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..... harassment in the absence of an enacted law, which operated until the parliament enacted the sexual harassment of women at workplace (prevention, prohibition and redressal) act, 2013.124. as a word of caution, the commission, once constituted, should not turn into a criminal court ..... common lands (regulation) act, 1956 xxiv1956chowkidari act, 1956 xxxvii1956hindu succession act, 1956 xxxviii1956nurses, midwives and health visitors xli1956registration act, 1956 christian marriage and divorce act, 1957 iii1957282 part e representation of people act, 1957 iv1957deputy ministers salaries and allowance vi1957act, 1957 hindu minority and guardianship ..... samvat, 2011 improvement act, 2011 pharmacy act, 2011 liii samvat, 2011 registration (amendment and validation of vi1955transfer of property) act, 1955 hindu marriage act, 1955 iv1955legislative assembly (speakers iv1956emoluments) act, 1956 ministers and ministers of state salaries vi1956act, 1956 particulars habitual offenders (control and reform) .....
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..... women, district bangalore city, karnataka for the offence punishable under sections 498a and 506 of the indian penal code, 18602 and sections 3 and 4 of the dowry prohibition act, 1961. after investigation, a charge sheet dated 20.07.2017 was filed. 1 for short fir 2 for short ipc 2 thereupon, the appellants, along with ..... it is also an accepted position that they were residing separately. in fact, appellant no.2 maharani t.s., is a permanent resident of secunderabad, telangana. after marriage, accused no.1 sarvan kumar and the informant/respondent no.2 rekha bhaskaran were residing at bengaluru, karnataka. we have been informed that a decree of divorce dated ..... 17.11.2022 has been passed, dissolving the marriage. the informant/respondent no.2 rekha bhaskaran, has filed an appeal challenging the decree. having considered the charge sheet filed, we are of the view that the .....
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..... of proceedings inquiring into sexual misconduct, on hyper-technical interpretations of the applicable service rules. for instance, the sexual harassment of women at workplace (prevention, prohibition, and redressal) act 2013 penalizes several misconducts of a sexual nature and imposes a mandate on all public and private organizations to create adequate mechanisms for ..... singh, peon (pw8) all stated to have heard from the other office staff that the respondent would often visit the complainant s residence uninvited and make proposal of marriage. other witnesses namely; shri shyam dass, section officer dacs (retd.) (pw19), shri subhash prasad, udc (pw18), shri ashok gahlot, pa (pw17), shir jinen singh ..... of the court who may put them to the victim or witnesses in a language which is clear and is not embarrassing; (iii) the victim of child abuse or rape, while giving testimony in court, should be allowed sufficient breaks as and when required. (emphasis supplied) 72. the power and discretion .....
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..... emerge from the records that appellants- accused persons have been convicted for the offences punishable under sections 498a, 304b of ipc and section 3 and 4 of dowry prohibition act. section 498a of ipc prescribes imprisonment which may extend to 3 years and the explanation thereunder has two parts. the first part would relate to subjecting a ..... opinion, is to counter what is commonly encountered the lack or the absence of evidence in the case of suicide or death of a woman within seven years of marriage. if the word shown has to be given its ordinary meaning then it would only require the prosecution to merely present its evidence in court, not necessarily through ..... a woman should be caused by burns or bodily injury or otherwise than under a normal circumstance. (ii) such a death should have occurred within seven years of her marriage. (iii) she must have been subjected to cruelty or harassment by her husband or any relative of her husband. (iv) such cruelty or harassment should be for or .....
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..... declared unconstitutional insofar as it mandates a different minimum age requirement for men and women. this court ought to declare twenty- one years as the ideal age for all marriages. the prohibition of child marriage (amendment) bill 2021, which seeks to raise the legally permissible age of girls to marry from eighteen years to twenty-one years is currently pending in parliament.38. thulasi ..... book (known as kitabiyas), such as jews, sabians and christians. no marriage with polytheists is permitted. similarly, widow re-marriage amongst hindus was prohibited. likewise, injunctions against inter-caste marriages were widely prevalent. child marriages were widely prevalent too. inter-religious marriages were impossible. in the usa, various laws had, in the past, prohibited interracial marriages. arranged marriages were very common throughout the world until the 18th century.8. it .....
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2023 INSC901REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS.../2023 [ARISING OUT of SLP (CIVIL) DIARY No.21319/2022]. UNION OF INDIA APPELLANT VS. UZAIR IMRAN & ORS. RESPONDENTS JUDGMENT DIPANKAR DATTA, J.1. Leave granted.2. The challenge in this appeal by the Union of India (appellant, hereafter) is to the judgment and order dated 4th April, 2017 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench (High Court, hereafter) dismissing a Writ Petition1 of the appellant as well as the judgment and order dated 10th December, 2021 of the High Court dismissing its Review Application2. By the judgment and order dated 4th April, 2017, the High Court 1 No.1822 of 2000 2 C.M. Application No.105840 of 2017 1 affirmed the judgment and order dated 6th May, 1999 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (Tribunal, hereafter) allowing an Original Application3 under section 19 read with section 14 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 as wel...
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..... such other civil appeal no.6257 of 2014 page 12 of 33 public purposes as may have been described in the town planning scheme whereunder construction of a building is prohibited in an area. shri dwivedi maintains that entire land measuring 3429 sq.m. has been rightly treated as vacant land , out of which the appellants are entitled to retain 500 ..... thus the vacant land held by each one of them in the said area was only 905 sq metres. in fact, on the plain language of the statute and the prohibition contained in the building rules in koregaon park area, which are in operation, it is not possible to take any other view. (emphasis applied) 31. s.b. sinha, j., in .....
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..... police station on 09.06.2007 for the offence punishable under sections 302, 498a read with section 34 of the ipc and sections 3 and 4 respectively of the dowry prohibition act, 1961 (for short, the act 1961 ). the first information report reads thus: sir, applicant virendra singh, son of late mohan singh, resident of village mawasa ..... , patti ajmer pall, tehsil kotdwar garhwal respectfully submits as under:- 1. that the marriage of my daughter sudha had been solemnized on 12.12.1997 with balvir singh, son of late mahavir singh, resident of village ratanpur, kumbhuchaur, halqa-saneh, kotdwar, garhwal ..... been since seen alive. in the absence of an explanation, and considering the fact that the appellants were suspecting the boy to have kidnapped and killed the child of the family of the appellants, it was for the appellants to have explained what they did with him after they took him away. when the abductors .....
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..... advance against depreciation. however, it was found that cerc has not notified the said rates. so long as such rates are not notified, there will not be any prohibition on allowing the advance against depreciation. the appellate tribunal recorded that the state commission is empowered to allow the advance against depreciation to ensure the financial viability of optcl. there ..... purported to explain its earlier judgment dated 13th december 2006. by relying upon the national tariff policy, the appellate tribunal held that under the said policy, there is no absolute prohibition on allowing the claim for an advance against depreciation. the policy provided that the cerc will notify the rates of depreciation so that there would be no need for any .....
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..... to contend either that the clause does not embody a curtailment of the power to legislate or that it imposes only a check but not a prohibition. a constitutional prohibition against a state making certain laws cannot be whittled down by analogy or by drawing inspiration from decisions on the provisions of other constitutions; nor ..... crl. appeal no.377 of 2007 page 103 of 106 (a) whether the constitution affirmatively confers power on the legislature to make laws subject-wise or negatively prohibits it from infringing any fundamental right, they represent only two aspects of want of legislative power; (b) the constitution in express terms makes the power of a ..... constitution laws but applied also to ex post facto laws passed before the constitution in their application to pending proceedings . this court further held that article 20 prohibits only conviction or sentence under an ex post facto law, and not the trial thereof. such trial under a procedure different from what obtained at the time .....
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