No Collision? Then Why Did You Flee? — Supreme Court Rejects Truck Driver’s Defence, Upholds Full Liability on Insurer Vicarious Liability Must Be Pleaded With Precision — You Can’t Drag Someone Just Because He Was Once Associated with a Company: Gujarat High Court Quashes Cheque Bounce Case Against Non-Executive Individual Daughters Can’t Be Sidelined in Ancestral Property: Telangana High Court Dismisses Purchaser’s Appeal, Upholds Partition in Favour of Married Women and Legal Heirs Marriage in Arya Samaj Is Valid If Performed as per Vedic Rites — Certificate Alone Is Not Conclusive Proof: Allahabad High Court Refuses to Quash Cruelty Case Even a Mother-in-Law Can Be an Aggrieved Woman: Allahabad High Court Upholds Right to File Domestic Violence Case Against Daughter-in-Law Exemption Under Minority Cannot Be Invoked to Justify Delay in Appeal: Supreme Court Reverses Kerala High Court in Fatal Accident Claim Innocent Flat Buyers Cannot Be Made to Suffer Due to Institutional Failures: Supreme Court on Tamil Nadu Housing Board Land Dispute Decree Can’t Sleep for 18 Years and Wake Up to Claim Land: Telangana High Court Cancels Mutation Based on 1995 Partition Decree Six Years in Custody, Only Two Witnesses Examined—Incarceration Cannot Continue Indefinitely: Punjab & Haryana High Court Grants Bail in Murder Case Gratuity Is Not a Bounty—It Is Property Under Article 300A: Madhya Pradesh High Court Slams Delay in Payment to Retired Teacher A Small Degree of Scoliosis Cannot Be Stretched To Deny Appointment:  Punjab & Haryana High Court Directs Appointment Of Constable Despite Medical Board’s Earlier Unfitness Declaration Victim’s Statement Under Section 164 CrPC Has No Substantive Value Without Civil Dispute Dressed as Criminal Offence — You Can’t Use FIRs to Fight Over Ancestral Property: Himachal Pradesh High Court Dismisses Plea for Police Action in Family Property Sale Statement of Co-Accused Can Only Be a Clue, Not the Sole Basis for FIR Quashing: Gujarat High Court Declines to Interfere at Investigation Stage Right to Fair Trial Includes Right to Access Digital Evidence: Delhi High Court Directs Supply of Hard Disk Copy to Accused for Effective Defence Allegations of Affixing Counterfeit Mark Amounts to Cheating Under Illustration (b) of Section 415 IPC: Calcutta High Court Refuses to Quash Criminal Proceedings Delivery of Cheque to a Third Party Without Authorization Doesn’t Discharge Liability: Andhra Pradesh High Court Affirms Decree Against L&T Officials

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Gratuity Is Not a Bounty—It Is Property Under Article 300A:

“Employer Has No Discretion—Gratuity Must Be Paid From the Date It Becomes Due, Not When Claimed” — In a ruling that significantly reinforces the statutory and