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Customs — Imported item — If is a re-rollable scrap — Confiscation of goods — Appellant, a small scale industry, on whom penalty of rupees six lakhs has been levied — Technical expert opinion produced by the appellant that the...

Excise — Central Excise Tariff Act, 1944 — Schedule, Chapter sub-heading No. 3925.20 or sub-heading No. 3925.99 — Excise duty — Goods supplied by the assessee — If would be classified under chapter sub-heading No. 3925.20 or No...

After hearing learned counsel for the parties at considerable length, the Court reserved its verdict.

A. Evidence Act, 1872 — S. 27 — Discovery of fact — Information might be confessional or non-inculpatory in nature but if it results in discovery of a fact it becomes a reliable information B. Evidence Act, 1872 — Ss. 25 and 27 —...

Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 147, 148, 341 and 302 or S. 304 Pt. II (S. 300 Exception 4) — Murder or culpable homicide not amounting to murder — Nature of offence — Conviction altered to S. 304 Pt. II from S. 302 — Single eyewitness —...

Service Law — Armed Forces/Home Guards — Regularization of services — Claim for, appellant/ Home Guards — It is not the case of the State Government that enrolment/appointments of the Home Guards were backdoor engagement and...

Penal Code, 1860 — S. 302 — Murder — Conviction confirmed — Appreciation of evidence — Appellant allegedly committed murder of deceased — Number of inconsistencies in the case of the prosecution — Neither the Register nor the...

A. Arbitration — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — International arbitration — Applicability of judgment rendered in BALCO case (Kaiser Aluminium Technical Services, (2012) 9 SCC 552 — Constitution Bench judgment in BALCO...

A. Evidence Act, 1872 — Ss. 133, 114(b) Ill. (b) — Accomplice evidence vis-à-vis decoy/trap witness evidence — Distinction between two, re-iterated B. Public Accountability, Vigilance and Prevention of Corruption — Prevention of...

A. Penal Code, 1860 — S. 302 — Murder — Conviction confirmed — Appreciation of evidence — Allegation that appellant put wife ablaze by pouring kerosene on her — It was PW 3, the daughter of the deceased, who witnessed the quarrel...