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Mazid Bayan is also a part of investigation, and it can be relied on by Investigating Officer while filing a final report/ charge sheet and only caveat is that it may not be a tutored statement or recorded only for the purpose of predetermined object to continue investigation in a particular way and it may not be on whimsical approach of Investigating Officer.

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The right of privacy claimed by the husband vis-à-vis the prayer of the wife to seek assistance of the Court for production of records to substantiate her charge of adultery levelled against the husband in her petition seeking divorce was the question before the Delhi High Court.

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Delhi High Court observed that in the present case, the natural resource viz. natural gas was neither ‘bought’ nor ‘sold’ as between Reliance and the Ministry; thus, the public trust doctrine was not contravened.

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Delhi High Court observed that the child who was being examined in the case at hand was in the category of a child witness who is vulnerable and a victim of sexual assault by her own father, and it was not a new phenomenon in criminal jurisprudence.

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The Delhi High Court opined that Jindal Sanitaryware (P) Ltd. will not be subjected to any serious prejudice if it was restrained from using ‘JINDAL' on its PVC pipes, as it was already using the mark ‘J PLEX ', which was registered in its favour for PVC pipes.

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“The (buzz) word is that Mosquitoes are simply everywhere — in pools, parks, movie theatres and convention centres — pests! Perhaps the time has finally come to use cannons to kill mosquitoes.”

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Orissa High Court
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The Court said that there was scope for promotion to the post of Junior Clerk by virtue of the Odisha Ministerial Service (Method of Recruitment to the Posts of Junior Clerks in the District Offices) Amendment Rules, 2001.

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Transliteration is the conversion of a text from one script or alphabet to another, as opposed to translation from one language to another. Shorter Oxford Dictionary 5th Edition defines ‘transliteration' as a noun to mean rendering of letters or characters of one alphabet in those of another.

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Kerala High Court
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Kerala High Court also acknowledged the fact that policemen and others were also injured when the accused attacked them with a surgical knife.

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The attitude towards early love relationships, especially adolescent love, had to be scrutinized in the backdrop of their real-life situations to understand their actions in each situation because the teenagers who try to imitate romantic culture of films and novels, remain unaware about the laws and the age of consent.

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Kerala High Court
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Kerala High Court prima facie viewed that the Tanur boat accident could be avoided if the authorities would have invested vital legal and statutory duty to watch and monitor the situation.

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Madras High Court opined that this is a fit case to refer the matter to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu to initiate disciplinary action against the advocates who performed the marriage.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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Punjab and Haryana High Court was of the view that no offence was made out as per the provisions of SC-ST Act, 1989.

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Section 438 was inserted in CrPC as it was seen that the influential persons try to implicate their rivals in false cases for the purpose of disgracing them by detaining them in jail for some time. It is true, such powers are to be exercised in exceptional cases. The prosecution cannot be permitted to be converted into an arena to settle scores.

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Meghalaya High Court
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The Court said that despite repeated orders of the NGT and Supreme Court, rather than prohibiting the illegal coal mining, the State may have provided tacit support to such operations.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court
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Punjab and Haryana High Court commented that the parties had the chance to appeal against the said order of lower court, yet they approached the High Court through Article 227 of the Constitution of India.

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A customer of average intelligence and imperfect recollection, who comes across the plaintiff's Royal Green Whisky on a particular date and, later, comes across the defendant's Royal Queen product, will be confused between the two.

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Delhi High Court observed that there is no distinct category within child victims of rape as those who are married and those who are not.

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Gujarat High Court
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The Court found that the conviction and life sentencing order suffered from patent infirmities and was based on presumptions.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court
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“…the Act of 1956 is a special Act which govern the law regarding companies only whereas IT Act is a general Act which percolates in just about every sphere of life and is applicable to all the citizen of India when it comes to payment of Income Tax.”

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