Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 420, 120B -- Discharge - Cheating - Criminal conspiracy - Order of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) shows that chances of conviction in a criminal trial involving same facts appear to be bleak - Accused discharged...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 24 -- Transfer of divorce petition - Merely because short dates are given to parties, no malice can be attributed on Court, particularly when it is not pointed out from any order sheet that Court committed any error of law or procedure which has caused injustice to parties - Application dismissed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 14, Rule 5 -- Framing of additional issues - Issue regarding possession - Partition suit - Plaintiff filed suit seeking its division by metes and bounds and in alternative, he has prayed for sale of property by auction and for distribution of sale proceeds inter se parties to the extent of shares claimed in suit - Relief of possession is..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 38, Rule 11(b) -- (As in Madras) - Attachment before judgment - Communication of order of attachment to Registering Officer - Order of attachment will have to be effected by communicating the same to concerned Sub-Registrar Office - Petitioner has to necessarily get order of attachment entered in Book No.I maintained in Sub-Registrar..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 372 -- Appeal by victim for enhancement of sentence is not maintainable - Victims right of appeal is restricted to three eventualities, namely, acquittal of accused, conviction of accused for lesser offence or for imposing inadequate compensation - There is no provision for appeal by victim for questioning order of sentence as..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 357(3) -- Compensation - Death due to custodial torture - Appellant is father of deceased who succumbed to injuries suffered in lock up - He is 76 years of age and has been fighting alone in the case for last more than 14 years - Deceased was 20 years old at the time of incident and appellant pursued the case from last 14 years which..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 311 -- Recall of PW1 - Corruption case - PW1 is the author of sanction order - He is competent authority and in his cross-examination he has categorically stated that he sanctioned prosecution - Merely mentioning wrong provision of P.C. Act in sanction order would not vitiate sanction and trial pursuant thereof - Moreover, witness..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Dishonour of cheque - Quashing of summoning order - All conditions are satisfied for initiation of proceedings u/s 138 of the Act and it cannot be said that complaint filed is barred by limitation - Even, it is apparent from material on record a prima facie case is made out against..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 100 -- Second appeal - Suit for recovery of possession - Relief of recovery of possession denied by First Appellate Court but granted by High Court - Defendant pleaded that he was in complete possession of suit premises as owner with absolute rights ever since 1966 when his father had executed deed of release in his favour and for over..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 29, Rule 2 -- Notice not served in terms of O.29.R.2 CPC - Dismissal of execution proceedings - Counsel for Insurance company had appeared in response to notice issued in claim petition under Motor Vehicles Act and had filed counter and an award too had passed on merits - Said counsel who appeared for insurance company before Tribunal and..........
