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(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) 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

(286) 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

(287) 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

(288) 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

(289) 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

(290) 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

(291) 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

(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) 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

(294) 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

(295) 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

(296) 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

(297) RAJIA @ SABBO Vs. STATE GOVT. OF NCT DELHI[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 430, 528 — Suspension of sentence pending appeal — Appellant, a woman convicted under Sections 302, 201, 120B IPC, had undergone significant incarceration, was mother of minors, and had aged parents — Court considered period of incarceration, nature of appeal, appellant's conduct in jail, and care of her young child — Sentence suspended subject to
India Law Library Docid # 2434204

(298) M/S SURGE INDUSTRIES LTD AND OTHERS Vs. KAMAL GUPTA AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 37 Rule 3(6)(b) — Conditional leave to defend — Non-compliance by defendant — Court has no discretion to grant extension of time or waive pre-condition.
India Law Library Docid # 2434205

(299) SABU TRADE PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. RAJKUMAR SABU AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Trade Marks Act, 1999 — Section 28(1) and 29 — Infringement — Prior use — Registration of a trade mark is prima facie evidence of its validity, and the onus to prove invalidity lies on the challenger — While registration grants rights, these are subject to the rights of prior users under Section 34.
India Law Library Docid # 2434217

(300) STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED Vs. BRITISH MARINE PLC[DELHI HIGH COURT] 13-10-2025
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 — Setting aside of arbitral award — Challenge to appointment of arbitrators — Issue conflict doctrine — Arbitrator having previously decided a similar issue involving one of the parties does not automatically disqualify them unless it's shown they cannot approach the issue with an open mind or were partial in the earlier arbitration — Mere presence-based
India Law Library Docid # 2434218