Evidence Act, 1872, Section 3 -- Evidence - Question of sufficiency of evidence being present or not cannot be considered at the stage when evidence of parties were not laid in entirety before trial Court...........
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 7 -- Illegal gratification - Demand and acceptance - Twin conditions i.e. proof of demand and acceptance of illegal gratification by a public servant as a fact in issue by prosecution is a sine qua non in order to establish guilt of accused public servant u/s 7 of the Act - In order to bring accused to book, prosecution has to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Testimony of prosecutrix - Merely because in the medical evidence, there are no major injury marks, this cannot be a reason to discard the otherwise reliable evidence of prosecutrix - It is not necessary that in each and every case where rape is alleged there has to be an injury to the private parts of victim and it depends on..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 323 -- Rape - Testimony of prosecutrix - Prosecutrix was a major girl studying in first part of B.A. at the time of incident - Though she was subjected to detailed cross examination, she stood firm and unshaken disclosing the incident in detail regarding the presence and participation of accused in ravishing her - Evidence of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 323 -- Rape - Medical evidence - Absence of injuries on the private parts of prosecutrix is not always fatal to the case of prosecution - Prosecutrix stated that accused overpowered her and pushed her to bed in spite of her resistance and gagged her mouth using a piece of cloth - Thus, it is possible that there were no major injury..........
Will -- Non production of draft Will - Advocate who drafted Will of testator had died when case was taken up for evidence - There was thus, no scope for draft Will being produced and evidence in that regard being adduced as to whether Will filed in Court is same of draft Will approved - Hence, wife of testator will not be in a position to state as to whether Will executed..........
Will -- Proof of - Evidence of two attesting witnesses goes to establish that testator was capable of making Wills as per S.59 of Succession Act - Same was executed in accordance with provisions contained in S.63 of Succession Act and proof of Execution of Will was in accordance with S.68 of Evidence Act - Executor although has alleged that testator was not in sound state..........
Will -- Suspicious circumstance - Difference of signature of Testator in executing sale deed and agreement for sale and execution of Will - Evidence of attesting witnesses is on record that testator signed Will in their presence - Executor who asserted that Will was not signed by testator, onus is upon him to prove the same by adducing evidence but no evidence is adduced..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 406 -- Transfer of a case - Transfer of cases u/s 406 Cr.P.C. may be allowed when there is a reasonable apprehension backed by evidence that justice may not be done - Mere convenience or inconvenience of parties may not by itself be sufficient enough to pray for transfer...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 3, 4 -- Recording of evidence through video conferencing - Matrimonial dispute - Wife is residing in USA and because of her nature of job, she was unable to come to India for her evidence - Dismissal of application without giving any reasons - Impugned order set aside - Application allowed...........
