Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 22(C), 29 -- Intoxicant tablets - Merely because medicines were allegedly recovered from store room situated behind petitioner's shop and not from exact premises mentioned in licence, by itself cannot lead to an inference of criminal involvement, particularly when petitioner was admittedly carrying a lawful..........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 22(C), 29 -- Contraband - Recovery effected not from shop of petitioner but from store room situated behind petitioner's shop on the disclosure statement of co-accused - Petitioner is a licensed medical dealer holding a valid licence in dealing in medicines - Moreover, besides disclosure statement of co-accused,..........
Arms Act, 1959, Section 17(3) -- Arms licence - Cancellation of - Merely on account of pendency of a criminal case fire arm's license cannot be cancelled...........
Arms Act, 1959, Section 17(3) -- Arms licence - Cancellation of - Mere on account of FIR where evidently fire arm was never used and there are no allegations of misuse of fire arms, license could not have been cancelled...........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Central Service Co-operative Bank - Plea that Co-operative Bank does not fall within definition of `Banker' u/s 3 of the Act as it is not licensed by Reserve Bank of India - Supreme Court has emphatically held that essence of "banking" lies in the acceptance of deposits from the public repayable on..........
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Section 137(2), 64(1), Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 4 -- Kidnapping and rape - Merely because a girl is friendly with a boy and day is valentine day, it does not give licence to boy to forcibly establish sexual relations with her...........
Easements Act, 1882, Section 52 -- Licence - Once a licensee is always a licensee and such licensee can get no better rights even with respect to enjoyment of premises after termination of license...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166, 149 -- Accident - Compensation - Liability of insurance company - Fake driving licence - Owner of a vehicle employing a driver can only look at licence produced by person seeking employment and is not expected to verify from licence issuing authority whether licence is fake or not...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166, 149 -- Accident - Compensation - Liability of insurance company - Fake driving licence - Owner of truck is not an individual and is a company - Undisputedly, even if tort feasor is driver, liability for any negligence of driver rests on owner of vehicle, vicariously - There can be no suspicion raised merely because owner had produced..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166, 149 -- Accident - Compensation - Liability of insurance company - Fake driving licence - Insurance company failed to bring out the absence of due diligence in employment of driver or entrustment of vehicle, to prove breach by insured - High Court had erred in finding that there was collusion between employer and employee merely for..........
