Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Civil dispute and criminal process - Mere existence of a civil remedy does not by itself bar criminal proceedings where allegations prima facie disclose commission of a cognizable offence - Quashing order directing investigation on the ground that dispute appeared to be civil in nature..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, 156(3), Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Quashing at threshold - High Court while exercising its inherent jurisdiction must remain circumspect in interfering with an order u/s 156(3) Cr.P.C. and ought to intervene only where it is evident that order lacks any legal foundation, suffers from perversity or that the same..........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Writ petition - Once High Court, upon application of mind, declines to entertain a writ petition in exercise of its discretionary jurisdiction on the ground that an efficacious alternative remedy for grant of relief is available but such remedy has not been pursued by petitioner, proceedings do not survive and must draw to an end..........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Writ petition - Maintainability - Availability of alternative remedy - Where facts so justify, Court retains full discretion to entertain and decide a writ petition notwithstanding availability of an alternative remedy...........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226, Rules of High Court of Kerala, 1971, Rule 154 -- Writ petition - Marking of documents with description is necessary in statement of facts or in the grounds of writ petition...........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Writ petition - Claim of multiple reliefs in a single prayer - Writ petition cannot be dismissed on this ground - Even if multiple relief in a single prayer claimed and if at all High Court was of view that relief should have been claimed separately, liberty to that extent by way of a correction of prayer clause could have been..........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226(3) -- Interim order of status quo - Application to vacate - Provision of Art.226(3) mandates that High Court to dispose of the same within a period of two weeks...........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Letters patent appeal - Letters patent appeal as permitted under Letters Patent is normally an intra-court appeal whereunder Letters Patent Bench, sitting as a "Court of Correction", corrects its own orders in exercise of same jurisdiction as was vested in Single Bench...........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Writ appeal - Locus standi - Anyone who may file a writ petition would have locus standi to file a writ appeal albeit with some caveats...........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Writ appeal - Locus standi - Person aggrieved having locus standi to prefer an appeal would be one who is directly affected or impacted by a judgment, order or decision even though same does not directly require him to do something or one who being a party to a suit, is adversely affected by decree - To file an appeal such a..........
