Category - Latest Judgments

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.

Heard.

Arbitration — Invocation — Absence of arbitration agreement — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — S. 11(6) — No binding arbitration agreement between the petitioner and her employer so as to enable the court to exercise its...

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...

Service Law — Regularisation — Entitlement to Regularisation — Contempt of Court — Partial compliance of orders — Regularisation of service granted from year 1987 as opposed to the orders granting the same from the year 1981 —...