Category - Latest Judgments

Taxation — Indirect Taxation — Excise — Valuation — Recovery of differential duty — On facts, held, justified

Criminal Trial — Appreciation of Evidence — Contradictions, inconsistencies, exaggerations or embellishments — Credibility of witness — Conduct of witness — Unnatural behaviour of the witness to the incident of murder — PW 4, who...

Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Circumstantial Evidence — Last seen theory — Mother of the deceased, deposed that the deceased had accompanied the accused — Appellant, being called by him, from his house in the early part of the...

Criminal Law — #Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302 and 201 r/w S. 34 — Murder — Conviction restored — Appreciation of evidence — H and S brought forcibly J and made him sit in the jeep — After going for about 15-20 km H and S made J get...

Constitution of India — Art. 32 — Writ petition — Incidents of acid attacks — Compensation — Victim Compensation Scheme has already been notified in almost all the States and Union Territories — Direction issued to give it wide...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Identification — Test Identification Parade — Failure to conduct — Holding of test identification parade is not the rule of law but rule of prudence — Normally identification of the accused in a...

Delay condoned.

Taxation — Indirect Taxation — Excise — Liability/Exigibility to excise duty — Lean Gas — Excise duty held, not attracted as it is in fact natural gas and therefore, would attract nil duty      (Paras 4...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 300 — In furtherance of a previous complaint made by the appellant the second complaint is not tried — Legality and justifiability — Held, the dismissal of a complaint, or the...

Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 — Ss. 43, 23 and 22 — Cognizance on offence — Power to file complaint — Principle of ‘delegatus not potest delegare’ — Can Chairman of the Board, therefore, had no authority to...