Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Section 483, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 6, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 363, 201 -- Bail - Rape and murder of 8 years old girl - Incident occurred in a gruesome manner in which 8 years old girl was raped and killed that too by her own cousin - Merely because there was public outcry and..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 452, 302 -- Murder - Plea of juvenile - Neither the Headmaster/Principal of the first attended school nor its records would qualify as `public servant' or `public record' or `public document' respectively - The certificate issued by School could not have been taken as conclusive proof of date of birth of Respondent No.2, discarding Form (A)..........
Mutation -- Law as to: (i) Mutation proceedings are summary in nature wherein title of parties over land involved is not decided; (ii) mutation order or revenue entries are only for fiscal purposes to enable State to collect revenue from person recorded; (iii) they neither extinguish nor create title; (iv) mutation in revenue records does not have any presumptive value on..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420, 419, 467, 468, 471, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Cheating - Quashing of proceedings - Allegations against appellants are that they entered into a conspiracy with other individuals to fabricate a forged Will after death of testator that was then used to circumvent sale deed - Neither any criminal breach of trust nor any..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 341, 290, 171F, 34, Police Act, 1861, Section 34, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Offence u/ss 341, 290, 171-F, 34 IPC, and S.34 of Police Act - Quashing of proceedings - FIR and charge-sheet neither disclose any act committed or illegal commission that caused common injury, danger, annoyance to public or any section of public..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 405, 406, 415, 417, 418, 420, 504, 506, 384, 120B, 34 -- Quashing of the FIR - In the absence of the element of criminality, if both civil and criminal cases are allowed to continue, it will definitely amount to abuse of the process of the Court, which the Courts have always tried to prevent by putting a stop to any such criminal..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307, 148, 149, 326, Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, Section 7A -- Applicability - As per Section 7A of the Act of 2000, the claim of juvenility may be raised before any Court at any stage of the proceeding and such claim is required to be determined in terms of the provisions of the Act of 2000 and rules made..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 142, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Section 447 -- Dishonour of cheque - Transfer of complaint - Lack of territorial jurisdiction - Petitioner/payee of cheque wrongly instituted Complaint Case at Cuttack, who is incompetent to take cognizance, having no territorial jurisdiction to try offence u/s 138 of the N.I. Act..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 11, Rule 5(4) -- Non production of document - Adverse inference - The presumption of adverse inference like all other presumptions, must avail the moment of judgment and not pre-empt the examination, which would be at the closure of proceedings i.e. trial...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 363, 366, 376 -- Kidnapping and rape - Determination of age of victim - Certificate of school was produced by prosecution to prove the date of birth of victim - However, prosecution has failed to produce any document or evidence of school staff, head-master of school or school register admission form, etc., based upon which said certificate..........
