Selling Non-E20 Compliant Car Without Disclosure Amounts To Unfair Trade Practice: Consumer Court Directs Maruti Suzuki To Replace Vehicle Or Refund Cost Punjab & Haryana High Court Appoints Independent Observer, Orders Videography To Ensure Fair Mayoral Polls In MC Abohar Railways Cannot Be Held Liable For Shortage Of Goods Booked At 'Owner's Risk' Unless Negligence Is Proved: Supreme Court High Court Cannot Re-Appreciate Evidence In Writ Jurisdiction To Interfere With Fact-Finding By Civil Courts: Supreme Court Supreme Court Directs All States To Formulate Premature Release Policy For Terminally Ill & Elderly Prisoners Within 3 Months Employer Cannot Deny Compassionate Appointment Citing Age Limit Crossed Due To Its Own Delay In Processing Medical Retirement: Supreme Court Remission Applications Of Life Convicts Must Be Decided Within 3 Months; Long Incarceration Merits Interim Bail: Supreme Court Arbitration Clause Or Civil Remedy No Bar To Criminal Prosecution If Offence Prima Facie Disclosed: Allahabad High Court No Ground For Repeated Enquiries On Overlapping Allegations Without Fresh Material: Andhra Pradesh High Court Dismisses PIL Against MedTech Park Officials District Council Court Is A 'Civil Court', Barred From Deciding Nokma Succession Disputes Under Garo Hills Social Customs Act: Meghalaya High Court Fundamental Rights Can't Be Bartered Away On US Embassy's Complaint": Karnataka HC Awards Rs 5 Lakhs For Illegal Arrest Of Homestay Owner Non-Compliance With Section 42 NDPS Act During Night Search Of Private Vehicle Vitiates Proceedings, Rigour Of Section 37 Won't Apply: Kerala High Court Employer Has Sole Right To Prescribe Qualifications; Courts Cannot Substitute Views Of Academic Experts: Madhya Pradesh High Court Suppression Of Criminal Antecedents Disentitles Accused To Discretionary Relief Of Bail: Orissa High Court Non-Communication Of Grounds Of Arrest In Writing & Denying Legal Aid During First Remand Vitiates Detention: Punjab & Haryana High Court Dispute Over Authenticity Of Will Falls Within Domain Of Civil Court: Telangana High Court Grants Anticipatory Bail In Forgery Case State Cannot Arbitrarily Retain Premium Paid For Unutilized FSI; Denial Of Refund To Residential Projects Violates Article 14: Supreme Court Courts Cannot Rewrite Commercial Contracts; No Interest On Security Deposit Unless Refund Delayed Beyond Agreed Period: Supreme Court State's Failure To Challenge Bail Of Co-Convict Entitles Identically Situated Accused To Parity: Supreme Court Kerala High Court Discharges Kumbakudi Sudhakaran In Criminal Contempt After Unconditional Apology For Remarks Against Judges 12-Day Delay In Filing Appeal Against Section 138 Conviction Minimal, Courts Shouldn't Adopt Hyper-Technical Approach: Madhya Pradesh High Court Complaint Barred By Limitation If Drug Is Only 'Not Of Standard Quality' And Not Spurious: Punjab & Haryana High Court Quashes Prosecution Proclaimed Offender Not Entitled To Anticipatory Bail, Especially When Evading Investigation: Allahabad High Court Trial Court Cannot Disregard Evidence Of Witness Proving Will If Attesting Witnesses Are Deceased: Andhra Pradesh High Court Oral Waiver Of Right To Be Searched Under Section 50 NDPS Act Must Be Reduced To Writing: Bombay High Court Grants Bail Specific Allegation Of Fund Mismatch In Show Cause Notice Sufficient Due Process For Fraud Classification: Calcutta High Court Failure To Provide Written Grounds Of Arrest A 'Curable Defect' If No Prejudice Caused To Accused: Delhi High Court

"CRIMINAL LAW" Digest

Criminal Law – Quashing of Proceedings – Section 376 IPC – Section 482 CrPC – Consensual Relationship – Revisional application filed for quashing of GR Case No. 923 of 2017 arising out of Electronic Complex PS Case No. 127 of 2017 – Petitioner charged under Section 376 IPC on the basis of a complaint filed by a woman known to him through social media – Com...

NDPS Act – Bail – Parity – Section 20(b)(ii)(B) – Cannabis – Accused No.2 alleged to have supplied cannabis to Accused No.1 and to have been found in possession of 1.590 kg of cannabis recovered pursuant to disclosure by Accused No.1 – Accused No.2 in custody since 15.06.2025 – Accused No.1, found with higher quantity of 4.725 kg, already enlarged on bail ...

Negotiable Instruments Act – Section 138 – Compounding of Offence – Post-Conviction Settlement – Acquittal – Petitioner convicted by JMIC and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of two years with compensation of Rs. 20,60,002/- – Appeal dismissed by Sessions Court for want of prosecution – During pendency of revision, parties reached amicable settlement and...

Negotiable Instruments Act – Section 138 – Dismissal in Default – Singular Default – Complaint dismissed in default by ACJM, Shimla on 08.04.2025 for non-appearance of complainant and her counsel — Appellant-complainant submitted unavoidable circumstances prevented appearance and counsel was expected to seek adjournment — Matter repeatedly called throughout the ...

Custodial Violence – Compensation – Adverse Inference from Absence of CCTV Footage – Petitioner allegedly assaulted by police constables Nagendra and Utkarsh of P.S. Lasudiya, Indore, in the early hours of 29.12.2025, both at the spot and inside the police station for about one and a half hours – Photographs of injuries filed on record – Petitioner taken to an inner r...

Preventive Detention – NDPS – Delay in Passing Detention Order – Live and Proximate Link – Writ petition challenging detention order dated 14.10.2025 passed under Section 3(1) of PIT-NDPS Act, confirmed for one year from 23.10.2025 — Petitioner convicted in 2020 under NDPS Act; later granted bail on appeal; again involved in NDPS offence in 2024 and released on bail s...

Criminal Law — Murder — Common Intention — Section 34 IPC — Conviction Upheld — Appellants Raj Narain, Kamlesh and Rajendra Prasad came to the field armed with gun, lathi and spade on 09.06.1984 and forcibly diverted the deceased's water course — On being confronted, appellants 2 and 3 exhorted to kill, whereupon appellant 1 fired at the deceased causing his...

Criminal Law – Quashing of Final Report – Section 482 CrPC – Sections 324, 353 IPC and Section 3(2)(e) of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 – Accused bus driver alleged to have overtaken and collided with the official vehicle of a judicial officer – Held: None of the charges are even prima facie sustainable as the essential ingredients of Sections ...

Murder and Robbery – Circumstantial Evidence – Conviction Affirmed – Sections 302/394/34 IPC – Both appellants convicted by the Trial Court for murder and robbery of the deceased Dooja Devi on 09.05.1997 – Prosecution relied on a chain of circumstances comprising last seen together, recovery of stolen articles and blood-stained clothes at the instance of accused, and ...

Family Law — DNA Examination — Adultery — Presumption of Legitimacy — Section 112 Evidence Act — Direction Refused — Appellant-husband filed application in divorce proceedings under Section 13 HMA seeking DNA examination of minor child born during subsisting marriage, with the stated purpose of substantiating his allegation of adultery against respondent-wife &m...