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Consumer Protection — Deficiency in service — If proved — Appellant/complainant was allotted a plot by Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) — Enhancement of the cost of the plot — Appellant failed to deposit the said amount...

A. Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302 and 34 — Murder — Conviction based on testimony of single witness — Appreciation of evidence — Emphasis on value, weight and quality of evidence, rather than on quantity, multiplicity or plurality of...

Criminal Law — Criminal procedure code, 1973 — S. 154 — FIR — Second FIR — Permissibility — Settled law that there can be no second FIR in the event of any further information being received by the investigating agency in respect...

A. Insurance — Motor insurance — Motor vehicle carrying more passengers than permitted — If fundamental breach of policy terms — In the present case, accident of the vehicle of the appellant was caused on account of rash and...

Upon hearing the learned counsel, it appears that two important documents have not been properly considered by the High Court and no specific findings have been recorded thereon, namely; 1) compromise arrived at in O.S. No. 47/70...

Land Acquisition and Requisition — Acquisition of appellant’s land — Compensation — Quantum of — Enhancement of — Comparative sale deed — Consideration of — Acquired land is in Municipal area — Land Acquisition Officer awarded...

This appeal arises out of a judgment and order dated 25.05.2007 passed by the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, Chennai whereby the Tribunal has while reversing the order passed by the Commissioner of Central...

It has been brought to our notice that the parties have amicably settled the disputes. The Joint Memo of Settlement dated 10.11.2014 has been filed before this Court on 18.11.2014

Service Law — Madhya Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1960 — S. 55(2) — Application u/s. 55(2) challenging order of punishment — Limitation — Applicability — Appellant, an employee of the respondent Co-operative Bank, was...

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...