Congratulations! Humanity has reached new heights in psychological sophistication—or, more accurately, in the art of manipulation. Development is an intrinsic part of human nature; we’ve been evolving since the dawn…
Contempt is a special subject and the jurisdiction is conferred ‘by a special set of laws peculiar to courts of record. This has long been the view in India. Contempt…
Section 377(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure reads as follows: – “377. Appeal by the State Government against sentence. – (1) …………. (2) …………. (3) When an appeal has…
Sham Sunder v. Puran and another (1991) In Sham Sunder v. Puran and another (1991), the High Court had convicted the accused- appellant therein under Section 304 Part- I IPC…
Section 304A states as follows- 304A. Causing death by negligence.— Whoever causes the death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide, shall…
Section 304A of the IPC makes any act causing death by a rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide, punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term…
In Girish Yadav and Ors. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, JT (1996) 3 SC 615, the site plan was prepared on hearsay and is not to be read as evidence.…
In Harichand Vs. Director of School Education, (1998) 2 SCC 383, Supreme Court interpreted the provisions of Section 12 of the 1958, Act and held as under: – “In our…
Banker’s Lien In Halsbury’s Laws of England, Vol.20, 2nd Edn.p.552, para 695, lien is defined as follows: Lien is in its primary sense is a right in one man to…
Section 205 of the Code, which clothes the Magistrate with the discretion to dispense with the personal appearance of the accused, reads as follows: “205. Magistrate may dispense with personal…
