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Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 - Section 4A- In this case, the High Court imposed the liability of paying the penalty component under Section 4A(3)(b) of the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923 upon the Insurance Company in addition…

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Contempt of Court -How third-parties/non-parties to the original proceedings can also be proceeded against for contempt? A party, once becomes or is made aware of an Order of this Court, if yet acts in wilful default or deliberate…

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Code of Civil Procedure 1908 - Order XLI Rule 27 - The appellate court’s inquiry, while considering an application for leading additional evidence, is confined to examining whether such evidence is necessary to remove a lacuna…

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Summary: The Supreme Court holds that clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) delivered via a PEG tube constitutes medical treatment, not mere basic care, and that it can lawfully be withheld or withdrawn under the pa…

Overzealous investigation is as fatal to prosecution as are the lethargic and the tardy

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Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 - Section 4,16,34,37 - Statutory waiver under Section 4 would attract in case an objection under Section 16 challenging the composition of tribunal and lack of jurisdiction is not filed prior…

"While caste may be an indicator of historical disadvantage, it cannot be treated as the sole determinant of backwardness. "

"There is no inflexible rule of discarding the testimony of the persons in the raiding party, unless independent corroboration is available."

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Constitution of India - Article 311(2),226- Despite the use of the words “this clause shall not apply” in the second proviso, it shall not make power of Article 311(2) inapplicable. In fact, second proviso to Article 311 is an…

For relief to be granted in a writ petition under Article 32, a case must be made out establishing the existence of a fundamental right and its breach, actual or threatened.

"It would have been natural for the prosecutrix to disclose the incident to her family members after some time and not to somebody who is unknown to her and as such it is very difficult to accept the version of the prosecutrix. "

"The principle of finality attached to court-confirmed auction sales cannot operate to shield the process from judicial examination where the question relates to the adequacy of valuation or fixation of reserve price...."

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Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 - The appellant, an excise constable, was trapped by the Vigilance Department while accepting a bribe of Rs. 500 from the complainant, a known illicit liquor trader, after demanding money to avoid…

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Constitution of India - Article 12 - Air Force Group Insurance Society (AFGIS) is a ‘State’ under Article 12- The administration of the Body is entirely in the hands of Government servants even though the body itself is a purportedly…

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NDPS Act 1986 - Section 50 - If merely a bag is carried by person is searched without there being any search of his person, S. 50 will have no application but if bag carried by him is searched and his person is also searched, S.

"When rights of multiple stakeholders are involved and certain Regulations proscribe a particular course of action any breach of the Regulation has to face its consequences. They are not in the realm of private rights which can be waived off as ratified. "

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Special Rules for the Kerala Social Welfare Subordinate Services, 2010 - The Supreme Court held that Anganwadi Workers who are graduates and have SSLC with 10 years’ experience are not confined only to the 11% earmarked for graduates…

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Constitution of India- Articles 14, and 21 ; Code on Social Security, 2020 - Section 60(4) - Section 60(4) of the 2020 Code insofar it puts an age limit of three months on the age of the adoptive child, for the adoptive mothers…

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Summary: The case arose from a recruitment exam for a single post of Law Officer in the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, where Question 73 asked which Schedule of the Constitution is immune from judicial review for violation…

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Orissa Panchayat Samiti Act, 1959 - Sections 44-E and 44-J - Sections 44-E permits the election petitioner to claim relief not only for having the election of the returned candidate declared invalid, but also for declaring the…

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Indian Contract Act, 1872 - Section 126 -128,137-141 - A contract of guarantee is an undertaking to perform the promise or discharge the liability of a third person, in case of his default. It is essentially a voluntary act of…