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Allahabad High Court
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“Appointment under a compassionate scheme is not meant to be an alternate source of recruitment. It is essential to reach immediate succor to a bereaved family, as the sudden passing away of a government servant creates a financial vacuum and it is to lend a helping hand to the genuinely needed members of the bereaved family that an appointment is provided.”

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Delhi High Court
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The Delhi High Court stated that the period of sentence served by a convict is only one of the several factors that are to be taken into consideration while adjudicating an application seeking suspension of sentence.

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Jharkhand High Court
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The Court stated that to speak or not to speak has always been a dilemma for a person called for giving his statement before the Customs Officer, Central Sales Tax Officer, Police Officer etc, as the implications are serious.

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Bombay High Court
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The Court stated that physicians, doctors, and chemists are knowledgeable in their field, however they are not infallible, and in respect of medicinal and pharmaceutical products there cannot be any leeway for mistakes, since even a possibility of a mistake may prove fatal to the consumers.

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Kerala High Court
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“For the reason that the parties are Hindus, one cannot assume that the order of maintenance is in recognition of the right under HAMA, for, Section 125 CrPC is secular and applicable to all.”

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Delhi High Court
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“A thin line of distinction exists between defamation and public criticism and an onerous task lies with the Courts to maintain this delicate balance between the competing claims and rights.”

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Delhi High Court
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The Delhi High Court said that the petitioner had no prima facie right, title, and interest in the allotted units, and a case was not made out to restrain the respondents from creating any third-party interest.

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Bombay High Court
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The Court found the order of the Appellate Court was completely bereft of any findings or reasoning for reducing the maintenance amount, and that the Appellate Court could not have reduced the amount of maintenance once having rejected the Application for stay.

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kerala high court
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“If any part of the offence or even one instance of the overt act is committed in India, the sanction under Section 188 CrPC is not required”

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Bombay High Court
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The Court emphasised on the settled position that when two views are possible to a case, then the one that is favours the accused must be adopted.

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Delhi High Court
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The Court dismissed an application for granting interim injunction as similarity of name cannot be the sole criteria, especially because it was a mythological character on which admittedly various works, movies and books are already available.

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Madras High Court
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“Sexual harassment causes considerable harm to women. Harassment undermines women’s workplace authority, reduces them to sexual objects and reinforces sexual stereotypes and inappropriate gender behaviour. It can have deleterious consequences for the mental and physical health of women”.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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The Court stated that the impugned order under review misunderstood the nature of cut-off marks as immutable rather than subject to change based on eligibility criteria.

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Calcutta High Court
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The case relates to the murder of Madan Tamang, the then-president of the All-India Gorkha League (AIGL) in broad daylight at Darjeeling Mall on 21-05-2010.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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“No reasonable person would believe the prosecutrix’s allegations given the circumstances and inconsistencies in her statements.”

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Delhi High Court
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Several members of Aam Aadmi Party including members of various other opposition parties made an audio and video recording of Court proceedings which had been circulated on various social media platforms.

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Madras High Court
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Madras High Court said that the reason given in the impugned refusal check slip reveals the patriarchal mind set of the registering authority, giving an underlying assumption that an unmarried woman above the age of 18 years cannot give her biological child in adoption.

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Bombay High Court
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The Court stated that mere addition of prefix and/or suffix to the impugned mark is inconsequential, thus, it rejected Dubond Products India’s contention that the use of the word “HYDROBUILD” before “LW” in the impugned marks is sufficient to distinguish from the marks of Pidilite Industries.

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Delhi High Court
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The Court noted Arbitration agreement specifying an even number of arbitrators cannot be a ground to render the arbitration agreement invalid. Appointed a sole arbitrator under Section 11(6) petition.

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Bombay High Court
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The Court stated that the Monuments Act, 1960 makes a distinction between a “protected area” and a “protected monument”, and as per the Notification dated 27-01-1999, the “protected monument” is the Vishalgad Fort and not the entire area.

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