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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...

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. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Conviction — Circumstantial evidence — Test — Reiterated that a conviction on the basis of circumstantial evidence alone would demand that the circumstances be such so as to form a complete...

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 482 — Quashing of proceeding — Inherent jurisdiction — Exercise of, in corruption case — Scope — Respondent who held post of General Manager, in Co-operative Bank, received a notice signed by...

A. Constitution of India — Art. 226 — Writ — Private bodies — When maintainable — Following, Zee Telefilms Ltd., (2005) 4 SCC 649, held, when a private body exercises its public functions even if it is not a State, the aggrieved...

Motor Vehicles — Motor accident — Accident claim — Rash and negligent driving — Proof — Bus dashed a stationary tractor trolley and thereafter struck against a eucalyptus tree and turned turtle — Deceased was the sole bread...