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HUSBAND VIEWED WIFE AS CASH COW ON GETTING JOB WITH DELHI POLICE: DELHI HC DISSOLVES MARRIAGE ON GROUND OF CRUELTY

In a recent, refreshing, rational and robust judgment titled Sanno Kumari vs Krishan Kumar in MAT.APP.(F.C.) 119/2020 and C.M. No.25687/2020 delivered as recently as on October 28, 2021, the Delhi High Court... Read more »

THE UPHEAVALS OF RESTRAINING INVOCATION OF BANK GUARANTEES

Bank guarantees are individual contracts between the bank and the creditor and are independent of the underlying contract between the beneficiary and the person at whose instance the bank guarantee is given. In... Read more »

Duty to defend: A lawyer has moral obligation to represent the unpopular client

Maintenance of law and order within a society is of utmost importance and lawyers play a key role in ensuring that law and order is maintained. The profession of a lawyer is... Read more »

RECALLING OF WITNESSES: A BOON OR A BANE FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?

INTRODUCTION The general bias in India towards the adversarial decision-making system is evident. We have a neutral judge that decides a particular case by listening and weighing the arguments presented by both... Read more »

OF FEMALE FOETICIDE AND ITS CAUSES IN INDIA

Womanish foeticide is one of the most sensitive and burning issues not only for India but for the whole world. It’s a general supposition that advanced countries with better knowledge rate may... Read more »

PC Act – more time taken for preliminary enquiry not a ground to quash criminal proceedings: SC

In a very significant observation, the Apex Court has as recently as on October 29, 2021 in a learned, laudable, landmark and latest judgment titled The State of Jammu and Kashmir vs... Read more »

Rise of inspections, inquiries and investigations under the Companies Act, 2013

“No law however, well-conceived or well drafted, can be altogether fool-and-knave proof and it is impossible. for any law to protect the fool from the consequences of his acts or omissions. Nevertheless,... Read more »

REFORMING THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION “Old enough to do the crime, old enough to do the time”. This phrase is very common among people who have the view that juvenile offenders should be treated as adults.... Read more »

Test identification parade: Its purpose and objective

At the outset, let me begin by stating most unambiguously that the test identification parade is always conducted immediately after a criminal offence takes place so that the eye witness who does... Read more »

Evidence in a trial against an accused does not have any bearing upon a co-accused in a separate trial for the commission of same offence: SC

It would be in the fitness of things to mention at the outset that in a significant development, the Supreme Court as recently as on October 29, 2021 in a cogent, commendable,... Read more »