Category: Case Summary

Author : Neha Singh Citation: AIR 1998 SC 2381 Bench: Justice G. Nanawati, Justice S. Kurdukar INTRODUCTION In this case the held that there is no scope for giving any benefit of right private defense when the accused is the one who instigated the assault. The conviction of the appellant under section 326 was found

Citation: AIR (2010) 5 SCC 91 Bench: Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy, Justice Surinder Singh Najjar INTRODUCTION In this case the court held the significance of motive and scope of interference in Article 136 of Constitution of India. The appreciation of evidence and credibility of witnesses were weak and held that criminal justice should not be

Author : Neha Singh Citation: 2016 SC 708 Bench: Justice Dipak Mishra and Justice C. Nagappan INTRODUCTION In this case the court upheld the constitutional validity of the criminal defamation provisions in the Indian Penal Code, citing the Subramanian Swamy vs Union of India case and stress on the idea of fair criticism, dissent and

Citation: AIR 2012 (2) SCC 728 Bench: Justice A.K Patnaik, Justice Swantanter Kumar INTRODUCTION In this case the court held that the murder was extremely brutal and one of the rarest of the rare case. The appellant’s wife ran away and he accused his mother as the reason and murdered her. The court decided upon

Author : Neha Singh Citation: AIR 1977 Mad 182, (1977) 1 MLJ 482 Bench: Justice Ramanujam INTRODUCTION This case is a face off of provisions of legitimacy of a child in Muslim Personal law and section 112 of Indian Evidence Act. In this case it was held that the Evidence Act is a very general

Author : Prity Kumari Citations-  (2012)2 SCC 648 Bench- SB Singh, Harjit Singh Bedi Introduction- It was seen that in earlier cases of drunken driving resulting in an accident were being determined in accordance with sections 337 and 338 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Under these sections, there are provisions with warrant maximum punishments

INDIRA GANDHI VS RAJ NARAIN Forty five years ago, on 25th June 1975, India saw its darkest phase in the history of independent India. Indira Gandhi proclaimed national emergency under Article 356 which lasted for 21 months. Two weeks earlier, Allahabad High Court had set aside the election of PM Indira Gandhi in the case

Author : Neha Singh Citation: AIR 1971 All 328 Bench: Justice S Katju INTRODUCTION In this case restriction on entry into a mosque was imposed but at no point did the Government or the police authorities either expressly or impliedly make an order allowing entry in the mosque to the general Muslim public. Although the

AGA ALI KHAN VS ALTAF HASAN KHAN Author : AKASH KRISHNAN Citation: First Appeal No.85 of 1888 Bench: Sir John Edge; Mahmood; Knox, JJ; K.t., C.J Introduction Under Islamic Law, a property which is inalienable and whose profits go into charity or are used for the purpose of charity is called Waqf. It is held

Author : AKASH KRISHNAN Citation: 1988 R.C.C. 51 Bench: N.M. Kasliwal, Farooq Hassan, JJ. Introduction The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 was enacted to as an answer to the long line of questions raising demands for protection of rights of divorced women in the community. Section 3 of the Act provides