• Whether proceedings under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 can be used to decide title disputes? Recently, vide judgement dated 14th October, 2022 in Pawan Kumar and Anr. v. Divisional Commissioner Department of Revenue, Govt of Delhi and Others in LPA 525/2022, the Delhi High Court held as under: “9.…

  • Relying on H. Venkatachala Iyengar v. B.N. Thimmajamma, 1959 Supp (1) SCR 426 (3Judge Bench), Bhagwan Kaur v. Kartar Kaur, (1994) 5 SCC 135 (3Judge Bench), Janki Narayan Bhoir v. Narayan Namdeo Kadam, (2003) 2 SCC 91(2Judge Bench) Yumnam Ongbi Tampha Ibema Devi v. Yumnam Joykumar Singh, (2009) 4 SCC 780 (3Judge Bench) and Shivakumar…

  • In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, our final conclusions on the principal/core issue, whether the High Court would be justified in passing an interim order of stay of investigation and/or “no coercive steps to be adopted”, during the pendency of the quashing petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C and/or under Article…

  • 1. What are Cross Cases? The Supreme Court in Sudhir & Ors. etc. vs State of M.P. etc., (2001) 2 SCC 688 observed as follows:- “It is a salutary practice, when two criminal cases relate to the same incident, they are tried and disposed of by the same court by pronouncing judgments on the same…

  • 11. In this connection we would like to state that if a person has a grievance that the police station is not registering his FIR under Section 154 CrPC, then he can approach the Superintendent of Police under Section 154(3) CrPC by an application in writing. Even if that does not yield any satisfactory result…

  • The phrase Honourable Acquittal is neither defined in Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) nor defined in Indian Penal Code (IPC). However, the Hon’ble Supreme Court in a plethora of cases has deliberated on the issue (of honourable acquittal) to clarify the concept and its wide ramifications. 25. The expression “honourable acquittal” was considered by this Court…

  • 29. In the criminal justice system the investigation of an offence is the domain of the police. The power to investigate into the cognizable offences by the police officer is ordinarily not impinged by any fetters. However, such power has to be exercised consistent with the statutory provisions and for legitimate purpose. The Courts ordinarily…


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