Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News
“Appellants secured admission based on tribe certificates, which have since been cancelled, is not in doubt. Nonetheless, sight cannot be lost that their tribe certificates were invalidated after they had graduated.”
Continue reading
The Supreme Court held that the deeming fiction under Section 103 of the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002 does not operate automatically merely because a cooperative society’s area temporarily extends across two States following reorganisation.
Continue reading
“The exclusion of the creamy layer among the backward classes is not a matter of mere policy preference but a constitutional imperative intended to ensure that the benefits of reservation reach those who are socially and educationally backward in the true sense of the phrase.”
Continue reading
“The State, as a model employer, cannot adopt artificial classifications to deny statutory benefits. Repackaging contractual engagements under a different nomenclature, while denying regularization, violates the equality mandate under Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution.”
Continue reading
“Despite the forgiveness expressed by respondent No. 2 towards the petitioner, whom she brought up as a daughter, must the Court compel the criminal proceedings to be taken to their logical conclusion?”
Continue reading
“A decision based on such non-existent and fake alleged judgments is not an error in the decision making.”
Continue reading
The Court directed that electricity supply to the premises be restored within seven days subject to payment of electricity charges by the petitioner.
Continue reading
The Arbitral Tribunal was justified in awarding post-award interest, but the rate of interest required modification.
Continue reading
“The observations limited only qua the Investigating Officer are stayed, till the next date of hearing, including the direction recommending departmental action against him.”
Continue reading
“Criminal liability is founded on legally admissible material capable of giving rise to a sustainable inference, and not on conjecture, or investigative imagination.”
Continue reading
“Possibility of rashness and negligence by a driver cannot be negated on the mere account of low speed, especially when it is alleged that the respondent was driving a heavy vehicle, carrying material over the permissible weight limit, in a zig-zag manner prior to the accident.”
Continue reading
“The Court is not to act merely as a post office or a mouthpiece of the prosecution. The Court must apply its judicial mind to the record to assess whether the material, taken at face value, discloses the essential ingredients of the alleged offence and raises grave suspicion, as distinct from a mere suspicion.”
Continue reading
The matter revolves around the alleged forgery/genuineness of the agreements containing the arbitration clause.
Continue reading
“Issuance of summons in a criminal case is a very serious matter, since even mere issuance of summons by criminal court may stigmatise a person, who may not be required to be summonsed at all.”
Continue reading
“Continued underutilisation, despite availability of infrastructure, reflects a systemic indifference to deploy reformative mechanisms and warrants immediate corrective measures.”
Continue reading
“The nomenclature “sharbat” does not strip the product of its essential character as a fruit-based beverage concentrate, particularly where its composition and intended use align with that understanding.”
Continue reading
Unapproved restructuring of loan facility not in compliance with the Debenture Trust Deed cannot defeat the admission of Section 7 IBC application once financial debt and default are established.
Continue reading
“Petitioner did not sign the pre-receipts, mandatory for drawing salary, and also did not submit his bank details. The petitioner’s own conduct and non-cooperative attitude contributed to the delay in release of payments.”
Continue reading
“One of the integral aspects of a healthy life is hygienic environment. Absence of a healthy environment would frustrate the right of the petitioner to live with dignity.”
Continue reading
“CHACHA, though otherwise a word of common usage, has clearly no connection with sarees or garments. There is no basis, therefore, for a Court to hold that, when used in connection with the sarees or garments, the word CHACHA is not distinctive.”
Continue reading