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Today's Supreme Court Judgements

2018 has been a great year for Indian judiciary as Supreme court took important steps to ensure a new significant legal principle or concept by giving landmark judgments, few among those are as follows :

• Section 377 Verdict: India’s top court decriminalizes homosexuality in a landmark verdict
• Adultery is no longer a crime: Supreme Court scrapped Section 497 of the Indian penal code
• Triple talaq isn’t constitutional
• Supreme Court verdict on the reservation quotas for job promotions
• Passive euthanasia-  The right to die with dignity is a fundamental right
• Aadhar isn’t mandatory, but voluntary for citizens to submit.

This year the Supreme Court has again started working effectively to consolidate a better position of the judiciary. Today I'll be discussing with you few of its important judgments of the day:

CRIMINAL-
Supreme Court has observed that, though conviction can solely be based on dying declaration, corroborative evidence may be required when there is doubt as to whether the victim was in a fit state of mind to make the statement.

CRIMINAL-  Section 138 of the NI Act :
Supreme Court has observed that a complainant in a cheque bounce case is bound to explain his financial capacity, when the same is questioned by the accused, by leading evidence to that effect.

CRIMINAL- Rafale deal :
Supreme Court has dismissed the preliminary objections raised by Centre against using privileged documents for considering review petitions in Rafale case.

PROPERTY-
Supreme Court has observed that mere financial assistance to buy a property cannot be the sole determinative factor/circumstance to hold the transaction as benami in nature.

MOTOR VEHICLE -
Supreme Court has held that, in the case of a motor accident where there is the death of a person, who is a bachelor, it is the age of deceased which should be taken into account for calculating the multiplier, not that of dependents.

These were the highlights of few important judgments passed by the Supreme Court today and  I hope you gained something important from this. Thank you for your time.

Author - Shivanshu Katare (Law Student)

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