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“The Court exercised the powers conferred under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and appointed, Jai Prakash Narayan Purohit, Retired Additional District Judge, as the sole Arbitrator to adjudicate the dispute between the parties.”
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“After the insertion of Section 65B (54) in the Finance Act 1994, from 01-07-2012 onwards, the definition of ‘works contract’ was expanded to include repair and maintenance services of movable properties. Hence, the composite contracts for repair and maintenance of motor vehicles are leviable to service tax from said date.”
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“The purpose of certiorari is only to confine the inferior tribunals within their jurisdiction, so as to avoid the irregular exercise, or the non-exercise or the illegal assumption of it and not to correct errors of finding of fact or interpretation of law committed by them in the exercise of powers vested in them under the statute”.
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“The concept of maintenance grant was to ensure that the wife and the children of the husband were not left in a state of destitution after the divorce .”
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“Continuance of the criminal proceedings against the accused without any acceptable evidence would be a travesty of justice and an abuse of the process of the Court”.
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Justice Sanjay Karol served the High Courts of Tripura and Patna as Chief Justice before his elevation as a Supreme Court Judge on 06-02-2023.
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“While granting interim relief for continuation in service, the Court or Tribunal should, therefore, be slow and circumspect, unless prima facie evidence of unimpeachable character was produced because if the public servant succeeds, he can always be compensated. But if he fails, he would have enjoyed undeserved benefit of extended service and merely caused injustice to his immediate junior”.
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“If the documents/ score card given by the candidate, downloaded from the website of the NTA, were genuine, then the candidate should get admission into his choicest institution of the country, like IIT or NIT. But, if the documents are found to be not genuine, then CBI should ascertain how the same was obtained by the candidate, so that such mistake cannot be made by the authorities in future.”
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“Rule 50 of the Andhra Pradesh Revised Pension Rules, 1980 is with intend to give relief to the woman becoming wife. Under such circumstances, even the wife from the second marriage was made entitled for family pension.”
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“Negligence is a breach of duty imposed by law and it may be either civil or criminal depending upon the nature and gravity of the negligence. Criminal negligence, on the other hand, is gross and culpable, neglect or failure to exercise, reasonable and proper care and precaution to guard against injury, either to the public generally or to an individual in particular”.
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“Times Now Navbharat or Times Group Media Channel is hereby directed to not broadcast, telecast, print the news, statement, opinion under the heading of operation ‘PAAP’ against the plaintiff.”
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“Scrupulous adherence to Order VII Rule 11 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 can curtail litigation like the present one, which aside from clogging the litigation also keeps the parties embroiled in litigation with a false hope of some relief.”
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“Section 11(2) of Andhra Pradesh Civil Courts Act, 1972 empowers the District Judge to transfer any case to the Additional District Judge who would have the same power as that of the District Judge in disposing of the transfer cases.”
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“A person who wishes to buy milk cream would not go to the market and ask for milk. He would only ask for milk cream because it is a separate product, though also a milk product.”
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“Balance of convenience would, clearly not justify bringing the use, by the defendants, of the PANTOPACID mark to a complete halt, at this late stage.”
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“There is no prohibition to effect a partition otherwise than through an instrument in writing by duly complying with the requirement of law.”
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“The Trial Court has rightly convicted the accused and we do not find any illegality in the impugned judgment of conviction and therefore, the same deserves to be upheld.”
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“The writ petition, while initially deemed maintainable, has since become non-maintainable due to the privatization of Air India Limited. This development has rendered it beyond this Court’s jurisdiction to issue any writ, order, or direction against the respondents.”
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“The delay in lodging FIR in cases of child rape should be taken with much sensitivity and the Courts concerned must judiciously weigh all the surrounding factors which led to such delay as discarding the otherwise meritorious case of the victim merely because there was failure to knock at the portals of justice in a time-bound manner would mean nothing but adding a pinch of salt to the victim’s injury.”
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“When the yardstick of minimum chest size is not provided for other government jobs involving comparable or more physical activity, one does not see any rhyme or reason behind the criterion in question, particularly for female candidates.”
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