A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Proof — Generally — It is well entrenched principle of criminal jurisprudence that a charge can be said to be proved only when there is certain and explicit evidence to warrant legal conviction...

Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 302 and 323 r/w 34 — Murder and voluntarily causing injury — Conviction — Appreciation of evidence — Appellant allegedly assaulted deceased — Dying declaration of deceased was relied on by prosecution —...

It has come out that the plant and machinery owned by the respondent has already been sold in auction and, therefore, nothing survives in this appeal.  

We have heard Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Senior counsel and other learned Senior counsel appearing for the parties.

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 439 — Bail — Provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 [PMLA] — If relevant — PMLA a special statute enacted by the Parliament for dealing with money laundering —...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal Trial — Dying declaration — Nature and scope — Reiterated that dying declaration can be the sole basis of conviction and it does not require any corroboration — However, dying declaration goes against...

A. Service Law — Judiciary — Annual Confidential Report (ACR) — Validity — In the present case, petitioner, a Judicial Officer, failed to submitted his self assessment report (SAR) for the year 2009 and was awarded ‘average’ in...

A. Practice and Procedure — Res Judicata — Application — Requirements — Reiterated that following conditions must be satisfied (i) matter directly and substantially in issue, (ii) same parties or between parties under whom they...

A. Constitution of India — Art. 226 — Writ — Maintainability — Alternate remedy — Where Revenue issued show-cause notice dt. 16-1-1992 classifying the goods under Tariff Heading 4009.92 — Assessee filed writ petition instead...

Excise — Central Excise Rules, 1944 — R. 57A(4) — Credit — When permissible — Credit would be allowed if the inputs used in the manufacture of final products as well as on inputs which are used in or in relation to the...