Electricity Act, 2003, - Punjab State Grid Code, 2013 - SG Code in its operation and scheduling and despatch contemplates breach by the SGS on four facets : (i) over-injection and underinjection, covered in UI Regulations (ii) deviation, reckoned by the DSM…

Motor Accident Compensation - In a given case, while assessing the compensation, the Court may adopt the amount of minimum wages notified, if they are found higher than the rates of salary notified by the other authorities like the District Commissioner,…

Motor Accident Compensation - A skilled driver’s income should not be mechanically tied to minimum wage notifications when the claim is reasonable. [Context: In this case, the Supreme Court held that fixing the monthly income at only Rs. 1,800 was unconscionably…

Matrimonial - Transfer Petition - The husband challenged a Gujarat High Court order that had allowed the wife’s transfer application and moved his divorce case from the Family Court at Ahmedabad to Vadodara. The Supreme Court noted that the two minor children…

Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993 - Section 30(1)(g) - Too restrictive an interpretation to the disqualification clause would frustrate the very object for which it is incorporated in the statute. [Context: The petitioner, a Sarpanch, challenged her removal under…

Will - When the validity of a Will is to be determined, the overall terms of a Will, the intention of the testator and the surrounding circumstances have also to be seen. Mere exclusion of the natural heirs from the property of the testator, by itself, cannot…

Legislation- Transitional provision - The function of a transitional provision is to make special provision for the application of legislation to the circumstances which exist at the time when the legislation comes into force . One feature of atransitional…

Criminal Trial - In the cases of circumstantial evidence when the chain of circumstances have been adequately proved to link to the culpability of the accused, motive is irrelevant. (Para 23) [Context: SC dismissed appeal of husband–accused against his conviction…

Practice and Procedure- Undertakings given by State Authorities- Constantly giving undertakings before a constitutional Court and thereafter resiling from them does not comport with the standards expected of a model employer. An undertaking recorded by a…

Constitution of India - Article 235 - The Registrar General of the High Court has absolutely no authority either in terms of the constitutional scheme or the statutory rules governing the service conditions of the judicial officers, to suo-moto initiate disciplinary…

Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 506 - The act of video-recording the victim in a naked state while she was taking a bath and the threat to upload it on digital social media can be construed to be an act amounting to a threat to impute unchastity within the

Notes On Supreme Court Judgments

Notes On Supreme Court Judgments

Practice and Procedure - High Court refused to decide the matters on merits, citing that the counsel appearing physically was not prepared and the counsel appearing virtually from Delhi was not duly instructed, and also imposed costs of Rs. 10,000 on the…

Criminal Trial - Legal aid to an accused person must not be a mere ritual or a token formality, but a substantive and meaningful exercise that ensures effective assistance of counsel. [Context:SC held that the Madhya Pradesh High Court, in deciding the appellant’s…

Notes On Supreme Court Judgments