Justice JB Pardiwala Archives

Further Investigation permissible even after the final report laid before the Magistrate has been accepted: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court made clear that further investigation cannot be put at par with prosecution and punishment and hence, the principle of double jeopardy would not apply.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Initiation of IBC proceedings does not absolve Company Directors/Signatories of criminal liability under Section 138 NI Act: SC

The Supreme Court observed that the scope of nature of proceedings under the two Acts are quite different and would not intercede each other.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Here’s why Supreme Court dismissed Rana Ayyub’s challenge to Ghaziabad Special Court’s territorial jurisdiction in Money Laundering case

Explaining the scope of the territorial jurisdiction of Special Court under the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002, the bench of V Ramasubramanian and JB Pardiwala, JJ also held that the trial of the scheduled offence should follow the trial of the offence of money-laundering and not vice versa.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court strikes balance; 20-year-old pregnant woman’s child to be adopted by couple registered with CARA

The woman lost her father during the Covid-19 pandemic and her mother is unwell. She also has a married sister, 10 years older to her. However, all of them showed their inability to raise the child.