When a registered adoption deed is produced before any court, it shall be presumed to be in compliance with the law unless such presumption is disproved through independent proceedings...

The statutory protection of prior sanction for prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption law is available only so long as a public servant remains in service...

Bona fide pursuit of settlement under the Sabka Vishwas Scheme was a valid ground for condonation, and the State should not benefit from procedural lapses of its citizens in taxation matters..

Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act applies only when payment fails due to lack of funds, not when payments are stopped by operation of law during insolvency proceedings...

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..

The insurer cannot refuse to indemnify damage caused by fire on the ground that the proximate cause of fire was burglary or theft, particularly when no such exclusion is provided in the spec..

Permitting a woman to live in penury while her application for interim maintenance is decided cannot be the intent of the law...

Insisting a non-earning spouse must produce ITRs to prove unemployment "is to demand the impossible," and absence of ITRs corroborates rather than disproves the claim of having no sufficient..

Desertion requires animus deserendi (intention to abandon) and must be without reasonable cause...

Adding, subtracting, or altering sections is permissible only at the stage of framing charges, not at the stage of taking cognizance...

In cases of alleged refusal, strict compliance with Order 5 Rule 19 CPC is mandatory--Ex parte divorce decree set aside..