Category - Latest Judgments

Criminal Law — Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 299-304 — Culpable Homicide and Murder — Basic Principles — Causation — Medical report and eye witness account gives a complete chain of proving the prosecution case of murder — Conviction...

A. Rent Control and Eviction — Landlord — Tenant Relationship — Eviction — Assam Urban Area Rent Control Act, 1972 — S. 2(c) — Definition of ‘landlord’, couched in a very wide language, according to which not only the owner but...

A. Service Law — Pension — If employee is entitled to, even if he resigned from service — Belated claim — Such claims recur month to month and would not stand extinguished on the application of the laws of prescription, merely...

A. Criminal Law — Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 375 and 376 — Rape — Trial — Appreciation of evidence — Consent — Credibility of prosecutrix — Where prosecutrix deposed, that while she was sleeping between her mother and brother, the...

A. Debt, Financial and Monetary Laws — Debt, Debt Recovery and Relief — Guarantor/Surety — Mortgaged property sold in auction — Settlement arrived in the Lok Adalath wherein other sharers including principal debtor signed —...

Excise — Excise duty — Assessment — Appellant-assessee, a registered manufacturer of lubricating oils and its allied preparations, falling under Ch. sub-Heading 2710.90 and 3403.10, had been selling goods to its customers on cash...

A. Criminal Trial — Discharge/recalling process — Application for — Rejection of — Legality — Cheques issued by accused in discharge of liability in share transaction with respondent company, were dishonoured — Process was issued...

A. Local Government — Municipalities — Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 — Ss. 394, 3(yy), 368(5) r/w S. 479 — Trade refuse charges (TRC) — Levy of, as a condition for renewing the trade licences — Revised rates — Whether...

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...

Property Law — Conversion of property from leasehold to freehold property — DDA rejected the conversion application on the ground that the respondent is not a power of attorney holder in respect of the suit property — The...