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The victim’s testimony in sexual assault cases is vital and unless there are compelling reasons which necessitates looking for corroboration of her statement, the courts shall find no difficulty to act on the testimony of a victim of sexual assault alone to convict an accused where her testimony inspires confidence and is found to be reliable.
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While dealing with matters such as the present one, the Court must be conscious of the fact regarding the purpose and object of seeking such a caste certificate based on the mother’s social status, since the mother belongs to the reserved category.
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Inmates face social stigma which can disrupt relationships with family and friends and the incarcerated persons often suffer long-term consequences from having been subjected to pain, deprivation, and extremely atypical patterns and norms of living and interacting with others.
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The witness stated that he has seen Applicant 2 at the incident spot, but the Court noted that his statement is recorded after three years.
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This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on ownership, dating back to the year 1954.
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The petitioner did not comply with the twin conditions stipulated under Section 212(6) of the Companies Act, 2013 and there is every possibility for the evidence being tampered and the witnesses being influenced by him.
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If the food/sample is tested in a laboratory which does not fall within the definition of Section 3(p) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and is not recognized by the Food Authority, the analysis made in such laboratory cannot be relied upon.
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Limitation for prosecution under Section 498-A1 of IPC does not continue for indefinite period as such interpretation will render Section 4682 of CrPC nugatory/otiose for the purpose of Section 498-A of IPC which does not appear to be the legislature’s intention.
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If the University gave necessary accommodation of issuing provisional eligibility based on predicted marks and then if the student does not actually score as per prediction, then the College or the University cannot be blamed.
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The Army Welfare Housing Organisation (‘AWHO’) will pay the owners of Tower B and C, who were residing as of 29-03-2024, Rs 21,000 and Rs 23,000 respectively per month towards the expenses for alternate accommodation until reconstruction.
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Some clear and definite guidelines are required to be issued to the Courts of Magistrates and to the investigating agencies to follow the procedure of giving a remand report sufficiently in advance to the arrested accused before his first remand application is considered by the appropriate Court.
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By the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1976, the Schedule—IX is amended by deleting the original Entry at S.No.13 as ‘Halba or Halbi’ and inserting Entry at S.No.19 as ‘Halba, Halbi’ for the State of Maharashtra, pursuant to the States Reorganization Act, 1956.
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This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment on res judicata, dating back to the year 1954.
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The impugned order dated 12-01-2025 was recalled with a direction to constitute a new Elders Committee and hold elections under the supervision of the Observers appointed by the Bar Council.
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Once the resignation is withdrawn, there is nothing to be discussed in the Gram Panchayat meeting and the meeting qua the subject of resignation must be terminated immediately after desire for withdrawal for resignation is expressed.
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There is sufficient material on record to show that the petitioner is openly using the subject device mark in the context of its goods in the public domain and the Registrar completely ignored these documents while passing the impugned order.
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Respondents have not taken recourse to the procedure contemplated by Section 7 of the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers Drug-Offenders and Dangerous Persons Act, 1981, which provides for procedure to be adopted in case where the detenue is absconding.
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Govind Pansare, 82 years old, was shot in Kolhapur, Maharashtra on 16-02-2015 and succumbed to injuries on 20-02-2015.
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The Sarpanch is a post conferred upon a person and therefore, the term ‘Sarpanch’ as well as the post of Sarpanch cannot be distinguished as both have identical meanings in common parlance.
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A party to the proceedings being not informed of the jurisdictional authority which decides the complaint itself is fatal to all norms of fairness.
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