Category - Latest Judgments

Service Law — Promotion — Select list — Drawing of — Criteria for effecting promotion from post of Junior Engineer to Assistant Engineer — Decision in Madras Telephones Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Social Welfare Assn...

Allotment/Grant/Lease/Licence of Land — Allotment of plot — Cancellation of the plot allotted under the “Relocation Scheme” on account of non-payment of cost — Legality — Appellant/corporation is the agency implementing the...

A. Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Ss. 7 and 13(2) — Evidence Act, 1872 — S. 3 — Illegal gratification — Trial for — Trap witness — Testimony of — Acceptance of — May require corroboration depending on facts and...

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. 100 — Second appeal — Concurrent findings of facts — Interference with — Scope — Concurrent findings of fact cannot be upset by the High Court unless the findings so recorded are shown to be...

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...