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Customs — Customs Act, 1962 — S. 28 proviso, 21 and 11-A(1) — Show-cause notice — Same was issued to the respondents before the limitation period — However, the department sought to invoke the proviso to S. 28 on the ground that...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Witnesses — Child/Young Witness — Conviction under Ss. 302/34, 364A, 120B and 201 IPC — Kidnapping and murder of five years old boy for ransom — Key witness, PW 2, sister of the deceased boy who...

A. Criminal Trial — Two dying declarations — If can be relied on — The incompatibility or inconsistency can be said to arise if the assertions in one dying declaration are so diametrically opposed to the statements in the other...

Essential Commodities and Services — Petroleum Product — Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2008 — Ss. 2(i), (m) and (w), 2(zn), 11, 20, 21, 22 and 61(2) — Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (Determination of...

A. Family and Personal Laws — Matrimonial dispute — Custody or guardianship of child — The Court exercises paren patrae jurisdiction in custody or guardianship wrangles; it steps in to secure the welfare of the hapless child of...

A. Criminal Law — Public Accountability, Vigilance and Prevention of Corruption — Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — S. 19 — Previous sanction, if necessary — Allegation that the appellant, a bill collector, had demanded a...

Service Law — Temporary employee — If can be allowed to continue in service, when purpose for which he is engaged does not survive — Respondent was appointed as an Octroi Clerk by appellant/Gram Panchayat on 31-3-1977, on...

A. Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 — Ss. 4, 5 and 6 — Borrower availed financial assistance from 13 lenders for its project — However, lenders formed a consortium and appointed state bank of india as security trustee — Thereafter...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 197 — Sanction — Employees of public corporation — If mandatory — In the present case, accused was working as a Godown Assistant in the Corporation and allegedly...

Service Law — Promotion — Senior Administrative Grade — Denial of — ACRs — Consideration of by Departmental Promotion Committee — Appellant was selected through Civil Service Examination, 1985, and was allotted Indian Defence...