Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, S. 12--Criminal contempt-Posting of derogatory remarks against Judge of High Court on social media/ facebook-Appellant was sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for one month—Held; it was not a case where the contempt action should have been taken against the appellant who is an Advocate—Impugned order of High Court set aside.

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Murder—Death Sentence—Special Leave Petition filed in those cases where death sentence is awarded by the courts below, should not be dismissed without giving reasons

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Pay parity--Senior cannot be paid lesser salary than his juniors--Writ--When writ petition is jointly filed, the prayer therein should not be confined to one petitioner alone only.

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Transfer of Suit--Suit for damages filed at Chennai by husband--Suit transferred to Kolkata where wife residing with 2 years old child.

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Arbitrator--Appointment of--An application/petition without approaching the authority nominated and agreed upon by the parties is not maintainable--In instant case ICC was nominated but was not approached.

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Re-summoning--There must be substantive evidence against a person in order to summon him for trial u/s 319 of Cr.P.C., although he is not named in charge-sheet or he has been discharged from the case, which would warrant his prosecution thereafter with a good chance of his conviction.

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Relation witness--If witness is related to the deceased, his evidence has to be accepted if found to be reliable and believed because he would inter alia be interested in ensuring that real culprits are punished.

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Succession—Life Interest—Testator of suit property gave ownership rights to his children and life interest to his wife by way of right to live in the suit house and collect rent for her maintenance—Such "life interest" does not get ripen into an "absolute interest".

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Attempt to Murder--A single blow of sickle inflicted by appellant on back of deceased--Doctor opinion that deceased did not died due to direct result of injury--Reduction of charges proper.

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Decree remains valid unless set aside. Executing Court reduced to interest from 18% to 14%--High Court further reduced the same to 9%--Executing Court cannot go beyond decree--Executing Court to execute the same as it is.

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