Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1987, Section 24(5) -- Revision - Preliminary issue decided against tenant - Maintainability of revision petition - Admittedly, tenant and his wife purchased 1/3rd share in demised premises - However, despite that status of tenant as a lessee does not get merged into status of a co-sharer - Said adjudication decided fate of parties..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 10, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 14, Rule 2 -- Transfer of suit - Lack of territorial jurisdiction is not a ground to exercise power u/s 24 CPC to withdraw and transfer suits from one Court to another Court - But it is a ground to return plaint U.O.7.R.10 CPC or petitioner may file an appropriate application U.O.14.R.2 CPC to..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 26, Rule 13 -- Appointment of Commissioner - Partition suit - Preliminary decree - Earlier application for appointment of Commissioner was not pressed and on same day present application filed for praying for appointment of Commissioner to carve out share of DH in house property and movable property - Explanation given by DH that earlier..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 10 -- Return of plaint - Lack of pecuniary jurisdiction - Suit for cancellation of sale deed - Court below not conducted any inquiry as required and mandated u/s 7 of Karnataka Court Fee Act - Defendant on whom onus rests to demonstrate that Court has no pecuniary jurisdiction or Court fee paid is insufficient, has failed to place..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 14, Rule 2, 5 - - Court cannot proceed and make comments on merits of issue while deciding an application to treat a particular issue as a preliminary issue - Finding given on merits on that issue, set aside...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Defendant contended that suit pertains to a public religious endowment, thus suit is barred, as prior permission u/s 92 CPC not taken before institution of suit - Contention rejected, as question regarding property in suit pertains to religious endowment cannot be determined at this stage, as same..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, 239 -- Quashing of proceedings - Proceedings quashed as certificate u/s 65-B(4) Evidence Act not produced when charge sheet was filed - Need for production of such a certificate would arise only when electronic record is sought to be produced in evidence at trial - Stage at which High Court sought to apply said provision thus,..........
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, Section 15 - - Juvenile - Determination of age - Expert opinion - Offence u/ss 363, 302, 201, 34 IPC - JJ Board can seek opinion of expert regarding mental and physical capacity of CCL to commit offence and it is not necessary that if expert opined that mental and physical capacity of CCL and his ability to..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 293 -- Medico Legal Certificate (MLC) and Post Mortem Report (PMR) - Difference in number of injuries as reflected in MLC and PMR - MLC is only a preliminary examination whereas, PMR is a detailed examination, later takes precedence over observations made in an MLC...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151 -- Recall of an order - Application filed by plaintiff - Order pertains to hearing additional issue regarding maintainability of suit as preliminary issue - Pecuniary jurisdiction of Court is determined by Valuation made by plaintiff as per plaint and not on contention taken by defendant - Moreover, question of pecuniary jurisdiction..........
