Section 20(1) of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 provides that the jurisdiction to decree specific performance is discretionary, and the court is not bound to grant such relief, merely because…
Section 17 of the Registration Act, talks about the compulsory registration, it reads thus: “17. Documents of which registration is compulsory.- (1) The following documents shall be registered, if the…
The Supreme Court said in Sanwat Singh v. State of Rajasthan (1960), that in recent years the words “compelling reasons” have become words of magic incantation in every appeal against…
To prove the charge of criminal conspiracy the prosecution is required to establish that two or more persons had agreed to do or caused to be done, an illegal act…
The soliloquy of the accused admitting his guilt is not an extra-judicial confession as the Courts held in Sahoo v. State of UP (1965). It was argued that it is…
The principle of open justice is not absolute. There can be exceptions in the interest of administration of justice. In Naresh Shridhar Mirajkar v. State of Maharashtra ,, the High…
Section 2 of Contempt of Court Act, 1971, defines “contempt”, “civil contempt” and “criminal contempt”. In the context of contempt on account of publications which are not fair and accurate…
Supreme Court is not only the sentinel of the fundamental rights but also a balancing wheel between the rights, subject to social control. Freedom of expression is one of the…
It is a settled principle of criminal jurisprudence that extra-judicial confession is a weak piece of evidence. In the case of Sahadevan and Others v. State of Tamilnadu (2012), the…
With the development of law, the theory of last seen has become a definite tool in the hands of the prosecution to establish the guilt of the accused. This concept…
