Ensuring Frivolity is Filtered: Supreme Court’s Stand on Artistic Expression
by C. George Thomas* and Ansh Mittal**
preliminary inquiry
‘Forcibly entry to school, death threats, scuffles with Police’, No preliminary enquiry needed for FIR against Student Leader for cognizable offence: MP High Court
The Court opined that the objective of a preliminary inquiry is to screen out frivolous and motivated complaints, not to ascertain the veracity of the information received.
‘Magistrate failed to conduct preliminary inquiry to ascertain roles and duties of individuals before mechanically summoning them’: Allahabad HC quashes criminal cases against officials of Larsen and Toubro
“Magistrate had issued summons without meeting the requirement of Section 202 CrPC., even though the applicants were residing outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Trial Court.”
Delhi High Court refuses to interfere with corruption proceedings against Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s Shibu Soren
The accused is the President of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a State Political party in the State of Jharkhand and a sitting Member of the Parliament in Rajya Sabha nominated from the State of Jharkhand.
Preliminary Inquiry under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
by Ayushi Raghuwanshi*
CAT| When subjective satisfaction of dispensing with the inquiry is not supported by any independent material, dispensing with holding the inquiry would be illegal
“If a preliminary inquiry could be conducted, there may not be any reason as to why formal departmental inquiry could not have been initiated against the delinquent.”
Guj HC | Plea seeking registration of FIR allowed with instructions to police officials to complete inquiry in stipulated time
Gujarat High Court: A Bench of Sonia Gokani, J., while hearing the grievance of the petitioner regarding non-filing of FIR, ordered the
Merely making contradictory statement in a judicial proceeding is not by itself always sufficient to justify a prosecution under Sections 199 and 200 IPC
Supreme Court: Dealing with the scope of initiating the proceedings under Section 340 CrPC, the Court said that the mere fact that