Judgments Online https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home 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 Service Law: Protection of rights of Merit Llist Candidates 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 Murder: Weak circumstantial evidence and flawed discovery procedures – Acquittal Amendment of Plaint: Prohibition on “Mini-Trials” During Amendment: Arbitration: Interim Measure: Unsussessful Party still entitled to seek interim measures at the post-award stage 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