A party cannot approach the High Court under Section 482 of the CrPC at his whim and caprice, according to a ruling made today by the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. This is because there is no time restriction for bringing a plea under th ..
According to the Madras High Court, as the Central Board of Excise and Customs has given DGGI officials the authority of Central Excise Officers, they are considered "Central Excise Officers" for the purposes of Rule 3 of the Service Tax R ..
The Supreme Court reaffirmed that, if not expressly stated otherwise, a court's declaration of law will take effect retroactively. In upholding the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court's ruling that Munsiffs appointed through direct r ..
In Abdul Jaleel v. Cabinet Principal Secretary & Ors, the Kerala High Court dismissed a petition seeking the establishment of a Division Bench of the Apex Court in all the High Courts in the country to adjudicate upon cases of the poor and the m ..
The Gujarat High Court has ruled that a licence to possess a firearm under the Arms Act cannot be cancelled for reasons that are unrelated to the Act's provisions and have no bearing on the decision. The Bench of Justice AS Supehia also stated ..
The existence of an alternative remedy under Section 34 of the A&C Act is not a barrier to the maintainability of a Writ Petition to set aside an arbitral award that has been tainted by fraud and criminal conspiracy, according to the High Court ..
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court declined to hear Dr. Mandati Thirupathi Reddy's appeal after the returning officer for the Lok Sabha, Parliament House rejected her request to be considered for the upcoming election for President of India. The p ..
In K.B. Rasheed v. State of Kerala, the Kerala High Court held that the prosecution should not violate the provisions laid down u/s 279 and 281 CrPC which talks about interpretation of evidence against the accused in the language which they understa ..
In KC Rajvani v. State of MP Law and Legislative Affairs & Anr, the Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside the order of the Disciplinary Authority against a former Judge accused of misconduct. Furthermore, the order of his compulsory early retirem ..
In Charu Kishor Mehta v. Prakash Patel & Ors, the Apex Court recently observed that the Indian judicial system is highly afflicted with frivolous and false litigation and how a new category of litigants is emerging who are more interested in fil ..