(401) GHULAM MOHAMMAD SHEIKH AND OTHERS Vs. GULZAR AHMAD SHEIKH AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 17-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 41 Rule 1 and 2 (Applicability) — Limitation Act, 1963 — Condonation of Delay — Appeal filed against order of Trial Court — Appellant failed to file appeal within limitation period — Appellate Court dismissed the application for condonation of delay and consequently the appeal — High Court held that the explanation tendered for delay must not be fanciful, concocted, vague, India Law Library Docid # 2436252
(402) SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA Vs. UT OF J&K AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 17-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Bail — Successive Bail Applications — Changed Circumstances — Mere rejection of an earlier bail application does not bar the filing of a fresh application if circumstances have changed post-rejection — Court entertaining a successive application must consider the reasons for the earlier rejection and record fresh grounds that persuade it to take a India Law Library Docid # 2436266
(403) DIWAN SINGH DIYOLIYA AND ANOTHER Vs. MADAN SINGH AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 9 Rule 13 — Setting aside ex parte decree — Sufficient Cause — Limitation Act, 1963 — Section 5 — Condonation of Delay — Where the appellate court finds sufficient cause for the defendant’s non-appearance, attributing it to the death of their main counsel and a lack of knowledge of India Law Library Docid # 2436548
(404) METROPOLIS RESIDENT WELFARE ASSOCIATION Vs. REGISTRAR, FIRMS SOCIETIES AND CHITS AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Societies Registration Act, 1860 — Section 12-D — Functioning of Society — Membership Cap — Association Byelaws — Challenge to Registrar’s order directing removal of cap on maximum number of members and holding fresh elections — Where maximum membership was capped at 100 while 1600 persons had a stake and paid maintenance charges — Held: Cap on maximum number of members of a Society cannot India Law Library Docid # 2436549
(405) KULDEEP NANDRAJOG Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 17-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 439 — Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 420 (Cheating), 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) — Regular Bail — Single set of allegations leading to multiplicity of FIRs — Applicant, a Director of a builder company, implicated in an FIR concerning a dispute arising from an agreement for land allotment and residential project development ('Santour City') — Agreement included clauses for India Law Library Docid # 2436550
(406) 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
(407) ANNAPOTTU AMMAL (DIED) AND OTHERS Vs. TAMILMANI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT (MADURAI BENCH)] 14-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 16 — Legitimacy of Children of Void Marriage — Scope of Rights — Children born of a void marriage are conferred legitimacy under Section 16(1) — Such children are entitled to a share in the self-acquired and absolute property of their parents, and also in the property falling to the share of their parents upon partition of ancestral property — They are not entitled to claim partition during the India Law Library Docid # 2436755
(408) RAMRAO TUKARAM PATIL AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS[BOMBAY HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Writ Jurisdiction — Constitutional Discretion — Clean Hands Doctrine — A litigant approaching the High Court seeking extraordinary relief under writ jurisdiction (Article 226) must act with complete honesty, fairness, and transparency, and must make full disclosure of all material facts — The writ jurisdiction is discretionary and based on equity; if a litigant suppresses material facts, makes false India Law Library Docid # 2436892
(409) SANTRA DEVI Vs. SHAKUNTALA DEVI[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227 — Revisional jurisdiction — Exercise of power challenging dismissal of application for leading secondary evidence — High Court upheld the dismissal of the application for secondary evidence, finding that the new plea sought to be supported by the evidence was impermissible under law and the India Law Library Docid # 2436898
(410) MOOL RAJ AND OTHERS Vs. RAJ DULARI AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 43 — Transfer by unauthorized person who subsequently acquires interest in property transferred — Exception to protection under Section 43 — Where the transferee (defendant) admits in the written statement that the transferor's father (Swaraj) was the admitted owner of the property at the time of sale (1980), the defendant is deemed to have known that the vendors (Swaraj's India Law Library Docid # 2436899
(411) DALIP KAUR AND OTHERS Vs. SWINDERJIT SINGH(Since Deceased) Through LRs[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 16(c) — Specific Performance of Agreement to Sell — Readiness and Willingness — Proof — Plaintiff's readiness and willingness established by tendering payment for second installment, providing bank statements and cheque, and remaining present at Sub-Registrar's office on stipulated dates — Defendants' admission in cross-examination that their reluctance to execute the sale India Law Library Docid # 2436900
(412) LAKSHAY JAIN Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 279, 337, 304-A — Rash and negligent driving causing death (Motor accident) — Conviction affirmed by two lower courts — Criminal Revision Petition challenging the quantum of sentence — Appellate/Revisional Court powers — While merits of conviction were not pressed in revision, the Court considered the plea for modifying the sentence to grant benefit of probation. India Law Library Docid # 2437052
(413) SAKATTAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Criminal Procedure — Indian Legal System — Release of Seized Vehicle (Superdari) — General principles — The object of the law is not to retain seized property in court or police custody longer than absolutely necessary; rather, the property should be restored to the rightful owner once the necessity for retention ceases — Vehicles (case property) must be released promptly to the registered owner India Law Library Docid # 2437053
(414) RELIANCE GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD Vs. SUNITA AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Compensation — Deduction of Ex-Gratia Financial Assistance — Haryana Compassionate Assistance to Dependents of Deceased Government Employees Rules, 2006 (2006 Rules) — The entire amount of ex-gratia financial assistance received or receivable by dependents under the 2006 Rules, equivalent to loss of pay and allowances, must be deducted from the India Law Library Docid # 2437054
(415) SHARDA DEVI AND OTHERS Vs. ASMEET SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 — Motor Accident Claims — Compensation — Enhancement of Compensation — Assessment of Deceased's Income — Reliability of Salary Slip — Where contemporaneous salary slip (Ex. Pl/2) indicating Rs. 5,494/- monthly income was produced, and the insurance company’s claim of resignation was weakened by the employer’s admission of lacking a resignation letter (despite contesting the employment continuation), the Tribunal erred India Law Library Docid # 2437055
(416) 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
(417) 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
(418) BIR MATI AND ANOTHER Vs. MEHAR SINGH (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LR[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 107 and Order 41 Rule 27 — Production of Additional Evidence in Appeal — Guiding Principles — The Appellate Court should generally confine its adjudication to the record of the Trial Court; however, it has discretion to admit additional evidence if it is indispensable for a just and complete adjudication of the controversy, especially under Order 41 Rule India Law Library Docid # 2436901
(419) PUNJAB STATE POWER CORPORATION LTD AND OTHERS Vs. BALDEV SINGH[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 14-11-2025 Service Law — Dismissal based on Criminal Conviction — Subsequent Acquittal — Reinstatement — Treatment of period of absence — Employee dismissed following conviction under IPC Sections 279/427/304-A; subsequently acquitted in appeal (based on compromise) — Reinstated, but period of absence (from dismissal to acquittal) treated as non-duty, and period (acquittal to joining) treated as leave due — India Law Library Docid # 2436902
(420) 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