“A leading question is a leading one when it indicates to the witness the real or supposed fact which the examiner expects and desires to have confirmed by the answer.”-Jeremy BenthamKEY TAKEAWAYS Leading questions are those that suggest ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS A court ruling made in favour of one party when the other is not present or has not had a chance to participate in the proceedings is known as an ex-parte order. An ex-parte order can be set aside by the party it was made against by mak ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS A Relinquishment Deed must be between co-owners of an ancestral property. The Deed must be registered to give it legal validity under sec 49 of The Registration Act. If the Executor resides in another city, the transfer can be done by i ..
While displaying zero tolerance to misuse of penal laws meant for safety of women, the Supreme Court as recently as on April 19, 2024 in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest judgment titled Parteek Bansal vs The State of Rajasthan & ..
J&Kand Ladakh High Court has ruled most explicitly, elegantly, eloquently and effectively that the slapping of wife by the husband in public will not attract the offence of outraging the modesty of a woman u/s 354 of the IPC ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS The judiciary's independence means that the legislature and executive branches of government cannot impede its ability to carry out their respective functions and prevent it from doing justice. Judges ought to be immune from any res ..
Chapter XXXV of the BNSS deals with the provisions relating to bail. Chapter XXXIII of the CrPC used to deal with the provisions relating to bail. While most of the BNSS provisions are identical to the corresponding provisions of CrPC, some major cha ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS Defamation is the act of conveying false proclamations about an individual that harm the reputation of that individual when seen through the eyes of a layman. Defamation is an offence under both civil and criminal law. In civil and crim ..
While ruling on a very significant legal point pertaining to the consensual relationship of the adolescents and so also regarding its implications under the POCSO Act, we see here quite clearly that the Karnataka High Court at Bengaluru in a most lea ..
In a nutshell, we thus see that the Madhya Pradesh High Court has made it indubitably clear that a woman cannot request maintenance from her second husband under Section 125 of the CrPC ..