Double jeopardy is based on the Latin maxim "nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa" which means "no one ought to be vexed twice for one and the same cause". The doctrine traces its origin to ...

The Supreme Court's ruling establishes that while informant/raiding officers can generally investigate NDPS cases, the accused must prove specific bias or unfairness to challenge such investigations, ...

Advancing justice through DNA technology requires adherence to strict quality assurance standards, including laboratory ...

The Court emphasized that Section 387 is an aggravated form of Section 385, not Section 384, thereby establishing that the legislative intent was to criminalize the threatening conduct itself, not ...

In a groundbreaking judgment that resolves a long-standing jurisdictional confusion in criminal law, the Supreme Court has definitively established that trial courts possess the authority to cancel ...

DNA technology has fundamentally revolutionized the criminal justice system, transforming how forensic investigations are ...

The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in Sardar Amarjit Singh Kalra (Dead) by LRs v. Pramod Gupta (Smt.) (Dead) by LRs (2003) 3 SCC 272 established a comprehensive framework for determining ...

The Supreme Court's decision in Vatsala Srinivasan v. Shyamala Raghunathan represents a significant advancement in Indian succession law. By establishing that beneficiaries can seek letters of ...

19. If a right of production of documents at the trial stage exists, it is a natural corollary that the High Court, sitting in appeal, must benefit from those documents. In the considered view of this ...

The Court's most innovative reasoning lay in integrating procedural requirements with constitutional guarantees. Justice Karol observed that "personal liberty cannot be cut down without fair legal ...

The Jitendra Kumar Rode judgment represents more than a procedural victory—it exposes the inadequacy of traditional ...

Exhibit P-75 was marked through PW-30, the handwriting expert, and not even by the I.O. At least if the I.O. had identified and marked the specimen writings and signatures of A-7 as Exhibit P-75, it ...