Category - Latest Judgments

A. Debt, Financial and Monetary Laws — Banks — Reserve Bank of India (RBI) — If has fiduciary relation with other banks — RBI is a statutory regulatory authority to oversee the functioning of the banks and the banking sector — S...

These appeals have been filed against a common judgment and order dated 20.12.2007, passed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Patna in Criminal Appeal Nos. 371, 386, 441 and 447 of 2002. By the...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Proof — Generally — It is well entrenched principle of criminal jurisprudence that a charge can be said to be proved only when there is certain and explicit evidence to warrant legal conviction...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 439 — Bail — Provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 [PMLA] — If relevant — PMLA a special statute enacted by the Parliament for dealing with money laundering —...

A. Judiciary — Appointment of Judges — Supreme Court and High Court — Collegium — Memorandum of Procedure — Amendment — Who is competent to make — Since, earlier in Special Reference No. 1 of 1998, (1998) 7 SCC 739, task of...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Dying declaration — Nature and scope — Reiterated that dying declaration can be the sole basis of conviction and it does not require any corroboration — However, dying declaration goes against...

A. Constitution of India — Art. 226 — Writ jurisdiction — Actual prejudice and adverse effect — If necessary — An apprehension of harm, if the same is well founded, can furnish a cause of action for moving the Court — Held, writ...

A. Practice and Procedure — Res Judicata — Application — Requirements — Reiterated that following conditions must be satisfied (i) matter directly and substantially in issue, (ii) same parties or between parties under whom they...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Dying declaration — Identity of the deceased — Verification — Plea that the identity of the deceased was not verified by the Magistrate (PW 7) who recorded the dying declaration — PW 7 deposed...

A. Land Acquisition and Requisition — City of Mysore Improvement Act, 1903 — Ss. 14, 15 and 16 — Irregularity — If permissible — Object of acquisition — Relevance — Plea that the acquisition of land was for the purposes of...