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Judicial Creativity and Precedent: Tools and Techniques in Indian Law
The judiciary in India plays a pivotal role in shaping the legal landscape through its creative interpretation of laws and reliance on judicial precedents. This article explores the tools and ...
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Karnataka HC: Whether Stay order by Revenue Appellate court is bad if it has passed stay order without hearing caveater?
Therefore, the Appellate Authority, by virtue of Section 107 C.P.C. read with Section 113 of the Land Reforms Act, cannot entertain a caveat as defined by Section 148-A of the C.P.C. Section 148-A ...
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Supreme Court upheld Karnataka High court judgment on police custody remand
The concerned Court itself came to the conclusion that police custody is not required and has dismissed the application (s) of the prosecution as well as the Complainant. We see no reason to interfere ...
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Supreme Court: Abetment Of Suicide' Offence Can't Be Invoked Only To Assuage Feelings Of Family
While the persons involved in genuine cases where the threshold is met should not be spared, the provision should not be deployed against individuals, only to assuage the immediate feelings of the ...
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Supreme Court: Agreement For Sale Doesn't Transfer Title Or Create Interest In Property
Permission is granted to file civil appeals. Appellants that the land belonged to them. The "We declare that the sale deed dated 31.10.2011 ...
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Supreme Court guidelines regarding demolition of construction by public Authorities- Bulldozer justice
1. This batch of Writ Petitions filed Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India seeks to raise the grievance on behalf of various citizens whose residential and commercial properties have been ...
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Supreme Court: Bodily Injuries Not Necessary To Prove Sexual Assault; Victims Respond To Trauma In Different Ways
9. It is a common myth that sexual assault must leave injuries. Trial No. 40 of 1998 evaluated the evidence of the prosecutrix (PW2), her father Jawahari Lal (PW-1), Rajendra Singh (PW-4) - treated ...
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Supreme Court: When Accused Acted With Common Intention, Punishment Can't Be Reduced Merely Because Injury Inflicted Individually Wasn't Severe
Merely for the reason that. the injuries inflicted by Accused no.2 (K.B.Vijayakumar) were less than what was inflicted by Accused no.3 (K.B.Jayakumar @ Suresh) and the injuries we ...
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Supreme Court: Right To Shelter A Facet Of Article 21; State Must Satisfy Why Entire Property Needs To Be Demolished
78. The right to shelter is one of the facets of Article 21. Depriving such innocent people of their right to life by removing shelter from their heads, in our considered view, would be wholly ...
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Whether the court can direct striking out of pleading if suit is partly not maintainable?
There is no provision in the Code of Civil Procedure for the rejection of a plaint in part, and the note recorded by the trial Court does not, therefore, amount to the rejection of the plaint as ...
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Supreme Court: What is doctrine of proportionality as per Indian constitutional law?
According to Aharon Barak (former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Israel), there are four sub-components of proportionality which need to be satisfied [Aharon Barak, Proportionality: Constitutional ...
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Bombay HC: The Session Judge must record evidence of Chemical analyser in NDPS Case to Prove CA Report
It is noticed that in the Vidarbha region, in the trials under the NDPS Act, the CA is not examined. In my view, this is a serious mistake on the part of the prosecution. It needs to be placed on ...