(641) NAVRATAN KUMAR SHANT AND OTHERS Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Criminal Procedure — Transfer of Cases — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS, 2023) — Section 447 — High Court’s power to transfer cases — Grounds for transfer — Applicant sought transfer of a criminal case (Sections 323, 504, 506 IPC) from Kashipur to Nainital primarily alleging apprehension that the respondent (an Advocate) might implicate them in further false cases if the case remains in Kashipur — India Law Library Docid # 2436500
(642) PAWAN KUMAR AND ANOTHER Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER[UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Uttar Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1901 — Sections 34, 35, 39, 40A — Mutation Proceedings — Nature and Scope — Proceedings for mutation of names in revenue records under Sections 34 and 39 are summary in nature and serve a merely fiscal purpose (i.e., for payment of land revenue) — Such proceedings do not create, extinguish, or adjudicate title to the property — Title must be decided by a competent India Law Library Docid # 2436501
(643) STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH Vs. KATURI VINODH KUMAR[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (CrPC) — Section 378 — Appeal against acquittal — Powers of Appellate Court — An Appellate Court should not ordinarily interfere with an acquittal unless the lower court's approach is vitiated by manifest illegality, the conclusion is perverse, or leads to a miscarriage of justice — Merely because two views are possible, the view favoring the accused taken by the trial court should generally be India Law Library Docid # 2436227
(644) NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Vs. CHITTIBOYINA VIJAYA LAKSHMI AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 166 (Compensation under) — Delay in Lodging First Information Report (FIR) — Effect on Claim — Delay in lodging FIR cannot be grounds to doubt claimant's case; common man prioritizes victim's treatment over immediately rushing to police — Courts must examine evidence closely in case of delay, but if no indication of fabrication or concoction is found, claim cannot be dismissed India Law Library Docid # 2436228
(645) PATTA SATHIBABU AND OTHERS Vs. AKKALA SARVE VIJAYA KUMAR AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 18 Rule 17, Section 151 — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 45 — Reopening of suit and referring documents for expert opinion — Comparison of disputed signatures — Suit for cancellation of sale deeds based on alleged prior sale deed (Exs. A1, A2, A4) executed by common vendor (Kommu India Law Library Docid # 2436229
(646) GRUHALAKSHMI FINANCE AND OTHERS Vs. ANDAVARAPU GOVINDARAJULU AND OTHERS[ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Order 7 Rule 11 — Rejection of Plaint — Scope and Ambit — Rejection of plaint is a drastic power to be exercised at the threshold, considering only the averments in the plaint — If the plaint ex facie does not disclose a cause of action or the relief is barred by limitation, the plaint can be rejected — If the foundational facts pleaded squarely attract the bar of limitation, no trial is India Law Library Docid # 2436230
(647) KOUSTAV BAGCHI Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ANOTHER[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 199(2) (Corresponding to Section 222(2) Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023) — Prosecution for defamation of a public functionary in discharge of public functions — Complaint by Public Prosecutor against an Advocate and politician for posting excerpts from a book on social media and making India Law Library Docid # 2435147
(648) MUDI SINGH Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL[CALCUTTA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 376 and 493 — Rape and Co-habitation caused deceitfully, respectively — Appeal against conviction — Victim was major and in love relationship with accused — Cohabitation occurred over a period with expressed intention of marriage, but non-fulfillment of promise doesn't automatically make it rape India Law Library Docid # 2435149
(649) SATISH SONDHIYA Vs. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Section 302 — Murder — Conviction challenged on appeal — Prosecution case rested on the accused/appellant allegedly running over the deceased with an Innova Car after a prior dispute at a petrol pump — Non-conduction of Test Identification Parade — Identification of the accused driver and the offending vehicle (Innova Car) held highly doubtful due to lack of standard identification India Law Library Docid # 2435706
(650) ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. Vs. SMT. SHARDA DEVI AND OTHERS[MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT (GWALIOR BENCH)] 31-10-2025 Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — Section 173(1) — Motor Accident Claims — False Implication of Vehicle — Delay in FIR — Evidentiary Value of Medical Record (MLC) — Where claimants rely on an MLC report (Ex. P-9), which states the injury was caused by a "head-on collision with another motorcycle," and this document is signed by the deceased's son (AW-1), the claimants cannot selectively discard this content; they are duty-bound to explain how the insured car was implicated despite the medical record India Law Library Docid # 2435709
(651) STATE BANK OF INDIA Vs. SRI. NANJUNDAPPA[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Service Law — Disciplinary Proceedings — Natural Justice — Right to Defence Representative/Advocate — Banking Service — State Bank of Mysore Officers’ Service Regulations, 1979, Regulation 68(2)(VII) — Regulation 68(2)(VII) permits the charged officer to take assistance of another officer as a representative but prohibits engaging a Legal Practitioner — Sufficient opportunity was provided to the charged officer to India Law Library Docid # 2435886
(652) SRI. SUBHASH MEHTA AND OTHERS Vs. M/S BABA DEVELOPERS PVT. LTD.[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Arbitrator — Waiver of right to arbitration — A party who voluntarily chooses to approach a Civil Court (by filing a suit) or Consumer Forum for adjudication of disputes governed by an arbitration clause cannot subsequently invoke Section 11(6) of the Act to seek the appointment of an arbitrator concerning the same issues. India Law Library Docid # 2435888
(653) THE COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE Vs. M/S. TANISKA LODGING AND BOARDING[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT (DHARWAD BENCH)] 31-10-2025 Karnataka Excise (General Conditions of Licences) Rules, 1967 — Rule 17A (Transfer in the event of death) and Rule 17B (Transfer of licence in other cases) — Interpretation of Rules — Distinction between Transfer and Transmission — Rule 17A covers transmission (involuntary conveyance by operation of law) of licence rights occasioned by the death of the licensee or constituent partner, transferred to India Law Library Docid # 2435890
(654) HIMACHAL PRADESH ROAD AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORP. LTD Vs. M/S C & C CONSTRUCTION LTD.[HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 34 & 37 — Scope of interference by Courts — High Court cannot re-appreciate evidence in an arbitration appeal and should not sit as a court of appeal unless the award is patently illegal or suffers from perversity or is against the fundamental policy of Indian law, justice, or morality. India Law Library Docid # 2434935
(655) LALIT KUMAR PANWAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 — Section 73-B — Revocation of allotment and cancellation of lease deed — Power of Municipality — Municipality has power to initiate action under Section 73-B even if patta (lease deed) is registered, if it was obtained by misrepresentation, fraud, or in contravention of law. India Law Library Docid # 2435160
(656) JAI SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT, JODHPUR AND OTHERS[RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT (JAIPUR BENCH)] 31-10-2025 Rajasthan High Court Staff Service Rules, 2002, Rule 4-A (as amended by Order dated 05.12.2002) — Recruitment by promotion for Assistant Stamp Reporter and Court Fee Examiners — Eligibility — Interpretation of "officials in the equivalent or above grade" — Held, eligibility is based on grade, not exclusively on cadre — India Law Library Docid # 2435172
(657) MANTRI DEVELOPER PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS Vs. MR. SNIL PATHIYAM VEETIL AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA Act) — Nature of RERA orders and Jurisdiction of Civil Courts — Whether an order passed by RERA or RERA Appellate Tribunal can be executed by a competent Civil Court under the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (CPC) — Held, the RERA Act is a self-contained code providing an in-built mechanism for enforcement and recovery, including recovery of amounts as India Law Library Docid # 2435930
(658) STATE OF KARNATAKA AND OTHERS Vs. SRI ANTONY PAULY MUKKANNIKKAL[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Writ Appeal — Setting aside of impugned order — Compensation for land voluntarily surrendered under Kudremukh National Park Resettlement Scheme — Writ petition filed impugning District Level Committee proceedings regarding re-examination of compensation for land surrendered to Forest Department — Impugned order of Single Judge directed re-determination of compensation under the Right to Fair Compensation India Law Library Docid # 2435931
(659) ZURBAGAN SHIPPING LLC Vs. C.S. FLOURISH AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Act, 2017 — Section 5(1)(a) and (b) — Arrest of Vessel in Rem — Requirements for Arrest — Arrest of a vessel requires satisfaction of specific criteria: either the liable person owned the vessel when the maritime claim arose and still owns it when the arrest is effected (Section 5(1)(a)), or the demise charterer at the time the claim arose is liable and is the demise India Law Library Docid # 2435932
(660) EXCEL INTELLIGENCE SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. DATACON TECH PRIVATE LIMITED AND OTHERS[KARNATAKA HIGH COURT] 31-10-2025 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Section 11(6) — Appointment of Sole Arbitrator — Reference of disputes arising under multiple interrelated agreements — Where agreements between the Petitioner (Excel Intelligence Services Private Limited), Respondent 1 (Datacon Tech Private Limited) and Respondent 2 (Karnataka State Electronic Development Corporation Limited - KSEDCL) are interconnected, arising India Law Library Docid # 2435933