Articles

• Can an amendment that prolongs an existing preventive detention order without a new advisory board hearing violate the constitutional guarantee of personal liberty?
• Can an assignment of a shop lease be treated as relinquishment under the rent control law?
• Can an exculpatory statement describing a natural death be used as a confession to sustain a conviction for concealment of a death in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can an uncorroborated dying declaration and a misapplied common intention doctrine be used to overturn a murder conviction through a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can detainees whose detention order does not disclose any grounds challenge its legality in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the Punjab and Haryana High Court set aside a Sessions Court acquittal in a mob murder case when the reliability of five eyewitnesses is contested and two witnesses were unavailable?
• Can the State file an appeal against the Sessions Court’s acquittal of a seasonal laborer accused of giving a poisonous mixture to two children at a local fair before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the State prove that a forward contract for a culinary additive falls within the definition of essential commodity in an emergency regulation?
• Can the accused argue that the mixed confirmation and revocation of grounds invalidates the preventive detention order?
• Can the accused argue that the single judge confirmation of his death sentence breaches the constitutional guarantee of equality before the law?