Having considered the transcript, we direct that the Acting Chief Justice of the High Court at Calcutta shall reassign the pending proceedings in the case to some other Judge of the Calcutta High Court. The Judge to whom the...
Month: April 2023
The Court has been apprised of the fact that the State of West Bengal has moved certain applications before the Single Judge for variation of the stay which was granted on 8 December 2022. We request the Single Judge...
Author(s): P.K. Majumdar, R.D. SaxenaPublisher: Orient Publishing CompanyEdition: 6 Ed Rp 2021ISBN 10 8181797986ISBN 13 9788187197980Approx. Pages 956 + ContentsFormat Hardbound Contents The Notaries Act, 19521. Short title, extent and commencement2. Definitions3. Power to appoint notaries4. Registers5. Entry of...
The point for determination before us is not whether any trust had come into existence and concerning which there can be no doubt, but whether it was a valid trust and secondly whether it is a public or private...
Laws are available to take care of hate speeches, Supreme Court declined to issue directions (2014)
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Hate speech-a public interest litigation pertaining to speeches delivered during election campaign, we are afraid, cannot be put on the pedestal of a real public interest litigation. There are laws to take care of it. In the name of...
Section 298 IPC provides that any act with deliberate and malicious intention of hurting the religious feelings of any person is punishable. However, Section 295A IPC deals with far more serious offences. Furthermore, Section 505(2) IPC provides that making...
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Sections 153A and 505(2) of the Penal Code-the law of 'hate speech' recognises that all speakers are entitled to 'good faith' and '(no)-legitimate purpose' protection. 'Good faith' means that the conduct should display fidelity as well as a conscientious...
The accused no. 1, who was then a Member of Parliament and had allegedly made a hate speech, had later on became the Chief Minister of the State of Uttar Pradesh and thereby, the Executive Head of the State....
we find that the present case cannot be considered to be 'rarest of rare' case. In any case, the report of the Probation Officer, Nanded as well as the Superintendent, Nashik Road Central Prison would show that the appellant-Digambar...
Section 403, 406, 420 and 120B of the IPC-We find that the complaint, taken at its face value, does not disclose that any of the ingredients of the offence complained of have been made out. In the totality of...
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