Issuing poorly printed receipts/ bills amounts to deficiency of service: Kerala consumer forum
legible bills- MS_Sajeev_Kumar_v__Hewlett_Packard_Global_Soft_Pvt__Ltd____Ors_
Constitution of India — Art. 32
In this case, On October 3, 2021, eight people were killed after a vehicle belonging to and allegedly being driven by son of senior politician mowed down the protesting farmers,…
Constitution of India — Art. 227 — Writ petition against order of Revisional Court rejecting plaint under Or. 7 R. 11 CPC
A Revisional Court while allowing the application filed under Or. 7 R. 11 CPC would in substance reject the plaint but since in such a case, the said decree is…
Copyright Act, 1957 — S. 63: whether Offence prescribing a maximum sentence of 3 yrs, under S.63, is a cognizable and non-bailable offence explained
Held, Thus, for the offence under Section 63 of the Copyright Act, the punishment provided is imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend…
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (30 of 1999) — S. 23 r/w Ss. 2(1)(d), 2(1)(e), 2(1)(f), 3(1)(ii), 3(2), 3(4) and 18
Sanction or prior approval for prosecution under MCOCA: This sanction order dated 05.11.2020 is the bone of contention in the present matter. Held, this Court has repeatedly said that when…
Service Law — Police — Appointment — Post of Police Constable
In this case, there was rejection of candidature of appellant solely on ground of his involvement in criminal case under S. 498-A IPC, in which he was subsequently acquitted. Held,…
Penal Code, 1860 — Ss. 420, 419, 467, 468, 471 & 120-B — Quashment of charge-sheet under — Whether warranted — Absence of prima facie evidence
Mere failure to verify the documents, without any further evidence against officers of Selection Committee, whether enough to implicate them, determined. Appellants having relied on the documents placed on record…
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 482 — Quashment of proceedings: Principles summarized regarding when quashment of proceedings is warranted
The civil suit being the Original Suit No. 1343 of 2016 between the parties is pending wherein the contention of the complainant as a plaintiff is that no sale deed…
Constitution of India — Arts. 19(1)(a) & (2) and Pt. III, Preamble & Art. 51-A — Right to freedom of speech and expression as protected under Art. 19(1)(a) — Regulation thereof by law
The petition dealt with the misuse of the right of freedom of speech and expression, as provided under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution, by public functionaries who made distasteful remarks…
Constitution of India — Art. 226 r/w Arts. 12 and 14 — Maintainability of writ petition: In a petition, challenging clauses of a contract entered into with public sector undertaking, mere existence of alternative remedy is not sufficient by itself, for relegating parties to civil remedy.
Held, we find that the writ petition challenging the clauses was maintainable. It is not disputed that GAIL is a Public Sector Undertaking and thus qualifies under the definition of ‘State’…