Category - Latest Judgments

Food Safety — Tests required for the product, namely ‘Maggi Noodles’ — National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi, had directed to send the product for testing to the laboratory at Mysore vide order dt. 15-10-2015...

Motor Vehicles — Motor accident — Accident claim — Rash and negligent driving — Proof — Bus dashed a stationary tractor trolley and thereafter struck against a eucalyptus tree and turned turtle — Deceased was the sole bread...

Constitution of India, Art.136 — Special leave petition — Issue of keeping temple (Kalkaji Mandir) clean to maintain its sanctity — Official committee, constituted on 17-9-2015, on the last occasion, had made certain suggestions...

A. Excise — Central Excise Act, 1944 — S. 4(3)(d) — Transaction value — Scope — Act is extensive and ropes in the price of the goods and other amounts charged by the assessee by the reason of sale or in connection with sale —...

A. Interpretation of Statutes — Doctrine of implied repeal — When applicable — There is a presumption against repeal by implication — Settled law that implied repeal is not readily inferred and the mere provision of an additional...

Arbitration — Reference to arbitrator — Question whether in terms of Cl. 13 of the Work Order, the dispute raised by the appellant should be referred to the Arbitration — Cl. 13 of the Work Order provides reference of dispute to...

Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, learned Advocate-on-Record representing the appellant has filed an application for discharge.

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Conviction — Circumstantial evidence — Test — Reiterated that a conviction on the basis of circumstantial evidence alone would demand that the circumstances be such so as to form a complete...

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 482 — Quashing of proceeding — Inherent jurisdiction — Exercise of, in corruption case — Scope — Respondent who held post of General Manager, in Co-operative Bank, received a notice signed by...

A. Constitution of India — Art. 226 — Writ — Private bodies — When maintainable — Following, Zee Telefilms Ltd., (2005) 4 SCC 649, held, when a private body exercises its public functions even if it is not a State, the aggrieved...