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Narendra Vs. K.Meena

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... we find that they are of such quality, magnitude and consequence as to cause mental pain, agony and suffering amounting to the reformulated concept of cruelty in matrimonial law causing profound and lasting disruption and driving the wife to feel deeply hurt and reasonably apprehend that it would be dangerous for her to live with a husband who was taunting her like that and ..... no husband would ever be comfortable with or tolerate such an act by his wife and if the wife succeeds in committing suicide, then one can imagine how a poor husband would get entangled into the clutches of law, which would virtually ruin his sanity, peace of mind, career and probably his entire life. ..... that such allegations made in the written statement or suggested in the course of examination and by way of cross-examination satisfy the requirement of law has also come to be firmly laid down by this court. ..... such aspersions of perfidiousness attributed to the wife, viewed in the context of an educated indian wife and judged by indian conditions and standards would amount to worst form of insult and cruelty, sufficient by itself to substantiate cruelty in law, warranting the claim of the wife being allowed. ..... the position of law in this regard has come to be well settled and declared that levelling disgusting accusations of unchastity and indecent familiarity with a person outside wedlock and allegations of extramarital relationship is a grave assault on the character, honour, reputation, .....

M/S. Purohit and Company Vs. Khatoonbee and Anr .

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... that the petitioners are poor person and they have no knowledge about the law. ..... we are satisfied in accepting the declared position of law, expressed in the judgments relied upon by the learned counsel for the appellant. ..... the procedural laws like estoppel, waiver and acquiescence are equally applicable to the industrial proceedings. ..... law does not prescribe any time-limit for the appropriate government to exercise its powers under section 10 of the act. .....

Basheshar Nath Vs. the Commissioner of Income-tax, Delhi and Rajasthan ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1959SC149; [1959]35ITR190(SC); 1959Supp(1)SCC528; [1959]Supp1SCR528

..... investigation commission (hereinafter called the commission) and imposed on it the following duties:- "(a) to investigate and report to the central government on all matters relating to taxation on income, with particular reference to the extent to which the existing law relating to, and procedure for, the assessment and collection of such taxation is adequate to prevent the evasion thereof; (b) to investigate in accordance with the provisions of this act any case or points in a case -referred to it under section ..... in pursuance of sub-section (1), the central government may direct that such proceedings as may be appropriate under the indian income-tax act, 1922 (xi of 1922), the excess profits tax act, 1940 (xv of 1940), or any other law may be taken against the person to whom the settlement relates, and in particular the provisions of the second proviso to clause (a) of-sub-section (5) of section 23, section 24b, the proviso to sub-section 2 of section 25a, the ..... the report, tile central government shall by order in writing direct that such proceedings as it thinks fit under the indian income tax act, 1922, the excess profits tax act, 1940, or any other law, shall be taken against the person to whose case the report relates in respect of the income of any period commencing after the 31st day of december, 1938; and, upon such a direction being given, such ..... a large majority of our people are economically poor, educationally backward and politically not yet conscious of .....

Ramon Services (P) Ltd. Vs. Subhash Kapoor

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2001SC207; (2001)1GLR848(SC); [2000]113TAXMAN676(SC)

..... to decide the lis in the absence of the counsel but majority of the courts in the country have been impliedly sympathisers by not rising to the occasion by taking positive stand for the preservation of the high traditions of law and for continued restoration of the confidence of the common man in the institution of judiciary. ..... in the days ahead, legal aid to the poor and the weak, public interest litigation and other rule-of-law responsibilities will demand a whole new range of responses from the bar or organised social groups with lawyer members. ..... indeed, the hope of democracy is the dynamism of the new frontiersmen of the law in this developing area and what we have observed against solicitation and alleged profit-making vices are distant from such free service to the community in the jural sector as part of the profession's tryst with ..... they have always been in the vanguard of progress and development of not only law but the polity as a whole. ..... the administrative law judge rejected various defences of the association and recommended that the complaint to browbeat the boycott be dismissed. ..... and the bar are the two inextricable wings of the judicial forum and therefore the aforesaid mutual respect is the sine qua non for the efficient functioning of the solemn work carried on in courts of law. ..... law is no trade and briefs of the litigants not merchandise. .....

Smt. Selvi and ors. Vs. State of Karnataka

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... of such a nature and alleged to have been committed under such circumstances that there are reasonable grounds for believing that an examination of his person will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence, it shall be lawful for a registered medical practitioner, acting at the request of a police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector, and for any person acting in good faith in his aid and under his direction, to make ..... ancient system impress themselves upon the minds of the american colonists that the state, with one accord, made a denial of the right to question an accused person a part of their fundamental law, so that a maxim, which in england was a mere rule of evidence, became clothed in this country with the impregnability of a constitutional enactment.underlying rationale of the right against self-incrimination91. ..... . but in modern progressive society it would be unreasonable to confine the intention of a legislature to the meaning attributable to the word used at the time the law was made, for a modern legislature making laws to govern society which is fast moving must be presumed to be aware of an enlarged meaning the same concept might attract with the march of time and with the revolutionary changes brought about in ..... said that an abolition of this privilege would be an incentive for those in charge of enforcement of law `to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing red pepper into a poor devils' eyes rather than to go about in the sun hunting up evidence. .....

Ashok Kumar Sharma Vs. State of Rajasthan

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... but it must be too much to impute knowledge in certain situations, for example, we cannot expect a rustic villager, totally illiterate, a poor man on the street, to be aware of the various law laid down in this country i.e. ..... indisputedly ignorance of law often in reality exists, though as a general proposition, it is true, that knowledge of law must be imputed to every person. ..... ignorance does not normally afford any defence under the criminal law, since a person is presumed to knot the law. .....

Davinder Singh Vs. State of Punjab

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... he along with his maternal uncle pw-3 bhola singh had gone once or twice to house of her in-laws and requested them that since they are poor people and they cannot afford more dowry. ..... jaswinder singh-complainant- brother of amarjit kaur and teja singh-mediator had requested the in-laws of amarjit kaur not to harass and torture her for dowry but they continued to maltreat and harass the deceased ..... at the time of marriage, sufficient dowry was given by the parents of amarjit kaur as per their status, but after the marriage in-laws of amarjit kaur started torturing/coercing her to bring more dowry. ..... when they were just entering the gate, mother-in-law of the deceased shouted that deceased should be finished ..... on 2.3.1997, deceased telephonically informed jaswinder singh that her in- laws were torturing and harassing her in connection with dowry. ..... keeping in view the impediment in the pre-existing law in securing evidence to prove dowry-related deaths, the legislature thought it wise to insert a provision relating to presumption of dowry death on proof of certain ..... relations of deceased with her husband and in laws remained cordial for about two months. ..... necessity for insertion of the two provisions has been amply analysed by the law commission of india in its 21st report dated 10-8-1988 on dowry deaths and law reform . ..... 2.3.1997 he and his sister s son (pw-2- complainant) came to the house of the accused at budhlada to see amarjit kaur, she told them that her in-laws are maltreating her. .....

Sri Chand and anr. Vs. State of Punjab

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... as stated hereinabove, the slp of jaswant lal, accused no.1 (husband of the deceased) has been dismissed by this court at the notice stage itself and while granting leave qua other two accused persons (parents-in-law of the deceased-victim) on 18.9.2009, this court directed for release of these two appellants on bail to the satisfaction of the trial court.8. ..... tarsem lal impressed upon his son-in-law that the former was a poor person and what better gift could he have given to him in the marriage was his daughter itself. ..... so far as darshan kaur (wife of sri chand and deceased s mother-in- law) is concerned, she did not even raise a plea of alibi because there is not even an averment that she was in job elsewhere. ..... on 15.2.1997, when his son-in- law and daughter again came to durgapur, his daughter harpal kaur told her parents that her father-in-law sri chand, mother-in-law darshan kaur, her husband s younger brother nachhatter lal and her husband jaswant lal are harassing her saying that they have not been given dowry according to their status. ..... harpal kaur (wife of jaswant lal and daughter-in-law of sri chand and darshan kaur, appellants) died an unnatural death within few months of her marriage; 2. ..... sadar, nawanshahr that around 1 months back on 20.12.1996, his daughter harpal kaur alias palo was married to one jaswant lal and though he gave dowry as per his financial capacity, her daughter s husband and in-laws were not satisfied with the adequacy thereof. .....

Indian Young Lawyers Association Vs. The State of Kerala

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... as being part of the religious rituals, rites, observances and method of worship and make such claims immutable from any restriction or regulation based on the other provisions of the constitution or the law enacted to implement such constitutional mandate, deserves only to be rejected as merely a superficial approach by purporting to deride what otherwise has to have really an overriding effect, in the scheme of ..... the practice of hindus, and the role of temples in that practice, and concluded on behalf of the court that: 18 thus, under the ceremonial law pertaining to temples, who are entitled to enter them for worship and where they are entitled to stand and worship and how the worship is to ..... is that where an excommunication religious grounds such as lapse from the orthodox religious creed or doctrine (similar to what is considered heresy, apostasy or schism under the canon law) or breach of some practice considered as an essential part of the religion by the dawoodi bohras in general, excommunication cannot but be held to be for the purpose ..... the right of a religious denomination to manage its own affairs in 48 part f matters of religion guaranteed under article 26(b) was subject to, and could be controlled by, a law protected by article 25(2)(b), throwing open a hindu public temple to all classes and sections of hindus: article 26, it was contended, should therefore be construed as falling wholly outside ..... poor implementation105 of law results in a continued denial which the law .....

Nitisha Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... (6)), other than the use or possession of a drug taken under the supervision of a licensed health care professional, or any other use or possession authorized by the controlled substances act or any other provision of federal law, shall be considered an unlawful employment practice under this title only if such rule is adopted or applied with an intent to discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.' ..... notes that the distinctive attribute of direct discrimination is that the discriminator explicitly relies on a suspect classification (prohibited ground of 43 foundations of indirect discrimination law (hugh collins and tarunabh khaitan (eds), hart publishing) 2018 at p.1 52 part f discrimination) to act in a certain way ..... many cases, particularly those in which indirect discrimination is alleged, the protective purpose would be defeated if the 55 9 (1) everyone is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and benefit of the law; (2) equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms ..... . the formal conception of antidiscrimination law is captured well by anatole france s 46 part f observation: the law, in its majestic equality, prohibits the rich and the poor alike 26 from sleeping under bridges, begging in the streets and ..... . 61 the court outlined the following salient features of indirect discrimination in uk law: (i) there is no need for the claimant to show why the pcp discriminates against individuals possessing the .....