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High Court Dismisses Revenue's Challenge to Settlement Commission Order in Income Tax Case — Settlement Commission's Acceptance of Additional Income and Grant of Immunity Upheld. The Settlement Commission's order under Section 245C of Income Tax Act, 1961 is final and cannot be assailed by Revenue under Article 226 except on limited grounds....

The Revenue filed a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution challenging the order of the Income Tax Settlement Commission dated 11.03.2020. The Settlement Commission had accepted the appli...

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High Court of Karnataka Considers Plea to Quash PC-PNDT Act Proceedings for Non-compliance of Form-F Requirements. Medical Centre Operators Allegedly Failed to Obtain Patient Signatures on Mandatory Forms, Prompting Inspection and Criminal Complaint....

Two doctors, who operated a diagnostic centre, faced criminal proceedings under the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994. The District Appropriat...

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High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru Considers Quashing of Criminal Proceedings in Bribery Case Following Departmental Exoneration of Customs Superintendent. Petition Seeks Quashing of Charge Sheet Under Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC Based on Exoneration in Departmental Enquiry on Same Allegations....

Background: The petitioner, a Superintendent of Customs posted at Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, sought quashing of criminal proceedings pending against him in Special C.C.No.850 of 2018...

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High Court of Karnataka Dismisses Petition to Quash FIR Against Police Inspector in Corruption Case. Court Finds Prima Facie Material for Investigation, Not a Fit Case for Quashing Under Section 482 CrPC....

The petitioner, a Police Inspector formerly posted at Byatarayanapura Police Station, investigated Crime No.247/2022 for theft and recovered Rs.72 lakhs in three seizures between 14-10-2022 and 20-10-...

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High Court of Karnataka Examines Petition to Quash Criminal Proceedings Against Husband in Suicide Abetment Case. Petitioner Contended That Victim's Depression and Video Statement Negated Instigation, Relying on Precedents Interpreting Section 306 IPC and Section 498A IPC....

The petitioner, the husband of the deceased, filed a criminal petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 seeking quashing of the entire proceedings in S.C.No.859/2023 pending b...

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Bombay High Court Allows Second Appeal in Property Dispute, Sets Aside Concurrent Findings for Lack of Proof of Partition and Encroachment. Vendor Cannot Transfer Better Title Than He Has Under Nemo Dat Quod Non Habet Principle; Oral Admissions Insufficient to Prove Partition Under Section 58 of Indian Evidence Act, 1872....

The dispute pertains to a suit property bearing No.407, Nazul Block No.9, admeasuring 1251 sq.ft. out of half share, situated in Gandhi Ward No.2, Hinganghat. The plaintiff, Mangilal Jorawarmal Munot,...

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Bombay High Court Allows Discharge of Doctors in Egg Donation Death Case Due to Lack of Medical Negligence and Parity with Co-Accused. Visiting doctors cannot be held responsible for admission of underaged patient or for medical negligence when medical committee opines no negligence and co-accused with similar role is discharged....

The case involves three criminal revision applications filed by Dr. Kirtikumar Sankleshwar Trivedi, Dr. Gauri Prakash Sultane, and Dr. Heta Deepak Kenia against an order dated 25.05.2023 passed by the...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Tenant's Petition in Rent Default Eviction Case — Appellate Court's Decree Upheld. Tenant's deposit of rent in court without intimation to landlord and failure to pay demanded rent after notice constituted default under Section 12(3)(b) of the Bombay Rent Act....

The case involves a dispute between landlords (Respondents) and a tenant (Petitioner) over eviction from two rooms on the ground floor of a house property in Pune. The landlords filed Civil Suit No. 6...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Husband's Appeal for Divorce Under Article 4(8) of Law of Divorce — De Facto Separation Must Be 'Freely Consented' by Both Spouses. Husband's Adultery and Abandonment of Wife Precluded Finding of Free Consent Despite 25 Years of Separation....

The appellant-husband filed a Matrimonial Petition under Article 4(4), (5) and (8) of the Law of Divorce (Divorce Act of 1910) seeking divorce on grounds of ill-treatment, abandonment of conjugal domi...