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A. Customs — Demand of custom duty — Duty involved in the present case is meagre — Keeping in view the smallness of the financial implication and the fact that the matter is otherwise decided against the Department by the Cegat...

Delay in filing Review Petition (C) No. 781 of 2015 is condoned.

Service Law — Appointment — Post of J&K Forest Service Range Officers Grade I was “BSc (Forestry)” — Minimum qualification prescribed for applying to the post was “BSc (Forestry) or equivalent from any University recognized...

A. Intellectual Property — #Trade Marks Act, 1999 — #Ss. 9(1)(a), 9(1)(c) and 2(zb) — Trademark registration — Refusal — Absolute grounds — Mark lacking distinctiveness — “Ramayan”* as trademark — Non-registrability — “Ramayan”...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 154 — FIR — Reliability and validity of FIR — Content of FIR — Omission of names in FIR — Where informant was himself a witness to incident, however, FIR lodged by him does not...

Having regard to the nature of order which we propose to pass, it is not necessary to traverse through the facts in detail. Suffice it is to mention that there was a liability of tax in the sum of Rs. 35,44,614.55/- in respect of...

Saraswati Kumari, the daughter of the appellant (also the complainant) in this case is stated to have gone to attend a “mela” (festival) along with her brother - Sunny Devol, and her cousin brother - Devender Razak, on 21.10.2007...

Infrastructure Laws — Water and Water Resources — Water Disputes — Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956 — Ss. 5 and 6 — Cauvery Water Dispute — Chart indicating the flow released at Billigundulu during 2016-2017 filed — Held...

Service Law — Dismissal — Procedural irregularities — Effect of — High court gave finding that the disciplinary proceedings suffered from procedural irregularities and also violation of principles of natural justice — Order of...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal procedure code, 1973 — S. 340 — Preliminary enquiry by Court — Recording of finding — If necessary — The expression used in S. 340 is ‘may’ — Therefore, it is not mandatory that the court should record...