Accident Law--Compensation--Criteria--For arriving at just compensation, it is necessary to ascertain the net income of the deceased available for the support of himself and his dependents at the time of his death and the amount, which he was accustomed to spend upon himself--This exercise has to be on the basis of the data, brought on record by the claimant, which again cannot be accurately ascertained and necessarily involves an element of estimate or it may partly be even a conjecture

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Land and Property Law--Allotment of Plot--Cancellation of--Predecessor-in-interest of appellant not eligible for allotment of plot under scheme for rehabilitation of locally displaced persons--Notwithstanding the fact that transfer of plot in favour of appellant is duly approved by Trust, appellant did not acquire any independent right in the plot and be only acquired whatever rights the transferor or original allottee had therein--Defect in allotment made in original allottee's favour on account of her ineligibility to avail scheme was inherited by appellant as her transferee

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Exparte decree--Remedies available to defendants--He may file a suit contending that decree was obtained fraudulently or he may file application under Order 9 Rule 13 C.P.C. or he may prefer an appeal from exparte judgment--He may also file a review petition.

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Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, S. 166--Accident-More than claimed-There is no restriction that the Court cannot award compensation exceeding the claimed amount, since the function of the Tribunal or Court is to award "just compensation"

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Agreement to Sell—Increase in Price—Mere escalation of price is no ground for interference with concurrent findings of court below granting the decree. Abatement of Appeal—Omission to implead legal representatives of a deceased defendant, would not lead to abatement of appeal as a whole by itself.

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Murder—Death Penalty—The conduct of the convict in prison cannot be lost sight of and is a relevant mitigating factor Duty of Court—It is duty of Court to be constitutionally correct even when its view is counter-majoritarian the public opinion Murder—Death Sentence—Possibility of Reform—Probability and possibility of reform of a criminal can be done properly only through psychological/psychiatric evaluation--Media Trial-It has almost become a trend for the investigating agency to present their version and create a cloud in the collective conscience of the society regarding the crime and the criminal

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Unlawful Assembly—Sessions Judge acquitted all the six accused persons under Section 148/149 IPC-No appeal filed by the State-­High Court was not justified in convicting the appellant under Section 148/149 IPC-Appellant acquitted

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Grievous Hurt—Reduction in Sentence- Submission that one appellant is 80 years of age and other appellant is 70 years of age—Occurrence was of year 1992—In the interest of justice imprisonment of two years reduced to period already undergone of about fifteen months

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Criminal Complaint--Preliminary Inquiry under Section 202 Cr.P.C.--Although an accused has no right to participate unless the process is issued, he may remain present either in person or through a counsel or a agent with a view to be informed of what is going on. Cognizable Offence--Information to police--Even in a case where no action is taken by police, the informant's remedy lies under Section 190 and 200 of the Cr.P.C.

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Appointment of Judge--Once the Government on being satisfied that a suitable candidate who was earlier appointed as an Additional Judge is suitable for appointment as a permanent Judge, the elaborate consultation has not been considered necessary--Chief Justice of High Court not required to consult collegium of High Court.

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