It is settled that object of Section 24 of HMA is to avoid vagrancy but it is not meant to equalize the income of the wife with that of the husband. A co-ordinate Bench of this Court has observed in K ...

Section 24 requires the Court to determine the reasonable needs of the applicant. The assessment necessarily has to take into account the age of the parties, their present circumstances, their ...

The entire retiral corpus cannot be treated as recurring monthly income. What can be taken into account as income is the interest or other return actually generated from those investments.

Since the impugned judgment is one of reversal of acquittal, the broad principles to be borne in mind by an appellate Court when it considers an appeal from an order of acquittal are required to be ...

16. The appellate court which will include the High Court, in a given scenario, while recording a conviction after reversing the acquittal, should adjourn the matter to a suitable date, hear the ...

Sharma v. State of Bihar (1998) 7 SCC 507].” SCC 462, where it has been held that the scheme in the Cr.P.C. 27. The Criminal Appeal is, accordingly, allowed.

53. In our view, CDRs of the two mobiles with corresponding tower locations would have been critical in revealing: PW-4 and PW-18, the prosecution case appears contrived. a Hotel in Chamba, is neither ...

record the complaint and requiring the complainant’s. presence for taking evidence, as also the second order. passed finding ...

53. In our view, CDRs of the two mobiles with corresponding tower locations would have been critical in revealing: ...

Section 6 specifically indicates the offence of transportation of cattle for the purpose of slaughter or knowledge that such cattle are likely to be slaughtered. But for a mere pr ...

However, his statement cannot be made a basis for his conviction. His answers to the questions put to him under Section 313 Cr.P.C.

mere text messages on a social media platform, without corroborative evidence of physical intimacy or cohabitation, are thoroughly insufficient to legally establish that the wife is continuously ...