Ramesh Sobti filed a petion challenging the notice issued to him to appear before the officer-in-charge in the matter of pending investigation in a criminal complaint filed by Respondent. ..
The Hon’ble Supreme Court observed that the information given by any individual on telephone to the police is not for the purpose of lodging a First Information Report, but rather to request the police to reach the place of occurrence, whereas the in..
The facility which Section 438 of the Code provides is generally referred to as Anticipatory bail. The present case the Hon’ble Supreme Court rejected the application to seek protection under Section 438 of the Code, the only remedy available to the ..
The High Court upheld the trial court's decision of acquittal of all the accused persons and while concluding judgment, mechanically disposed of the appeal by passing an order without examining as to whether the leave to file an appeal filed by the A..
The Hon’ble Court in this present case held, that a broad and expansive interpretation should be given to the term 'wife' to include even those cases where a man and woman have been living together as husband and wife for a reasonably long period of ..
It is the intention of the legislature which is relevant and not the attitude of the party. The principle of estoppels cannot be pressed into service to defeat the provision of Sec. 125 of the Cr PC. In the instant case the evidence on record has be..
The Supreme Court concluded that Even though bigamous marriage is illegal u/s 11 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 but when after such marriage Hindu male and female are living together for a number of years as husband and wife, the child born as a res..
In the present case the Supreme Court held that the daughter is liable to pay maintenance to parents. It was concluded by the court that a liability on both the son and the daughter to maintain their father or mother who is unable to maintain himself..
In the present case it was clear that a person alleged to be suffering from any mental disorder cannot be exempted from criminal liability ipso facto. The onus would be on the accused to prove by expert evidence that he is suffering from such a menta..
Courts cannot dispose criminal cases on the basis of plea bargaining, it has to be done on merits. It is the duty of the courts to award proper sentence keeping in mind the nature of offence and the manner in which it was committed. Undue sympathy to..
The Karnataka High Court held that the case is not fit to grant bail, and the petition was dismissed. The single judge bench pointed out that the petitioner is an educated man and is aware of his consequences of his acts. His contents was likely to c..
Several Articles and Provisions of the WADA code related to the presence of the prohibited substances in the system of the concerned athlete and costs incurred in these proceedings along with the period of ineligibility were read and applied in the p..
This climate change lawsuit could have been a potential landmark Law Suit, provided the plaintiffs won. The initial ruling by Judge Aken, considering a person’s access to a ‘climate system capable of sustain human life’ as a constitutional right was ..
The Hon’ble Supreme Court said that where the husband had placed material to show that the wife was earning some income it is not sufficient to rule out the application of Sec. 125 Code of Criminal Procedure. It has to be established that with the am..
R.D. Sharma, the Project Director of a scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act filed a complaint against One Rahul Yadav, a Junior Clerk in the Amroha Office and one Omkar Singh alleging that they had embezzled an amou..
In the case of PATEL ENGINEERING LTD.VERSUS NORTH EASTERN ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION LTD. (NEEPCO) (SLP 577 OF 2020), the High Court of Meghalaya passed an order declining to review petitions filed by the petitioner on the ground that there was a del..
Madras High Court in the case of N.Ram and ors. vs UOI and ors., quashed the complaints filed in 2012 against a group of editors and journalists alleging “criminal defamation against the state” in few reports against J Jayalalitha, the then Chief Min..
The Arbitrator found that the errors that were alleged were purely typographical and cannot be assumed to have had an impact on the integrity of the tests that were conducted. These errors were not so fundamental that they require action against the ..
On December 19, 2017, The Minister of Planning was sued by Gloucester Res. Ltd. for the refusal of the application for the Rocky Hill Coal Project (open-cut coal mine)...
It was held by the Gujarat High Court that the magistrate shall have to keep in mind that if the nuisance is not created at a public place no direction can be given under Section 133. Section 133 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that, "When..
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