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The purpose of Fugitive Economic Offenders Act is to provide for measures to deter fugitive economic offenders from evading the process of law in India by staying outside the jurisdiction of Indian courts, to preserve the sanctity of the rule of law in India and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The circumstances and the witness statements proved the husband’s complicity in killing wife beyond reasonable doubt.
“This is a case that clamours for the exercise of judicial conscience to address the conundrum of whether an individual’s right to recover arrears in maintenance subsists even after the expiry of the period stipulated in section 125(3) CrPC.”
“Though one may think that it is the duty of the State to provide measures to secure the needs of senior citizens during their old age, we cannot ignore the principles in a social order creating an obligation on the children to maintain their parents during old age.”
“FIR in a criminal case is an extremely vital and valuable piece of evidence for the purpose of corroborating the oral evidence adduced at the trial and the delay in the registration of the FIR, by itself, cannot be a ground for quashing of the FIR”.
Supreme Court clarified that if the accused and his advocate are non- conversant with the language, the question of providing translation may arise because the accused must get a fair opportunity to defend himself by understanding the material against him in the charge sheet.
“Negligence is a breach of duty imposed by law and it may be either civil or criminal depending upon the nature and gravity of the negligence. Criminal negligence, on the other hand, is gross and culpable, neglect or failure to exercise, reasonable and proper care and precaution to guard against injury, either to the public generally or to an individual in particular”.
“The concerned public servant should have prepared a complaint under Section 195 CrPC and the same should have been filed before the Magistrate or the same could have been forwarded along with the chargesheet to the concerned Court.”
The instant matter related to a person killed while he was travelling with his group on scooter, allegedly by constables patrolling the village, which was investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (‘CBI’).
Kerala High Court directed the Station House Officer to file a statement with circumstances under which the journalist’s mobile phone was seized.
The Court reprimanded the DSP and said that a DSP, ought to know that in terms of Section 162 of Cr.PC, no statement made by a person to a police officer in the course of any investigation, which is reduced to writing, is required to be signed by the person making the statement.
“The attempt should be to assimilate the required details and reach the correct conclusion at the earliest, rather than mulling over mundane objections.”
Section 41 and 41A of CrPC are facets of Article 21 of the Constitution of India
The Court said that the right of a mother to have custody of her children is not absolute, but subject to the welfare of her children.
The applicant was an HIV Positive Patient for which she required specialized treatment, thus, the Court decided to release the applicant on bail.
Awareness has to be created in young minds not just from the point of view of emotional and societal pressures that Live -in relationships may create, but also from the perspective that it could give rise to various legal hassles.
“Permitting registration of a FIR cannot be a frolicsome act on the part of the Magistrate” – The Court noted that callous attitude of Magistrates has given tremendous rise to huge litigations.
Kerala Court pointed out that the Transplantation team got access to the patient even before the declaration of brain death.