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Can a Husband of a minor girl claim custody ?
Comment : In this case – the court was faced with the perplexing question as to whether a person who is accused of kidnapping a…
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Supreme Court on Rash & Grossly Negligent.
Supreme Court of India Rathnashalvan vs State Of Karnataka on 11 January, 2007 Author: D A Pasayat Bench: D A Pasayat, S Kapadia CASE…
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Murder v. Culpable Homicide – R v Govinda
Comment : The distinction drawn by Melville J. in this cause celebre, has been accepted. In a nutshell – as Culpable Homicide is the genus…
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Issue Estoppel in a Criminal Trial !
Comment : In this case the Court applied the principles of issue estoppel. The accused was earlier acquitted in a 399/402/25 Arms Act Case because…
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Role of Judge in a Criminal Trial
A judgment of seminal important on the role of a judge in a criminal trial, the breadth of the 165/311 inquisitorial aspects of court’s…
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Injunction against Partners from competing
Comment : This pronouncement concerns a case where a partnership firm sought to injuct it’s ertwhile(retired) partners from carrying on competing business in contravention of…
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Supreme Court on S.106 Burden of Proof as to facts especially within knowledge.
Comment : In this case the Court was faced with a situation where a railway employee was arraigned u/s 420 IPC for having cheated railway…
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Supreme Court on Customary Divorce….
Comment : In this case the court was faced with facts wherein the deceased husband’s relatives sought to oust the widow from claiming partition –…
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Law of Easments in India
Comment : In this case the Court was faced with a question relating to acquistion of Easement. For starters an easement is basically a…
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Declaration as to illegal termination
Comment : In this case the court held that a declaration that a termination of a professor was illegal and he remained in service, was…
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Perusal of Defence testimony
Comment : defence witnessess cannot always be termed to be tainted one. defences witnesses are entitled to equal treatment and equal respect as that…
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Appraisal of Testimony of Child Witness
Comment : Allahabad High Court Panchhi And Ors. vs State Of U.P. on 17 February, 1998 Equivalent citations: 1998 CriLJ 3305 Author: K Shahi…
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Adoption of major
Comment : The court was faced with a man claiming property of the deceased – being adopted son – relying on a registered adoption deed.…
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Dowry Articles – Theft/379 IPC against MIL/SIL- Delhi High Court
Comment : In this case the court was dealing with a revision against the order of framing of charge by a Mother In law…
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Vinod Kumar Chowdhry vs Narain Devi Taneja on 11 January, 1980
Vinod Kumar Chowdhry vs Narain Devi Taneja on 11 January, 1980 Equivalent citations: 1980 AIR 2012, 1980 SCR (2) 746 Bench: Koshal, A.D. PETITIONER:…
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Revision by Landlord against ARC’s adverse judgment – is maintainable
Comment : In this case the issues that arose for consideration were “Whether a landlord can file a revision u/s 25B(8) of the Delhi Rent…
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Reference to Arbitration by an unregistered firm allowed for the purposes of dissolution.
Comment : The Court was faced with the issue “Whether an unregistered firm can opt for arbitration for dissolution of the firm” The Court held…
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25B DRC is a complete code in itself
Om Prakash vs Ashwani Kumar Bassi on 27 August, 2010 Bench: Altamas Kabir, A.K. Patnaik IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION…
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Supreme Court on attempt to murder…
Comment : In this case the court was faced with a situation where the accused belonging to the armed forces (a guard) shot at his…
