Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(7) -- Explanation - Consumer complaint - Commercial purpose - Complainant has not pleaded nor proved that service was obtained for earning his livelihood through the means of self- employment - Onus to prove that service was obtained for a commercial purpose is on the service provider - Unless service provider discharges its onus,..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 1, 2 -- Pleading - Plea without proof and proof without plea is no evidence in the eyes of law...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 26, Rule 9 -- Appointment of Local Commissioner - Purpose of O.26.R.9 CPC is not to assist either of parties to the lis to collect evidence in its support - It is to elucidate a fact, if Court is of the opinion that elucidation of said fact cannot be done except by exercising powers U.O.26.R.9 CPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(g), 506(1) -- Rape - PWs on account of a long gap between examination-in-chief and cross-examination, were won over by accused and they resiled from the version as deposed in the examination-in-chief which fully incriminates the accused - However, evidence of victim and her mother, aunt when tested with FIR, statement recorded under..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 65 -- Secondary evidence - Certified copy of sale deed - When no factual foundation giving reasons for not producing primary evidence is laid by plaintiff, certified copy of sale deed cannot be read in evidence as secondary evidence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 384, 506, 511, 34 -- Offence u/ss 384, 506, 511, 34 IPC - Evidence of PW1 was not specific as to who had entered into chamber and demanded hafta amount of Rs.500 - When there is no overt act of accused, conviction should not be recorded on the basis of assumption and presumption - Conviction and sentence set aside - Accused acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Murder - Testimony of eye witnesses - Eye witnesses were closet relatives of victim - They allegedly saw fatal assault on victim and yet did not take any step to save him from assault - Eye witnesses who were standing or moving at ground level could not have seen gunshots being fired at deceased from roof of house of co-accused -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307, 326 -- Nature of offence - Incident occurred between two family members - There are discrepancies and inconsistencies in the evidence of PWs - However, crux of prosecution case is unshaken and undeniable in view of evidence of injured witness being corroborated by medical evidence - Injury was received on the vital part of body of..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 299 -- Recording of evidence in the absence of accused - In the event, an order u/s 299 Cr.P.C is passed, deposition of any witness taken in the absence of an accused may be used against him if the deponent is dead or incapable of giving evidence or cannot be found or his presence cannot be procured without any amount of delay,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 106 -- Murder of wife by husband - Burden of proof - Circumstances leading to murder of deceased were in the exclusive knowledge of appellant - He has offered no explanation as to the manner in which deceased was strangled to death within the confines of the room where only he and deceased were present -..........
