Indian case law by case name, citation, provision or legal issue, with the case summary, the judgment text where we hold it and the provisions it applies.
Doctrine of merger: dismissal of SLP at threshold (in limine) by non-speaking order does not attract merger, does not uphold High Court reasoning, and does not constitute binding precedent under Article 141.
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Indian case law by case name, citation, provision or legal issue, with the case summary, the judgment text where we hold it and the provisions it applies.
Doctrine of merger: dismissal of SLP at threshold (in limine) by non-speaking order does not attract merger, does not uphold High Court reasoning, and does not constitute binding precedent under Article 141.
Secularism is an essential feature of the Basic Structure of the Constitution; mixing politics with religion is impermissible and justifies imposition of President's Rule under Article 356.
Death penalty under Section 302 IPC can only be awarded in the 'rarest of rare' cases when alternative option of life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed; balance sheet of aggravating and mitigating factors. | Rarest of rare doctrine governing capital punishment applied to Section 103 BNS (punishment for murder).
Established Basic Structure Doctrine; Parliament has wide power to amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368, but cannot alter, damage, or destroy its Basic Structure.
Article 136 confers extraordinary and residual power on Supreme Court to interfere where tribunals violate principles of natural justice or arrive at arbitrary conclusions causing manifest injustice.
Special leave under Article 136 will not be granted as a matter of course; powers are discretionary and reserved for exceptional circumstances where substantial and grave injustice has been done.
Secularism is an essential feature of the Basic Structure of the Constitution; mixing politics with religion is impermissible and justifies imposition of President's Rule under Article 356.
Death penalty under Section 302 IPC can only be awarded in the 'rarest of rare' cases when alternative option of life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed; balance sheet of aggravating and mitigating factors. | Rarest of rare doctrine governing capital punishment applied to Section 103 BNS (punishment for murder).
Established Basic Structure Doctrine; Parliament has wide power to amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368, but cannot alter, damage, or destroy its Basic Structure.
Article 136 confers extraordinary and residual power on Supreme Court to interfere where tribunals violate principles of natural justice or arrive at arbitrary conclusions causing manifest injustice.
Special leave under Article 136 will not be granted as a matter of course; powers are discretionary and reserved for exceptional circumstances where substantial and grave injustice has been done.