Madhya Pradesh High Court Weekly Roundup: October 27 - November 02, 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 229 to 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 234

Nominal Index 

• Elora Tobacco Company v Union of India 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 229
• Pragmatic Infrastructure Pvt Ltd v MP Housing and Infrastructure 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 230
• Nagendra Singh Gaharwar v Dainik Bhaskar 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 231
• Vijay Singh Gour v Union 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 232
•  X v Indira Gandhi National Tribal University 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 233

MP High Court Imposes ₹2 Lakh Cost On Tobacco Company For Stalling GST Proceedings

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has imposed ₹2 lakh costs on an Indore-based tobacco company for attempting to stall the proceedings initiated against it by the GST authorities.

The company came under the scanner of the Director General of GST Intelligence back in May 2020, following an investigation into large-scale tax evasion in the pan masala and tobacco industry in Indore.

Case Title: Elora Tobacco Company v Union of India [WP-14694-2025]

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 229

State Becomes Repository Of Public Faith When Inviting Tenders, Must Act With Utmost Fairness & Transparency: MP High Court

In a tender dispute relating to the construction of a residential-cum-commercial project in Gwalior, the Madhya Pradesh High Court held that the State, while inviting tenders, acts as a repository of public faith and must therefore conduct the process with the highest standard of fairness and transparency.

The court emphasized that cancelling a tender after its completion and restarting the process undermines its credibility and prejudices entrepreneurship development, thus, proliferating 'corruption, nepotism and crony-capitalism'.

Case Title: Pragmatic Infrastructure Pvt Ltd v MP Housing and Infrastructure [WP no.11842 of 2025]

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 230

Private Parts Blurred, No Obscenity: MP High Court Dismisses Plea Against Dainik Bhaskar For Allegedly Publishing Photo Of Naked Woman

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition filed against the Chief Editor of Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper for allegedly running an ad featuring a photo of a nude woman.

Justice Achal Kumar Paliwal noted that though the body of the lady shown in the advertisement did not have any clothes, the breast and genital parts were sufficiently blurred, and some words were also written on those parts.

Case Title: Nagendra Singh Gaharwar v Dainik Bhaskar [M.Cr.C. No. 4891 of 2014]

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 231

Railways Failure To Halt Overcrowding By Ticketless Persons Is Contributory Negligence, Liable For Genuine Passenger's Death: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that the Railway's failure to prevent ticketless and unauthorised persons from boarding a train amounts to contributory negligence, rendering it liable to compensate the dependents of a bona fide passenger who died due to overcrowding.

Case Title: Vijay Singh Gour v Union [MA-3232-2011]

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 232

Relationship Began Before She Took Admission: MP High Court Reinstates Professor Accused Of Sexually Harassing Student

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set aside the termination of a professor from the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University accused of sexually harassing and exploiting a female student, after noting that the relationship between the two was going on prior to her admission in 2021.

Quashing the charges of sexual harassment, the court directed his reinstatement into service "forthwith". It however said that he would remain under suspension till fresh order is passed as to charge pertaining to leaking of question paper to the student.

Case Title: X v Indira Gandhi National Tribal University [WP No. 10864-2023]

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 233