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A. Service Law — Departmental enquiry — Duration — If any — It is the duty of the employer to ensure that the departmental inquiry initiated against the delinquent employee is concluded within the shortest possible time by taking...

Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302, 364, 201 and 120B — Kidnapping and murder — Acquittal — Appreciation of circumstantial evidence — Allegation that accused persons forcibly closed nose and mouth of victim, dragged him towards the main...

A. Environment Protection and Pollution Control — Air pollution — Vehicular pollution in Delhi — Environment compensation charge (ECC) — Order dt. 9-10-2015 — Clarification — Clarified that order dt. 9-10-2015 was intended to act...

Food Safety — Tests required for the product, namely ‘Maggi Noodles’ — National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi, had directed to send the product for testing to the laboratory at Mysore vide order dt. 15-10-2015...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Motive — Proof — If mandatory — Settled law that motive is not a necessary element in deciding culpability — However, held, it is an equally important missing link which can be used to...

A. Family and Personal Laws — Hindu Law — Joint family — Existence of joint family — Evidence — In the present case, family was peacefully living together at the time of the demise of Karta — Such common residence continued for...

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...