Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, S.141 -- Dishonour of Cheque -- Vicarious Liability -- Vicarious criminal liability under S.141 cannot be fastened on an office bearer of a society merely b..

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, S.173(8) -- Further Investigation -- Magistrate's Prior Leave -- Prior leave of the concerned Magistrate is a mandatory requirement before police conduct furth..

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, S.482 -- Quashing -- Quashing of FIR Does Not Amount to Acquittal -- Quashing of criminal proceedings under S.482 CrPC on the ground of omnibus and unspecific ..

Indian Penal Code, 1860, S.498A -- Cruelty to Wife -- Unlawful Demand -- Explanation (b) to S.498A covers any unlawful demand by the husband or his family and is not limited to demands for d..

Conviction for attempt to murder under Section 307 IPC requires proof of two essential elements: intention or knowledge to cause death, and an actual act toward committing murder. Gravity of..

Threatening to upload a woman's private bathing video on social media constitutes "imputing unchastity" under Section 506 Part II of the Indian Penal Code. The concept of "unchastity" must b..

Extraordinary writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution cannot be invoked to direct registration of an FIR when equally efficacious statutory remedies remain unexhausted. The B..

Bail conditions prescribed under Section 480(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita apply only to non-bailable offences punishable with imprisonment of seven years or more, or to offen..

A bona fide purchaser of property, who acquires it for valuable consideration without knowledge of any forgery in the vendor's title documents, cannot be held criminally liable for cheating ..

The twin conditions under Section 37(1)(b)(ii) of the NDPS Act are mandatory for grant of bail in commercial quantity cases, and cannot be diluted on the ground of prolonged incarceration or..

A High Court, while rejecting an anticipatory bail application, has no jurisdiction to direct the applicant to surrender before a lower court and seek regular bail. Such a direction is wholl..

Criminal liability under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 subsists against directors of a company notwithstanding the initiation of liquidation proceedings against such co..