Judgments Online https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Criminal Contempt by Advocate: Forgiveness with Vigil Murder: reliable oral dying declaration – uncontradicted testimony of a solitary eyewitness SC/ST Act: Alleged caste-based slurs and threats occurred inside a private residential home Common Intention – Accused arrived at the crime scene after the fatal shot was fired Service Law: Dual Appointment Fraud – Dismissal Valid Rejection of Plaint: Plaint Rejected As Barred By Law Electricity: Indian Railway is Consumer, Not deemed distribution licensee Sspecific Pperformance: Delay in Payment – Surrounding equities or the purchaser’s bona fides. Contract Para-teachers: Blanket Regularisation Into Permanent Electricity: Consumers cannot be burdened with depreciation for period where no electricity was supplied. Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Impermissibel to convert insolvency proceedings into a coercive recovery Arbitration: When an Non Signatory can invoke Arbitration Clause Land Transfer Ban: No Challenge by person who were active parties and signatories to the sale deed. Years Unlawful Activities: Default Bail Granted Environment Law: Prior Environmental Clearance MACT: 100% permanent functional disability – Compensation enhanced Professional Misconduct: Supreme Court Asks NMC to Let the Doctor by Issuing Censure/Warning Dishonour of Cheque: HC left accused only on Payment of Cheque amount Specific Performance: Delay in Deposit of Payment Mere entries in revenue records do not constitute legal proof of title or ownership against the Government Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Balancing with public interest and homebuyers Title Suit: Failure to produce any formal title deeds – Suit Failed Service Law: Protection of rights of Merit Llist Candidates Service Law: If a Candidate not Shown failed, it Cannot be persumed that he Passed Oppression and Mismanagement: person who has invested substantial funds is Member Service Law: Promotion and seniority of a long-serving municipal official Industrial Dispute: Employees are Workmen – Burden of Proof Service Law: Cutoff date for acquiring essential educational qualifications Legal heirs of a medically negligent doctor can be impleaded to continue the proceedings. Article 226 cannot be used to bypass established statutory remedies for registering a criminal complaint. Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Implementation of statutory mandates Jurisdiction of Civil Courts to adjudicate disputes over the spiritual office Anticipatory Bail: Political Overtones and Personal Liberty Summary judgments: No full-fledged trials when a defense is clearly “baseless and illusory”. Demolition Order Set Aside: Violation of Principles of Natural Justice Execution: Valuation of Land – Must be valued according to specific statutory guidelines Cruelty: Family members cannot be implicated based on contradictory and unsubstantiated claims. Hate Speech and Rumor-mongering: Existing laws are adequate but require consistent enforcement. Service Law: Direction to government to regularize the services of “Gang Labourers” Insolvency proceedings barred by limitation Service Law: Premature curtailment of tenure was a valid administrative action Execution: Objection by Third Party – Deliberate attempt to stall the recovery Arbitration: Rejection of plea of lack of jurisdiction – Challenge to Capital Punishment: Mandatory guidelines to ensure that mitigating circumstances are systematically evaluated Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Corporate Guarantees Constitute “financial debt” Right to Education: mandatory obligation of “neighbourhood schools” to admit students from weaker sections Murder: “inept investigation” and a “scripted enquiry” – Acquittal Environment Law: Translocation of deers FIR Quashed: Bona fide buyer cannot be prosecuted for forgery or conspiracy without tangible evidence