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“Pension is not a bounty from the state authority to the retired employee, it is compensation for the past service rendered by the employee. It cannot be withheld without assigning any reason”.
A mere fact that the nominated Arbitrator had been a member of the Bench of the Court, which had decided the validity of the interim order passed by the then Arbitral Tribunal, it cannot be held that the “Arbitrator has previous involvement in the case”.
The Court said that there are chances that “if the accused is enlarged on bail, he may utilize his international contacts all over the world for himself and may fly away”.
The Court considered the question that whether the election of a contestant for the post of Sarpanch, Nakhara Gram Panchayat was void as he has more than two children?
Arbitrator is a Judge chosen by the parties and his decision is final as long as it is founded in fairness and justice and an award cannot be passed on the ipse dixit of the arbitrator.
“Two-finger test is no less than adding an unforgettable insult to an unhealed injury. The test violates the right to privacy, physical, mental integrity and dignity”.
“Due to such extra-legal and dishonest arrangements by the Notaries, parties are made to believe that they are legally married when in fact their marriage does not have even the slightest of legal sanctity”.
The Supreme Court affirmed the Himachal Pradesh High Court’s orders, whereby the validity of the Himachal Pradesh Passengers and Goods Taxation Act, 1955 as amended by the Himachal Pradesh Passengers and Goods (Amendment and Validation) Act, 1997 were upheld.
“The next and kin of the deceased prisoner will be entitled to a sum of Rs.15 lakh if the victim was below 30 years of age; a sum of Rs.12 lakh if the victim was below the age of 45 years but above the age of 30 years and, a sum of Rs.10 lakh if the victim was above 45 years of age, as on the date of death”.
“No material was brought on record to show any financial loss to the public exchequer due to the payments made to the company, completing the construction, hence, the action of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation was just, fair and reasonable”.
“Continuance of the criminal proceedings against the accused without any acceptable evidence would be a travesty of justice and an abuse of the process of the Court”.
“While granting interim relief for continuation in service, the Court or Tribunal should, therefore, be slow and circumspect, unless prima facie evidence of unimpeachable character was produced because if the public servant succeeds, he can always be compensated. But if he fails, he would have enjoyed undeserved benefit of extended service and merely caused injustice to his immediate junior”.
“If the documents/ score card given by the candidate, downloaded from the website of the NTA, were genuine, then the candidate should get admission into his choicest institution of the country, like IIT or NIT. But, if the documents are found to be not genuine, then CBI should ascertain how the same was obtained by the candidate, so that such mistake cannot be made by the authorities in future.”
“The delay in lodging FIR in cases of child rape should be taken with much sensitivity and the Courts concerned must judiciously weigh all the surrounding factors which led to such delay as discarding the otherwise meritorious case of the victim merely because there was failure to knock at the portals of justice in a time-bound manner would mean nothing but adding a pinch of salt to the victim’s injury.”
“Scrutiny of Judicial Process by Half Truth Knowledgeable is real danger to Rule of Law” — Justice J.B. Pardiwala at ‘2nd Justice
It was notified on 06-09-2007, that provisions of Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 would extend to Medical institutions, wherein 20 or more persons are or were employed.
At the time of mutation proceedings, the competent authority must examine the manner of acquisition of the title.
Denying a woman employee her basic human right to maternity leave would be an assault on her dignity as an individual and thereby offend her fundamental right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.
The Court said that proper and fair investigation is sine qua non of criminal jurisprudence and directed the CID-Crime Branch to reinvestigate the case.
For Fiber to the Home, the High Court had directed the State to lift internet ban on a case-to-case basis after ensuring that all the stakeholders have duly complied with the safeguards given by the Expert Committee.