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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Punjab and Haryana High Court | Co-owners of the joint property cannot prevent each other from using the property; appeal dismissed

    Punjab and Haryana High Court: Alka Sarin, J., while dismissing the appeal preferred by the plaintiff against the judgments passed

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Chhattisgarh High Court entitles father-in-law to pay maintenance; “Estate of the husband can be preferred to claim over the estate of father or mother of daughter in law”

Chhattisgarh High Court: A Division Bench of Goutam Bhaduri and Deepak Kumar Tiwari JJ. entitled father-in-law to pay maintenance to widowed daughter-in-law

Case BriefsForeign Courts

AFCHPR| Republic of Kenya directed to identify and demarcate the Ogiek ancestral land and make monetary reparations to the community for the moral and material prejudices suffered

African Court on Human and People’s Rights (‘AFCHPR’): While deciding the instant matter concerning the eviction of a Kenyan indigenous minority ethnic

Case BriefsTribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Jet Airways Resolution Plan’s implementation is subject to the outcome of? Here’s NCLAT’s order

National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi (NCLAT): The Coram of Justice Ashok Bhushan (Chairperson) and Shreesha Merla (Technical Member), held that

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Kar HC issues general directions in matters relating to compromise before the Lok Adalat which are challenged by way of writ petitions

Karnataka High Court: Suraj Govindaraj, J., allowed the petition and quashed the compromise decree in the original suit filed before Principal Senior

Case BriefsSupreme Court

Person being the highest bidder deposits sale amount for auction property and obtains injunction against Municipality; SC declares the sale non-est for lacking government sanction

Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising of Hemant Gupta* and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ., reversed concurrent findings of Trial Court and Punjab and

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Due to burglary, customers lost their valuable articles from bank lockers. Will Bank be liable for deficiency in service? NCDRC answers

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): The Coram of Justice R.K. Agarwal (President) and Dr S.M. Kantikar (Member) expressed that, customer avails

Case BriefsHigh Courts

In a suit for partition, the heads of all the branches are necessary parties: Bom HC

Bombay High Court: Mangesh S. Patil, J., decided on the following questions for consideration: Whether in a suit for partition and possession

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Chh HC | Daughters also entitled for getting equal share in the property inherited by their parents; Court reiterates and allows appeal deciding validity of will

 Chhattisgarh High Court: Narendra Kumar Vyas, J. allowed an appeal filed by the defendants setting aside the judgment and decree by the

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Are Coparcenary rights taken away by Hindu Succession Act? Madras HC throws light

Madras High Court: N. Anand Venkatesh, J., addressed a matter with regard to coparcenary rights of sons and daughters. Plaintiff had sought

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Whether a natural guardian having executed sale-deed of property of a minor in favour of a third party and thereafter repurchased part of it, can be prosecuted for offences under Ss. 420, 467, 468, 471 of IPC that too, after more than 35 years from date of attaining majority by minor? Bom HC discusses

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of V.M. Deshpande and Amit Borkar, JJ., expressed that a transaction by a natural guardian of

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Daughters and widow of a deceased would inherit properties of deceased as tenants in common or joint tenants?  Bom HC explains

Bombay High Court: Mangesh S. Patil, J., expressed that, by virtue of Section 19 of the Hindu Succession Act, it has been

Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Land owner cannot be deprived of the use of the land for years together”; SC sets aside Bombay HC’s direction to acquire a land almost 20 years after finalisation of development plan

Supreme Court: In a case where the Development Plan was finalized in the year 2002, but the same was never implemented nor

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Testamentary disposition of property is deviation from natural line of inheritance in lesser or greater degree: Can it result in complete disposition in favour of one heir or exclusion of any other heir? Jhar HC throws light

Jharkhand High Court: Expressing that the due execution of a Will is to be proved as per the provisions of law as

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When parents are alive, can a son claim his share in property of his parents? Bom HC answers

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of G.S. Patel and Madhav J. Jamdar, JJ., held that Asif i.e. son has no rights

Case BriefsSupreme Court

Law on filing false affidavit: Can defaulter get benefit of equity? Read what made the Supreme Court reverse concurrent findings of Courts

“Once an affidavit has been filed which is on the face of it false to the knowledge of the executants, no benefit can be claimed on the ground that delivery of possession was given.”

Op EdsOP. ED.

The US Magnitsky Law – Its Relevance in the Indian and the Global Context

by Sanjay Vashishtha†
Cite as: 2022 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 19

Case BriefsSupreme Court

Merely writing “cancelled” on registered power of attorney wouldn’t make it null and void: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The Division Bench of K.M. Joseph* and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha, JJ., held that mere writing the word “cancelled” or drawing

Op EdsOP. ED.

Whose Assets are they Anyway?

by Pramod Rao†
Cite as: 2022 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 15

Case BriefsSupreme Court

Can sale pursuant to a public auction, be set aside at the instance of strangers to the auction proceeding? SC decides

Supreme Court of India: While deliberating on the instant appeals expressing grievance over the judgment of Andhra Pradesh HC (Amravati) wherein it