insufficiently stamped instrument
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Should the Court find the instrument to be chargeable with duty, but it is either not stamped or is insufficiently stamped, it is bound by Section 33 of the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 to impound the same. Section 34 also places a fetter on the Court’s authority to admit an instrument which, though chargeable with duty, is not duly stamped.

Bigamy
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The deserved punishment proportionate to the gravity of the offence is a continuous and continuing demand based on civic sense and unfailing in categories of serious offences where more than individual interest is also involved, the above rule of proportionality in providing punishment should not failed as otherwise it will impact the society.”

Reservation for transgender persons
Case BriefsSupreme Court

In National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438, the Court directed the Centre and State Governments to treat transgender persons as ‘Socially and Educationally Backward Classes’ of citizens and extend reservation in admission in educational institutions and for public appointments.

Army Welfare Education Society
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Legitimate expectation, jurisprudentially, was a device created to maintain a check on arbitrariness in state action. It does not extend to and cannot govern the operation of contracts between private parties, wherein the doctrine of promissory estoppel holds the field.”

Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Satish Chandra
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Committee shall identify the number of investors and database of investors, and also determine the amount to be refunded to each investor. An Escrow Account with a bank designated by SEBI, shall be opened and all sale proceeds shall be deposited in that interest-bearing account.

Mercedes to pay Rs. 36 lakhs
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“People do not purchase the high-end luxurious cars to suffer discomfort more particularly when they buy the vehicle keeping utmost faith in the supplier who would make the representations in the brochures or the advertisements projecting and promoting such cars as the finest and safest automobile in the world.”

interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Any undue indulgence and latitude to the ED will be deleterious to the constitutional values of rule of law and life and liberty of persons. An officer cannot be allowed to selectively pick and choose material implicating the person to be arrested. They have to equally apply their mind to other material which absolves and exculpates the arrestee.”