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Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302 and 324 — Murderous assault — Conviction confirmed — Appreciation of evidence — Allegation that there was dispute between complainant and his relatives on one side and accused persons on the other side...

Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302, 307 r/w 34 IPC and 452 — Murder and attempt to murder with common intention — Conviction — Appreciation of evidence — Appellants along with another person armed with tamancha (pistol) came to the house...

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...

Service Law — Selection Process — Bihar Education District Council, Secondary and Higher Secondary Teachers (Employment/Services) Rr. 2006 — R. 4(k)(vii)(a) — Entire selection process ordered to be redone — Such order, on facts...

Government Grants, Largesse, Public Property and Premises — Allotment/Grant/Lease/Licence of land — Classification of land — Scope of — Held that the basis of the land-holding by the State (Nazul land) and the land vested in the...

Penal Code, 1860 — S. 302 — Murder — Acquittal — Appreciation of evidence — Accused allegedly murdered his wife by strangulating her — Prosecution case based on circumstantial evidence — Admittedly, the deceased was wife of the...

In this appeal, the appellant is aggrieved by the denial of promotion from the post of Surveyor to the post of Kanungo and thereafter to the post of Naib Tehsildar. The scale of pay of the Surveyor at the relevant point of time...

A. Criminal Law — Penal Code, 1860 — S. 376 — Consent — Proof of — In the present case, the prosecutrix was an adult and mature lady of around 40 years at the time of incident — Admittedly, prosecutrix was in relationship with...

A. Policy — How to interpret — Held, policy has to be understood in its proper perspective — Further, held, a policy has to be appositely interpreted, regard being had to the concept of permissible and acceptable parameters B...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — FIR — Non-mentioning of two names — If fatal — Reiterated that FIR is not an encyclopaedia of the entire case — Where allegations against all the five accused was supported by legal evidence...