Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Complainant specifically admitted receiving of part payment of Rs.4,00,000 from accused but categorically stated that cheque issued by accused for balance amount was dishonoured - Accused failed to prove the defence taken by him - Though accused set up a case that he had not issued any cheque but no..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Complainant specifically admitted receiving of part payment of Rs.4,00,000 from accused but categorically stated that cheque issued by accused for balance amount was dishonoured - Accused failed to prove the defence taken by him - Though accused set up a case that he had not issued any cheque but no..........
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, Section 20, 3 -- Jurisdiction of Court - Claim petition was lodged before Deputy Labour Commissioner - However, claim was not contested - Thus, claim lodged by claimants seeking compensation would not partake the character of a contested claim as stipulated under notification issued by appropriate Government u/s 20(1), (2) of the Act -..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 145(2) -- Dishonour of cheque - Right of accused to cross-examine the witness was closed on the ground that he failed to file an application u/s 145(2) of the Act - However, on the said date he was exempted from personal appearance - Accused thus, was not afforded reasonable opportunity to file application u/s 145(2) of the..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 10, Commercial Courts Act, 2015, Section 36 -- Filing of execution petition before Commercial Court where defendant resides - Well within meaning of S.36 of Act of 2015 - Order passed by Commercial Court returning back case invoking provision of O.7.R.10 CPC is patently wrong and set aside...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 13, Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, Section 17 -- Ex parte decree - Setting aside - When a decree is passed by a Court of Small Causes ex parte u/s 17 Proviso of the Act, applicant who files an application to set aside the ex parte decree is bound to do the following: (i) he must deposit in Court, the amount due under..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227 -- Discharge - High Court while passing the discharge order did not even referred to the evidence collected by Investigating Agency produced alongwith charge sheet in its entirety - Rather there is selective reference to the statements of some of the persons recorded during investigation - It shows that there was total non..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Non appearance of accused - Issuance of non bailable warrants - Petitioner was on her family way and gave birth to a child - Non appearance was wholly unintentional - Impugned orders set aside - Liberty is granted to petitioner to appear before trial Court within a period of 15 days...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 -- Execution - Third party objections - Evidence required to decide the same - Executing Court thus, justified in holding objections at the instance of third party to be maintainable at this stage not in the sense that a decree cannot be executed against them but in the sense..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 33, Rule 2, 5(a) -- Permission to sue as indigent person - Requirement of O.33 CPC is not only the schedule qua immovable property but the same also comprises of movable properties - Application decided only on the basis of immovable properties ignoring the fact that there was no proof of movable property - Impugned order set aside -..........
