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“Institutions of higher learning must remain spaces of safety, dignity, and intellectual freedom, and any trend of lawlessness, vigilantism, or disorder in and around the campus environment not only jeopardises students’ welfare but also undermines the institutional ethos.”
“The criminal antecedents of an accused cannot be brushed lightly as it has got definite impact on the society.”
“The trust of the people upon this institution should not be believed by encouraging wild litigants to make scurrilous remarks against constitutional functionaries in defiance of the Courts’ orders.”
“The proviso was introduced by way of amendment effective from 18-04-1994, whereas the appellant’s third child was born on 11-03-1993 and the fourth on 06-11-1994, thus, the case is one of Textbook for attracting the disqualification clause, the protective proviso remaining miles away.”
“A society, which does not hold the Defence Personnel in high esteem, will do disservice to itself, inasmuch as its own security will be at stake, if those who guard it are not regarded.”
“Whether the termination would take effect from a particular date has no nexus to the period provided for issuance of the notice.”
“The Hindu Marriage Act does not recognise childlessness as a justifiable circumstance for entering into wedlock with a person who is already in the subsisting wedlock with another.”
“When a girl is not ready for marriage, giving her in marriage by using extraneous force is not conducive for a healthy society”
“The Court cannot pass a blanket order in a writ petition directing deletion of the name of a dead person, because some formalities as per law are required to be made before the Tahasildar through a Mutation Proceeding.”
“The petitioner submitted that the court below could not have taken cognizance of both offences simultaneously.”
“Mere filing of an appeal cannot and does not operate as a stay of the order appealed against, unless an order of stay operation of the same has been passed.”
“If it is intended to be a voluntary act, appropriate provisions clearly specifying such fact ought to have been incorporated in the form by providing option to the parents to refuse to submit their consent or to opt out of it entirely.”
“The post in other disciplines have already been filled up and none of the appointees are party to the writ petition and in absence of them, their selection and appointment cannot be interfered with.”
“Political interference or affinity in the campus is not desirable in general and in the matters of transfer of teachers, in particular.”
“There is nothing in the Passport Act which even remotely suggests that pendency of disciplinary or vigilance proceedings would stand as an absolute bar for grant of passport.”
“Since there is allegation against the petitioner for his links with Al-Qaeda and the act alleged against the petitioner having ramification over national security and safety of local people at large.”
“In these hard days of unemployment, more particularly for women, there has to be a strong case made out that the employee has abandoned the job.”
“The plaintiff being dominus litis cannot be forced to implead someone against whom he does not specifically seek any relief. It goes without saying that if he has chosen not to, he does so at his own risk.”
“The disputes between the neighbours relating to the easementary rights are clearly mentioned as being suitable for mediation.”
“Several laws have been enacted, and several steps have been taken by the judiciary as well as the administrative machineries to prevent such kind of occurrences. However, all such steps have gone in vain, and the society has collectively failed to save the life of a young girl.”