Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Income of deceased - Income Tax Return is a legally admissible document on which income assessment of deceased could be made...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 92 -- Oral evidence - Evidence to vary terms of an agreement in writing is not admissible, but evidence to show that there is no agreement in the first place is admissible - Thus, unless grounds fall within S.92 provisos of the Act read with illustrations to said section, there is a bar on adducing oral evidence...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 30 -- Confession of a co-accused - Confessional statements made by accused during interrogation can be considered or looked into to connect the other co-accused - Such disclosure statement of co-accused can certainly be taken into consideration for providing a lead in the investigation and even during trial it is admissible u/s 30 of the Act...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 11, Rule 1 -- Interrogatories - Interrogatories that are not related to matters in issue will be deemed irrelevant, even if such matters might be admissible on oral cross-examination of a witness - Court will not grant leave to deliver such interrogatories...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A, 34, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 67, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154 -- Acquittal - FIR has to be corroborated and proved for there to be any value of the same in the case - In case the death of the informant has no nexus with the complaint lodged i.e. he died a natural death and did not succumb to the injuries..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 397, 401 -- Revision - Scope of revision is quite restricted to the extent of examining the correctness, legality and propriety of impugned judgment and order - Appreciation of evidence is not done generally in such cases, unless finding is perverse or admissible evidence is ignored or inadmissible evidence is taken into..........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 27(b), Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227 -- Contraband - Discharge - Appellant arraigned as accused based on the confessional statement of co-accused - However, in the absence of any other material on record to connect the appellant with the crime, confessional statement of co-accused by itself cannot..........
Revenue records -- Revenue records are public documents maintained by government officials in the regular course of duties and carry a presumption of correctness u/s 35 of Evidence Act - Revenue entries do not by themselves confer title, they are admissible as evidence of possession and can support a claim of ownership when corroborated by other evidence. (Evidence Act,..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - PWs repeatedly continued to either absent themselves or file adjournment applications and only insisted for deciding the application u/s 319 Cr.P.C first and only thereafter trial could proceed - Complainant has no such mandatory right to insist that an application be decided in such a manner -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 439, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 37, 8, 15(c), 18(c), 25, 29 -- Bail - Contraband - Accused implicated primarily on the basis of memorandum of co-accused recorded u/s 27 of Evidence Act and his own memorandum - No recovery has been made from accused and he was not present on the spot at the time of..........
