The truth should be the guiding star in the entire judicial process. Truth alone has to be the foundation of justice. The entire judicial system has been created only to discern and find out the real truth. Judges at...
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The basic rule may perhaps be tersely put as bail, not jail, except where there are circumstances suggestive of fleeing from justice or thwarting the course of justice or creating other troubles in the shape of repeating offences or...
The very act of directing a woman to come to the police station in violation of Section 160(1), Cr.P.C. may make for tension and negate voluntariness. It is likely that some of the questions are self-criminatory. More importantly, the...
Rameshwar and others Versus Jot Ram and others-The right of a party is determinded by the facts as they exist on the date the action is institued. Granting the presence of such facts, then he is entitled to its enforcement....
It is basic to our processual jurisprudence that the right to relief must be judged to exist as on the date a suitor institutes the legal proceeding. Equally clear is the principle that procedure is the hand-maid and not...
Social defence is the criminological foundation of punishment. The trial judge has confused between correctional approach to prison treatment and nominal punishment verging on decriminalisation of serious social offences. The first is basic, the second pathetic. That Court which...
It is trite, going by Anglophonic principles, that a ruling of a Superior Court is binding law. SUPREME COURT OF INDIA The Mumbai Kamgar Sabha, Bombay Versus M/s. Abdulbhai Faizullabhai and others (Before : V. R. Krishna Iyer And...