Issuance of notice under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 is the rule for offences punishable with imprisonment up to seven years. Arrest is an exception. Compli..

Mere threats, absent clear intention to cause alarm and vague allegations unsupported by prima facie cogent evidence, cannot sustain a charge under Section 506 IPC. Mere presence of a lawyer..

When signatures on a Will are not disputed but execution is challenged on lack of free will and consent, expert handwriting opinion is unnecessary. However, admission of signatures does not ..

Once the complainant amicably resolves the dispute and expressly seeks withdrawal of the complaint through a sworn affidavit, the substratum of disciplinary proceedings under Section 35 of t..

The DSPE Act does not divest regular police authorities of their jurisdiction to investigate offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act committed by Central Government employees...

Mandated immediate reporting of unnatural deaths, filling of faculty vacancies within four months, and prohibited penalising students for scholarship delays...

A decree cannot be employed to shift or enlarge liability so as to bind persons who were neither parties to the decree nor otherwise legally liable thereunder...

The expression "any widow of his son" under Section 21(vii) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act is unambiguous and includes all widowed daughters-in-law, irrespective of whether the s..

If bail is granted, then the state must first seek cancellation of bail -- The law of preventive detention cannot be resorted to when ordinary criminal law provides sufficient means to addre..

When an instrument of noble intent is misused as a tool for exacting revenge, the notion of justice itself teeters on the edge of inversion--SC urges Center to consider such clause to preven..

Civil adjudication and criminal prosecution proceed on different principles, and a civil court decree neither records findings on criminal intent nor on existence of offences such as forgery..

The fact that multiple cheques arise from one transaction will not merge them into a single cause of action, and disputed questions of fact cannot be decided under Section 482 CrPC...