(281) HARJINDER SINGH (NOW DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LEGAL HEIR Vs. KULWANT SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Specific Performance of Sale Agreement — Plaintiff sought specific performance of a Sale Agreement and, in the alternative, recovery of earnest money and damages. The Courts below partly decreed the suit for specific performance, directing the appellant to execute a Sale Deed for a portion of the land after receiving the balance sale consideration. India Law Library Docid # 2435189
(282) PAWAN KUMAR GUPTA Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Punjab Civil Services Rules, Volume-I, Part-I, Rule 5.32A(C) — Compulsory Retirement — Grounds for — Provision enables government to compulsorily retire public servant on attaining 50 years — Object is to provide clean administration, efficiency, and weed out dead wood or those with doubtful integrity — Entire service record, not just ACRs, to be reviewed. India Law Library Docid # 2435190
(283) SUNIL KUMAR DAHIYA Vs. SURESH KOCHHAR[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of delay — Appeal dismissed for being time-barred — Order of dismissal of appeal after dismissal of delay condonation application is a decree — Remedy lies in Regular Second Appeal under Section 100 CPC, not a revision under Article 227 of the Constitution. India Law Library Docid # 2435185
(284) PREM SINGH Vs. NARINDER SINGH (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS.[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order VI Rule 17 — Amendment of Pleadings — Eviction Petition — Second application for amendment filed after conclusion of evidence — Sought to incorporate details of other properties owned by landlord — Amendments not permissible to fill up lacuna or introduce new facts at a belated stage, especially after evidence has concluded — Such amendments would frustrate the concept India Law Library Docid # 2435186
(285) 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
(286) 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
(287) 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
(288) 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
(289) 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
(290) 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
(291) 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
(292) 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
(293) BALAJI Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (AURANGABAD BENCH)] 13-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 376(2)(i) and 376(3) — Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 — Sections 4, 6, and 42 — Rape of minor — Conviction under deleted section — Error in charge framing — Charge under Section 376(2)(i) of IPC was framed despite its deletion prior to the offense and charge framing. However, the evidence on record substantiated an offense under Section India Law Library Docid # 2434382
(294) SHRI SAGAR @ MANISH SHAILESH BELAMKAR Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (CIRCUIT BENCH AT KOLHAPUR)] 13-10-2025 Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act, 1981 — Section 3 — Detention Order — Challenge to — Grounds for detention — Awareness of custody, real possibility of release on bail, and likelihood of engaging in prejudicial activities upon release are essential conditions. India Law Library Docid # 2434384
(295) MILIND RAJKUMAR WAGHOLIKAR (SHAH) Vs. SHANKAR RAMCHANDRA KIRVE AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 — Section 13(1)(i) — Landlord's bona fide requirement for constructing new building — Landlord pleaded requirement for constructing an ownership apartment scheme on an open plot, obtained sanctioned plans and commencement certificate, and had sufficient funds — Tenants contended it was not an open plot and there were no specific pleadings — Court held India Law Library Docid # 2434515
(296) SHAFIQ ALI HAIDER Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 201 — Murder and destruction of evidence — Bail application — Applicant sought bail in a case involving brutal murder and dismemberment of the body with the intention of destroying evidence. The prosecution relied on circumstantial evidence, including the applicant being the last person seen with the deceased, CCTV footage showing the applicant with a gunny bag, and the recovery of India Law Library Docid # 2434519
(297) FIVEBRO WATER SERVICES PVT LTD AND ANOTHER Vs. BIJAY MURMURIA AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Constitution of India, Article 226 and 227 — Writ Jurisdiction — Alternative Remedy — High Court's power under Article 226 is wide but discretionary and generally refrains from entertaining petitions if an efficacious alternative remedy exists, except in exceptional circumstances like violation of natural justice, infringement of fundamental rights, lack of jurisdiction, or challenge to vires of a India Law Library Docid # 2434192
(298) TITHI CHANDRAJIT SHAH Vs. RAJENDRABHAI ALIAS SAMIRBHAI NATVARLAL SHAH AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34(3) and 31(5) — Setting aside of arbitral award — Limitation — Period of limitation for filing an application to set aside an arbitral award commences from the date a signed copy of the award is delivered to the party making the application — Delivery of a signed copy is a substantive requirement, not a mere formality — General Power of Attorney India Law Library Docid # 2434193
(299) DEVANGI Vs. BHAVIK ROHITBHAI PANDYA AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 7(1)(a) and (c) — Jurisdiction of Family Court — A suit for recovery of 'stridhan' (a wife's property) falls within the jurisdiction of the Family Court as it relates to the property of parties to a marriage. India Law Library Docid # 2434194
(300) SUTHAR NYALCHAND MOHANJI AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT AND OTHERS[GUJARAT HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025 Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1960 — Section 79(A) — Gujarat Land Revenue Rules — Breach of Condition — Sale of Land Without Prior Permission — Land vested in State Government — Previous proceedings confirmed vesting by Deputy Collector and Collector — Gujarat Revenue Tribunal set aside orders and directed conversion to old tenure on payment of premium — Held, conversion to old tenure India Law Library Docid # 2434195