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The High Court noted that to attract Section 306 IPC, suicide must be a direct consequence of instigation by the accused.
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The Court must examine whether the petition, even if taken as unopposed and all averments are accepted as true, would entitle the petitioner to a favourable verdict; if not, it discloses no cause of action.
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The publication of the newspaper is a coordinated and layered process involving editing, designing, visual creation and compilation.
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“While considering an application for condonation of delay, the party seeking such indulgence is required to place before the Court a cogent and satisfactory explanation covering the entire period of delay, preferably explaining the delay day-to-day or at least stage-wise.”
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“An order which is bad in the beginning, cannot be validated by any additional ground brought out later. The appellants cannot be allowed to raise a completely new ground to justify their action.”
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“The child stated that he was not being properly looked after while staying with his grandmother, and that he was not provided adequate food, particularly in the mornings and that his only substantial meal was the lunch provided at school. However, the father, his sister, and the child’s grandfather extended assurance for the child’s future welfare.”
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“A second marriage contracted by a Muslim male during the lifetime of his first wife is not treated as void merely on the ground that the first marriage is still subsisting.”
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“Where a case concerns the integrity of public procurement and involves allegations of conflict of interest at the highest levels, an investigation must be not only fair but must also appear fair.”
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“Even if the appellant-wife is highly educated and professionally qualified, that by itself cannot be a reason to absolve the respondent-husband from his matrimonial, paternal, moral and legal responsibility to provide for his wife and children.”
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Prosecution has to establish the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt and must prove the allegations by oral or documentary evidence forming a complete chain of circumstances.
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“The offence alleged strikes at the integrity, expected from a public servant more particularly a judicial officer.”
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“In view of the plea of discrimination as taken and the response filed in the counter affidavit, it is clear that out of 16 candidates 3 could not join, therefore, those posts are available.”
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“The allegations are very serious in nature and disclose a very chilling trend in society, where the common man has developed a perception that anything can be done by the payment of a bribe.”
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The Supreme Court set aside the direction allowing an absentee to appear in the next round of recruitment process.
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“Courts in exercise of criminal jurisdiction to consider a bail plea cannot embark upon a ‘mini trial’ to resolve factual disputes, and therefore, whether the word ‘chinal’ was caste-based, gender-specific, or a religious symbol could only be decided during a full-dressed trial and cannot be considered in a bail plea.”
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“The operating surgeon is the best judge of which one of the two procedures is to be adopted.”
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The court held that the case was a clear instance of abuse of authority and fell within the category of the rarest of the rare cases.
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The host and owner of the InControversial podcast had filed a petition for quashing of proceedings under a criminal defamation complaint.
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“The office of the mutawalli and Sajjadanashin cannot be said to be one and the same… Sajjadanashin is the spiritual head of Waqf and declaration of Sajjadanashin is a religious affair, however, role of Mutawalli of a Waqf only pertains to the administration and management of the Waqf.”
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The Court emphasised that while multiple life sentences may be imposed, they cannot run consecutively but operate simultaneously, so that remission in one does not ipso facto apply to others.
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