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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...

A. Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta and Up — Lokayuktas (Complaint) Rules, 1977 — R. 5 — Complaint filed without accompanying affidavit — Belated filing of affidavit — Permissibility — When the appellant was intimated by the office of the...

Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Dying declaration — Burn Injuries/Death by Burning — Husband poured kerosene on the wife and set her ablaze causing her death — In her dying declaration, the deceased stated that Pravin (her...

We have heard learned counsel for the parties.

Practice and Procedure — Review — No error apparent on the face of record — No ground existing so as to warrant interference in exercise of review jurisdiction — All arguments advanced by the review petitioner already considered...

Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — FIR — Registration — Registration of the complaint by Inspector of Police attached to the State of Karnataka, on deputation to the Lokayukta (2nd Respondent) suo-motu on the basis of the newspaper...