Category - Latest Judgments

Entertainment, Amusement and Leisure — Foreign Liquor Rules — R. 13-A (5) proviso — Scope and interpretation of — Proviso to R. 13-A (5) providing the defaulter of abkari arrears cannot be permitted to renew the licence...

Criminal Law — Sentence — Considerations — Uphaar cinema fire case — A-1 and A-2 sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years while A-15 sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year — However, having regard to advanced...

A. Customs — Customs Act, 1962 — S. 127-B — Settlement commission — Jurisdiction — Respondent imported certain raw material and availed the benefit of an exemption notification and stated that it would be utilising the said raw...

A.     Criminal Law – Criminal trial – Witnesses – Injured witness – Credibility of – Accused persons alleged to attacked deceased with lethal weapons – On intervention brother, mother and sister of deceased...

Service Law — Promotion — Senior Administrative Grade — Denial of — ACRs — Consideration of by Departmental Promotion Committee — Appellant was selected through Civil Service Examination, 1985, and was allotted Indian Defence...

Service Law — Illegal appointment — Concurrent finding of fact as to — Interference with — Scope — Circular was issued on 3-12-1980 by the Government of Bihar through its Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department...

Mr. Tushar Mehta, learned Additional Solicitor General, has handed over to us a copy of communication No. MCI-37(1)(RI-89)(UG)/2014-Med./127/90 dated 17th August, 2015, which is addressed to the Secretary, Government of India...

Narcotics and Intoxicants — Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Ss. 8(c) r/w 20(b) — Seizure of contraband — Conviction confirmed — Appreciation of evidence — Modification of sentence — Search of appellant’s...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Appeal against order of acquittal — Interference — Scope — Held, when the court has to exercise its discretion in an appeal arising against an order of acquittal, it must remember that the...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Sentence — Principles of — Court has a duty to respond to the collective cry of the society — Discretion in sentencing cannot be allowed to yield to fancy or notion — Judge has to keep in mind...