Human Rights - Passive Euthanasia and Active Euthanasia - Legality..
Validity of Appointment - High Powered Committee (HPC), duly constituted under proviso to Section 4(1) of Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003 recommended name of 2nd respondent for appointment to post of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) - Petit..
Entitlement to Regularization - Appellant organization employed casual workers for discharging various works in its organization - Respondent Union of casual workers demanded regularization of their service - Single Judge, in respondent's writ petiti..
Service - Preparation of judgments through third party - Removal from service - Legality (i) Whether High Court was justified in dispensing with enquiry while passing order recommending appellant's removal (ii) Whether order of removal ..
The appellant herein challenged the legality of the aforesaid order before the Jharkhand High Court by filing a writ petition contending inter alia that the High Court does not have any power to dispense with an enquiry as envisaged for the purpose o..
The appellant herein submitted his application offering himself as a candidate for the post of Munsif to be recruited by the respondents for which an advertisement was also issued. Pursuant to the aforesaid application filed by the appellant, he was ..
The appellant Jagdish Rai, along with another accused Ajaib Singh is convicted under section 18 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short “the Act”) and sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs.1 lak..
The respondent, a veterinary surgeon, was in the service of the State Government of Uttar Pradesh. On December 23, 1991, he made an application for no-objection certificate for obtaining visa for going to the United States of America. The no-objectio..
. The petitioner has approached this Court under the provisions of Article 32 of the Constitution of India with a prayer that the respondents be directed not to demolish Shop No. D/4, Peeragarhi Relief Camp, New Delhi-56 till another shop is given to..
The facts very briefly are that the Government of Bihar in the Department of Human Resource Development granted temporary recognition to the Champaran Physical Training College (for short ‘the College’) for C.P.Ed. (Certificate of Physical Education)..
The issue that falls for consideration in these appeals is, as to whether the provisions of time limit that are contained in Section 11A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (in short ‘the Act’) are applicable to the recovery of amounts due under the comp..
The facts of the case are that the petitioners filed complaints under section 28 read with items l (a)(b), (d) and (f) of Schedule IV of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, l97l (hereinafter refe..
Being aggrieved by an order dated 5th November, 2003 passed in Writ Petition No. 7435 of 1979 by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, this Special Leave Petition has been filed by the heirs of the Original Plaintiff, who had filed a suit for a ..
The main grievance which has been articulated by learned Attorney General for India is that the impugned judgment has been passed without giving any opportunity to the appellant herein- Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. to file its reply. In other wo..
These appeals are directed against the order passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature of Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad in CMP Nos. 21114, 21115, 21116, 21117 and 21118 of 2003 dated 19th August, 2003. By the aforesaid order, the High ..
One Kiranjit Kaur, daughter of a handicapped school master, was abducted when she was returning from school on 29.07.1997, and then gang-raped and murdered by Gurprit Singh, Jagraj Singh, Desh Raj and Partap Singh. The Hon’ble Additional Sessions Jud..
The suit had been filed by the plaintiff (respondent herein) for recovery of Rs.1,90,000/- from the defendant, who is the appellant herein, with interest and the claim was based on a promissory note, which was alleged to have been executed by the def..
This appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order dated 11.12.2002 passed by the High Court of Sikkim at Gangtok in Criminal Appeal No. 4 of 2002, upholding the judgment and order dated 30.5.2002, passed by the Special Judge, Prevention o..
That question is whether in a criminal case if the counsel for the accused does not appear, for whatever reasons, should the case be decided in the absence of the counsel against the accused, or the Court should appoint an amicus curiae to defend the..
Challenge in these appeals, by special leave, is to the judgments and orders dated 27th March, 2001 and 22nd January, 2003 delivered by a Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court at Guwahati in Writ Appeal No. 548 of 1996 whereby it has directed appe..