Category - Latest Judgments

Motor Vehicles — Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — S. 166 — Delay in filing application for compensation — Claim petition filed after 28 years of accident — Period of consequence of the omission of sub-Section (3) of S. 166 of the 1988...

A. Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302, 307 and 324 — Acquittal — Reversal by Supreme Court — As per prosecution, accused carrying sickle went to the house of D-2 and during conversation with him at about 1.30 a.m., he took out the sickle...

A. Penal Code, 1860 — S. 304-A — Sentence — Ground of parity — When not available — Considering advance age related complications of accused “S”, his sentence directed to be reduced to period already undergone — On principle of...

Constitution of India — Art. 16(4A) — Exercise for determining ‘inadequacy of representation’, ‘backwardness’ and ‘overall efficiency’ — Held, is a must for exercise of power under Art. 16(4A) — Mere fact that there is no...

Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1976 — S. 207 — Copies of seized CDs — Held, need to be supplied to the appellant — Right to get these copies is statutorily recognised under S. 207, which is the hallmark of a fair trial...

Land Acquisition and Requisition — Compensation — Rehabilitation package — Water and water resources — Canal, dams and irrigation — Land Acquisition Act, 2013 — Disposed with direction to pay 1358 project affected families, a sum...

Administrative Law — Judicial Review — Limits of judicial review — Direction issued to the legislature to enact a law — Held, power to enact legislation is a plenary constitutional power which is vested in Parliament and the...

Issue notice to Shri Justice C.S. Karnan, returnable on 13.02.2017.

Environment Law — Water/River/Coastal Pollution — Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 — R. 4 — Principles under — Application of, held directed to 2,01,503 wetlands that have been mapped by the Union of India —...

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 362 — Recalling of order — Rejection of prayer by High Court — Remission of matter — Appellant/applicant contended that the High Court committed grave error of law and facts while passing the...