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...

The test for bail of additionally summoned accused is more than prima facie case required for framing charges, but short of satisfaction that unrebutted evidence would lead to conviction...

Statutory restrictions under Section 45 PMLA cannot supersede the constitutional right to speedy trial, and economic offences cannot be classified as a homogeneous class to deny bail solely ..

Equity must prevent unjust enrichment and restore parties to their original position, particularly where both are at fault. Directing forfeiture would result in an equitable windfall to the ..

Exception 2 cannot be invoked where there is no act of self-defence against an unarmed deceased, and Exception 4 requires a genuine physical confrontation with mutual exchange of blows, not ..

Once an auction sale is confirmed and the aggrieved party has not sought to set it aside, a separate suit challenging the confirmation order is expressly barred, and the appropriate remedy i..