Orissa High Court
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“Remaining unemployed is one thing and sitting idle having qualification and prospect to earn is another thing and if a husband being well qualified sufficient enough to earn sits idle only to shift the burden on the wife should not only be deprecated, but also be discouraged.”

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Meghalaya High Court
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The Court directed the State to instruct every applicant to append an annexure to the form, in explanation of the reason: “has become dangerous to life and property”, and show details how the tree has become dangerous to life and property.

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Discharge in electrocution case
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The accused persons had no knowledge that by asking the two employees to work on the sign board as part of the work of decoration of the frontage of the shop, such an act was likely to cause the death of the two deceased employees.”

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Meghalaya High Court
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“The chargesheet submitted without permission from the Magistrate concerned to investigate the offence, cannot be rendered valid in terms of provision of Section 155 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 which lays down that no police officer shall investigate a non-cognizable case without the order of a Magistrate having power to try such case or commit the case for trial.”

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