Keeping Pace with Legal Change
In Aejaz Ahmad Sheikh v., the Supreme Court held that, The case State of Uttar Pradesh was a case on the basis of which it was held that failure of putting the vital prosecution evidence to the accused u/s 313 CrPC resulted in prejudice and trial invalidated, and as a result, the acquittal was upheld on the basis of serious allegations like multiple murders.
The apex court explained the principles of law as laid down under Order I Rule 10(2) CPC that a bona fide purchaser is a proper party in an action of specific performance admittedly in impleadment. This verdict supports the discretionary power of the judiciary in the weighting of procedural fairness.
It was ruled in the Angadi Chandranna case by the Supreme Court. Shankar & Ors., elucidated essential issues of Hindu law regarding property. It held that self-acquisition of a property which was obtained through personal funds after the partition did not fall liable to claims by the coparceners, and strengthened boundaries of Section 100 CPC.
When a family murder case was described as gruesome by all standards, it was the weighing of the extent of brutality of the crime and the reformed profile in prison and mental health status that the Supreme Court commuted the death penalty against the convict to life imprisonment till natural death.
In a high profile motor accident case, compensation was awarded to the claimants of the case by the Supreme Court after the high court had dismissed the income tax evidence in a most arbitrary manner and the court reiterated that compensation should be in line with the actual income primarily as a welfare intention of the Motor Vehicles Act.
InN. Vijay Kumar v. The Supreme Court in Vishwanath Rao N. reinstated the acquittal of the alleged perpetrator in a cheque dishonour trial and set the benchmarks and boundaries of the rebuttable presumptions against the Negotiable Instruments Act and questioned the burden of proof of the parties concerning evidence.
In Barla Ram Reddy v., the Supreme Court. Telangana State solved very crucial grievances that pertained to land evaluation under Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The case overturned the principles of compensation toward the realizable examples and the discardance of exorbitant valuation considering the sales following the notification auction.
The recent attack by Israel on Iran reiterates a clear message : backwardness is punished in the real world.
On part of the United Nations there has been diplomacy through Security Council resolutions, humanitarian agencies and use of special envoys to quell the Iran-Israel confrontation. Its activities include appeals for ceasefire, the mediation, support of refugees, and the evaluation of cases, but its activities are limited by the veto power politics and the competition of members.
Former SIB chief T. Prabhakar Rao has been given the grilling by Special Investigation Team along with allegations of operating a rogue surveillance system to spy on politicians. This investigation reveals destruction of evidence, breakdowns of procedure and poses to some really contentious questions concerning responsibility, integrity of data and usage of state intelligence machine.
