A director of a company cannot be held liable for dishonour of cheque , where the company's bank accounts were placed under the control of a Provisional Liquidator before the cause of action..

Merely sending abortion pills to a person does not satisfy the ingredients of offences under Sections 312 and 313 IPC unless such pills are forcefully administered with the intent to cause m..

Taking away a child from the mother by the father, when motivated by genuine concern for the welfare of the child, does not constitute mental cruelty under Section 498A IPC. The threshold of..

An accused already on regular bail cannot seek anticipatory bail upon addition of a graver offence during trial. A person on bail remains in constructive custody of law and therefore cannot ..

Call detail records showing contact between an accused and a co-accused are insufficient to establish a nexus with drug trafficking under the NDPS Act, in the absence of voice recordings or ..

There is no prohibition under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 against solemnization of marriage between an Indian citizen and a foreign national. A Sub-Registrar or Marriage Officer cannot in..

A petition for quashing of FIR under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 is not maintainable immediately following dismissal of anticipatory bail, absent any material..

Rupture of the hymen is not necessary to establish the offence of penetrative sexual assault under Section 3(a) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Penetration to any ext..

The expression "wife" under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure must receive a liberal interpretation in furtherance of its social justice objective. A woman who has cohabited open..

Mere existence of telephonic calls in call detail records, without disclosure of the contents of communication, cannot establish criminal conspiracy under Section 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyay..

Section 168 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 empowers police to "interpose" to prevent cognizable offences, meaning to intervene or step in, and does not authorise issuance of..

Extraordinary writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution cannot be invoked to direct registration of an FIR when equally efficacious statutory remedies remain unexhausted. The B..