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The Supreme Court directs the Courts and Registration Authorities to report cash transactions exceeding ₹2 lakhs to the Income Tax Department, in a judgement in The Correspondence RBANMS Educational Institution VERSUS B. Gunashekar & Another [2025 INSC 490].

If someone has falsely personated another, and got registered by a registration officer any deed, which is detrimental to the interest of another person, the registration of such deed can be cancelled by the Inspector General of Registration (IG of Registration) in Kerala, under Section 83 A of the Registration Act, 1908.

Simply because the patient has not responded favourably to the surgery or the treatment administered by a doctor or that the surgery has failed, the doctor cannot be held liable for medical negligence straightway by applying the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitor unless it is established by evidence that the doctor failed. to exercise the due skill possessed by him in discharging of his duties.

The Section 104 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) and the Order 43 of the CPC enlists the orders against which appeal can be filed. No other order other than those expressly provided in the above provisions in the CPC can be appealed against before a higher court.

The principles to guide courts while considering applications for setting aside abatement and consequent impleading are laid down by the Supreme Court (SC) Om Prakash Gupta Alias Lalloowa (Now Deceased) v Satish Chandra (Now Deceased) based on the judicial precedents.

The Supreme Court (SC) in its judgment  in Mithailal Dalsangar Singh v Annabai Devram Kini says that the courts have to adopt a justice-oriented approach dictated by the uppermost consideration that ordinarily a litigant ought not to be denied an opportunity of having a case determined on merits unless he has, by gross negligence, deliberate inaction or something akin to misconduct, disentitled himself from seeking the indulgence of the court.