Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia), 25 -- Divorce petition by husband - Cruelty by wife - Cruelty could either by physical or mental - Unfounded allegations by a spouse against the other spouse without proving the same is a ground for divorce - Wife made statements in the press that her husband is villain and thus damaging his reputation and indulging in character..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 464 -- `Fraudulently' - A person is said to do a thing fraudulently if he does that thing with intent to defraud but not otherwise - The expression `defraud' involves two elements, namely deceit and injury to the person deceived - Injury is something other than economic loss and it will include any harm whatever caused to any person in..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500, 501, 502 -- Defamation - Publication of news item - Complainant alleging that as a result of publication of news item he had been defamed - News item merely disclosing the proceedings in Assembly wherein the Minister concerned took complainant's name along with others who were involved in misappropriation of public funds - News..........
Defamation -- Communication of defamatory words/matter to the person defamed does not injure his reputation in the estimation of others until it is proved to be a communication of the defamatory matter to a person or persons other than the person defamed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 471, 465, 417 -- Forged invitation cards - Act of appellant could not be termed to have been done dishonestly or to defraud because it resulted in no disadvantage to any one which but for the deception the person defrauded would have acted otherwise - Act of appellant also could not be said to have caused or was likely to cause harm to any..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Cruelty - In a matrimonial suit, merely because there are allegations and counter - allegations, a decree for divorce cannot follow - However, if totally unfounded allegations and aspersions on character, honour or reputation or status or health of the aggrieved party are made in the written statement, they would constitute..........
Service -- Confidential report - Adverse entries - Representation to higher authorities - Rejected - Challenged - Entries indicating that authority had assessed reputation of the officer, his honesty, reliability and general reputation gathered around the officer's performance and shortfalls in that behalf - Held, it may be impracticable for reporting officer to give..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 50, 51 -- Marriage - Proof - Evidence of general reputation for purpose of proof or disproof of a marriage is admissible - Evidence of witnesses belonging to same community and resident of same village who had special knowledge of relationship between husband wife, is admissible...........
Punjab Land Revenue Rules, 1908, Rule 15 -- Lambardar, appointment of- Involvement in criminal cases on more than one occasion - Evidently does not enjoy clear and clean reputation...........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 37, 38 -- Permanent injunction - Trade mark - Infringement - Trade mark INTEL used by plaintiff in Computer and Software development etc. - Defendants using deceptively similar trade mark ART INTEL for similar products - Difference of prefix 'ART' - It likely to cause deception to unwary purchasers - Use of similar mark will mislead..........
