Judgments Online https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Amendment to a plaint to correct land boundaries: Rightly allowed Systemic delays in the premature release of prisoners: Directions issued Character of Wakf property Cannot be validly alienated or partitioned by individuals Quashing of Criminal Proceedings: Cruelty – Vague and Generalized Allegations NDPS: Bail: Mandatory requirements of NDPS Act cannot be bypassed by citing right to a speedy trial. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code cannot be used as a substitute for a recovery mechanism Right of pre-emption: Limitation – Case fails due to delay SARFAESI: Repeated Defaults – Secured creditor to obtain possession Illegal land transactions and the rights of innocent third-party purchasers Where Delhi Rent Control Act Is Not Applicable Civil Court lacks the jurisdiction to adjudicate disputes regarding the determination or extension of municipal limits Service Law: Reallocation from Cadre as well as State to Other Murder: Testimony of a single “sterling” witness especially an injured one, is sufficient to sustain a conviction. Rejection of Plaint: Court cannot conduct a “mini-trial” at the threshold stage When Foreign Judgment not enforceable under Section 13 of CPC Probate: Suppression of material facts – Revoked Child Maintenance: Not the biological father of the child – No Maintenance Prisoners with disabilities: Directions MACT: Compensation Enhanced – Purchase and maintenance of a prosthetic limbs Cancellation of land leases: Statutory Prohibitions Service Law: Terminatation for concealing a medical disqualification Held Valid Arbitration Award: Appropriate legal remedy is through Section 34 Rather then Revision Back Wages: “Unequal bargaining power” to delay benefits the employee was legally entitled Service Law: preferential higher qualification cannot substitute for a mandatory essential qualification Contempt: Reckless allegations against judges undermine the foundation of judicial independence. Incorporating certain private plots into a colony’s layout plan: HC Order Set Aside Road Safety: Many Directions Issued Juvenile in a regular adult jail: Relief and Implementation of SOP Capital investment subsidy for a cold storage facility: Entitlement Arbitration clause using the word “can” Do Not Creates mandatory obligation for parties to resolve disputes through arbitration. Environment Law: Procedural Directions and Transition Environment Law: Formal disposal of longest-standing matters Environment Law: Continued Binding Effect of Past Orders Illegal Sand Mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary – Directions One Time Regularization of thousands of contractual and ad-hoc government employees Held Valid Failure to formally frame issues or “points for determination” vitiates such proceedings Supreme Court Clarifies Erroneous observations by High Court Eviction: Subsequent events in long-term litigation must be examined holistically Abetting the suicide: Ingredients of offence not met Dowry: Case against wife family for giving dowry Anticipatory Bail Granted: Rape allegations appeared to be a “counter blast” Order II Rule 2 CPC cannot be a ground for rejection of a plaint at the preliminary stage. Preventive Detention Valid as”substantial compliance” with procedural and constitutional safeguards Maintenance: Salary deductions for loans cannot be used to reduce husband’s primary legal obligation Formulation and implementation of mandatory Standard Operating Procedure to safeguard right to speedy trial Arbitration: Critical legal distinction between the “seat” and “venue” Service Law: Dismissal set aside as discharged by a criminal court on the same facts Corruption: Demand” for a bribe established even when complainant turns hostile Unpaid wages of thousands of workers from a defunct industrial conglomerate – Court Appoints administrator