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Once an arbitrator is not appointed as per the agreed procedure within stipulated time, right of the party concerned to appoint an arbitrator is forfeited M/s Continental India Private Limited vs. General Manager Northern Railway [Civil Appeal No.  4829 of 2022] RELEVANT PARAGRAPH 6.1 At this stage, the decision of this court in the case of Deep Trading Company (supra) […]

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Petition under Article 227 against the ex­parte decree cannot be entertained in view of a specific remedy of appeal provided under the CPC Mohamed Ali vs. V. Jaya & Ors. [Civil Appeal No.  4113 of 2022] RELEVANT PARAGRAPH 7.1. Applying the law laid down by this Court in the aforesaid decision to the facts of the case on hand, the High Court ought not to

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Principles for appreciation of ocular evidence in a criminal case Shahaja @ Shahajan Ismail Mohd. Shaikh vs. State of Maharashtra [Criminal Appeal No. 739 of 2017] RELEVANT PARAGRAPH 27. The appreciation of ocular evidence is a hard task. There is no fixed or straight-jacket formula for appreciation of the ocular evidence. The judicially evolved principles

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SC Confirms Death Penalty to Man for Rape and Murder of Minor Girl Manoj Pratap Singh vs. The State of Rajasthan, Crl. A. No. 910-911/2022 RELEVANT PARAGRAPH 57. In the present case, where all the elements surrounding the offence as also all the elements surrounding the offender cut across the balance sheet of aggravating and

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