Category - Latest Judgments

Land Acquisition and Requisition — Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act, 1960 — Ss. 37(1) and 127 — Land reserved for acquisition by Union Government — Lapsing of reservation — If State Government can modify Development Plan to...

Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — S. 99 and Or. 1 R. 10 — Reversal of decree for error or irregularity not affecting merits or jurisdiction — Permissibility — Suit for eviction filed by the father of the appellants in respect of...

Interim direction — Answer sheets of candidates — UPSC directed to forward answer sheets to an expert, to examine whether the candidates answering the questions had given any indication in the answer sheets to reveal their...

Criminal Trial — Quashing of FIR — If posting of a comment on the Facebook page of the traffic police — Amounts to an offence under Ss. 353 and 506 IPC — Appellants posted comments on the Bangalore Traffic Police Facebook page...

Service Law — Armed Forces — Navy (Pension) Regulations 1964 — Regn. 2 — Pension — Computation of — Shortfall in qualifying service of respondent — Benefit of condonation of — Denial of, on the ground that respondent took the...

A. Service Law — Pension — Change-over of employees from Contributory Provident fund Scheme to Pension Scheme formulated under Pension Rules, 1972 — Appellants are the employees of National Water Development Agency (NWDA), a...

Land Acquisition and Requisition — Land Acquisition Act, 1894 — S. 23 — Compensation — Fair market value — Determination — Distance from national highway — Relevance — High Court after taking into consideration the average...

A. Evidence Act, 1872 — S. 106 — Adverse inference — The principle underlying S. 106 is that the burden to establish those facts, which are within his personal knowledge is cast on the person concerned and if he fails to...

A. Criminal Trial — FIR — Inordinate delay in lodging — Case of dowry death — It has come in evidence that in midnight of 23-3-1990 PW 1, mother of deceased, along with others reached the house of victim to find out as to what...

Arbitration — Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — S. 11 — Appointment of arbitrator — Disputes and differences having arisen between the parties under contract — Agreed upon procedure between the parties contemplated the...