Pending execution petitions
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It is said that the woes for the litigants in this country start once they are able to obtain a decree in their favour and are unable to execute and reap its fruits for years together.”

S. 138 NI Act case transfer
Case BriefsSupreme Court

For the purpose of transfer of any case or proceedings under Section 406 of the CrPC, the case must fall within the ambit of the expression “expedient for the ends of justice”.

Acquittal in S. 306
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Even if the suicide note is taken as correct and genuine, there was no act of incitement on the part of the accused persons proximate to the date on which the deceased committed suicide.”

Unreasoned BCI Order
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court reiterated that that an order of affirmation may not require elaborate reasons as required in the case of an order of reversal, but it does not mean that such order of affirmation need not contain any reason at all.

Acquittal in murder
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The motive for the commission of the offence was absent and the same was very relevant as the case was based on circumstantial evidence.”

Land Reservation MRTP Act
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It does not make any good sense to keep a plot reserved in a development plan for the past 33 years. The Authority did not allow the original owners to use the land and are now not permitting even the purchasers to utilize the land.”

Dry cleaning manufacturing process
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It is very clear that Section 2(g) of the Factories Act, 1934 did not have the words ‘washing, cleaning’ and they have been specifically brought in the Factories Act, 1948 with a clear object of bringing into the fold of the Act undertakings excluded from the scope of the 1934 Act.”

Section 100 Transfer of Property Act
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on Section 100 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, dating back to the year 1954.

Visually impaired eligibility for judiciary
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The Constitution of India is blind to the differences between able-bodied and differently abled citizens in matters of providing equal opportunity to all citizens in all spheres of life, including employment, and envisages equality and non-discrimination.”

YouTuber Ranveer Allahabadia
Hot Off The PressNews

Allahabadia and his associates were barred from airing any show on YouTube or any other audio/video visual mode of communication over India’s Got Latent Row.

Acquittal due to insufficient evidence
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court said that according to the prosecution, the convicts had committed the murder of the deceased. Therefore, it is for the prosecution to connect the convicts to the murder by producing credible and legally admissible evidence.

Justice N. Kotiswar Singh
Know thy Judge

Justice N. Kotiswar Singh was serving as the Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, prior to being elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 18-7-2024.

Acquittal in girlfriend’s murder
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“When one of the three circumstances was disbelieved and discarded by the High Court, then the chain of circumstantial evidence could not have been held to be complete and proved and on that basis to hold the accused guilty of the offence.”

Justice CK Thakker
New releasesNews

Justice Thakker served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2004 till his retirement in 2008.

consideration
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on consideration, dating back to the year 1954.

Partha Chatterjee Bail
Hot Off The PressNews

Recruitments to various posts of Primary School Teachers; Assistant School Teachers; Group C staff; and Group D staff, was questioned before the Calcutta High Court challenging the legitimacy of the procedures followed in the recruitments.

Senior designation process
Hot Off The PressNews

The Bench was dealing with the issue of whether the law and the procedure laid down by the Court regarding the designation of Advocates as Senior Advocates under Section 16 of the Advocates Act, 1961 required reconsideration.

Decentralising Mineral Rights
Op EdsOP. ED.

by Atish Chakraborty* and Shaurya Kapoor**

Christian Michel
Hot Off The PressNews

It was alleged that Michel being a consultant of AgustaWestland, he was roped in for liaison work, in furtherance of which he and another person combined received more than Euro 70 million in the companies beneficially owned and controlled by them.

Humiliating questions in court
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It is the duty of the Court to reach the truth of the matter and such exercise may demand putting forward certain questions and suggestions which may be uncomfortable to some.”