Order of the High Court dated 09.05.2014 is set aside and the Order of Workmen Compensation Commissioner dated 12.12.2005 is restored...
The Supreme Court was dealing with an appeal by special leave against the judgment whereby the Delhi High Court had dismissed the appeal preferred by the present appellant and had affirmed the judgment passed by the Additional District Judge in a Pro..
The Supreme Court held that the legislative action is necessary for implementation of agreement relating to Berubari union. (a) A law of Parliament relatable to Art. 3 of the Constitution would be incompetent; (b) A law of Parliament relatable to Art..
M.C. Chacko was held not personally liable to satisfy the debt under the letter of guarantee. Properties which were under the Schedule A of the deed allotted to M.C. Chacko were also held not liable to satisfy the debt due to Kottayam Bank under the ..
The action is brought by a mortgagee to enforce against a purchaser of the mortgaged property an undertaking that he entered into with his vendor. The mortgagee has no right to avail himself of that. He was no party to the sale. The purchaser entered..
On the death of Jagannath Singh in 1973, the joint family property which was ancestral property in the hands of Jagannath Singh and the other coparceners, devolved by succession under Section 8 of the Act. This being the case, the ancestral property ..
The Court held that the mother should have been allotted a share at the time of the notional partition, and after inheritance her share would be equal to half of the property...
The Court observed that a marital home is the basis of the concept of marriage and the “bundle of indefinable rights and duties which bind the husband and the wife can perhaps be best understood only in the context of their living together in the mar..
The Court while rejecting the contentions of the Respondent, held that the wife had a reasonable excuse for refusing to resign from her job and live with the Respondent in Delhi. It cannot be said that the Appellant withdrew from the society of the h..
The Apex Court held that if in accordance with the applicable law, a marriage between the parties is not valid then the question of it being void by reason of it taking place during the lifetime of a previous wife does not even arise...
In the judgment of the case – Triveni Kodkany and Others v. Air India Ltd. and Others, delivered on March 3, 2020, a division bench of the Supreme Court, consisting of Justice Dr Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and Justice Ajay Rastogi have in very clear t..
In the present case, the Court concluded that the Appellant failed to prove existence of a valid custom which makes the second marriage null and void and since second marriage being void is a sine qua non for the applicability of Section 494 IPC, no ..
The SC did not grant leave to petitioners and upheld the decision of The High Court. The SC recognized that the TRAI is sector specific regulator and has expertise to deal with the issues in the telecom sector, which arise from the Telecom Regulatory..
There is no justification for limiting the Respondent’sshare to 1/24th by ignoring the 1/4th share which she would have obtained had there been a partition during her husband's lifetime between him and his two sons. In a partition between Khandappa a..
The rights under the amendment are applicable to living daughters of living coparceners as on 9th September, 2005 irrespective of when such daughters are born. Disposition or alienation including partitions which may have taken place before 20th Dece..
In the present case according to the ‘F.I.R’ filed by the complainant the accused persons were apprehended. Reliable evidence was collected from complainants family it was held that the court has upheld the decision and sentenced the appellants. In t..
Number of Judgments have been cited and discussed in the present case. It was held by the court that Forensic test should be performed in the presence of expert team of doctors. In this case, court permitted the authority for conducting the Narco-Ana..
Justice Banerjee had held that any decision to change the age of retirement has to be taken in consonance with the Rule 73 of Bihar Service Code, and that the decision cannot be merely taken by passing a resolution by the Board. She held that the app..
It is stated under section 499 if Indian Penal Code, 1860.Punishment for defamation is stated u/s 500 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 which states that whosoever, commits this crime will be liable to simple imprisonment of 2yrs or fine or both...
The two appellants preferred an appeal to High Court and the same was dismissed. The High Court, However, set aside the conviction under 498-A of IPC but confirmed it under Section 304-B of IPC...