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Service Law — Promotion — Date of promotion — Appeal — It is contended by the appellant that the respondents ought to have put in 8 yrs’ regular service for the grant of senior scale and the period from 1-7-1975 till 25-10-1977...

The State has come in appeal aggrieved by the judgment of the High Court of Uttaranchal at Nainital in Writ Petition No. 982 of 2002.

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 482 — Economic offence — Criminal proceedings — Quashing of, challenged — Ground — Settlement and dues cleared yet accused cannot be absolved from the criminal culpability...

Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Or. 39 Rr. 1 and 2 and Or. 41 R. 5 — Power of Courts under — Exercise of, during pendency of lis — Held, Courts are always vested with inherent and statutory power to stay/restrain the execution of...

Crime Against Women and Children — Dowry death/Bride burning — Harassment to married woman — Abetment of suicide — Conviction — Appreciation of evidence — Appellants 1 and 2 are the mother-in-law and the sister-in-law of the...

A. Land Acquisition and Requisition — Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — Ss. 23(1A), 23(2) r/w S. 28 and 34 — Claim of solatium for the enhanced amount of compensation and interest thereon in respect of the acquired land — High Court...

Reservation — Schedule caste/tribe of a State — Migrated to another State — Benefits of reservation — If permissible — In the present case, appellant claimed admission in a college in the State of Maharashtra against a reserved...

 Issue notice on the condition that the petitioner shall pay an amount of Rs. 25,000/- towards litigation expenses to the respondents.

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Proof — Suspicion — Relevance — Reiterated that suspicion, however grave, cannot take the place of proof — Thus, prosecution cannot afford to rest its case in the realm of “may be” true but has...