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The traffic authorities are the best judges to decide the issue of regulation of traffic in the city and the Court while exercising its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India cannot sit over as an Appellate Authority over the decisions taken by the traffic authorities for regulating the movement of traffic in the city.
A big mob from both the communities had gathered in and around the land in question and at any moment violence would have taken place, hence the Acting Chief Justice took up the matter at 6:00 A.M.
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Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya was appointed as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court on 24-07-2023.
The Court stated that if the victim, who is a grown-up woman and having experience of sex, fails to offer sufficient resistance to the accused who was attempting to have sex with her, the Court may find that there was no force, or the said act was not against her will.
The duty to maintain register and to keep copy of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 and Rules is enshrined on the owner and staff of the hospital not of the visiting doctors.
The Court found that there was absence of concrete proof of age of the minor victim, therefore, the charge under Section 6 of the POCSO Act was not proved, instead the appellant was convicted under Section 376(1) of the IPC.
The forfeiture of the bail bond without giving the opportunity of hearing to the surety is illegal and derogates principles of natural justice.
The SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 is essentially meant for protecting the members of a SC and ST from atrocity or oppression, however, it cannot be allowed to be misused.
The Director of Seashore Group of Companies was seeking Transfer of Criminal Cases pending against before various Courts to CBI Court as the CBI Court had clubbed other 22 FIRs pending against him.
The Court stated that if at all an offence is committed at a particular time, there cannot be inconsistency in the time of offence in the deposition and the FIR registered by the informant herself.
The Additional Sessions Judge had sentenced the Rape Convict to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years for the offence under section 376(1) of the IPC.
The Complainant had filed a second FIR against the accused just after the parties had arrived at a settlement before the Court and the first FIR against the accused was quashed.
The Court also expressed its concern about the same excuse of rain being given by the State to justify the poor conditions of some of the roads, despite it being well known that Meghalaya is one of the wettest places in the world.
The Constitution of India embodies a federal structure of Government which essentially requires a strong sense of cooperation among not only the Government at the Centre and the States but also the provincial Governments inter se.
The Court said that the student could not be permitted to take advantage of his own wrong and fraud.
The Court said that the Trial Court had rightly convicted the appellant under Sections 366, 376(2)(n), 370-A and 506 of the IPC, as it was successfully established by the Prosecution that the victim was a minor and the statement of the victim was clear, cogent, trustworthy.
The Court said that the State Government was well within its powers to carve out exceptions for a particular category of post, in so far as the prescription of age limit by direct recruitment to a was concerned.
On 23-6-2023, the Governor of Madhya Pradesh, in consultation with the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, made amendments in the Madhya Pradesh
The applicant was arrested in connection with the case registered under Section 21(b) and 29 of the NDPS Act.