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Del HC | What is the scope of Court’s jurisdiction while examining application under S. 8, Arbitration and Conciliation Act. What is effect of ‘Chalk & Cheese’ case of non-arbitrability? HC examines in “Hero” electric bikes dispute

Delhi High Court: C. Hari Shankar, J., expressed while addressing a dispute that: “Where a valid arbitration agreement exists, the decision also

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All HC | Rule making power of Central and State Government under Motor Vehicles Act – Are the subject matters falling under Ss. 110 and 111 delineated and demarcated or do they overlap? HC explains

Allahabad High Court: The Division bench of Surya Parkash Kesarwani and Dr Yogendra Kumar Srivastava, JJ., expressed that: The legislative intendment with

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P&H HC | “Panchayati divorce has no recognition in law”; HC grants protection to the couple in spite of holding their marriage illegal

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Alka Sarin, J., heard the instant filed by a couple seeking police help to restrain the respondents

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Bom HC | Whether absence of ‘dishonest concealment of fact’ exempt a person from being punished under S. 417 IPC? Read on

Bombay High Court: Sandeep K. Shinde, J., addressed a matter wherein the appellant challenged the conviction and sentence passed by Additional Sessions

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Madras HC | Does buyer’s knowledge about dispute in title of subject property, will make him liable for offence of cheating, forgery and making false document? HC answers

Madras High Court: N. Anand Venkatesh, J., while addressing a matter expressed that: “…a transaction hit by lis pendens would not result

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Madras HC | Lady IPS Officer harassed by Special DGP. “Court is not going to be a mute spectator”: HC takes suo motu cognizance; decides to monitor investigation; issues directions

“There is a faulty gene in men which sometimes make them think that a woman is subordinate to them and that at times she can even be treated like a chattel.”

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J&K HC | “Government bungalows are Public property, it belongs to Public” HC directs State to ensure eviction of unauthorised occupants from Government accommodation

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: The Division Bench of Vinod Chatterji Koul and Ali Mohammad Magrey, JJ., had heard the instant PIL,

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Del HC | Complaint against Business Standard for defaming ‘member of RSS’ quashed: Who qualifies as an aggrieved person to file defamation complaint? HC explains

Delhi High Court: Suresh Kumar Kait, J., quashed a complaint about defamation filed by a lawyer against Business Standard. It was held

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Bom HC | Husband alleged that wife hid her actual date of birth & since he intended to marry a ‘Mangalik Yog’ girl, fraud was played upon him. Here’s how HC solved the matter

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of A.S. Chandurkar and N.B. Surawanshi, JJ., upheld the decision of the family court. Present appeal

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Bom HC | Father-in-law denies maintenance to widowed daughter-in-law and her children. Will he be obligated to maintain them if late son had a share in ancestral property? HC Decodes

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of A.S. Chandurkar and N.B. Suryawanshi, JJ., reiterated that father-in-law has a moral responsibility to maintain

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Del HC | Can the revisional court’s conclusion substitute the lower court’s decision? Read HC’s analysis

Delhi High Court: Subramonium Prasad, J., expressed: “It is well settled that while exercising its jurisdiction under Section 397/401 IPC the revisional

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2021 SCC Vol. 1 Part 3

Read the seminal judgment of Supreme Court on requirements for a premises in question to qualify as “shared household” for purposes of

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High Courts Monthly Round-up: February 2021

Here’s a short recap of what we covered under the High Court’s section for the month of February 2021. In case February

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Licence and its revocation

by Achal Gupta†

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NCDRC | Conveyance Deed forced on apartments buyers in lieu of Apartment Deed? Commission says it cannot go beyond express terms of the agreement entered into between parties

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): C. Viswanath (Presiding Member) dismissed the complaint while granting an opportunity to the Complainant to approach

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Ownership – Meaning and modes of acquiring

by Achal Gupta†

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Arbitrability of Fraud: Is the Anomaly Solved

by Shuchi Sejwar* and Arpit Lahoti**

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Telangana HC | Can a sexual offender be taken into preventive detention? Read the case of ‘detenu’ who committed intercourse with minor in secluded place and let her off next day

Telangana High Court: The Division Bench of A. Rajasheker Reddy and Dr Shameem Akhter, JJ.,  while addressing the matter has shed some

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[Tandav] “Cheap and objectionable”, All HC rejects bail application of Aparna Purohit. Holds, submission of apology or withdrawal of scene after streaming would not absolve criminal liability

Allahabad High Court: In an interesting case regarding a controversial web-series, Tandav broadcasted on Amazon Prime on 16-01-2021, Siddharth, J., had denied

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RBI | Digital Payment Security Controls: Master Direction on minimum standards of security controls for digital payment

Master Direction on Digital Payment Security Controls The Master Direction provides necessary guidelines for the Regulated Entities (Scheduled Commercial Banks, Small Finance