(321) KAKARALA RAJU Vs. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 20-11-2025 Criminal Law — Dacoity (Section 391 Indian Penal Code, 1860) — Essential ingredients — Dacoity requires five or more persons conjointly committing or attempting to commit robbery — Absence of the term "conjoint commission of offence" in the charge sheet is not fatal if the evidence on record, including witness testimony and material objects, clearly substantiates that the accused persons acted India Law Library Docid # 2436185
(322) Y P REDDY Vs. CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FORCE[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 20-11-2025 Service Law — Disciplinary Proceedings — Judicial Review — Scope — Misconduct of sleeping while on duty in a hypersensitive unit (SDSC SHAR) — Punishment of compulsory retirement — High Court's power of judicial review is limited to reviewing the manner in which the decision was made, checking for compliance with natural justice and statutory rules, and ensuring findings are based on India Law Library Docid # 2436186
(323) THE APSRTC, REP.BY ITS VICE CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR MUSHEERABAD, HYDERABAD Vs. CHINTALA ARUNA KUMARI[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 20-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 168 (Award of just compensation) — Fatal Accident Claim — Quantum of Compensation — Negligence — Evidence established accident occurred due to rash and negligent driving of the APSRTC bus driver based on eye witness testimony (PW-2) and Police investigation (FIR/Charge Sheet, Ex.A1, A9) — Finding on negligence by the Tribunal upheld. India Law Library Docid # 2436187
(324) MUNGAMURI PEDA THIRUPATHAIAH AND OTHERS Vs. SMT PERLA LEELAVATHI[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 20-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 26 Rule 9 — Commissions to make local investigations — Appointment of Advocate Commissioner — Purpose of appointment — A Court Commissioner should not be appointed for the purpose of collecting evidence on behalf of either party, especially in a suit for permanent injunction, at the initial stage before evidence is completed — Appointment of India Law Library Docid # 2436188
(325) SARWA ZAHOOR AND ANOTHER Vs. DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT AND ANOTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 20-11-2025 Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) — Section 26(4) — Appeal to Appellate Tribunal — Power of Remand — The Appellate Tribunal, while exercising powers under Section 26(4) to "pass such orders thereon as it thinks fit, confirming, modifying or setting aside the order appealed against," is vested with the power to remand the matter back to the Adjudicating Authority — The expression "pass such orders thereon as it thinks fit" is of the widest amplitude and includes the power of India Law Library Docid # 2436250
(326) BUILDING OPERATION CONTROLLING AUTHORITY, MUNICIPAL AREA, JAMMU Vs. MRS. RATNO DEVI AND OTHER[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 20-11-2025 Jammu & Kashmir Municipal Act, 2008 (1951 A.D.) — Sections 225, 229, 229(3) — Demolition Notice — Procedure — Strict Compliance — Where the Municipality issues notices to stop construction (Sec. 225) and alter/demolish (Sec. 229), subsequent demolition notice (Sec. 229(3)) requires strict adherence to the prescribed procedure; failure to dispute or deny the claim of the building owner that a building India Law Library Docid # 2436264
(327) UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS Vs. ARUN KALMODIYA[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 20-11-2025 Service Law — Recruitment — Sub Inspector in Delhi Police/Central Armed Police Forces — Physical Standard Test (PST) — Minimum Height Requirement — Requirement of 170 cm for male candidates (General Category) as per advertisement (Para 12.10.1) — Candidate measured at 169.6 cm — Applicability of "rounding off" provision in Uniform Guidelines for Medical Examination Test (Clause 2(d)) — Held, the "rounding off" provision (0.5 cm or more rounded to next higher cm) prescribed India Law Library Docid # 2436398
(328) VISHAL KHANDURI AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 20-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 125 — Interim Maintenance — Quantum of Maintenance — Nature and Purpose — Section 125 is a measure of social justice designed to prevent destitution and must be interpreted liberally — Sufficiency of means or proof of actual income should not be approached with hyper-technical rigidity — Maintenance is compensatory, meant to enable the wife to live with dignity consistent India Law Library Docid # 2436557
(329) SANJAY KASHYAP Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 20-11-2025 Criminal Law — Conviction and Sentencing — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (Criminal intimidation), and 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) — Setting aside of conviction — Appellant convicted initially based on evidence primarily related to a scuffle and subsequent alleged consumption of poison by the victim — High Court found significant contradictions and improvisations in the statements India Law Library Docid # 2436558
(330) M/S. SRI SARASWATHI BUS SERVICE AND OTHERS Vs. M. CIBIRAJ AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Hindu Law — Joint Family Property — Presumption of Jointness — Properties in the name of male members of a joint family enjoying sufficient ancestral nucleus are presumed to be joint family properties, shifting the burden to the party claiming them as self-acquired — No such presumption exists for properties standing in the name of female members; the party claiming them as joint family property must specifically plead and prove it — Where the evidence shows properties were acquired in the wife' India Law Library Docid # 2436742
(331) JEYARAJ AND OTHERS Vs. A. STALIN AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 19-11-2025 Hindu Law — Marriage — Validity of Second Marriage — Customary Divorce — When a second marriage is performed in 1961 during the subsistence of the first marriage, it is inherently void unless a valid customary divorce is established between the first husband and wife prior to the second marriage — The burden of proving customary divorce lay upon the defendants (seeking to uphold the second marriage) — Where the India Law Library Docid # 2436743
(332) COMMISSIONER OF LAND ADMINISTRATION, EZHILAGAM AND OTHERS Vs. R. MUNIYANDI @ CHANDRAN[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Tamil Nadu Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (Act XXVI of 1948) — Section 7(c) — Powers of Control of Board of Revenue (now Commissioner of Land Administration) — Suo-motu revisionary power — Scope — Section 7(c) empowers the Commissioner of Land Administration to cancel or revise orders of a Settlement Officer (including Assistant Settlement Officer) except those orders where an appeal lies to the Tribunal — Where the Assistant Settlement Officer grants patta under India Law Library Docid # 2436744
(333) R. KARTHIKEYAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Service Law — Seniority and Promotion — Sub Inspector of Police (SIP) — Challenge to promotion of batchmates and draft seniority list — SIP recruitment under three categories: Law & Order (Category I), Armed Reserve (Category II), and Tamil Nadu Special Police (Category III) based on marks, preference, and communal rotation — Petitioners selected in Categories II and III, subsequently converted to Category I on India Law Library Docid # 2436745
(334) SUNIL Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 19-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 226 — Writ Petition — Challenge to Caste Validity Certificate Invalidation — Scheduled Tribe Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee — Invalidation of 'Halba Scheduled Tribe' claim based on unrelated 'Koshti' entries and alleged incorrect language ('Modi') of pre-Constitution documents — Judicial scrutiny of Scrutiny Committee's decision — High Court found Committee failed to India Law Library Docid # 2436997
(335) KRISH Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT (NAGPUR BENCH)] 19-11-2025 Scheduled Tribes Certificate Verification — 'Halbi' Scheduled Tribe Claim — Rejection of Caste Claim — Caste Scrutiny Committee — Perversity and Arbitrariness — The Caste Scrutiny Committee (Committee) invalidated petitioner's caste claim despite a previous High Court judgment validating the caste claim of his father as 'Halbi' Scheduled Tribe on identical facts — The Committee's rejection, which relied on India Law Library Docid # 2436998
(336) UMAKANT RATH AND OTHERS Vs. DEENBANDHU RATH AND OTHERS[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 (d) — Rejection of Plaint — Bar by law (Order IX Rule 9) — A plaint cannot be rejected under Order 7 Rule 11 (d) unless the statutory bar (such as under Order IX Rule 9) is evident on the face of the plaint itself — Where the question of bar depends upon disputed facts, such as the identity of the cause of action, subject-matter, and parties between the present suit and a India Law Library Docid # 2435850
(337) PARMINDER SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. NARENDRA KAUR ALIAS JASWINDER KAUR AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Insufficient Court Fee — Suit for Declaration and Joint Possession as Co-owner/Co-sharer — Defendants sought rejection of plaint arguing plaintiffs were not in possession and thus required to affix ad valorem court fee instead of fixed court fee on the relief of joint possession — Held, fixed court fee is payable on a suit filed by a India Law Library Docid # 2437094
(338) HARPREET SINGH Vs. SUMAN LATA SUD AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Civil Revision Petition — Scope of interference — High Court's power of superintendence under Article 227 is to be exercised with judicial discipline, keeping interference to the minimum, and not acting as a court of appeal, especially when the orders under challenge are in accordance with law — Impugned order dismissing application for amendment of India Law Library Docid # 2437095
(339) SIMRANPREET KAUR MINOR THROUGH HER MOTHER AND ANOTHER Vs. RAJENDER SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Second Appeal (Section 100) and Punjab Courts Act, 1918 — Section 41 (Old Section 100 CPC scope) — Scope of Interference — Jurisdiction in second appeal is limited to errors in law or procedure; it does not extend to interfering with findings of fact, even if they appear erroneous, including findings based on documentary evidence — Citing Supreme Court India Law Library Docid # 2437096
(340) YAKUB AND OTHERS Vs. SULEMAN AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 19-11-2025 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 58, 60, 62 — Limitation Act, 1963 — Article 61(a) — Mortgage — Usufructuary Mortgage — Right of Redemption — Acquisition of Ownership by Mortgagee by Prescription — Principle of "Once a mortgage, always a mortgage" applies; a mortgage is always redeemable — In usufructuary mortgage, the mortgagee does not become owner merely by efflux of India Law Library Docid # 2437097