While considering the application for bail made by an accused involved in an offence under the NDPS Act a liberal approach ignoring the mandate under Section 37 of the NDPS…
Temporary employees, particularly in government institutions, often face multifaceted forms of exploitation. The foundational purpose of temporary contracts is to address short-term or seasonal needs, but nowadays, they have increasingly…
It is a settled principle that equals must be treated equally, and if persons similarly placed are treated differently without a rational basis, it would amount to a violation of…
Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the SC/ST Act read as under, “3. Punishments for offences atrocities.—3(1) Whoever, not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe,— (a)…
The High Court can only see in disciplinary proceedings are whether: (a) the enquiry is held by a competent authority; (b) the enquiry is held according to the procedure prescribed…
The statutory framework contemplates that information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence is first placed before the officer-in-charge of the police station and an FIR is registered under…
If a petitioner has disabled himself from availing himself of the statutory remedy by his own fault in not doing so within the prescribed time, he/she cannot certainly be permitted…
Even in cases where the punishment imposed by the disciplinary authority is found to be shocking to the conscience of the court, normally the disciplinary authority or the appellate authority…
The last seen theory comes into play where the time gap between the point of time when the accused and the deceased were last seen alive and the deceased is…
Delay in lodging the FIR cannot be used as a ritualistic formula for doubting the prosecution case and discarding the same solely on the ground of delay in lodging the…