Articles

• Can the magistrate’s dismissal of a false evidence complaint be challenged by a criminal revision before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the basis that the licensing authority’s proceeding is a court for the procedural safeguard?
• Can the magistrate’s distress order be treated as a civil proceeding rather than an inferior criminal court?
• Can the magistrate’s refusal to apply the gambling presumption be challenged on appeal in a betting ledger case?
• Can the managing director and finance director successfully challenge their criminal breach of trust conviction in Punjab and Haryana High Court on the basis that the prosecution has no proof of the missing kits and the fire explanation is uncorroborated?
• Can the managing partner of a chemical plant be convicted for negligent endangerment after installing heating coils above volatile solvent drums and how can an appeal before the Punjab and Haryana High Court address the causation issue?
• Can the managing partner’s decision to permit open burners in a solvent storage area be deemed a rash act causing worker deaths in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the municipal council’s lack of jurisdiction defeat the qualified privilege defence for a senior police officer’s written request in a defamation case?
• Can the municipal magistrate’s refusal to order demolition be challenged through a criminal revision in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the night time preventive detention of a municipal senior official be challenged on the ground that the order uses law and order instead of public order?
• Can the officer argue that four separate FIRs on fund diversion should be tried together and the sentences run concurrently in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?