Category - Latest Judgments

Tenancy and Land Laws — Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 — Ss. 4(5), 2(8), 40 and 44 — Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953 — Ss. 2(6), 8, 9, 10, 14-A, 17 and 18 — Tenant of agricultural holding — Expiry of lease — Whether tenant...

Land Acquisition and Requisition — Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 — S. 24(2) — Lapse of proceedings — Condition precedent — Any determination under S...

A. Criminal Trial — Dying declaration — Need to examine this specie of evidence with great circumspection and care, reiterated — In addition to the Dying Declaration, which is only one of the species of the genus of S...

The special leave petition is dismissed.

A. Sentence, Trial and Other Issues — Sentence — If inadequate — Compensation to victim — Tanker driven by the respondent/accused rashly struck the deceased a 20 yrs old girl causing fatal injuries — Appellate Court convicted...

A. Criminal Law — #Penal Code, 1860 — S. 302 or S. 304 — Murder or culpable homicide — Exception 4 to S. 300 — Applicability — Death caused by hitting with a stone with full force causing severe head injury due to prior enmity —...

A. Criminal Trial — Dying declaration — Admissibility — Circumstances of transaction relate to death of another person — statement cannot be held to be inadmissible when circumstances of “his” death are integrally connected to...

Service Law — Pension and other benefits — Death of employee — Entitlement of LRs of deceased — If beneficiary includes second wife and daughter — Deceased employee, during the subsistence of his marriage, had also married to “K”...

A. Service Law — Pension — Qualifying period/service — Retirement/ Superannuation — Voluntary retirement — Effect of on pension/related benefits — SBI Voluntary Retirement Scheme (for short ‘the Scheme’) was adopted by the State...

Land Acquisition and Requisition — Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 — S. 24(2) — Deemed lapse of proceedings — Factual conclusion be drawn about the...