registered, if it was obtained by misrepresentation, fraud, or in contravention of law. India Law Library Docid # 2435160
(177) JAI SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT, JODHPUR AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 31-10-2025 Rajasthan High Court Staff Service Rules, 2002, Rule 4-A (as amended by Order dated 05.12.2002) — Recruitment by promotion for Assistant Stamp Reporter and Court Fee Examiners — Eligibility — Interpretation of "officials in the equivalent or above grade" — Held, eligibility is based on grade, not exclusively on cadre — India Law Library Docid # 2435172
(178) MANTRI DEVELOPER PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. MR. SNIL PATHIYAM VEETIL AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA Act) — Nature of RERA orders and Jurisdiction of Civil Courts — Whether an order passed by RERA or RERA Appellate Tribunal can be executed by a competent Civil Court under the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Held, the RERA Act is a self-contained code providing an in-built mechanism for enforcement and recovery, including recovery of amounts as India Law Library Docid # 2435930
(179) STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS Vs. SRI ANTONY PAULY MUKKANNIKKAL[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Writ Appeal — Setting aside of impugned order — Compensation for land voluntarily surrendered under Kudremukh National Park Resettlement Scheme — Writ petition filed impugning District Level Committee proceedings regarding re-examination of compensation for land surrendered to Forest Department — Impugned order of Single Judge directed re-determination of compensation under the Right to Fair Compensation India Law Library Docid # 2435931
(180) ZURBAGAN SHIPPING LLC Vs. C.S. FLOURISH AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Act, 2017 — Section 5(1)(a) and (b) — Arrest of Vessel in Rem — Requirements for Arrest — Arrest of a vessel requires satisfaction of specific criteria: either the liable person owned the vessel when the maritime claim arose and still owns it when the arrest is effected (Section 5(1)(a)), or the demise charterer at the time the claim arose is liable and is the demise India Law Library Docid # 2435932