Category - Latest Judgments

A. Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — S. 11 — Res judicata — Inapplicability — Previous proceedings would operate as res judicata only in respect of issues of facts and not on issues of pure questions of law when the subsequent suit or...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Circumstantial evidence — Conduct — Relevance — In the present case, previous landlord of the accused clearly stated that under the influence of liquor, accused used to frequently beat the...

Motor Vehicles — Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — S. 2(28) — Excavators used in coalfields — Whether a ‘motor vehicle’ — Held, excavators belonging to the appellant fall within the meaning of the definition of ‘motor vehicles’...

Contempt of Court — Practice and procedure — Provisional/temporary release — Bereavement in the family — Permissibility — Mother of a contemnor passed away — Prayer for temporary release to perform the last rites of the deceased...

 Two appeals have been filed from a common decision of CESTAT dated 11.10.2005, whereby the Tribunal has upset the order of the Commissioner, confirming various duty demands, penalty and interest.

Leave granted.

Banking — Election as Director in the UCO Bank — Criteria laid down in the RBI Circular dt. 1-11-2007 and the Guidelines dated 10-12-2007 issued by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India — Respondent 1 was over age and the...

The issue pertains to the dispute on termination of the respondent.

A. Land Acquisition and Requisition — Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Ss. 23 and 31 — Scope — Compensation when to be paid — Held, when land is taken over by way of acquisition, the land owner has to be compensated with the amount...

Land Acquisition and Requisition — Acquisition of land — By invoking urgency clause — No award passed and the land value has not been given to the owner — Residential colony having been set up, there was no urgency for acquiring...