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Madras High Court | When public officials have committed an act of negligence, lapses or dereliction of duty, financial loss caused to the State exchequer must be recovered from them

When the public officials have committed an act of negligence, lapses or dereliction of duty, the financial loss caused to the State exchequer are to be recovered from such public servants, who are responsible and accountable for the financial losses.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court pulls up Ludhiana Improvement Trust for sitting over an acquired land for three decades without paying for it; says ‘citizen’s right cannot be taken for a ride’ like this

“The Improvement Trust behaved as if it had some superior right to appropriate the property of the owners without paying for it contrary to the mandate of the LA Act.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Possession of joint land by one co-owner valid in absence of proof showing disagreement between other co-owners; Punjab & Haryana High Court reiterates

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Manjari Nehru Kaul, J., while dealing with a revision petition for setting aside the order passed by

Case Briefs High Courts

What is the legal status in case of a Muslim man regarding payment of maintenance to ex-wife beyond iddat period if she remains un-remarried and unable to maintain herself? Kar HC analyses

Karnataka High Court: Krishna S. Dixit dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are such that the

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCDRC | Executing Court cannot go behind the decree and therefore, State Commission has no option but to execute Order passed in Consumer Complaints

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): Justice V.K. Jain (Presiding Member), observed that Executing Court cannot go behind the decree and therefore, the

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Pak SC | Non-issuance of notice to the address not on record invalid ground for ignorance; Court dismisses the petition

Pakistan Supreme Court: A Full Bench of Gulzar Ahmed, Faisal Arab, Sajjad Ali Shah, JJ., dismissed the petition filed under Order 21

Case Briefs High Courts

Order XXI Rule 90 CPC allows setting aside of an auction sale only on grounds of fraud or material irregularity

Punjab and Haryana High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Kuldip Singh, J. dismissed the appeal filed against the order passed