The Delhi High Court has held that once final arguments in a criminal trial are concluded and the matter is reserved for judgment, the judge who heard the case is duty-bound to pronounce the verdict ...

Causing Death by Knowledge (Without Explicit Intent): A knows Z is hiding behind a bush. A convinces B to shoot at the bush to scare someone, knowing it is likely to kill Z. B shoots and kills Z. A is ...

Scope: Section 50 (4) applies to the personal search (body search) of a female suspect. It does not apply to the search of a vehicle, bag, or house. Role of SHO: Even if an authorized male officer ...

In India, courts impose the death penalty only in the "rarest of rare" cases, as established in the landmark Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980) case, by balancing aggravating circumstances ...

This analysis details a decade-long legal battle catalyzed by an employee's fundamental act of misconduct, which culminated ...

Pradesh High Court in Ashok Kumar Kirtiwar v. State of Madhya Pradesh, reported in 2001 SCC OnLine MP 83, held that the State ...

Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe. KESHAW MAHTO @ KESHAW KUMAR MAHTO Vs STATE OF BIHAR & ANR. Dated: JANUARY 12, 2026.

b) Mohd. Iqbal Ahmed Vs. State of A.P, MANU/SC/0181/1979 : AIR 1979 Supreme Court 677, in which the Honourable Supreme Court held that, prosecution has to prove that there was valid sanction and the ...

are untenable at law and deserve to be set aside.

reconsideration in accordance with law. 19. The appeal is disposed of in the aforesaid terms.