Category - Latest Judgments

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...

Juvenile/Child Accused — Juvenility — Accused along with eight persons hatched a conspiracy to snatch away the cash bag of the deceased — Case was registered under Ss. 120-B, 302 and 396 of the IPC and S. 25 of the Arms Act —...

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