About Anticipatory Bail
Where any person has reason to believe that he may be arrested on accusation of having committed a non-bailable offence, he may apply to the High Court or the Court…
About Section 384, 385 & 386 of the Cr.P.C.
Section 384 Cr.P.C. empowers the Appellate Court to dismiss the appeal summarily if it considers that there is no sufficient ground for interference. Section 385 Cr.P.C. lays down the procedure for hearing appeal…
Delay in Lodging FIR
Section 154 of the Cr.P.C. is related to lodging of FIR. This section or any other section of the Cr.P.C. does not prescribe any time limit within which FIR should…
‘Rules of Guidance’ to deal with trials under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (N.I. Act).
i) Hereafter in all 138 prosecutions, the very fact that the prosecution is one under Section 138 of theNegotiable Instruments Act shall be reckoned as sufficient reason by all criminal…
Dispensation of accused with the personal appearance under Section 138 of the N.I. Act.
Bhaskar Industries Ltd. Vs. Bhiwani Denim & Apparels Ltd. & Ors…. Honourable Supreme Court had laid down the following guidelines, which are to be borne in mind while dealing with…
Chapter XVI (Section 205) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973
Commencement of Proceedings Before Magistrates Section 205 of the Code, which clothes the Magistrate with the discretion to dispense with the personal appearance of the accused, reads as follows:“205. Magistrate…
These are the following Principles regarding compulsory retirement.
(i) An order of compulsory retirement is not a punishment. It implies no stigma nor any suggestion of misbehaviour. (ii) The order has to be passed by the government on…
Seven well recognized facets of Principles of Natural Justice.
One of the fundamental principles of natural justice is that no man shall be a judge in his own cause. This principle consists of seven well recognized facets:(i) The adjudicator…
There is no fundamental right of citizens to carry on trade or to do business in liquor.
There are three principal reasons to hold that there is no fundamental right of citizens to carry on trade or to do business in liquor. First, there is the police…
Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia Etc. Vs. State Of Punjab (Supreme Court of India)
1980 AIR 1632: 1980 SCR (3) 383: 1980 SCC (2) 565 Date Of Judgment – 09/04/1980 Bench – Justices Y.V. Chandrachud (CJ), P.N. Bhagwati, N.L. Untwalia, R.S. Pathak, O. Chinnappa…