Articles

• Can the statutory presumption of illicit enrichment be applied to assets acquired before the Prevention of Corruption Act when the accused is a senior water resources officer?
• Can the substitution of the charge from unlawful assembly murder to murder with common intention be challenged in a revision petition before Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the three accused who only restrained the victim avoid liability under the common intention doctrine in a petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the trial court’s aggregation of all 2,500 tonne steel invoices into a single cheating charge be challenged as a violation of the rule requiring separate charges for distinct offences?
• Can the trial court’s reliance on sting team testimony be challenged in an appeal to the Punjab and Haryana High Court because independent corroboration is lacking?
• Can the validity of a district magistrate’s pardon in a premeditated murder case be contested in the Punjab and Haryana High Court to strike out the approver’s testimony?
• Can the validity of a pre merger sanction be challenged as a procedural defect in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the written admission obtained after hours of police questioning without a lawyer be admitted as evidence in the murder conviction appeal before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can two participants who only struck with wooden clubs be held liable for murder when the lethal injury was inflicted by another assailant?
• Can unrecorded statements to the magistrate and the failure to read witness statements to them invalidate the conviction of a senior procurement officer in an appeal to the Punjab and Haryana High Court?