Recently, the Kerala High Court dismissed an inspection case and said that under the Prevention of Corruption Act, actions that are opposed to the standards but are not done with the purpose to defraud are not considered criminal misbehaviour.
According to the Supreme Court, the State Police must investigate a Schedule Offense until the National Investigation Agency takes over the investigation.
It was noted in a judgment by the Supreme Court that revenue records were not documents of title. A lessee could not be allowed to obtain a land right solely based on an entry in the revenue records, according to the Court.
Early in this October the Karnataka High Court held that the infant has a right to be breastfed and this has also been incorporated with the mother’s right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India because breastfeeding is a crucial aspect of motherhood.
Recently, the Kerala High Court decided that a District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has the same power and authority as a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure to order commissions for local inspection.
The Bombay High Court granted immediate ad-interim relief to Indian cinema distributor Narendra Hirawat & Co. by demonstrating tolerance against the defendant who breached the consent terms and tried to exploit film rights they sold in the year 2004.
In this case the court was confronted with criminal appeals emanating from decisions of Karnataka High Court and Madhya Pradesh High Court, both of which raised an identical question of law. The Court clubbed these appeals to attend to the identical question.
The Supreme Court observed that when a complaint arises from a consumer, the onus of proving that the service was defective was on the complainant.
Delhi HC was confronted with a writ petition to quash a preventive detention order passed in 2021 for alleged offences committed in 2018.
The SC concluded that Lok Adalat has no jurisdiction to decide the matter on merits Once it is determined that no compromise or settlement could be reached between the parties.
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