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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Land Acquisition - Avoid Agricultural Land

Raghbir Singh Sehrawat v. State of Haryana, (2012) 1 SCC 792

Friday, August 10, 2012

Order II, Rule 2

Case :- MISC. BENCH No. - 2198 of 2012
Petitioner :- M/S.Roxy Petrochem Pvt.Ltd.Delhi Through Its Director
Respondent :- U.P.Financial Corporation Limited Kanpur Through M.D.&
Ors.
Petitioner Counsel :- S.B.Pandey
Respondent Counsel :- Prashant Kumar

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Alternative Remedy

A Full Bench of this Court in Chandrama Singh Vs. Managing Director, U.P. Cooperative Union, Lucknow and others, 1991 (2) UPLEBC 898 has held that when a litigant wants to bye pass statutory alternative remedy, he must plead and place necessary facts in the writ petition to show that alternative remedy is not efficacious and speedy

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Obiter dicta is also binding precedent - when

Obiter whether precedent- 2007(5)scc 428, 2012(30)lcd 1066.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Drawing of adverse inference from non production of documents

 
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 1374 of 2008
 
Union of India v. Ibrahum uddin, July 17, 2012
 
ssue of drawing adverse inference is required to be decided by the court taking into consideration the pleadings of the parties and by deciding whether any document/evidence, withheld, has any relevance at all or omission of its production would directly establish the case of the other side. The court cannot loose sight of the fact that burden of proof is on the party which makes a factual averment. The court has to consider further as to whether the other side could file interrogatories or apply for inspection and production of the documents etc. as is required under Order XI CPC. Conduct and diligence of the other party is also of paramount importance. Presumption or adverse inference for non-production of evidence is always optional and a relevant factor to be considered in the background of facts involved in the case. Existence of some other circumstances may justify non-production of such documents on some reasonable grounds. In case one party has asked the court to direct the other side to produce the document and other side failed to comply with the court's order, the court may be justified in drawing the adverse inference. All the pros and cons must be examined before the adverse inference is drawn. Such presumption is permissible, if other larger evidence is shown to the contrary.