Section 14 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, limits penal action for false and malicious complaints to the woman who filed the..

Appointment of a receiver under Section 146 of the Code of Criminal Procedure requires independent judicial satisfaction regarding the existence of an emergency or the inability to determine..

The power under Section 311 CrPC to recall a witness cannot be exercised to reopen the prosecution case by permitting a fresh examination-in-chief where such examination was already recorded..

Mere allegation of an illicit relationship, without a positive act of instigation or incitement in close proximity to the act of suicide, does not satisfy the ingredients of abetment under S..

A trial court granting bail has no power to direct an accused to surrender his passport as a bail condition. The Passports Act is a special law and prevails over general criminal procedure u..

Anticipatory bail may be refused where custodial interrogation is necessary to uncover the full extent of an organised fraud, identify co-accused, and trace siphoned funds. Impersonation of ..

Loan repayments leading to acquisition of assets partake the character of capital investment and cannot be equated with necessary or unavoidable expenditure for the purpose of determining ma..

A decree of divorce granted on the ground of desertion does not, by itself, bar a divorced wife from claiming post-divorce maintenance under Section 125 CrPC or Section 144 BNSS. The definit..

Under Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, an accused cannot escape liability for false promise of marriage by claiming that his existing relationship with another woman was merely a l..

A husband cannot evade maintenance obligation by suppressing financial information. Where an able-bodied husband withholds material details about income and assets, the court is entitled to ..

A withdrawal slip drawn on a cooperative society engaged in banking activities falls within the definition of "cheque" under Section 6 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. A cooperative societ..

An insurance company cannot be exonerated from liability to pay compensation in motor accident claims merely because the injured person was a gratuitous passenger on a goods vehicle. The ins..