Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201 -- Conviction - Appeal against - Case based on circumstantial evidence - Circumstances must be proved by cogent evidence and circumstances so proved must point unerringly towards guilt of accused and should not be inconsistent with innocence of accused - Incriminating circumstances against accused were that bicycle of deceased was..........
Jam defective -- Report of the Public Analyst of the sample of Jam showed that it contained one dead insect and that it was contaminated with coliform bacteria and hence was adulterated and unfit for human consumption - Order of the District Forum in allowing the complaint and awarding a compensation of Rs. 10,000/- to the complainant upheld...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Conviction - Appeal against - Appellant armed with knife with three more unidentified assailants, one of whom armed with knife and other two with lathis, assaulted deceased in the field at about 12-1 O'Clock - Two sons of deceased woke up on hearing shouts and they alongwith PW3 arrived on spot and saw assailants leaving place -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - To be allowed where amendment only clears confusion, if any, as to the terms in which relief is sought and does not revive a time barred and dead claim, nor changes nature of suit - Cannot be said to be mala fide - Amendment merely clarifies existing pleading and does not in substance add to or alter it..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 34, 302, 34, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 273, 299 -- Appellant absconded when trial took place against other three accused - Eight prosecution witnesses examined - Three other accused acquitted - Appellant arrested and put on trial - Appellant himself moved application to consider evidence of eight witnesses without calling..........
Interpretation of statute -- Any interpretation which withdraws the life and blood of the provision and makes it ineffective and a dead letter should be averted - It is the duty of the court to interpret the provision consistent with the legislative intent and purpose so as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304 -- Nature of offence - At the dead of night the respondent and their father went to the house of PW3 with a country made pistol and with force inflicted such injuries on head which resulted in death of wife of PW3 - Mere fact that only a single blow was inflicted on the head by itself is not enough to alter the conviction from..........
Haryana Municipal Act, 1973, Section 94 -- Haryana Government Notification dated 13.12.2001, Clause 6 - Exemption from house tax - Restricted to families of deceased soldiers and dead ex - Servicemen - Exemption will not enure to the benefit of families of those ex - Servicemen who are alive - Intention of notification to exempt families of dead soldiers as well as dead ex..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201 -- Murder of wife - Conviction - Pursuant to confession appellant was alleged to have pointed out the place where dead body was buried and then body was excavated which was kept in a gunny bag - Serious contradictions in evidence on material points as to date of arrest of appellant and manner of recovery of dead body - It was not..........
Electricity supply -- Imposition of penalty on the ground that meter was sticky or dead stop - Findings of the District Forum that meter cannot be sticky and dead stop simultaneously - There was no report of any laboratory to this effect - Not inclined to interfere with the order of District Forum in ordering waiving of the penalty...........
