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Customs — Custom duty — Consignments contained various electronic components/parts — These were supplied by the same supplier — Respondents were called upon to show cause as to why (i) the consignments imported under three Bills...

A. Penal Code, 1860 — S. 300 — Murder or culpable homicide — Emphasis in clause three of S. 300 IPC is on the sufficiency of the injury in the ordinary course of nature to cause death — Sufficiency is the high probability of...

The respondent-assessee had imported components of Tractors from M/s. Same Duetz Farh, Italy and filed Bill of Entry stating the price at which the goods were imported and seeking to pay the customs duty thereon. The Customs...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Witnesses — Hostile witness — Testimony — If discredited altogether — Held, whenever a prosecution witness turns hostile his testimony cannot be discarded altogether B. Criminal Law — Public...

A. Local Government — Panchayat and Zilla Parishads — Displacement or ouster of the appellants/small scale shopkeepers located in the vicinity of the internationally revered seat of Shirdi Sai Baba — Compromise decree remained...

Criminal Trial — Quashing of proceedings — Return of dowry — Giving of dowry and the traditional presents at or about the time of wedding does not in any way raise a presumption that such a property was thereby entrusted and put...

The facts in nutshell are that the respondents herein filed a Suit against the appellant before the English Court for infringement of patent vested in the respondents besides other reliefs.

A. Labour Law — Maharashtra Mathadi, Hamal and Other Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Act, 1969 — Ss. 5 and 14 — Grocery Markets or Shops Unprotected Workers (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Scheme...

Maharashtra Project Affected Persons Rehabilitation Act, 1986 — Ss. 13(1)(a), (b), (c) and 13(2), 14 — Government notification declaring the extent of area constituting affected and benefitted zones and the slab under Part II of...

The Appellant entered the service of the respondent No. 1 on 21.10.1978 as Cashier-cum-Clerk. On 16.04.1991 a complaint was made by a customer-Hari Shankar Yadav regarding fraudulent withdrawal of an amount of Rs. 80,000/...