2003 Archives

Simple blow with a school bag without evidence of deliberate maltreatment, doesn’t satisfy ingredients of Child Abuse: SC

“The offence of “child abuse” cannot be attracted to every trivial or isolated incident involving a child, but must necessarily co-relate with acts involving cruelty, exploitation, deliberate ill-treatment, or conduct intended to cause harm”.

Case Briefs High Courts

Onus of proof is on prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt that electricity meter is dishonestly damaged for electricity theft: Delhi High Court

“Even assuming the recorded consumption to be lesser than the average computed consumption of electricity, it can at best raise a doubt against the respondent; it cannot act as a proof beyond reasonable doubt to hold that the respondent has dishonestly tampered with the meter.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Calcutta High Court set aside ban on use of hookahs in licensed bar and restaurants

Calcutta High Court | While dealing with a case regarding violation of S. 20(2) of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition

Case Briefs Supreme Court

If the delay is not condonable statutorily, it cannot be condoned taking recourse to Article 142 of the Constitution

Supreme Court: In an appeal preferred under Section 125 of the Electricity Act, 2003, the 3-Judge Bench of Dipak Misra, A.M. Khanwilkar