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Supreme court: Defendant Can Cross-Examine Plaintiff Even If Suit Is Proceeding Ex-Parte Against Him & Written Statement Isn't Filed
without waiting till 30th May, 2002, on 3rd May 2002, without issuing notice to the defendants, the suit was taken up by the Trial Court, and an order of striking out the defendants' defence was ...
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'Highly Objectionable': Supreme Court Criticises Patna HC Remark That Widow Has No Use Of Make-up
State of M.P. , Labh Singh v. State of Punjab and Suratlal v. It is stated that the post-mortem report indicated that halfdigested food was found in the stomach of the deceased, whereas, Doman Tenti, ...
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Supreme Court: Courts Cannot Prepone Date Of Hearing Without Giving Notice To Other Party
When the defendants had appeared in the suit, the act of preponing the date without notice to them or their advocate was completely illegal and contrary to elementary principles of natural justice.
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Supreme Court: The period excluded U/S 14 of Limitation Act can not be counted for computing period for condonation of delay
2. The impugned order passed by the High Court affirming the order dated 27.04.2018 passed by Appellate Deputy Commissioner (CT) (FAC), Vijayawada, holding that the delay is beyond condonable period ...
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Madras HC: It is not necessary to examine attesting witness to prove agreement of sale
If the revisions are allowed and the prayers are granted, the plaintiff will only prove that the signatures are of the attesting witnesses. As per Sections 68 to 71 of the Indian Evidence Act, the ...
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Supreme Court: Under which circumstances prosecution case can not be dismissed for non examination of independent witnesses
28. Next, in order to impeach the oral evidence of P.W. 3, P.W. 4 and P.W. 5, the Appellants asserted that there is no testimony of any independent witness, despite the place of crime as per the case ...
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Supreme Court: The merits of the case cannot be considered while dealing with the application for condonation of delay in filing the appeal.
(v) Courts are empowered to exercise discretion to condone the delay if sufficient cause had been explained, but that exercise of power is discretionary in nature and may not be exercised even if ...
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Supreme Court: Clean Acquittal Of Accused After Long Undertrial Custody May Give Rise To Claim For Compensation
There are cases where clean acquittal is granted by the criminal courts to the Accused after very long incarceration as an under trial. When we say clean acquittal, we are excluding the cases where ...
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What approach the court should adopt while dealing with delay condonation application filed by Government department?
18. The default will have to be dealt with in terms of Section 10 of the Maharashtra Government Servants Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay in Discharge of Official Duties Act, 2005 (for ...
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Whether convict can challenge conviction on the ground of conversion of charge if he fails to prove Failure Of Justice?
26. Also, it is beyond any cavil of doubt that the burden to show that in fact a failure of justice has been occasioned is on the Accused. The decision in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Paras Nath Singh ...
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Whether the court can convict accused U/S 302 R/W S 34 of IPC if he was charged U/S 302 R/W S 149 of IPC?
23. In paragraph 17 of the decision of this Court in Chandra Pratap Singh v. State of M.P. MANU/SC/1100/2023 : 2023:INSC:887 : (2023) 10 SCC 181, while dealing with conversion of charge from Section ...
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Kerala High Court Elucidates 'Organized Crime' punishable U/S 111(1) Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 : A Comprehensive Analysis
Muhammad Rasheed Vs. State of Kerala Decided On: 13.08.2024, the High Court of Kerala has provided crucial clarification on the interpretation of 'organized crime' under the newly enacted Bharatiya ...