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“Economic offences having deep rooted conspiracies and involving huge loss of public funds need to be viewed seriously and considered as grave offences posing serious threat to the financial health of the country.”
The Court issued a circular barring usage of any electronic device, even in switched off mode, inside the courtrooms and recording of any part of the proceedings.
The professors contended that the complaint was lodged with a delay of two weeks, and it was politically motivated false accusations.
“It has been reflected that the Disciplinary Authority as well as the Appellate Authority have recorded concurrent findings and found the allegations of misbehaviour with customers and staff and sexual harassment of women employees and valued customers proved against the appellant.”
“The decree obtained by the husband for divorce on proving the adulterous life of the wife cannot give a license to her to continue to live in an illicit relationship and to get her right to claim maintenance revived.”
“Since the assessee has shown the reasonable cause within the meaning of Section 273B of the Act, the assessee is not liable to pay penalty under Section 271E of the Act for non-compliance of Section 269T of the Act.”
“If permission is granted to examine the Facebook or Instagram account of the prosecutrix and play the audio recording concerning the prosecutrix, then privacy of the prosecutrix may be compromised.”
“Acceptance of appointment, even under protest, amounts to exhaustion of the one-time benefit. There cannot be endless negotiation or choice in such appointments, which are an exception to the general rule of recruitment.”
“A person who indulges in facilitating leakage of question paper relating to competitive examinations, plays with the career and future of lakhs of young aspirants, who are ‘burning the midnight oil’ to prepare for competitive exams. Such an act is more heinous than an offence of murder because by killing a person, only one family gets affected but by ruining the career of lakhs of aspirants whole society is adversely impacted.”
“In the present case, aggrieved party that is the husband of the complainant has not made complaint of adultery before the Court; therefore, ingredients of Section 497 of the IPC have not been made out against the convict.”
Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, overall evidence adduced by the prosecution, the mode and manner in which the incident had taken place, the Court opined that some reprieve in the matter of sentence deserved to be given to the convict who had been incarcerated since more than four years.
“An employee earns these benefits by dint of his long, continuous, faithful and unblemished service. It is a hard-earned benefit which accrues to an employee and is in the nature of “property”. This right to property cannot be taken away without the due process of law as per Article 300-A of the Constitution.”
The High Court unfortunately reversed the acquittal without anything other than a finding on alibi having not been proved and the accused not having offered any explanation regarding the death of the deceased, which occurred while they were living together.
On 23-03-2025, the Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority organized a one-day Refresher Training Programme for Legal Aid Defense Counsels of the State at the Chhattisgarh State Judicial Academy, Bilaspur. Previously, on 21-03-2025, the Surajpur District Court inaugurated eight new record rooms and a rest room for victims of sexual harassment in the Court premises.
“If the age of wife is not below the age of 15 years then any sexual intercourse or sexual act by the husband with her wife cannot be termed as rape under the circumstances, as such absence of consent of wife for unnatural act loses its importance, therefore, the offence under Section 376 and 377 of the IPC against the accused was not made out.”
“A person who is single marrying another whose marriage is subsisting is not liable under Section 494 IPC, but the person whose marriage is subsisting would be liable.”
“Despite repeated warnings people were indulging in such allurements and becoming easy targets for touts.”
“In a selection process, the scope of the candidates for participation should not be narrowed down by imposing unwarranted conditions rather more candidates should be allowed to participate so that better qualified candidates may be selected.”
The Court noted that admittedly, before the respondent’s retirement, neither any departmental inquiry was initiated against him nor was any show cause notice issued to him.
The Court reiterated that before passing any stigmatic order for removal of any employee from service, a departmental enquiry was required to be conducted.