The court issued a list of 11 guidelines in addition to the Constitutional and Statutory safeguards which were to be followed in all cases of arrest and detention...
The Lordship had brought forward the differences between Section 299 and 300 of the IPC.The court had stated that there was absence of intention. In both, Section 299 and 300, the key element is that there should be an intention of causing the death...
The judgement given by CJI Deepak Mishra started with the statements proving that wives are not the property of the husbands and husbands are not their masters...
On 6 September 2018, the court delivered its unanimous verdict, declaring portions of the law relating to consensual sexual acts between adults unconstitutional. ..
On considering all the matters in detail the court observed for this case, it should be accepted that it was an unnatural death. Though the case rests on circumstantial evidence, the presumption under Section 113-B of the Evidence Act has rightly bee..
On considering all the matters in detail the court took into consideration the circumstances in which the appellant and Mohini came close to each other and how he started to have given her presents and tried to be intimate with her. These circumstanc..
In a well-analysed, well-worded, well-framed, well-articulated and well-reasoned judgment titled Satish @ Sabbe vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh with Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No. 8326 of 2019 delivered as recently as on 30 September 2020, a thre..
The Supreme Court mentioned that, it could not resist to express the distress that the High Court had chosen to advance fragile reasons to upset a well-reasoned conclusion by the trail court that the deceased was throttled to death..
In view of the preceding analysis, the appeal was dismissed. The Court held that the brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature of the crime was evincible from the acts committed by the accused persons...
The Lordship had brought forward the differences between Section 299 and 300 of the IPC. The court had stated that there was absence of intention. In both, Section 299 and 300, the key element is that there should be an intention of causing death...
The judgement given by CJI Deepak Mishra started with the statements proving that wives are not the property of the husbands and husbands are not their masters...
The petition was dismissed leaving it open to the petitioner to comply with the objections raised by the RPO and to resubmit her application with the correct details, inter alia, with regard to her parentage. The parties were left to bear their respe..
In the absence of evidence of valid adoption, including proof of giving and receiving, and in the view of Sabitri Bala's subsequent conduct and that of defendant No. 1, he rejected his assertion of acceptance. In the matter of his supposed adoption b..
The Bombay High Court held that both the Courts below had rightly held that the plaintiff cannot be held adopted son of Kundanbai and he has been rightly denied his succession to the properties of Kundanbai...
The court held that the child can be adopted "under the authority" of the parents. The adoptive mother had executed a valid Power of Attorney authorising her attorney to take the petitioner in adoption on her behalf...
The Supreme Court rejected the Special Leave petition filed by the husband and observed that For the last two decades, Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, including the explanation referred to in subsection (1) thereof, has been consisten..
The Court declared the appeal to be failed and dismissed it. There was no order as to costs. The court further mentioned that once the judgment was properly understood there was no charter for inference by the High Courts with findings of facts recor..
The court held that, prima facie, Nirmala does not appear to have been adopted by Obalappa which is evident from the deed of gift executed by him. Even in the transfer deed executed by Kadarappa, Nirmala was described as a foster daughter of Obalappa..
The Supreme Court held that the State needs to make sure that the JJ Act is implemented in a proper manner in order to cater to the needs of the children in the society...
When considering all the matters in-depth, the court noted that Section 6 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, permits the adoption of a Hindu child alone by a Hindu. The law does not accept the adoption of any person other than a Hindu b..