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Janardan Das vs Durga Prasad Agarwalla 2024 INSC 778 – Specific Performance – Agency

October 16, 2024 / By

Specific Relief Act, 1963 -Section 16(c) – A plaintiff seeking specific performance of a contract must aver and prove that they have performed or have always been ready and willing to perform the essential terms of the contract which are to be performed by them. This requirement is a condition precedent and must be established …

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Questions & Answers Based On Supreme Court Judgments Of August 2024 [CrPC]

September 2, 2024 / By

Can FIR be quashed after filing of chargesheet? Code Of Criminal Procedure,1973; Section 482 -Whether quashing of the FIR can be refused for no other reason than that the investigating officer has filed the charge-sheet? High Court under Section 482, Cr. PC. retains the power to quash an FIR, even after charge-sheet under Section 173(2) …

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S Tirupathi Rao vs M Lingamaiah 2024 INSC 544 – CPC – Review – Contempt Of Court

July 23, 2024 / By

Contempt of Courts Act, 1971; Section 20 – In a case where a civil contempt is alleged by a party by referring to a “continuing wrong/breach/offence” and such allegation prima facie satisfies the court, the action for contempt is not liable to be nipped in the bud merely on the ground of it being presented …

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Arbitral Award Can Be Set Aside; But Can It Be Modified?

February 27, 2024 / By

Can a court modify an Arbitration Award invoking its powers under Section 34 or 37 of the Arbitration and Concilitation Act? Last week, on 20 February 2024, a three judges bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta, KV Viswanathan and Sandeep Mehta noted (in Gayatri Balasamy vs ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited) that this issue is of seminal …

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Top 10 Supreme Court Judgments Of January 2024

February 5, 2024 / By

These are, in our view, top ten Supreme Court judgments that every lawyer/law student must go through. If you think some other judgment should have been included in this list, just share that in comment below.

Shatrughna Atmaram Patil vs Vinod Dodhu Chaudhary 2024 INSC 75 – Police Officers Fined

February 1, 2024 / By

Summary: Police Officers imposed costs for conspiring and in abetting the crime of the illegal detention of the tenants, coercing them to sign the document against their will, and getting the premises in question demolished without any order from a competent Court – Six police personnel will suffer a cost of Rs. 6.0 lacs for …

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