Himachal Pradesh Ceiling on Land Holdings Rules, 1973, Section 17 -- Applicable only if any person after 24.1.1971 acquires any land by inheritance or bequest or gift from a person to whom he is an heir - Plea that every addition or reduction in number of members of a family requires redetermination of ceiling area of such a family - Not tenable as it would mean almost..........
Himachal Pradesh Ceiling on Land Holdings Rules, 1973, Section 17, 3, 4, 6, 8 -- Surplus area of landowner and his son has to be seen on the appointed day (24.1.1971) - Death of son issueless after appointed day - Title and. ownership of unit of son never stood vested in him and the extent of land of the unit of son has not devolved upon landowner on the death of his son..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 2(14), 149, 145(c), 147 -- Person travelling in goods vehicle - Death or bodily injury - Insurer is not liable to pay compensation...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 2(14),2(35),2(40),2(47),147(1),149(2) -- Death or bodily injury to a person travelling in goods vehicle as passenger - Held that the provisions of the Act do not enjoin any statutory liability on the owner of a vehicle to get his vehicle insured for any passenger travelling in a goods carriage and the insurer would have no liability..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304 Part II -- Accused objected to parking of a scooter by the deceased at a particular place which resulted in an altercation and a scuffle - Accused took out his gun and fired resulting in the death of deceased - No previous enmity between the two - Act done in the heat of moment- High Court convicted under section 304 Part I - Held..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1),(g),&,21, Insurance Act, 1938, Section 54VB VBInsurance,Claim -- Denial on the ground that policy lapsed - Payment of premium after the death of insured will not receive the policy - Order of the state commission dismissing the complaint calls for no interference...........
Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 188 -- Birth and death entries - Municipal entries - Entry made in death register maintained by Municipal Committee in the due discharge of its official records is admissible in evidence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304 Part II -- Nature of injuries not such as could be likely to cause death - Conviction altered from S.302 to S.304 Part II IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 113B -- `Soon before death' - Would normally imply that the interval should not be much between the concerned cruelty or harassment and the death - There must be existence of a proximate and live link between the effect of cruelty based on dowry demand and the concerned death - If alleged incident of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B -- Dowry death - Essential ingredients for the applicability of the provision are (i) The death of a woman should be caused by burns or bodily injury or otherwise than under a normal circumstance; (ii) Such a death should have occurred within seven years of her marriage; (iii) She must have been subjected to cruelty or harassment by..........
