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Constitution of India — Art. 32 — Writ petition — Missing children — Problem of — Advisory Boards — Setting up of — Discrepancy in the number of missing children should be given the highest priority by the Ministry of Women and...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Medical jurisprudence — Hanging — Ligature mark — If necessary — Hanging is the ligature compression of the neck by the weight of one’s body due to suspension — Ligature mark depends on the...

Excise and Customs — Duty — Demand of, in respect of unauthorised goods warehoused — Interest — Liability to pay — Demand raised in the show-cause notice along with interest and penalty was confirmed — Customs, Excise and Service...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Motive — Proof — If mandatory — Settled law that motive is not a necessary element in deciding culpability — However, held, it is an equally important missing link which can be used to...

Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302 and 323 r/w 34 — Murder and voluntarily causing injury — Conviction — Appreciation of evidence — Appellant allegedly assaulted deceased — Dying declaration of deceased was relied on by prosecution —...

Government Contract/Tenders — Requirement in advertisement — Fulfilment of — Question whether the insistence by the Appellant/Indian Oil Corporation Limited on adherence to the Indian Roads Congress (I.R.C.) Guidelines requiring...

Customs — Customs duty — Undervaluation of the imported equipments — CESTAT, in spite of arriving at the categorical finding that there was no evidence on record for verifying whether actual price paid for the imported equipment...

Banking — Service matter — Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) — Pendency of departmental enquiry against employee — Effect — In response to the said Scheme, the Bank received 7600 applications as against 6000 — Appellant, who was...

The learned counsel for the respondents acknowledges that the controversy in hand has been adjudicated upon by this Court in CIT v. Punjab Stainless Steel Industries1 decided on 5-5-2014.

The appellant is aggrieved by the impugned order dated 29.09.2014, whereby the delay of 713 days has been condoned by the High Court in filing the appeal by the first respondent.