Consumer Commissions can’t decide complaints involving highly disputed facts, criminal or tortious acts: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court reiterated recently that Consumer courts cannot decide complaints involving highly disputed questions of facts or the cases involving tortious acts or criminality like fraud or cheating, . It said that the concept of “deficiency in service” under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 must be distinguished from the criminal or tortious acts. The … Read more

Doctrine of Res Gestae

Law of Evidence

Meaning of Res Gestae Res gestae of any case properly consists of portion of that actual word’s happenings out of which the right or liability, complained or asserted in the proceeding, necessarily arises. The term has been used in two senses. In the restricted sense it means world’s happenings out of which the right or … Read more