Indian Law and Jurisprudence

Section 47A of the Evidence Act states opinion as to electronic signature when relevant. 

Section 125 states that no Magistrate or Police officer shall be compelled to say whence he got any information as to the commission of any offence and no revenue officer shall be compelled to say whence he got any information as to the commission of any offence against the public revenue. 

Section 377 of Indian Penal Code is read as unnatural offences. It states whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished.

In Mithu vs State of Punjab (1983), the Supreme Court ruled that the mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional. It struck down Section 303 in the IPC, which entailed a mandatory death sentence for a person who commits murder while serving a life term in another case. 

The High Court may call for the record of any case which has been decided by any court subordinate to such High Court and in which no appeal lies thereto and if such subordinate court appears (a) to have exercised a jurisdiction not vested in it by law or (b) to have failed to exercise a jurisdiction so vested or (c) to have acted in the exercise of its jurisdiction illegally or with material irregularity

The two-judge bench of Supreme Court in the case of "Trivenibin vs. State of Punjab (1989) held that long delay by the President of India or Govenror of State in disposing mercy petitions from the convicted person under Anti-Terrorism laws or similar status can’t be ground for communication of death penalty into life imprisonment.

Admission under section 17 is defined as an admission in a statement, oral or documentary or contained in electronic form, which suggests any inference as to any fact in issue or relevant fact and which is made by any of the persons and under the circumstances hereinafter mentioned.

Section 304B in Chapter XVI of IPC deals with dowry death. It states where the death of a woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occurs otherwise than under normal circumstances within seven years of her marriage and it is shown that soon before her death she was subjected to cruelty or har­assment by her husband or any relative of her husband for or in connection with any demand for dowry, such death shall be called “dowry death”.

The company being a juristic person cannot be prosecuted for an offence for which custodial sentence is the mandatory punishment.

The Supreme Court of India in the case of "Mubarak Ali vs. State of Bombay" held that the general principle of criminal jurisdiction is that jurisdiction is determined by the locality of the offence irrespective of the nationality or any other similar attributes of the offender.

Section 89, C.P.C. embraces the provision for settlement of dispute outside the court.

Under section 125 of code of criminal procedure, the order for maintenance of wives, children and parents is to be made.

M. C. Chako vs. State Bank of Travancore, AIR 1970 SC 504 case is related to privity of contract in India.

The Commissioner of Wealth Tax, Mysore vs. Vijayaba Dowger Maharani Saheb, Bhavnagar and Others, AIR 1970 SC case is related to contingent contract.

Section 14 (2) of the Hindu Succession Act states that nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to any property acquired by way of gift or under a will or any other instrument or under a decree or order of a civil court or under an award where the terms of the gift, will or other instrument or the decree, order or award prescribe a restricted estate in such property.