Case Briefs Archives

Irregular Disciplinary Enquiry: Court cannot reinstate employee as such; Matter must be remanded to Enquiry Officer/Disciplinary Authority

Supreme Court: In a disciplinary proceeding where it was established that there was a breach of principles of natural justice as the

Case Briefs High Courts

HP HC | Minor girl students raped and subjected to penetrative sexual assault by their teacher: Sanctity of Teacher-Student relationship polluted

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Polluting the sanctity of the relationship of the teacher and students, a teacher committed rape and penetrative sexual

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | Suppression of a ‘material fact’ of non-disclosure of pendency of bail application considered, subservient to the right of liberty granted to the petitioners; Guidelines issued

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Three petitions are clubbed together where the petitioners intended to withdraw their bail applications as bail was

Case Briefs Supreme Court

How will the higher Court know why review jurisdiction was exercised? Courts must mention what was that error apparent on the face of the record: SC

Supreme Court: In the case where the division bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court allowed a review petition by merely stating that

Case Briefs High Courts

Man taking a lady from another community in his car, attacked by violent mob: Act of mob moral policing? Ker HC unfolds

Kerala High Court: Calling it to be ‘moral policing’ K. Haripal, J., addressed a matter wherein a man had taken a lady

Case Briefs High Courts

Testamentary disposition of property is deviation from natural line of inheritance in lesser or greater degree: Can it result in complete disposition in favour of one heir or exclusion of any other heir? Jhar HC throws light

Jharkhand High Court: Expressing that the due execution of a Will is to be proved as per the provisions of law as

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Is amount spent by pharmaceutical companies in gifting freebies to the doctors “business expenditure” under IT Act when act of accepting freebies by doctors is an offence? SC answers

“…the statutory regime requiring that a thing be done in a certain manner, also implies (even in the absence of any express terms), that the other forms of doing it are impermissible.”

Case Briefs District Court

Tis Hazari Court | If an accused proves that there was non-existence of consideration and debt: Can accused person be acquitted under S. 138 NI Act? Read on

Central District, Tis Hazari Court, Delhi: Kratika Chaturvedi, DJS, while addressing a matter revolving around Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act,

Case Briefs Supreme Court

POCSO| Is investigation of disclosure of victim’s identity permissible without Magistrate’s permission? SC gives split verdict

Supreme Court: The bench of Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari, JJ has given split verdict on the issue as to whether the

Case Briefs High Courts

MP HC | Cancellation of candidature on the ground of typographical error arbitrary and grossly disproportionate; Court allows petition

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Pranay Verma, J., allowed a petition which was filed praying for a direction to consider petitioner’s candidature for

Case Briefs High Courts

Incarcerated for 8 years for an offence punishable with minimum 10 years imprisonment: Violation of Right to Personal Liberty and Right to Speedy Trial? Del HC answers

Delhi High Court: Subramonium Prasad, J., remarked that, “…achievement of universal equality before the law requires the tenets of personal liberty to

Case Briefs High Courts

When a Child in Conflict with Law is to be tried as an adult, an assessment under S. 15 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 is required to be done? Bom HC answers

Bombay High Court: M.G. Sewlikar, J., held that, in terms of Section 15 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children)

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC | Detention order quashed due to lack of opportunity of hearing in the matter of S. 129 of the West Bengal Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017

Calcutta High Court: Md. Nizamuddin, J. disposed of a petition which was filed challenging the impugned order passed by the Deputy Commissioner

Case Briefs High Courts

Can Currency Notes in police custody pre-demonetisation, be replaced with current valid tender? Bom HC decides

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of G.S. Patel and Madhav J. Jamdar, JJ., addressed a matter concerning currency notes pre-demonetisation and

Case Briefs High Courts

Economic Offence | Entire community is aggrieved if economic offenders, who ruin economy of the State are not brought to book: Patna HC

Patna High Court: Expressing that the entire community is aggrieved if the economic offenders, who ruin the economy of the State are

Case Briefs High Courts

Power to Transfer Cases| Can Chairman of CAT on his own motion, without any notice, transfer any case pending before one Bench for disposal to another Bench? Del HC addresses

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of D.N. Patel, CJ and Jyoti Singh, J., held that the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal

Case Briefs High Courts

Prosecution must stand on its own legs basing its findings on the evidence that has been led by it: All HC

Allahabad High Court: Siddhartha Varma, J., held that it is the bounden duty of the enquiry officer to have seen whether the

Case Briefs High Courts

In the film industry, would production units have to constitute Internal Complaints Committee to deal with harassment against women? Ker HC elaborates

Kerala High Court: While expressing that, any organisations, establishments, private institutions are employing workers whether for wages or not in contemplation of

Case Briefs High Courts

High Court cannot act as a post office to collect and exchange information: Madras HC

Madras High Court: While stating that Central Information Commission has only made recommendations, which cannot by any stretch of imagination be taken

Case Briefs High Courts

No stay on OTT Release of film ‘83’: Bom HC | Netflix and Star India already have antecedent rights, both digital and satellite for 10 years

Bombay High Court: While refusing to restrain Star India and Netflix from streaming the film ‘83’ on their respective broadcasting portals, R.I.