Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 34 -- Anticipatory bail - Abetment of suicide - Case of prosecution rests upon contents of suicide notes of deceased - However, there is nothing credible enough for substantiating the same - Exchange of WhatsApp texts of deceased with applicant prior to her committing suicide also..........
Employees Compensation Act, 1923, Section 4A(3)(b) -- Compensation - Insurance Company has undeniably admitted its liability to pay compensation and interest component u/s 4-A(3)(b) of the Act - However, respondent has not produced extant insurance policy that was governing the field at the time of incident - More so, when statute itself has obligated employer to make..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 12 -- Consumer complaint - Flat buyer agreement - Delay in delivery of possession - Compensation - Delay in completion and handing over of possession is not disputed - Such failure constitutes deficiency in service - Appellant failed to secure requisite occupancy certificate - Appellant directed to obtain requisite Occupancy..........
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..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 323, 377, 406, 506 -- Cruelty - Allegations against parents-in-law - Petitioners were not residing in a shared household with wife - Nothing in the FIR which disclosed any specific date, time or proximate incident demonstrating active participation of petitioners in alleged acts of cruelty or harassment - Belated implication of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 3 -- Rebuttal evidence - Right of rebuttal to plaintiffs would be with respect to issues on which onus is on defendants and said right will have to be specifically reserved at the time of closing evidence in affirmative or at the stage prior to which defendants lead their evidence - In case no such right is reserved, then said..........
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Section 483, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, S.69) - Bail - Rape - False promise of marriage - Applicant had repeatedly assured prosecutrix that there was no impediment to their marriage including on aspect of kundali matching and had represented that horoscopes had already matched - It is on..........
Custody of daughter -- Writ of habeas corpus - Corpus will turn 17 in two days time, is unwilling to join her mother - She stated that she voluntarily left house since she was being tortured by her parents to get married to a person with whom she was not inclined to get marry - Request of corpus that she will be permitted to stay with `K' cannot be accepted since `K' is..........
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Section 47, Constitution of India, 1950, Article 22(1) -- Grounds of arrest must be communicated to accused in writing - Law as to: (i) Constitutional mandate of informing arrestee grounds of arrest is mandatory in all offences under all statutes including offences under IPC/BNS; (ii) grounds of arrest must be communicated in..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ib) -- Divorce - Desertion - Mere living separately for considerable period of time may not amount to desertion - What is important to be proved is animus for separate living attributable on party/spouse living apart...........
