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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.
1,661–1,680 · Page 84 of 500
Supreme Court of India16 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 424 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 894
Judgment and order under review ignored the law laid down by the Constitution Bench in Bhagat Ram & others vs. State of Punjab & others which had a direct bearing on the issue in question and took a view totally contrary thereto and held that the vesting in the Panchayat is complete on mere assignment under Section 18(c) of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948. It was also held that the unutilized land was not available for redistribution amongst the proprietors and the land reserved for common purposes cannot be re-partitioned amongst the propriet
Supreme Court of India15 May 2024Full text
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.
1,661–1,680 · Page 84 of 500
Supreme Court of India16 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 424 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 894
Judgment and order under review ignored the law laid down by the Constitution Bench in Bhagat Ram & others vs. State of Punjab & others which had a direct bearing on the issue in question and took a view totally contrary thereto and held that the vesting in the Panchayat is complete on mere assignment under Section 18(c) of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948. It was also held that the unutilized land was not available for redistribution amongst the proprietors and the land reserved for common purposes cannot be re-partitioned amongst the propriet
Supreme Court of India15 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 422 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 740
By the judgment and order dated 15.11.2010, the High Court relied upon the written dying declaration of the deceased Ex. 59 recorded by PW-6 and also the oral dying declarations of the deceased made before PW-2, PW-3, PW-4, PW-7 and PW-8 and thereafter upheld the judgment of conviction of the trial court. The appellant was convicted for committing an offence punishable u/s. 302 r/w. s.34 of the IPC and sentenced to suffer life imprisonment. Whether the dying declaration (Ex.59), in the instant case, was the valid piece of evidence.
Supreme Court of India17 Jan 2024Full text
2024 INSC 42 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 429
Whether sanction u/s. 197 Cr.P.C. is required to prosecute respondent No. 2 who faces accusation amongst others of creating fake documents by misusing his official position as a Village Accountant, thus a public servant. The competent authority has declined to grant sanction to prosecute. High Court has held that in the absence of such sanction, respondent No. 2 cannot be prosecuted and consequently has quashed the complaint as well as the chargesheet, giving liberty to the appellant to assail denial of sanction to prosecute respondent No. 2 in an appropriate proceeding, if so advised.
Supreme Court of India15 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 416 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 813
Matter pertains to the permissibility of suing the accused for a civil wrong, in relation to the benami transactions, as a corollary, allowing criminal prosecution of the accused in relation to the same cause of action.
Supreme Court of India13 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 415 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 714
A land owned by the appellant was acquired and he did not receive any compensation for the same. Before the Division Bench of the High Court, the appellant was informed that value of land was Rs. 4,68,099/-. The Division Bench of the High Court disposed of the Letters Patent Appeal by asking the appellant to file an appropriate application before the concerned authority for disbursement of the value of the land. Whether the High Court committed any error in passing the impugned order.
Supreme Court of India15 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 414 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 666
Whether the arrest and subsequent remand of the accused- appellant was vitiated as the copy of the remand application was not provided to him or his counsel before passing of the order of remand thus, not informing him of the grounds of arrest in writing.
Supreme Court of India9 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 413 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 698
Respondents herein were convicted by the Sessions Court for offence punishable u/s. 325 IPC and were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of five years. However, the High Court reduced the sentence of five years to four years and further
Supreme Court of India14 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 411 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 624
Whether the present is a fit and suitable case for exercising power under Section 144, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 directing restitution in favour of the appellant-judgment debtor by placing the parties in the position which they would have occupied before the execution.
Supreme Court of India14 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 410 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 484
Matter pertains to whether a complaint alleging “deficiency in service” against advocates practising legal profession, would be maintainable under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 as re- enacted in 2019; whether “Service” hired or availed of an advocate would fall within the definition of “Service” contained in the C.P. Act, 1986/2019; whether the legislature ever intended to include the professions or services rendered by the professionals within the purview of the CP Act 1986 as re-enacted in 2019; whether the legal profession is sui generis; and whether service hired or availed of an advoc
Supreme Court of India16 Jan 2024Full text
2024 INSC 41 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 549
Interpretation of s.17A, Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 incorporated by the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 26 of 2018 and its applicability to the facts of the present case.
Supreme Court of India1 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 409 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 227
Matter pertains to the challenge to the relief of solatium and interest on the compensation amount granted by the High Court.
Supreme Court of India13 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 407 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 409
What is the implication of non-reporting of the seizure forthwith to the jurisdictional Magistrate as provided under Section 102(3) Cr.P.C.; does delayed reporting of the seizure to the Magistrate vitiate the seizure order altogether.
Supreme Court of India7 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 406 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 375
The number of misleading advertisements that are being published/displayed with little/nil accountability on the part of the manufacturers, promoters and advertisers.
Supreme Court of India3 Apr 2024Full text
2024 INSC 405 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 523
Whether the High Court was justified in allowing the writ petition filed by the respondent no.1 and appointing him to the post of Shikshan Sevak in the appellant no.3-school.
Supreme Court of India10 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 403 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 214
Matter pertains to the maintainability of the complaint, whether the service obtained by the complainant was for a commercial purpose.
Supreme Court of India10 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 401 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 594
Trial Court decreed the suit filed by appellants-plaintiffs by accepting the alternative prayer that they should be allotted an extent of 974 sq. mts. in any Town Planning Scheme in the western zone of Ahmedabad, but rejected the main prayer for compensation with interest. Whether the High Court was justified in allowing the first appeal filed by the respondent-Corporation and non-suiting the plaintiffs; Impugned judgment if liable to be set aside as contended by the plaintiffs, on the ground that no points for determination were framed therein, as required by Order 41 Rule 31, Code of Civil P
Supreme Court of India10 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 400 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 346
Whether the Appellant is entitled to grant of interim bail/release during the pendency of the Appeal challenging his arrest by the Directorate of Enforcement, on account of an intervening factor i.e. 18th Lok Sabha General Elections.
Supreme Court of India3 Jan 2024Full text
2024 INSC 4 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 211
Whether the High Court had the power to direct the State Government to notify Rules proposed by the Chief Justice pertaining to post-retiral benefits for former Judges of the High Court; whether the power of criminal contempt could be invoked by the High Court against officials of the State Government on the ground that the application for recall was ‘contemptuous’; and as regards the broad guidelines to guide courts when they direct the presence of government officials before the court.
Supreme Court of India6 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 399 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 75
The Appellants in an Original Application before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) contended that there was widespread cutting of shade trees, uprooting of tea bushes and eviction of tea estate workers in the Doloo Tea Estate, the site identified for the Greenfield Airport Project in Assam, without obtaining environmental clearance. It was also contended that this was in violation of the provisions of Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006, which necessitates prior Environmental Clearance and public consultation for Category-A projects in its Schedule. Whether the order of the Nati
Supreme Court of India8 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 397 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 259
Matter pertains to the guardianship of two minor children till they attain the age of majority.
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2024 INSC 422 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 740
By the judgment and order dated 15.11.2010, the High Court relied upon the written dying declaration of the deceased Ex. 59 recorded by PW-6 and also the oral dying declarations of the deceased made before PW-2, PW-3, PW-4, PW-7 and PW-8 and thereafter upheld the judgment of conviction of the trial court. The appellant was convicted for committing an offence punishable u/s. 302 r/w. s.34 of the IPC and sentenced to suffer life imprisonment. Whether the dying declaration (Ex.59), in the instant case, was the valid piece of evidence.
Supreme Court of India17 Jan 2024Full text
2024 INSC 42 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 429
Whether sanction u/s. 197 Cr.P.C. is required to prosecute respondent No. 2 who faces accusation amongst others of creating fake documents by misusing his official position as a Village Accountant, thus a public servant. The competent authority has declined to grant sanction to prosecute. High Court has held that in the absence of such sanction, respondent No. 2 cannot be prosecuted and consequently has quashed the complaint as well as the chargesheet, giving liberty to the appellant to assail denial of sanction to prosecute respondent No. 2 in an appropriate proceeding, if so advised.
Supreme Court of India15 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 416 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 813
Matter pertains to the permissibility of suing the accused for a civil wrong, in relation to the benami transactions, as a corollary, allowing criminal prosecution of the accused in relation to the same cause of action.
Supreme Court of India13 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 415 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 714
A land owned by the appellant was acquired and he did not receive any compensation for the same. Before the Division Bench of the High Court, the appellant was informed that value of land was Rs. 4,68,099/-. The Division Bench of the High Court disposed of the Letters Patent Appeal by asking the appellant to file an appropriate application before the concerned authority for disbursement of the value of the land. Whether the High Court committed any error in passing the impugned order.
Supreme Court of India15 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 414 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 666
Whether the arrest and subsequent remand of the accused- appellant was vitiated as the copy of the remand application was not provided to him or his counsel before passing of the order of remand thus, not informing him of the grounds of arrest in writing.
Supreme Court of India9 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 413 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 698
Respondents herein were convicted by the Sessions Court for offence punishable u/s. 325 IPC and were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of five years. However, the High Court reduced the sentence of five years to four years and further
Supreme Court of India14 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 411 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 624
Whether the present is a fit and suitable case for exercising power under Section 144, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 directing restitution in favour of the appellant-judgment debtor by placing the parties in the position which they would have occupied before the execution.
Supreme Court of India14 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 410 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 484
Matter pertains to whether a complaint alleging “deficiency in service” against advocates practising legal profession, would be maintainable under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 as re- enacted in 2019; whether “Service” hired or availed of an advocate would fall within the definition of “Service” contained in the C.P. Act, 1986/2019; whether the legislature ever intended to include the professions or services rendered by the professionals within the purview of the CP Act 1986 as re-enacted in 2019; whether the legal profession is sui generis; and whether service hired or availed of an advoc
Supreme Court of India16 Jan 2024Full text
2024 INSC 41 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 549
Interpretation of s.17A, Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 incorporated by the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 26 of 2018 and its applicability to the facts of the present case.
Supreme Court of India1 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 409 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 227
Matter pertains to the challenge to the relief of solatium and interest on the compensation amount granted by the High Court.
Supreme Court of India13 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 407 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 409
What is the implication of non-reporting of the seizure forthwith to the jurisdictional Magistrate as provided under Section 102(3) Cr.P.C.; does delayed reporting of the seizure to the Magistrate vitiate the seizure order altogether.
Supreme Court of India7 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 406 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 375
The number of misleading advertisements that are being published/displayed with little/nil accountability on the part of the manufacturers, promoters and advertisers.
Supreme Court of India3 Apr 2024Full text
2024 INSC 405 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 523
Whether the High Court was justified in allowing the writ petition filed by the respondent no.1 and appointing him to the post of Shikshan Sevak in the appellant no.3-school.
Supreme Court of India10 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 403 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 214
Matter pertains to the maintainability of the complaint, whether the service obtained by the complainant was for a commercial purpose.
Supreme Court of India10 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 401 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 594
Trial Court decreed the suit filed by appellants-plaintiffs by accepting the alternative prayer that they should be allotted an extent of 974 sq. mts. in any Town Planning Scheme in the western zone of Ahmedabad, but rejected the main prayer for compensation with interest. Whether the High Court was justified in allowing the first appeal filed by the respondent-Corporation and non-suiting the plaintiffs; Impugned judgment if liable to be set aside as contended by the plaintiffs, on the ground that no points for determination were framed therein, as required by Order 41 Rule 31, Code of Civil P
Supreme Court of India10 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 400 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 346
Whether the Appellant is entitled to grant of interim bail/release during the pendency of the Appeal challenging his arrest by the Directorate of Enforcement, on account of an intervening factor i.e. 18th Lok Sabha General Elections.
Supreme Court of India3 Jan 2024Full text
2024 INSC 4 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 211
Whether the High Court had the power to direct the State Government to notify Rules proposed by the Chief Justice pertaining to post-retiral benefits for former Judges of the High Court; whether the power of criminal contempt could be invoked by the High Court against officials of the State Government on the ground that the application for recall was ‘contemptuous’; and as regards the broad guidelines to guide courts when they direct the presence of government officials before the court.
Supreme Court of India6 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 399 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 75
The Appellants in an Original Application before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) contended that there was widespread cutting of shade trees, uprooting of tea bushes and eviction of tea estate workers in the Doloo Tea Estate, the site identified for the Greenfield Airport Project in Assam, without obtaining environmental clearance. It was also contended that this was in violation of the provisions of Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006, which necessitates prior Environmental Clearance and public consultation for Category-A projects in its Schedule. Whether the order of the Nati
Supreme Court of India8 May 2024Full text
2024 INSC 397 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 259
Matter pertains to the guardianship of two minor children till they attain the age of majority.
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