The Bombay High Court has delivered a significant ruling on the limits of judicial reliance on forensic reports in criminal trials. In State of Maharashtra v. Tejas @ Dada Mahipati Dalvi & Ors., the ...

Court, for the reason that the Supreme Court has laid down that such witnesses ought to be court witnesses even if the prosecution fails in its duty to summon such crucial witnesses, if at all the CA ...

Under the unamended Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 (MLRC), a landholder who wanted to change land use from agricultural to NA typically had to: Obtain development permission or building plan ...

SURVIVING PARTNER IN A MUTUAL SUICIDE PACT IS LEGALLY CULPABLE. 117. Notwithstanding the culpability of the act of purchasing pesticide, the Accused’s participation in a suicide ...

Section 27 of the Evidence Act clearly speaks of information received from a person Accused of any offence while in the custody of the police leading to a discovery of a fact being enabled of proof in ...

(a) It is declared that the Petitioner was not produced before the nearest Magistrate within 24 hours, thereby making his arrest illegal. (b) Consequently, the Petitioner shall be released on bail on ...

Ordinarily no routine direction for second statement under Section 183 B.N.S.S. can be given but under exceptional circumstances. High Court in exercise of it’s extraordinary ju ...

in sessions cases where committal is not possible. Registry also is directed to forward a copy of this order to the Subordinate Criminal Courts for information.

Ashok Bhushan and M.R. Shah, JJ. 1. Leave granted. 2. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 10.09.2018 passed by the High Court for the State of Telangana and ...

widows in cases for application for probate, letters of administration, succession certificate and legal heirship certificate irrespectively. With this clarification, nothing further remains. 4. The ...

Section 41 of CrPC empowers police officers to arrest individuals without a warrant under specific circumstances. The provision covers various scenarios including when a person commits a cognizable ...

Witnesses to the panchnamas and the seizures acted as mere attestors to the documents and did not disclose in their own words as to how these objects were discovered, i.e., at whose instance and how.