SC Declares "Undue Sympathy Unsustainable When Objective of IPC is to Punish," Quashing HC Decision Quashing Sentence Reduction in Road Accident Case Offenders’

SC Declares “Undue Sympathy Unsustainable When Objective of IPC is to Punish,” Quashing HC Decision Quashing Sentence Reduction in Road Accident Case Offenders’.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision to reduce the sentence imposed on a man found guilty in a motor accident case of reckless driving and causing death as a result of negligence was overturned by the Supreme Court on March 28. The court stated, “The Indian Penal Code is Read more

Courts cannot prescribe qualification or declare equivalency of a course unless equivalency is defined under the rule itself, as reiterated by SC in Unnikrishnan CV v. Union of India

Courts cannot prescribe qualification or declare equivalency of a course unless equivalency is defined under the rule itself, as reiterated by SC in Unnikrishnan CV v. Union of India.

The appeal to promote Grade I and Assistant Engineer was denied on March 28 by the SC because the applicant needed to gain the necessary degree, and the court could not set the requirements or determine whether a course was equivalent. Was the respondents’ right to promotion to Superintendent BR, Read more