2024 INSC January

State of MP vs Vijay Kumar Tiwari 2024 INSC 25 – Ayurveda & Allopathy PG Course

February 1, 2024 / By

Summary: Madhya Pradesh High Court directed State to treat the students pursuing Post Graduate in Ayurveda stream at par with the students pursuing Post Graduate Course in Allopathy stream – setting aside the HC judgment, held: The nature of duties discharged by the Post Graduate students in Ayurveda stream is not the same as that …

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Bilkis Yakub Rasool vs Union of India 2024 INSC 24 :: [2024] 1 S.C.R. 743 – S 432 CrPC – Remission – Article 32 Constitution

February 16, 2024 / By

Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 432 –In a case where the trial has been transferred by this Court from a court of competent jurisdiction of a State to a court in another State, Government of the State within which the offender was sentenced is the appropriate Government which has the jurisdiction as well as …

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Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. vs MB Power (Madhya Pradesh) Limited 2024 INSC 23 – Electricity Act – Article 226 – Writ Jurisdiction In Contractual Matters – Interpretation Of Statutes

February 1, 2024 / By

Constitution of India, 1950; Article 226 – When a right is created by a statute, which itself prescribes the remedy or procedure for enforcing the right or liability, resort must be had to that particular statutory remedy before invoking the discretionary remedy under Article 226 of the Constitution of India – Availability of an alternate …

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Pradeep Kumar vs State Of Haryana 2024 INSC 21 :: [2024] 1 S.C.R. 306 – Circumstantial Evidence – Murder Accused Acquitted

February 15, 2024 / By

Criminal Trial – Circumstantial Evidence – While the principle applicable to circumstantial evidence requires that the facts must be consistent with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused, in the present case the evidence adduced gives rise to doubts, improbabilities and inconsistencies – Referred to Pritinder Singh v. State of Punjab, (2023) 7 SCC …

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Jitendra Kumar Mishra @ Jittu vs State of Madhya Pradesh 2024 INSC 20 – S 372 CrPC – Appeal Against Conviction

February 1, 2024 / By

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 372, 386 – The appellate court should be slow in interfering with the conviction recorded by the courts below but where the evidence on record indicates the prosecution has failed to prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt and that a plausible view, different from the one …

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Darshan Singh vs State of Punjab 2024 INSC 19 – Criminal Trial – Ss 161, 313 CrPC – Illiterate Witness – Circumstantial Evidence

February 4, 2024 / By

Criminal Trial – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ; Section 161 – If the PWs had failed to mention in their statements u/s 161 CrPC about the involvement of an accused, their subsequent statement before court during trial regarding involvement of that particular accused cannot be relied upon. Prosecution cannot seek to prove a fact …

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Sarfaraz Alam vs Union of India 2024 INSC 18 :: [2024] 1 S.C.R. 267- Article 22(5) Constitution – Detention

February 15, 2024 / By

Constitution of India, 1950 ; Article 22(5) – Article 22(5) of the Constitution of India can broadly be divided into two parts – The first part involves the bounden duty of the authorities in serving the grounds of detention containing such grounds which weighed in the mind of the detaining authority in passing the detention …

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S V Samudram vs State of Karnataka 2024 INSC 17 :: [2024] 1 S.C.R. 281 – S 34 Arbitration Act

February 15, 2024 / By

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 ; Section 34 – Any court under Section 34 would have no jurisdiction to modify the arbitral award – The court cannot correct errors of the arbitrators. It can only quash the award leaving the parties free to begin the arbitration again if it is desired- Referred to Larsen Air …

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Satish P Bhatt vs State of Maharashtra 2024 INSC 16 – S 138 NI Act – Violationg Of Undertaking

February 4, 2024 / By

Bombay HC cancelled the order of suspension of sentence and bail granted to the appellant – accused – also the intervenor (petitioner before the High Court) as they violated the undertaking given before the High Court and further violated the condition contained in the order granting extension of time to comply- Supreme Court dismissed appeal …

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