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Service Law — Disciplinary proceedings — Charges of misconduct — Removal from service — Punishment of — Setting aside of — Re-instatement in service with back wages — When not justified — Respondent, a Junior Assistant in...

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Ss. 173(2), 190 and 401 — Illegal gratification — Cognizance of offence — Complainant allegedly paid bribe for getting a certificate for non-agricultural use of his land — In the first complaint...

Criminal Trial — Sentence — Concurrent or consecutive running of Sentences — Appellant-accused while on duty committed theft of a registered insured parcel — The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, convicted the appellant for the...

Sentencing — Imprisonment/fine — Need to compensate the victim — Same can now be taken to be integral to just sentencing — Allegations that respondent/accused assaulted and caused injuries to PW 5, appellant, PWs 4, 11 and 1 with...

Dr. Rajiv Dhawan, learned senior counsel for the applicant-Orissa Mining Corporation Limited (Respondent No. 4), on instructions, seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the application for directions (I.A. No. 17 of 2014)...

Delay condoned.

Permission to file SLP granted.

These contempt petitions have been filed by the petitioners inter-alia seeking the initiation of contempt proceedings against the respondent-contemnors for the alleged willful and deliberate disobedience of the orders of this...

Penal Code,1860 — Ss. 323 and 326 r/w S. 34 — Assault — Conviction confirmed but sentence reduced — Appreciation of evidence — Respondent and his wife were alleged to have said that the complainant needed to be taught a lesson...

Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Or. 37 Rr. 1 and 4 — Summary suit for recovery — Ex-parte decree — Setting aside of — Same cannot be allowed in routine and special circumstances are required to be established — However, the...