Exercise of jurisdiction under Article 142(1) of the Constitution of India by Supreme Court in such cases is clearly permissible to do `complete justice’ to a `cause or matter’. We…
Article 142 of the Constitution grants the power to the Supreme Court of India to do complete justice in any cause or matter pending before it. Article 142(1) of the…
The Constitutional power is exercisable by Supreme Court under Article 142(1) of the Constitution of India, and the inherent power of the civil court recognised by section 151 of the…
Section 321 of CrPC gives the power to Public Prosecutor and Assistant Public Prosecutor to withdraw the prosecution against a person except in some cases. Section 321 reads as follows…
India is a member of the United Nations and has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). A large number of United Nations international documents prohibit the…
The right to life is the most fundamental of all rights. The right to life, as guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, provides that no person shall…
The power of the executive to grant pardon under Article 72/161 is a Constitutional power and the Court, on numerous occasions, has declined to frame guidelines for the exercise of…
Both Articles 72 and 161 repose the power of the people in the highest dignitaries, i.e., the President or the Governor of a State, as the case may be, and…
It is apposite to refer the relevant Articles which give power to the President of India and the Governor to grant pardons and to suspend, remit or commute sentences in…
In Mafatlal Industries Ltd v. Union of India , 1997 (5) SCC 536; 1996 INSC 1514. a decision by a bench of nine judges of Supreme Court, the majority opinion…
