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The High Court Roundup brings a curated list of the top stories of the month to ensure that our readers do not miss out any important updates. This month’s roundup covers the stories Live-in relationships; Motor Accident Claims; medical treatment of HIV positive person; Trademarks; Yashraj Copy Rights case; problem of toxic work culture; termination of pregnancy of rape victims; Sexism not accessible, no means no; allowing Sikhs to carry Kirpans on flights….

Case BriefsHigh Courts

There should be no scope for the declarant to escape on the technical grounds from responsibility attached to the statement made by him in the affidavit. Unless those compliances, referred to in paragraphs 5 and 8 of chapter VII of the Criminal Manual are complied with, it will be difficult to hold the person making a declaration on oath responsible for the statement made on an oath.

Allahabad High Court
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Allahabad High Court has held that the Trial Court has, after analysing the entire facts and evidence have concluded that there is sufficient ground to frame charges against the accused, and thus has rejected the discharge application. So, there is no illegality in the impugned order

Delhi High Court
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The Delhi High Court allowed termination of pregnancy of around 25 weeks of a minor child and further directed the SHO concerned to ensure that after the medical termination and the period of rest, the minor child was admitted to a Government school, so she could continue studying further.

Allahabad High Court
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If statute provides for anything to be done in a particular manner, then it must be done in that manner alone and not otherwise and thus, the impugned order rejecting Siddique Kappan's discharge application is against the law propounded by the Supreme Court

Allahabad High Court
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Allahabad High Court said that Mukhtar Ansari is a known gangster, a dreaded criminal and bahubali and more than 50 criminal cases have been registered against him.

investigation
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Supreme Court noticed that in the case at hand, without giving any reasonable time to the investigating agency to investigate the allegations in the FIR, the Madras High Court has, in haste, quashed the criminal proceedings.

Allahabad High Court
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Allahabad High Court said that police personnel are not above the law and the application of law and legal provisions should be one and the same for all and no special treatment shall be given to them.

High Court Round UpLegal RoundUp

A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts in December 2022

Allahabad High Court
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Allahabad High Court observed that Section 201 IPC looks upon a person giving false information with intent to screen an offender as an accessory after the fact and makes him culpable as an offender committing an offence against public justice. It partly allowed the appeal against conviction under Section 201 IPC, but upheld the conviction for murder.

2022 SCC Vol. 10 Part 5
Cases ReportedSCC Weekly

    Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Ss. 437 to 439 — Bail applications: If more than one bail application is filed

Kerala High Court
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If the act is not obscene, or is not done in any public place, or the song recited or uttered is not in or near any public place or that it caused no annoyance to others, no offence under Section 294(b) of IPC is committed.

Allahabad High Court
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A written statement sent by post or deliver by another person, may not fall under ‘to examine orally' but a written statement submitted by witness himself to I.O., and if the I.O. has assured its genuineness and reduced it in writing, shall be a statement duly recorded under Section 161 CrPC.

Cases ReportedSCC Weekly

    Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Or. 22 Rr. 3 and 4 — Abatement of appeal: Appeal as a whole cannot

Kerala High Court
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The atrocities against women in their matrimonial homes are on the rise, and women committing suicide unable to bear the cruelty and harassment on demand of dowry are also rampant.

Special Court, POCSO, Fort, Bombay
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The Court observed that there is an increase in the cases of sexual offenses against the child. The child sexual abuse cases demonstrate the inhumane mindset of the accused. There is an adverse impact of the incident on the victim, on her family members, and even on society.

Gujarat High Court
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Gujarat High Court denied showing any leniency while deciding bail application of accused charged with offences under POCSO Act.

Bank of Baroda
Case BriefsHigh Courts

A signboard coming off the façade of the building was a foreseeable event given the fact that Delhi experiences high-velocity winds, in May, each year.

2022 SCC Vol. 10 Part 2
Cases ReportedSCC Weekly

    Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — Ss. 14(1)(a) and 2(1)(e) r/w Ss. 11(5) and 11(6) — Application seeking termination of

Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court observed that the convict was a young boy of 20 years, who has no father, and was shouldering the responsibility of his widowed sister and her son, hence, imprisonment for a term of 14 years would be adequate, to teach him a lesson.