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By the team of Prime Legal
When a rape complaint is filed and the victim is discovered to be pregnant, the pregnancy itself may be treated as involving grave mental injury: Orissa High Court

Where a complaint of rape is lodged and the victim is found to have become pregnant and she does not want to retain the foetus, the pregnancy itsel

In cases of compromise, continuation of the criminal case would result in great prejudice: Bombay High Court

Offences arising out of matrimony are personal in nature and the parties are seeking to resolve their entire dispute. In case of compromise between

Every citizen in a free country can do anything lawful that the citizen chooses to do: Madras High Court
Every citizen in a free country can do anything lawful that the citizen chooses to do: Madras High Court

Even the slightest of restriction on the citizens’ movement has to be justified. The issuance of a supercilious prohibitory order on the ruse

Persons belonging to the Scheduled Caste category cannot be prosecuted for the offence under the Act: Patna High Court

A person who belongs to the Scheduled Caste category cannot be booked with charges prescribed under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (

Judicial review of administrative action is intended to prevent arbitrariness, irrationality, unreasonableness, bias and mala fide: Orissa High Court

The purpose of judicial review is to avoid arbitrariness, irrationality, lack of logic, prejudice and mala fide. The aim is to verify if choices or

When discrimination is glaring, the State cannot take recourse to inadvertence in its action resulting in discrimination: Orissa High Court

The State cannot use inadvertence in its actions which result in prejudice when prejudice is blatant. In the case of a complaint against denying eq

Seigniorage fees that have been deducted from another bill owed to the lessee cannot be demanded again: Telangana High Court
Seigniorage fees that have been deducted from another bill owed to the lessee cannot be demanded again: Telangana High Court

If the lessor has already deducted seigniore fees from another bill owed to the lessee, he cannot demand for the fees to be paid again. The order p

Simultaneous filling of a Civil Complaint cannot be a ground to quash a criminal complaint: Odisha High Court

Where the factual foundation for an offence is laid down, the court must be reluctant and should not hasten to quash the proceedings even on the pr

If title of a property is in issue, the relief of declaration is always implicit, and it is not necessary to separately pray for it: High Court of Delhi
If title of a property is in issue, the relief of declaration is always implicit, and it is not necessary to separately pray for it: High Court of Delhi

The Court, even in a case of possession, can record a finding on the title. In the present case, the question of title was not only specifically pl

State does not fall within the definition of “person under erroneous belief” as per section 401(5) Cr.P.C: High Court of Delhi
State does not fall within the definition of “person under erroneous belief” as per section 401(5) Cr.P.C: High Court of Delhi

Section 401(5) Cr.P.C provides that when an appeal lies but an application for revision has been made to the High Court by any person and the High