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A legal representative is one, who suffers on account of death of a person due to a motor vehicle accident and need not necessarily be a wife, husband, parent or child.
For the purpose of transfer of any case or proceedings under Section 406 of the CrPC, the case must fall within the ambit of the expression “expedient for the ends of justice”.
“Even if the suicide note is taken as correct and genuine, there was no act of incitement on the part of the accused persons proximate to the date on which the deceased committed suicide.”
“The motive for the commission of the offence was absent and the same was very relevant as the case was based on circumstantial evidence.”
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Recruitments to various posts of Primary School Teachers; Assistant School Teachers; Group C staff; and Group D staff, was questioned before the Calcutta High Court challenging the legitimacy of the procedures followed in the recruitments.
It was alleged that Michel being a consultant of AgustaWestland, he was roped in for liaison work, in furtherance of which he and another person combined received more than Euro 70 million in the companies beneficially owned and controlled by them.
“Delays are bad for the accused and extremely bad for the victims, for Indian society, and for the credibility of our justice system, which is valued. Judges are the masters of their Courtrooms and the Criminal Procedure Code provides many tools for the Judges to use in order to ensure that cases proceed efficiently.”
“We don’t see that anybody gets better treatment in this Court because he has a different gown,” the Bench remarked.
“We expected the State to put on record reasons for detaining 270 foreign nationals in the transit camp and details of the steps taken by the State Government for deporting the detenues in the detention camp.”
The victim-wife and the accused-husband married each other as per Sikh rites and ceremonies against the wishes of her family. The wife accused the husband of rape and also alleged that the marriage was solemnised forcibly by the accused.
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“No effective legislative or executive action in furtherance of enacting a statute, which could prove to be a boon to millions of vulnerable domestic workers across the country, has been undertaken as of now. Over and above the absence of any legislation protecting their interests, domestic labourers also find themselves excluded from existing labour laws.”
The Court considered that the complainant-wife had re-married and settled abroad. However, directed for compensation of Rs. 3,00,000/- to the former wife in view of the harassment which she was subjected to.
“Section 37 of the 1996 Act grants narrower scope to the appellate court to review the findings in an arbitral award if it has been upheld or substantially upheld under Section 34.”
Supreme Court set aside the High Court’s decision quashing the private complaint and concluding that the alleged offences under Sections 193, 199 and 200 of the IPC were such, on which the complaint could have only been filed by the Court following the route under Section 195 read with Section 340 of the CrPC.
“While it is true that principles of natural justice supplement, and not supplant, the law, such principles have been declared by the Court to be a constituent feature of Article 14. Validity of any disciplinary action, whenever questioned, has to be tested on the touchstone of Articles 14, 16 and 21 as well as Article 311(2), wherever applicable.”
“The requirement of law in criminal trials is not to prove the case beyond all doubt but beyond reasonable doubt and such doubt cannot be imaginary, fanciful, trivial or merely a possible doubt but a fair doubt based on reason and common sense.”
The husband and wife were married for about one and a half year, and due to continuous quarrels, the wife started living in her parental home along with their 6-month-old daughter at the time of the incident. During this period, the husband committed suicide.
“It would depend on the facts of the individual case, and it would have to be decided, on the strength of the material and evidence available, whether the wife still had valid and sufficient reason to refuse to live with her husband, despite such a decree. There can be no hard and fast rule in this regard, and it must invariably depend on the distinctive facts and circumstances.”