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Family and Personal Laws — Succession and Inheritance — Indian Succession Act, 1925 — S. 372 — Property bequeathed in favour of Respondent 1 — Application for succession certificate based on will dt. 15-11-1978 challenged —...

Criminal Law — Penal Code, 1860 — S. 302 r/w S. 34 — Double murder case — Conviction under, challenged — Ground — Reliance on the testimony of sole witness — Challenge held, rejected — In the instant case, ocular account of the...

Delay condoned.

Service Law — Regularisation — Contractual employee — Regularisation pleaded with retrospective effect — Held, on facts, cannot be granted — In the instant case, even though advertisement dt. 20-11-2002 indicated that there were...

Dismissed.

Contract and Specific Relief — Contractual Obligations and Rights — Privity and Third Parties’ Obligations and Rights — Sub Contract entered between the appellant and respondent — Contract given by ONGC to the respondent —...

Arbitration — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1966 — S. 31(7) — Award of interest pendente lite — Question raised, when the contract between the parties contained an express bar regarding award of interest and if so, whether...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 200 — Cognizance by Magistrate — Scope — Held, a Magistrate takes cognizance of an offence when he decides to proceed against the person accused of having committed that...

A. Labour Law — Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 — Ss. 87, 88 & 89 — Exemption — Procedure for obtaining — Held, a factory or establishment as the case may be, submits an application seeking exemption and the appropriate...

Tenancy and Land Laws — Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 — Ss. 3(1)(vii), (viii) & S. 13(1) — Fixity of tenure under S. 13(1) — Benefit of, to lessee — Challenged — Existence of plantation at the time of execution of lease deed...