Compensation -- Interest - Housing - Delay in delivery of possession - State Commission awarding interest on the deposited amount from the date of its order - Appeal for enhancement of compensation - Complainant held entitled to interest from various dates on which deposits were made except that no interest to be paid on any amount deposited within two years of the date of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 366, 376 -- Conviction - Appeal against - Defence plea that prosecutrix went with appellant of her own free will and volition - Prosecutrix aged 22 years and she was taken from place to place in various villages - No injury or other compelling circumstances to suggest that she was forcibly taken by appellant - Going from place to place in..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 15 -- Appeal - Condonation of delay - Delay of 30 days in filing the appeal - Neither any application seeking condonation of delay filed nor any prayer made to that effect - No case on merit as well - Appeal dismissed on the ground of delay and also on merit...........
Housing -- Non-delivery of possession - District Forum directing petitioners to give possession of the house - Execution - District Forum clarifying that the petitioner shall charge the price prevailing in 1993 when the house was allotted - In appeal State Commission remanding the case for detention or attachment of property - Revision - Detention of any officer or..........
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, Section 37(3), Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 115 -- S.37(3) takes away the right of Second Appeal to High Court - Remedy of revision u/s 115 of CPC is neither expressly nor impliedly taken away by the Act...........
Medical Negligence -- Compensation - Injection was administered intravenously instead of administering it intramuscularly, resulting in immediate death of the deceased - State Commission directed the respondents to pay Rs.6 lakhs as compensation - Appeal against by the respondents - No merit in appeal except that no negligence found against the respondent No.2, hence no..........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 -- As amended - - Amendment of Act during pendency of appeal - Recovery of 70 grams of charas - Recovered quantity fell in category of small quantity - Accused in custody for 2-1/2 years - Sentence reduced to period already undergone...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 100 -- Substantial question of law - First Appellate Court decided appeal without passing any order on application under Order 6 Rule 17 for amendment of pleadings - No injustice done even if no order passed by First Appellate Court on application for amendment - Lapse on the part of First Appellate Court would not amount to a..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 377(3) -- Rape - Minimum sentence of 7 years - Reduced by High Court without assigning any adequate or special reasons - Appeal against sentence to Supreme Court - Held, it is an appeal for enhancement of sentence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 377(3) -- Appeal by State against reduction by sentence by High Court to that already undergone - In such an appeal accused can argue for an acquittal...........
