The Supreme Court has reiterated the principles of acquisition of title by adverse possession.The bench comprising of Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari observed that mere...

Supreme Court acquitted a murder accused after 20 years of commission of alleged murder on the crucial finding that the he was a minor at the time of commission of the offence. In the case Ashok...

The Supreme Court has allowed a plea to record evidence of a Nigerian doctor who conducted post mortem of the deceased via video conferencing. The accused in this case is facing trial on...

The Supreme Court has held that the High Court has no jurisdiction to appreciate the evidence of the proceedings under section 482 Cr.P.C. The division bench of the Supreme Court Comprising of...

The Supreme Court has reiterated that principle of Res Judicata defined in Section 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure also applies to the labour/industrial proceedings. In 2004, the Government...

Holding that there is no stipulation of any fixed period for completion of a Serious Fraud investigation, the Supreme Court has observed that the stipulation in sub-section (3) of Section 212 of the...

The Supreme Court has observed that the act of directing remand of an accused is a judicial function and the challenge to the order of remand is not to be entertained in a habeas corpus petition. ...

The Supreme Court has observed that mere averment of political rivalry by itself would not constitute a plea of malafides to interfere with an administrative decision taken by the state. The...

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, acquitted a man who faced concurrent conviction in a rape case. To acquit the accused, the bench noted that the prosecutrix was in the habit of making such...

The Supreme court has reiterated that to add a person as additional accused under Section 319 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, stronger evidence is required than mere probability of complicity...

Is a view on a legal issue expressed in a lead judgment delivered by one of the judges of a Supreme Court bench is a binding precedent if the other judges of the bench in their concurring opinions...

The Supreme Court, in a judgment delivered on Tuesday, has given a subtle message to litigants who usually blame their lawyers, rightly or wrongly, for getting adverse orders from courts on ...

The Supreme Court has acquitted a Forest Range Officer accused of killing a man allegedly belonging to a smuggling party, on the ground that he did it in his self defence. A murder charge was...

Responsiveness and diligence of Medical Professionals has to be equi-balanced for all their consumers, said the Supreme Court while enhancing compensation to a woman who suffered due to medical...

The Supreme Court has observed that consumer forums have the jurisdiction to dismiss the complaint in limine and decline its admission without notice to the opposite party. The bench comprising...