(41) SHUKAL GUPTA Vs. EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION[DELHI HIGH COURT] 15-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 22 Rule 3 — Substitution of Legal Representatives (LRs) — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of Delay — Limitation — Application for substituting LRs must be filed within 90 days as per Article 120 of the Limitation Act, 1963 — Where LRs filed substitution application after a delay of over two years (871/819 days) based on alleged ignorance of India Law Library Docid # 2435973
(42) ANUPAL Vs. CHAIRMAN CUM MANGING DIRECTOR (CMD) AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Compassionate Appointment — Eligibility — Married Daughter — Policy requiring exclusion of married daughters for compassionate appointment is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India, following the precedent set by the Full Bench in Meenakshi Dubey vs. M.P. Poorva Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Com. Ltd. India Law Library Docid # 2435660
(43) R.R. DASS Vs. GENERAL MANAGER (H.R.D.) AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Service Law — Disciplinary action — Central Bank of India Officer Employees' (Discipline and Appeal) Regulations, 1976 (1976 Regulations) — Competency of Disciplinary Authority — Whether an Assistant General Manager (AGM), Scale V, is competent to impose major penalty of compulsory retirement on a Branch Manager, Scale II — Regulation 5(3) of 1976 Regulations and the Schedule thereto — Disciplinary India Law Library Docid # 2435657
(44) SUBHASH GURJAR Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 311(2) — Dismissal from Service — Necessity of Departmental Enquiry (DE) — Protection afforded to public servants against arbitrary dismissal, removal, or reduction in rank mandates holding a proper inquiry or giving a hearing — Exceptions under Proviso to Article 311(2) Clauses (a), (b), and (c) allow dispensing with DE only under specific conditions (conviction in criminal case, India Law Library Docid # 2435658
(45) SHANTANU BAJPAYEE Vs. DHRAMENDRA AGRAWAL AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 14-11-2025 Madhya Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 — Section 307(5) — Unauthorized Construction — Setting aside Trial Court order — Application under Section 307(5) for demolition of illegal construction — High Court found that the respondents had engaged in new construction without obtaining necessary building permission, contrary to their claim of mere repair work — Inspection report by Municipal Commissioner indicating the building was 7-8 years old (consistent with new construction timeline) and India Law Library Docid # 2435659
(46) ARPIT KUMAR AGRAWAL Vs. SARIKA AGRAWAL[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(i-a) (Cruelty) — Dissolution of Marriage — Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage — Long separation coupled with one spouse's admitted unwillingness to continue the marital relationship constitutes mental cruelty — Where the parties have lived separately for over eleven years (since May 2014) and the wife admits her unwillingness to resume the matrimonial bond and subsequently India Law Library Docid # 2435846
(47) KUMARIL HIRWANI Vs. VISHNU SOREN[CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 (Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency of funds) — Section 139 (Presumption in favour of holder) — Appeal against acquittal — Trial Court convicted accused for dishonour of cheque (Rs. 1,50,000) under Section 138 NI Act; Sessions Court acquitted him — High Court re-examined the basis of acquittal by Sessions Court — Requisite presumption under Section 139 arises India Law Library Docid # 2435847
(48) SRI. GANGADHAR AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959 (KCS Act, 1959) — Section 21(3) — Change of Delegate for Voting in Elections — Requirements — Section 21(3) requires a resolution for changing a nominated delegate to be passed by a two-thirds majority of members present and voting, and must include "substantial reasons" — Where the initial delegate (Respondent No.6) declined to represent the Society, this constitutes a India Law Library Docid # 2435923
(49) MR. GILBERT VAS AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 — Sections 128 & 135 — Mutation of Revenue Records — Decree of Civil Court — Compromise Final Decree for Partition — Obligation of Revenue Authorities — Section 128 mandates reporting acquisition of rights (including by partition/decree), while Section 135 requires revenue records to be amended in accordance with a civil court's declaration — A final compromise decree India Law Library Docid # 2435924
(50) SRI. H.R. GOPALAPPA Vs. SRI. D. VENKATACHALAPATHI AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Framing of Substantial Questions of Law — Divergent findings by Trial Court and First Appellate Court — Suit for Declaration and Permanent Injunction — Trial Court dismissed the suit — First Appellate Court reversed the finding and granted declaration of ownership but dismissed permanent injunction — Scope of Second Appeal involves analyzing legality India Law Library Docid # 2435925
(51) FRILL INFRA DEVELOPERS PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. COLLECTOR OF STAMPS AND ANOTHER[DELHI HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Stamp Act, 1899 — Section 50(3) — Refund of Stamp Duty — Limitation — Applicability of Section 50(3) of the Act, which prescribes a six-month limitation period for refund applications when an instrument has been executed, is not mandatory when the entitlement for refund arises under Section 49 and the transaction failed due to fraud — Section 50(3) is not couched in prohibitory terms and does not India Law Library Docid # 2435974
(52) DEEPIKA TALWAR AND ANOTHER Vs. SHALINI CHODHARY SHARMA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 104 read with Order XLIII Rule 1 — Appeal against dismissal of application under Order 39 Rule 4 (Modification of Interim Order) — Property Dispute — Interim Injunction regarding access to terrace — Appellants/Defendants seeking modification of Trial Court Order allowing Respondent/Plaintiff to install a door and retain keys for terrace access — Trial Court dismissed modification application but granted liberty to appellants' tenants to apply India Law Library Docid # 2435975
(53) 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
(54) 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
(55) 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
(56) 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
(57) 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
(58) 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
(59) 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
(60) 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