Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Wife suppressed the material facts and claimed herself as a illiterate and unemployed woman in her affidavit - However, when document filed by husband was shown to her before trial Court, she admitted her income during cross-examination - Wife thus, not came to Court with clean hands - If a petitioner is..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 20 -- Maintenance to major unmarried daughter - Major Hindu daughter is entitled to maintenance from her father u/s 20 HAMA as long as major daughter is unmarried and is unable to maintain herself out of her own earnings and property - Mere fact that no application is filed under..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Issue as to limitation is a mixed question of law and fact, which cannot be adjudicated in an application U.O.7.R.11 CPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(i), Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 3, 4 -- Rape - Accused convicted under both the provisions i.e IPC and POCSO Act - However, trial Court has not considered the fact that S.42 of POCSO Act states that offender if found guilty of such offence shall be liable to punishment only under POCSO Act or under..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 87 -- Dishonour of cheque - Material alteration in cheque - Issue as to whether the alterations made in cheque, which is subject matter of complaint, have been made at the instance of petitioner or at the instance of respondent, can be determined only after trial as the same is a question of fact which cannot be gone into..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38, 39 -- Co-owners - Suit for permanent or mandatory injunction - Not maintainable against another co-owner, notwithstanding the fact that different co-owners may be in a separate actual possession of distinct portions - In such circumstances, the only appropriate and legally permissible course open to plaintiff was to seek partition of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 32 -- Execution - Decree for permanent injunction - Dispossession - Issuance of warrants of possession - Mere fact that no specific date or time of dispossession of DH from suit property was pleaded or established, it cannot be said that no warrants of possession in her favour can be issued...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 32 -- Execution - Decree for permanent injunction - Dispossession - Issuance of warrants of possession - Once a concurrent finding of fact was recorded by both Courts below in suit that DH was in possession of suit property, same carried presumption of her possession as on the date of filing of suit till the date of its..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 96 -- Appeal - Interim relief - First appellate Court can re-examine both questions of fact and law and may re-appreciate evidence on record - Its powers are as extensive as original Court's, meaning it can reconsider the need for interim protection...........
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Section 310(2) -- Dacoity - Primary motive of accused persons was to retrieve specific institutional files/information and not to seek any wrongful gain - This, coupled with subsequent return of all property, a fact affirmed by complainant in his voluntary affidavit submitted before High Court as well as before Supreme Court, convinces that..........
