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Chhattisgarh High Court
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As per Annual Confidential Reports, the petitioner’s overall grade was average or below average. Since, the petitioner completed 50 years of age, this decision of compulsory retirement could have been taken by the State authorities. The un-communicated adverse remarks cannot be made a basis to disturb the finding recorded by the competent authority.

Madhya Pradesh High Court
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The primary objective of the JJ Act is the rehabilitation of juveniles rather than punishment. The grant or denial of bail/suspension should be based on the individual’s conduct and circumstances, not solely on the severity of the offense.

Delhi High Court
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A sensitive approach is required to be acquired by the Courts while dealing with the offences constituting bribery allegations against a public officer as the same minimizes the trust of the public in public servants who are duty bound to protect them.

Delhi High Court
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A person castigating their employer through a constant tirade of false and scandalous allegations does not deserve to continue in the employment of the said employer.

Allahabad High Court
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By virtue of Rules 54(2) and 54(3), the petitioner is entitled to full pay and allowances for the period between 9-1-2020 to 29-9-2020 and his absence from service during the said period has to be treated as a period spent on duty for all purposes.

Delhi High Court
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Plagiarism by any stretch of imagination will remain plagiarism, irrespective of where the material had been copied from and the quantum of such material copied, will not have any bearing or impact on the alleged misconduct of plagiarism itself.

Delhi High Court
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“Section 115 of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 raises a statutory presumption that any person who attempts to commit suicide shall be presumed to have severe stress and shall not be tried and punished under the Penal Code, 1860.”

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Supreme Court: In a case where a member of the Indian Forest Services (IFS) had alleged that his junior was promoted to the post of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests while his candidature was kept in

Madhya Pradesh High Court
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    Madhya Pradesh High Court: Satyendra Kumar Singh, J. in a recent case affirmed that Trial Court does not have power

Delhi High Court
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Delhi High Court: In a case of an FIR registered by a woman (‘respondent 2′) alleging rape charges under the influence of

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Meghalaya High Court
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Meghalaya High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ. and W. Diengdoh, J. disposed of an appeal assailing the judgment of

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Telangana High Court: Juvvadi Sridevi, J. granted anticipatory bail subject to completion of investigation and filing of the final report. The facts

Patiala House Courts, Delhi
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Patiala House Courts: Stating that the crimes for which the convict had been convicted were intended to strike at the heart of

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Supreme Court: Allowing the review petition in the 34-year-old road-rage case involving cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu that resulted into the death of

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Kerala High Court: Expressing that, Criminal prosecution followed by conviction and imposing substantive sentences and fines on those convicted of suicidal behaviours

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Supreme Court: In a case where an employee had produced a fake certificate for seeking employment, the bench of MR Shah* and

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Supreme Court: The bench of MR Shah* and BV Nagarathna, JJ has held that merely because a long period has lapsed by

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Calcutta High Court: The Division Bench of Joymalya Bagchi and Bivas Pattanayak, JJ. modified a sentence imposed which was given in relation

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Sikkim High Court: Bhaskar Raj Pradhan, J. allowed the compromise to bury the difference between parties and gives them their lives as