Interest of justice Archives

Explained| Dishonour of Cheques: Can non-executive Directors of the accused company be held vicariously liable under Section 141 NI Act?

Supreme Court: In an appeal against a judgment passed by the Calcutta High Court dismissing the Criminal Revision Application filed

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

APTEL | Norms can be relaxed in certain cases to allow appellant to recover its full fixed cost instead of normative the interest of justice and equity; Tribunal allows appeal

Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL): A Coram of Manjula Chellur, J. (Chairperson) and S.D. Dubey (Technical Member), allowed an appeal which was

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | Compromise between parties in criminal cases can be allowed where there is no adverse impact of dispute to society

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Rajbir Sehrawat, J. quashed the FIR after the parties entered into the compromise as same was held

Case Briefs High Courts

HP HC | Court finds a middle ground while resolving a dispute between necessity and fairness, considering ‘a lot of water has flowed’

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Chander Bhusan Barowalia, J. disposed of a petition considering the long litigation between the parties and gave directions

Case Briefs High Courts

Raj HC | ‘Casual errors lead to unnecessary burden on Court’; error permitted to be rectified subject to deposit of cost

Rajasthan High Court: The Bench of Arun Bhansali, J., allowed the application filed to seek corrections, however, the Court ordered the applicant

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Anticipatory bail granted in the interest of justice to appear for examination

Karnataka High Court: A Bench of B.A. Patil, J., allowed an application for the anticipatory bail filed by an accused, an engineering

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Cumulative sentence for offences under Ss. 380 and 454 IPC for “House Breaking” reduced keeping in view the interest of justice

Delhi High Court: The Bench of Sanjeev Sachdeva, J., in a criminal revision petition presented before him, stated that no interference was

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Eswatini HC | Long period of imprisonment not in interest of justice, youthfulness of accused considered while sentencing

Eswatini High Court: This matter was brought before a Bench of M. Langwenya, J. for judgment on sentence. Facts of the case

Case Briefs High Courts

Karnataka HC refuses to entertain petition of advocate guilty of tampering with court records

Karnataka High Court: A Division bench comprising of CJ Dinesh Maheshwari and S. Sujatha, J. pulled up an advocate who tampered with

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Opportunity of being heard needs to be provided to ensure that the interests of the affected party are not prejudiced: NCDRC

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission: The National Commission, through a Bench comprising of Anup Kr Thakur, Presiding Member and C. Vishwanath, Member