Wife Is Absolute Owner Of Streedhan, Taking It Away Does Not Attract Criminal Breach Of Trust Under Section 406 IPC: Allahabad High Court Government Need Not Adjudicate If Employee Is 'Workman' Before Referring Dispute To Labour Court: Gujarat High Court Bidder Cannot Be Disqualified For Submitting Certificate From Unspecified Agency If Tender Document Is Silent: Delhi High Court Driver Clicking Selfies With Licensed Firearm Doesn't Make Owner Liable Under Arms Act: Punjab & Haryana High Court Quashes FIR High Court Imposes Blanket Ban On Tree Felling In Haryana, Cites Impending Ecological Catastrophe Due To Dismal Forest Cover No Fresh Summons Needed For Legal Heirs If Suit Was Already Proceeding Ex-Parte Against Deceased Defendant: Allahabad High Court Serving Judicial Officer's Anticipatory Bail Denied in Theft From Deceased Judge's Home: "No Person, Whatever His Rank, Is Above Law" Missing Murder Weapon Not Fatal When Eyewitnesses Are Reliable - Brother Stabs Brother: Tripura High Court Advocate and Cop Conspired to Frame Innocent Witness in Fake Gang Rape Case: Delhi High Court Upholds Conviction, Calls It "Clear Abuse of Process of Law" Direction To 'Act In Accordance With Law' Does Not Determine Substantive Rights, Non-Impleadment Not A Ground For Review: Chhattisgarh High Court State Cannot Grab Citizen's Land For Road Construction Pleading Delay And Laches: Himachal Pradesh High Court "Bail Is Rule, Jail Is Exception" Principle Does Not Apply Post-Conviction: Jharkhand High Court Failure To Furnish Written Grounds Of Arrest Renders Arrest Illegal, Entitles Accused To Bail In NDPS Case: Supreme Court Medical Certificate On Reverse Side Of Dying Declaration Does Not Affect Its Sanctity: Supreme Court Supreme Court Directs All State Capitals To Conduct Inquiry Into Misuse Of Residential Areas For Commercial Purposes Tolls Collected By NHAI On National Highways Fall Exclusively Under Union List: Supreme Court Family Courts Lack Jurisdiction To Transfer Cases Inter-Se Under Section 24 CPC: Rajasthan High Court Section 138 NI Act | Cheque Bounce Complaint Cannot Be Dismissed At Threshold Merely For Non-Production Of Postal Track Report: Madhya Pradesh High Court Departmental Dismissal Based On Identical Evidence Discarded By Criminal Court Amounts To 'No Evidence': Orissa High Court Kerala Lok Ayukta Amendment Upheld: High Court Rules Lok Ayukta Is Not A Court, Its Declaration Can Be Changed To Recommendation Chief Minister's Press Conference Assurance Not Legally Enforceable Without Formal Executive Order: Delhi High Court Irretrievable Breakdown Of Marriage Amounts To Cruelty, Court Cannot Grant Permanent Alimony Suo Motu: Calcutta High Court Minor Contradictions In Wife's Evidence Are Usual In Cruelty Cases, Do Not Vitiate Prosecution Under Section 498A: Kerala High Court

"CRIMINAL LAW" Digest

POCSO – Gang Rape of Minor – Suspension of Sentence – Section 389(1) Cr.P.C. – Post-Conviction Stage – Presumption of Innocence Not Available – The appellant was convicted and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life under Section 376(DA) IPC and Section 6 POCSO Act for gang rape of a minor victim – A previous application for suspension of sentence (I.A...

Criminal Law - Matrimonial Cruelty – Section 498A IPC – Dowry Demand – Conviction Upheld – Petitioner No. 1, who married PW1 on 09.01.2000, along with his parents (Petitioners 2 and 3), subjected PW1 to physical and mental cruelty demanding more dowry, assaulted her while pregnant on 26.06.2000, and expelled her from the matrimonial home – Trial Court convicted all th...

Criminal Law – Criminal Conspiracy – False Implication in Rape Case – Extortion – Advocate and Police Officer – Conviction Upheld – A1 a practising advocate and A2 a Sub-Inspector of Police conspired with two deceased accused to falsely implicate PW12, an innocent person who was the principal witness in a molestation case against a police official, in a fabricat...

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 – Section 138 – Dishonour of Cheque – Statutory Notice – Presumption of Service – General Clauses Act, 1897, Section 27 – Complaint dismissed by JMFC as premature for non-production of track report of registered notice – Revisional Court affirmed dismissal holding presumption of service arises only after 30 days from dispat...

Criminal Law – Murder – Burning of Wife – Concurrent Conviction – Dying Declaration – Reliability – The appellant was convicted under Sections 302 and 342 IPC by the Sessions Judge, Bundi and sentenced to life imprisonment with rigorous imprisonment of one year respectively – High Court confirmed the conviction – Appellant challenged concurrent findi...

NDPS Act — Sections 8 and 22 — Bail — Grounds of Arrest — Constitutional Mandate — Article 22(1) read with Article 21 — Appellants, senior orthopaedic surgeon and proprietor of pharmacy unit within Corporate Hospital, Amritsar, arrested by NCB on 02.05.2025 following recovery of 2000 Tramadol tablets in sealed condition from hospital pharmacy — Appellants ...

Criminal Law – Murder – Eyewitness Testimony – Conviction Upheld – Property Dispute – Mediation Meeting – The appellant was convicted under Section 302 IPC for stabbing his brother Titu Miah Khadim at a mediation meeting convened to settle a property dispute on 01.10.2021 – PW-2, whose presence at the place of occurrence was not disputed, gave a direct eye...

Criminal Law – Quashing of Summoning Order – Section 482 Cr.P.C. – Streedhan – Section 406 IPC – Applicant No.1 (wife) lodged FIR against opposite party No.2 (husband) for offences under Sections 498-A, 323 IPC and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act – Charge-sheet filed against the husband – Maintenance of Rs. 4,000/- per month and Rs. 1,000/- per m...

Arms Act – Section 25(1-B)(a) – Possession in Violation of Section 3 – Licence Holders – FIR registered against petitioners who were licensed holders of revolvers on the allegation that their driver clicked photographs with the weapons and posted them on social media — No allegation anywhere in the prosecution case that petitioners acquired, possessed or carried any f...

Criminal Law – Anticipatory Bail – SC/ST (POA) Act – Section 14A(2) – Role of Accused in Custodial Death – Deceased Darshan was taken to Vivekanagara Police Station on 13.11.2025 without registration of case — detained illegally from 01.30 a.m. of 13.11.2025 to 08.30 p.m. of 15.11.2025 — thereafter sent to a rehabilitation centre where he was allegedly sub...