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, among others. There was incident of violence leading to multiple deaths and injuries involving son of senior politician/sitting Minister of the Union Government, which took […]
Constitution of India — Art. 32 Read More »
In terms of Cl. 17(7), employee attaining 58 yrs of age “may” be continued in service up to 60 yrs of age subject to medical fitness. Cl. 17(7)(iii) is only an enabling provision that enables appellant to continue employee who had attained 58 yrs of age up to 60 yrs provided he/she is medically fit
Law clarified on the issue that whether the trial of offence of money-laundering should follow the trial of the scheduled/predicate offence or vice versa. Held, Therefore, the question of territorial jurisdiction in this case requires an enquiry into a question of fact as to the place where the alleged proceeds of crime were (i) concealed;
Murder of deceased in Hospital using firearms based principally on CCTV footage system. Hard disk of computer system pertaining to the CCTV cameras not played in court, but only certified version contained in pen drive and compact disks copies of such hard disk played in the court and at no stage any objection was raised.
Evidence Act, 1872 — Ss. 65-A and 65-B Read More »
In this case, Executive Magistrate recorded statement of injured prosecution witness assaulted by accused persons, in the form of dying declaration, however, aforesaid witness surviving such assault. In view of S. 157, so-called dying declaration can be treated as a former statement made by such witness and, therefore, same can be used for contradicting witness.
Evidence Act, 1872 — Ss. 32(1) and 157 Read More »
Leave Travel Concession (LTC) is exempted from income only when it is given/availed entirely for domestic travel within India. in view of the provisions of the Act, the moment employees undertake travel with a foreign leg, it is not a travel within India and hence not covered under the provisions of Section 10(5) of the
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Held, Our conclusion in terms of the application of Section 194H of the IT Act to the Supplementary Commission amounts earned by the travel agent is unequivocally in favour of the Revenue. Section 194H is to be read with Section 182 of the Contract Act. If a relationship between two parties as culled out from their intentions as manifested in the
Law comprehensively clarified regarding effect of non-discharge of duty of insurer to disclose exclusion clause by insurer and non-compliance of statutory mandate under IRDA Regulations, 2002 in this regard. Held, there is an onerous responsibility on the part of the insurer while dealing with an exclusion clause. We may only add that the insurer is statutorily
It has been held by this Court in a catena of cases including Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra reported at (1984) 4 SCC 116, that suspicion, howsoever strong, cannot substitute proof beyond reasonable doubt. This Court has held that there is not only a grammatical but also a legal distinction between ‘may’ and
If action impugned before writ court has no nexus with public element, even though the private body in question may be discharging public function, held, writ jurisdiction cannot be invoked in such a case. Held, It must be consequently held that while a body may be discharging a public function or performing a public duty
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