In the present case, the claimant himself impleaded the insurer as a party to the claim application and it raised an objection to territorial jurisdiction before the Tribunal itself. As the claim ...

Prosecution under Section 4 of the Arms Act is maintainable only when there is a notification thereby banning possession of the certain weapons. It is not produced on record. Even though one witness P ...

Now let us examine whether what was heard by prosecution witnesses viz., PW2 Nandkumar Pol, PW3 Sunita Pol and PW4 Duryodhan Kadam allegedly from the victim minor child aged about 3 1/2 years ...

Under the CrPC regime, the informant's statutory journey effectively paused the moment the FIR was registered. There was no ...

A panchnama is a contemporaneous memorandum recording the observations of independent witnesses ("panchas") during a search, seizure, recovery, discovery or scene inspection. It is not a witness ...

It is observed that the Trial Court had considered the answers given by P.W. 7 Dr. Joshi, during his cross-examination that the injuries sustained by P.W. 1 and 2 could have been possible by fall on ...

Although learned APP has pointed out that there are allegations in the FIR itself which shows that this applicant has allowed her office to be used for the purpose of meeting, it has to be noted that ...

Ratio: A formal order under Section 299 Cr.P.C. conclusively finding two jurisdictional facts—that the accused is absconding and there is no immediate prospect of arresting them—is mandatory. Without ...

The Bench—headed by Chief Justice Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud—offered a now widely quoted description of the doctrine’s two ...

The Tribunals must be more pragmatic in their approach while dealing with the cases for motor accident victims and invoke the power which is vested in them under Sections 168 and 169 in such a fashion ...

Section 164 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 creates a fixed-compensation, no-fault remedy. In an injury claim, the central questions are not who drove negligently or who was responsible for the ...