Private Complaint Archives

Advocate who practiced for 10 years without clearing AIBE can face criminal proceedings; Bar Council’s disciplinary jurisdiction is not exclusive: Karnataka HC

Karnataka High Court considered a complaint against an advocate who allegedly continued practising for nearly a decade without clearing the All India Bar Examination (AIBE), despite the two-year limit on provisional enrolment. The Court also examined the scope of the Bar Council’s disciplinary powers and the complainant’s right to initiate criminal proceedings.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Know why SC allowed private complaint for offence of false evidence before a Tribunal, considering it as the only remedy

Supreme Court set aside the High Court’s decision quashing the private complaint and concluding that the alleged offences under Sections 193, 199 and 200 of the IPC were such, on which the complaint could have only been filed by the Court following the route under Section 195 read with Section 340 of the CrPC.

Case Briefs High Courts

Private complaint regarding doctor’s rashness or negligence cannot be entertained, unless accompanied by credible opinion of another doctor: Jharkhand HC

The Court stated that allowing the proceedings to continue will amount to an abuse of the process of law.

Case Briefs High Courts

Raj HC | Judgment can be a binding precedent only for what has been considered and held in it; No Court can travel beyond facts mentioned and considered therein to cull out “ratio decidendi”

Rajasthan High Court: Mahendra Kumar Goyal J., dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are such that