(61) STATE OF A.P.DIST.COLLECTOR EG DIST AND OTHERS Vs. B NARASIMHA MURTHY[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 100 — Second Appeal — Interference with Land Acquisition Proceedings — Maintainability of Suit — Substantial Question of Law — Civil Court Jurisdiction — When evidence indicates that the land in dispute was not acquired by the Government, the apprehension that the Civil Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain a suit against land acquisition India Law Library Docid # 2436122
(62) ABDUL RASHID KHAN Vs. STATE OF J.K. AND OTHERS[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT SRINAGAR] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 10 — Stay of Suit — Res Sub Judice — Parallel Proceedings — Identity of Subject Matter — Revenue Authority vs. Civil Court — Where a civil suit concerning a specific property and cause of action is pending before a competent Civil Court, simultaneous proceedings on the identical issue before a subordinate revenue authority are barred by the doctrine of res sub judice — Revenue India Law Library Docid # 2436237
(63) ARVIND VERMA AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF J&K[JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND LADAKH HIGH COURT AT JAMMU] 28-11-2025 Criminal Law — Sections 302, 201, 120-B RPC — Murder based on circumstantial evidence — Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment upheld — The foundational rule (Panchsheel of Proof) for cases resting exclusively on circumstantial evidence requires that circumstances must be fully established, consistent only with the hypothesis of guilt, of a conclusive nature, exclude every India Law Library Docid # 2436259
(64) SARTHAK LANDCON PVT. LTD. THROUGH AUTHORISED SIGNATORY BALRAM MATHUR Vs. AKILA BI THROUGH POWER OF ATTORNEY MOHABBAT AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 43 Rule 1, Section 151, Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 — Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — Section 5, Section 54 — Temporary Injunction — Grant of temporary injunction in a suit for declaration of title and to declare a registered sale deed void, based solely on an unregistered agreement to sell executed 31 years prior to the suit — Ingredients for valid sale of India Law Library Docid # 2436293
(65) LALITA Vs. RAMI BAI AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 28-11-2025 M. P. Municipalities Act, 1961 — Sections 20, 22, 34, 35 — Election Petition — Rejection of Petition (Order 7 Rule 11 CPC) — Maintainability of Election Challenge based on dual enrolment in voter lists — Qualification for contesting election — Under Section 34(1) of the Act, being enrolled in the Municipal electoral roll as a voter is the qualification for Presidential election — There is no specific India Law Library Docid # 2436294
(66) SANAT KUMAR AND OTHERS Vs. MURTI SHRIRAM MANDIR NELKHEDA TH. SANRAKS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (INDORE BENCH)] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Section 96 — Setting aside decree obtained by fraud — Fundamental principle: A judgment or decree obtained by fraud, suppression, or misrepresentation on the Court is a nullity (non est ab initio) and void, and can be challenged in any court, at any time, in appeal, revision, writ, or collateral proceedings — Fraud unravels everything — Decree obtained by original defendant India Law Library Docid # 2436295
(67) L/NK/DRIVER PURSHOTAM DUTT Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Service Law — Disciplinary Proceedings — Proof of Misconduct — Dismissal from Service — Allegation of driving government vehicle under influence of liquor causing accident — Absence of medical evidence (blood/urine test, breathalyzer, or medical note) to prove intoxication renders the finding of a grave charge wholly unsustainable — Mere oral assertions or suspicion cannot substitute direct medical or scientific evidence required to sustain the gravest civil consequence of dismissal from India Law Library Docid # 2436515
(68) NARESH CHANDRA JOSHI Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Service Law — Regularization — Uttarakhand Daily Wager, Work Charged, Contract, Consolidated Salary, Part Time and Ad-hoc Appointees Regularization of Services Rules, 2013 — Eligibility — Petitioner, appointed as Physical Training Instructor (PTI) in 2006 on contract basis under a Trust, continued service after the Trust was provincialized in 2010 on "as is where is" basis, accumulating over 19 India Law Library Docid # 2436516
(69) IFFCO TOKIO GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD Vs. SMT. KIRAN KOHLI AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 — Section 30 — Appeal — Scope of Appellate Jurisdiction — An appeal under Section 30 of the Act is restricted to cases involving a substantial question of law — High Court cannot re-appreciate evidence or interfere with concurrent findings of fact recorded by the Commissioner unless such findings are perverse or based on no evidence — Findings based on proper India Law Library Docid # 2436517
(70) ANUJ SINGHAL Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND OTHERS[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 482 — Quashing of criminal proceedings/Charge-sheet/Summoning Order — Scope of inherent powers — The power under Section 482 Cr.P.C. should be exercised sparingly, with great caution, and only where the complaint/charge-sheet does not disclose any offense, is manifestly mala fide, or continuation would amount to abuse of process of the Court India Law Library Docid # 2436518
(71) D. SINGARAVELU Vs. VEDAVALLI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Suits for Partition and Declaration — Maintainability of suit for partition without seeking cancellation of prior registered release deed — Limitation Act, 1963 — Article 58 and 59 — Requirement for exemplified pleadings in cases of fraud/misrepresentation (Order VI Rule 4 CPC) — Where Plaintiffs executed a registered release deed in 1990 in favor of the sole male heir India Law Library Docid # 2436640
(72) SRAVANI CHITRA Vs. S. GOPALAKRISHNAN,[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Divorce on Ground of Cruelty — Irretrievable Breakdown — Where highly educated spouses, married after a love affair and having a child through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), are engaged in persistent mutual accusations of cruelty with no sign of reconciliation and repeatedly improvise their cases, retaining marital status serves no purpose; divorce is appropriate given the no-scope of meeting and irretrievable breakdown. India Law Library Docid # 2436641
(73) SARANYA Vs. TAMILSELVI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 1 Rule 10(2) — Impleading necessary parties — Order VI Rule 17 — Amendment of pleadings—Suit for Partition—Adding property and party (proposed defendant) who claims title to the added property based on settlement deeds, litigation concerning which is sub judice (Second Appeal pending)—Trial Court allowed applications to include the property and the party—Revisional Court India Law Library Docid # 2436642
(74) P. JANAKI AND OTHERS Vs. REGIONAL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY, TIRUVANNAMALAI AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 82(2), 82(3) — Tamil Nadu Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 — Rule 214 — Transfer of Stage Carriage Permit on Death of Permit Holder — Competing claims between deceased permit holder's son and grandson (claiming under a Will) — Requirement of "No Objection Certificate" (Rule 214) from all legal heirs — Where inter-se rivalry exists, and civil suits (for partition and challenging the India Law Library Docid # 2436643
(75) T. IMANJALI Vs. SILGA VAJRAMMA AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 6 Rule 17 — Amendment of Plaint — Addition of relief of recovery of possession — Suit initially for declaration and permanent injunction — Petitioner sought to amend the plaint to include prayers for declaration of title and recovery of vacant possession after claiming trespass by the third defendant — Amendment sought prior to trial (pre-suit amendment) and does not change the essential character of the suit or the cause of action — Amendment for a India Law Library Docid # 2436644
(76) VASANTHI SURESH AND OTHERS Vs. JAYACHITRA SAHAYA JOSEPHINE AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Sections 34 and 37 — Challenge to Arbitral Award — Scope of Appellate Court (Section 37) and Setting Aside Court (Section 34) — Findings of Fact — An Appellate Court exercising power under Section 37 or a Court deciding petition under Section 34 should not substitute its view by re-appreciating evidence unless there is perversity, patent illegality, or violation of public policy — India Law Library Docid # 2436645
(77) A. ARAVINDHAN Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS[MADRAS HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968 — Rule 14(ii) — Special Procedure dispensing with enquiry — Dismissal from service — Misconduct of assaulting superior officer — Petitioner, a Junior Clerk appointed under Sports Quota, assaulted and injured an Assistant Divisional Engineer with a wooden reeper inside the office premises — Disciplinary Authority, invoking Rule 14(ii), dispensed with inquiry, India Law Library Docid # 2436646
(78) HARPAT (DECEASED THROUGH LRS) Vs. BOOTA SINGH AND OTHERS[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Punjab Security of Land Tenure Rules, 1956 — Rule 6(6) — Surplus Area Declaration — Mandatory Notice to Tenants — The law mandates that notice must be served upon tenants in cultivating possession before land can be declared surplus by the Collector — An order declaring land surplus without issuing mandatory notice to the recorded tenants in possession is void ab initio (a nullity) and wholly without jurisdiction — Such a void order cannot divest the tenants of their rights. India Law Library Docid # 2436919
(79) KANWAR MANJIT SINGH Vs. CHARANDEEP SINGH AND ANOTHER[PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT] 28-11-2025 Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Revision against conviction and sentence — Petitioner convicted by Trial Court (JMIC) and Appellate Court for dishonour of cheque of Rs. 1,00,000/- and sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment plus fine — Petitioner confines prayer to modification of sentence, accepting conviction on merits — Repayment of Cheque Amount: Petitioner India Law Library Docid # 2436920
(80) SHASHI OBEROI Vs. YASHPAL CHAWLA[DELHI HIGH COURT] 27-11-2025 Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 — Section 14(1)(e) — Eviction on ground of bona fide requirement — Burden of proof and essentials — Landlady must demonstrate that the requirement is real, genuine, honest, and sincere, devoid of deceit and falsehood, and not merely a wish or fanciful desire India Law Library Docid # 2435949